Colleges

Course Description: 1. Cognitive Psychology: Its origins and orientation, and information processing as one of the main trends in cognitive psychology. 2. Cognitive Structure: Its meaning, importance, relationship to long-term memory, its role in learning, and its impact on cognitive strategies. 3. Attention as a Cognitive Process: The concept of attention, determinants of attention, the role of attention in information processing, and models of attention. 4. Perception as a Cognitive Process: The meaning of perception, determinants of perception, and the role of perception in information processing. 5. Memory: The concept of memory and its models and processes, memory strategies and aids, metacognition, and training programs to improve recall. 6. Metacognition: Its concept and role in learning and cognitive activity, dimensions or components of metacognition, and metacognitive strategies. 7. Cognitive Styles and Strategies: The concept of cognitive style, the concept of strategy, and the difference between them, important cognitive styles, important cognitive strategies, and how to identify and train cognitive strategies. 8. Learning and Learning Styles: Learning, its concept in light of cognitive psychology, the concept of learning styles and their classifications. 9. Thinking and Thinking Styles: The concept of thinking, thinking styles, classification of thinking styles and their models, and identifying learners' thinking styles.