PSYC2005 — Cognitive Psychology
Overview
How memory, attention and reasoning have been studied experimentally.
Semester 2, 2026
This week
Outside teaching weeks.
Assessments
- OverdueAssignmentResearch Report Draft20%
A draft of your empirical research report in APA format: introduction, method, results and discussion for the study run in the department's lab sessions. Submit as a PDF.
- OverdueAssignmentLab Report30%
A short report analysing the data from this week's lab session — a write-up of the method plus a stats appendix. Submit as a PDF or plain text.
- OverdueExamExam Revision Quiz
A low-stakes practice quiz covering memory, attention and reasoning — the same format as the end-of-semester exam, worked through in your own time to check where the gaps are.
Lectures
- week 1: Introduction to cognitive psychology
- week 2: Attention & perception
- week 3: Working memory models
- week 4: Long-term memory & encoding
- week 5: Forgetting & retrieval
- week 6: Research report workshop
- week 7: Language & cognition
- week 8: Reasoning & decision-making
- week 9: Problem solving
- week 10: Cognitive development
- week 11: Applied cognitive psychology
- week 12: Revision & exam prep
Readings & materials
- week 7: Background reading
- week 10: Next week's reading (get ahead)