Psychology of Cognitive Processes

In this course we will try to do the impossible: to talk about all the human cognitive processes, each of which is worthy of its own course. We will discuss these processes, grouped into two classes following Vekker: on the one hand, the actual cognitive processes, which give us an idea of the world - sensation, perception and thinking; On the other hand, the processes of "cross-cutting" that permeate our knowledge and defining the psychological arrow of time - memory, attention and imagination.

One of the problems of psychology as a science in that it operates on the same terms as the ordinary language. Each one of us from his own experience knows what is memory, what attention, what a feeling, but in their daily lives, we use those words is not always in the sense in which they are used, psychologists, scientists are forced to clearly delineate and define the area of their research, enabling the accumulation and transfer of knowledge.

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Therefore, we will start with a definition. The next step of the Linnean any science - systematization of phenomena. We will discuss the reasons for the classification of certain cognitive processes, and talk a little bit about what is known about their species, and in some cases will be able to talk about the experimental studies, the psychologists allowed to approach the understanding of memory errors, limited attention, perceptual illusions and conditions of solving creative problems.

This introductory course will be almost no theories and explanatory models. In addition, we will not talk about the process of the use of language - speech, which regulates human knowledge and especially closely connected with thinking, - even a brief introduction to the problem of verbal thinking and research concepts would have to devote a separate lecture. But the general idea of the variety of cognitive processes of human listeners will certainly get.