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2024-2025 PAU University Catalog

PSYS720 Foundations of Psyc Sci II: Cognitive Bases of Behavior

Focus on the basic sciences of human cognition, and how this domain of human functioning can be harnessed to inform us about psychopathology. Course will focus on selected key topics within the areas of attention, memory, decision-making, social cognition, and language. The goal of this course is to expose students to both the classic and recent empirical research in different areas of cognition, and to discuss various theories proposed to account for these findings.

Credits

2.5