Perception and cognitive psychology

The first half of this unit encompasses the acquisition, organisation, and retrieval of knowledge and aims to cover cognitive psychology more generally. It includes emphasis on contemporary research techniques, cognitive architecture, attentional processes, models of learning and memory, mental imagery, language and higher-order thinking. The second half covers sensory processes involved in vision, audition and speech perception. Coding mechanisms common to different modalities are emphasised to help you understand general mechanisms of sensory coding and perceptual processing.