| Unit name | Cognition and Learning |
|---|---|
| Unit code | EDUCM5401 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Sue Pickering |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | School of Education |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit presents students with fundamental principles and knowledge in the domain of cognitive psychology including: attention; comprehension; conceptual knowledge; learning; skill acquisition and expertise; memory: encoding and retrieval processes, working memory, autobiographical memory, episodic and semantic memory, implicit and explicit memory, memory improvement; thinking and reasoning, problem solving and decision making; language: structure, comprehension, production, reading; information processing and connectionist models of cognition. Students will learn about research methods appropriate to the study of cognition and cognitive development. They will also study key issues in the development of cognition, such as the development of language, number and drawing, cognitive change in the school years, and the role of cognition in educational attainment.
