This course examines cognitive processes, sometimes called "higher mental processes." Cognitive psychology includes topics such as perception, attention, memory, language, and thinking. At the end of this course you will gain an appreciation of the basic information in cognitive psychology, including research and theory, as well as an understanding of the complexity of cognitive processes; and hopefully, you will be able to apply your knowledge to your own cognitive processes.

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The course will begin with a review of the basic concepts in statistics. Then, frequency distribution, mean, mode, median, standard deviation, variance, normal distribution, normal distribution with hypothesis testing, sampling distribution of means, correlation techniques, simple regression will be covered.

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This course, “Understanding Social Behavior” is designed to present a general introduction to social psychology for university students from various departments as an elective course. Students will be introduced to history, general theories, and methods of social psychology; as well basic concepts and recent research findings. The format of the course will include mostly lectures and discussions; videos or in-class activities will also be incorporated depending on our schedule.