Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Perceptions of Reality

In this course, students will use their established understanding of the architecture of cognitive processes such as physiological attributes of the brain, perception, memory, attention, emotions, the unconscious, consciousness, and more to understand the variables influencing human interactions with our environment and the agents and objects in it. Students will gain familiarity with the modern scientific view of the interface between mind and environment and some of the methods psychologists use to study it. The course will also provide knowledge that can be applied to every day life to aid in forming a greater understanding of the self and others.