Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology examines human mental processes, including how humans sense, interpret, think about, and respond to information, and how they integrate new information with prior experience. This course examines mental operations, attention, pattern recognition and other perceptual processes, memory, problem-solving and decision-making, categorization and concept formation, language acquisition and use, and contextual-interpretation. There are no prerequisites for this course.

Official catalog text — WGU-authored.