How can you study the Mind?
Why do people make
errors in judgment,
like falling for internet scams?
Do we think with pictures?
The University of York brings
you this short online course
on...
Cognitive Psychology,
the area of psychology
that tries to understand how
we think, reason and remember.
We will introduce you to this
experimental Science and you’ll
learn about the methods that
we use to study these mental
processes.
In fact you’ll set up and run
your own simple experiments.
You also find out what
those methods have taught us
about how we solve
problems and make judgments
in the real world and
also how and indeed
if we think in mental images.
In this course we’ll try to
answer questions around this
fascinating area.
How can we study
something as subjective
as the workings of the mind?
What methods can we use to
study how we think and remember?
What is the psychology behind
our common mistakes and bias
in our thinking and judgment?
Can Psychology help us avoid
simple everyday errors?
Do we think with images?
Can these “mental images”
help us solve problems?
What do we know about
how the mind hold images
from the real world?
Join us as we try to
answer these questions
and take your first steps
in the exciting world
of the study of the mind.
