APSY 8919 Advanced Topics in Cognition and Learning
For Ph. D. students in Applied Developmental Psychology, open to ADEP MA students and other doctoral students with instructor's permission.. This course will explore the basic processes underlying human cognition and the role of these processes in acquiring knowledge in key domains. Our main goal is to provide our students with a foundational framework in cognitive psychology that can be applied to better understand human behavior and learning. The first part of the course will focus on perception, attention, memory, categorization, and reasoning. The second part of the course will focus on learning in key domains of cognition, such as mathematics, science, and language.
Course overview
- Department
- Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
- School
- Lynch
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Graduate
- Offered
- Biannually in the Spring
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.50 / 5 · Excellent
- Instructor rating
- 4.58 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 2
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 | Elida V Laski | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4–6 hrs/week | 5 of 10 |
| Spring 2023 | Elida V Laski | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | — | 7 of 10 |