Cognition 101: How We Acquire Knowledge, Gain Understanding, and Make Decisions

Kathleen M. Galotti

Learn practical, easy-to-apply tips to improve your thinking, reasoning, and decision making with an NIH-funded cognitive science professor and textbook author. Cognitive psychology—the science of how we acquire, process, store, and use...

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Opening Credits

1/23/2024

About the Author

1/23/2024

Lecture 1: What Is Cognition?

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Lecture 2: Perception and Attention

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Lecture 3: Working and Long-Term Memory

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Lecture 4: Narrative Memory

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Lecture 5: Learning, Acquiring, and Categorizing New Information

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Lecture 6: Problem Solving, Creativity, and Insight

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Lecture 7: Deductive, Inductive, and Everyday Reasoning

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Lecture 8: Dual Process Theories of Cognition and an Overview of Decision Making

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Lecture 9: Goal Setting, Gathering Information, and Decision Making

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Lecture 10: Structuring Information and Making a Final Choice

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Lecture 11: Individual Differences in Cognition

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Lecture 12: How Thinking Skills Develop

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Ending Credits

1/23/2024