2024-2025 Catalog

PSYCH-708 Cognition and Affect: an Integrated Approach

Surveys foundational theories of cognitive and affective psychology, examines current research on these topics, and explores their integration. The core components of cognition will be examined include memory, learning, information processing theory, mediational processes, and executive functioning. Additionally, the course will consider affect, mood, and emotion, and explore appraisal and constructionist theories of emotion. Finally, the course will consider how theory and research on cognition and emotion, and their integration, inform the practice of clinical psychology.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Students who specified one or more of these Programs of Study or Program Foci Applied Developmental Psychology PHD, Clinical Psychology PHD