Welcome to Cognitive Psychology at Mercer University

 

Each student has created a wiki page based on a topic of their choice. The topics are listed below.

 

 

 

Analogy Theory as the Foundation for Cognition	Eyewitness Testimony	Memory in Old Age	Schemas
Anterograde Amnesia	Face Perception	Mental Rotation	Selective Attention
Bilingualism	False Memories	Metacomprehension	Semantics
Bilingual Language Acquisition	Flashbulb Memories	Metamemory in Children	Serial-position Effect
Broca's Area	Framing Effect	Mnemonics	Slips-of-the-tongue
Change Blindness	Functional Fixedness	Motor Imagery Practice	Source Monitoring
Cognitive Dissonance	Hindsight Bias	Multi-tasking	Speech Acts
Cognitive Maps	Heuristics	Music and Memory	Speech Perception
Cognitive Interviews	Illusory Contours	Parallel Distributed Processing	Stroop Effect
Creativity	Implicit/Explicit Memory	Perceptual Illusions	Synethesia
Divided Attention	Language Acquisition	Phonological Loop	Thought Suppression
Distributed Practice	Language in Infants	Procedural Memory	Tip-of-the-tongue
Dual Coding	Lateralization	Reading Comprehension and Inferences	Typicality Effect
Emotion and Memory, The Limbic System	Left-Right Brain Dominance	Reading Processes	Wernicke's Area
Emotion, Mood, and Memory	Levels of Processing	Reading Learning Methods	Working Memory - Baddeley's Model
Expertise	Memory in Children	Reterograde Amnesia