What is Cognitive Psychology? What are its methods? What are the methods of cognitive science?
What is information?
What is Information Processing?
What are the components of all information processing systems?
What is Behaviorism? Rationalism? Empiricism?

What are some of the components of the nervous system?
What are some of the different macrostructures and functions?
What are the basic units of the nervous system?
What are some of the component structures of neurons?
How do neurons function? What are some of their properties?
Vocabulary: Synapse, neurotransmitter, excitation, inhibition, action potential, resting potential, axon, dendrite, summation, cortex, different lobes of cortex, corpus callosum, neural pathways, EEG, CNS, ERP, fMRI, topographic mapping, connectionism, Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP)

What are some visual illusions? What are some possible explanations for them?
What is the role of context in pattern recognition?
What is David Marr's approach to understanding information processing?
Vocabulary: Specific nerve energies, visual cortex, optic chiasma, hemidecussation, (parts of the eye, parts of the ear) receptive field, refraction, accommodation, convergence, Gestalt laws of organization, retinal rivalry, ganglion cells, Hubel and Wiesel cells, phi, illusory contours, perception in depth, geon, template matching, feature detection and analysis, texture gradient, categorical perception, connectionist models,

What is selective attention? What is spotlight metaphor? What is the role of expectation? What is the partial report procedure? What is the pop-out effect? What controls attention? What is the role of awareness?
Vocabulary--filter theory, early and late selection, attenuation theory, dichotic listening task, Stroop effect, automatic processes, prior entry,

Are there analogical representations? What is mental rotation? Is visual imagery cognitively penetrable? What evidence is there that imagery has a hierarchical structure? What is the neurological relation between perceptual and imaginal processes? What evidence is there for selective interference? Is imagery independent of meaning? Are there temporal or sequential hierarchical structures? Is there a role of schemata in perceptual representations?
Vocabulary--Dual code theory, symbolic psychophysics, Hoffding effect, Mnemonics

What is the role of meaning in remembering? What are some principles of categorization? How might a connectionist theory account for some of the results of categorization? What is the differences in representation between systems which emphasize efficiency of storage and those that emphasize efficiency of retrieval? What is the classical approach to categorization?
Vocabulary--proposition, semantic network, droodle, schema, script, frame, default values, prototype theory, instance theory, Class inclusion or superordinate (ISA) relations