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Apr 16, 2024
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PSY-724A Media and Cognitive Psychology4 semester credits
The problem of mediation, filters, organization, and censorship has often been studied as attributes of mass media. And yet, this issue is seminal to the study of cognition and how we process information. For the purposes of this course, perception will be broadly defined as the relationship between images and words that characterizes human thought and cognition. Using the psychology of advertising and photography as a point of departure, we will discuss selection, grouping, illusion and ambiguity as processes of visual perception, and briefly explore the role of memory and embedded subliminals in perception. This course will explore filters that occur at the level of personality and because perception involves words, we will discuss how words and rhetoric influence what we see. This discussion of mediation at the individual level will be integrated within the context of ideological, sociological, structural and cultural filters that occur at the level of mass media. The aim will be to show how mass media and audience effects are dependent on the psychology of cognition. In this course you will explore and consider possible alternatives to the problem of mediated perception for both media systems and cognition.
Pre-requisites: PSY-525 , PSY-533
Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
Grading Default: Letter
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