--- title: Cognitive Psychology description: This scientific study focuses on internal mental processes, including perception, attention, memory, language, and reasoning. Learners will understand how the human mind processes information, solves problems, and constructs subjective experiences of the world. category: social-sciences subcategory: psychology difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/cognitive-psychology --- # Cognitive Psychology This scientific study focuses on internal mental processes, including perception, attention, memory, language, and reasoning. Learners will understand how the human mind processes information, solves problems, and constructs subjective experiences of the world. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 2 Courses • 4 Websites ## Books ### 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow **Author:** Daniel Kahneman A foundational exploration of cognitive architecture and the systemic biases that shape human decision-making. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/s?k=0141033576&tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** cognitive-biases, decision-making, heuristics, dual-process-theory, behavioral-economics ### 2. Thinking, Fast and Slow **Author:** Daniel Kahneman Kahneman's account of forty years of research with Amos Tversky on judgment under uncertainty: anchoring, availability, representativeness, framing, loss aversion and regression to the mean, with the experimental evidence behind each. The primary source for most popular bias writing. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374533555?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** cognitive-biases, heuristics, behavioral-economics, judgment-under-uncertainty, decision-making ## Websites ### 1. r/cogsci Subreddit where researchers and students post cognitive science papers, ask methodology questions, and debate findings across psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and AI. Useful for tracking current debates and getting reading recommendations from people working in the field. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/ **Tags:** cognitive-science, community, reddit, discussion ### 2. cognitivesciencesociety.org Official site of the Cognitive Science Society, a professional organization for researchers and educators in cognitive science. It features information about the annual CogSci conference, membership and awards, journals and publications, news, events, and resources for researchers and educators. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cognitivesciencesociety.org **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, cognitive-science ### 3. psytoolkit.org PsyToolkit is a free online platform for designing, hosting, and running psychology experiments and surveys, featuring a library of ready-made cognitive tasks and tutorials plus data collection and export tools. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://psytoolkit.org **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, psychology ### 4. cogsci.stackexchange.com CogSci Stack Exchange is a Stack Exchange Q&A site for cognitive science, where experts and enthusiasts ask and answer questions across psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, AI, and related fields. It features community-voted questions and answers with topic tags, accepted answers, and discussions of theories, methods, and experiments. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cogsci.stackexchange.com **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, psychology ## Courses ### 1. Introduction to Psychology What are people most afraid of? What do our dreams mean? Are we natural-born racists? What makes us happy? What are the causes and cures of mental illness? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, persuasion, emotions, and social behavior. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology **Tags:** psychology, cognitive-science, mental-illness, social-behavior, intro-course ### 2. Learning How to Learn Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski explain focused and diffuse thinking, procrastination, sleep, and memory techniques across three short modules. Students come away able to apply recall practice, chunking, and memory palaces to their own homework and exams. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn-youth **Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, cognitive-science ## Podcasts ### 1. All in the Mind **Author:** BBC Radio 4 The show on how we think, feel and behave. Claudia Hammond delves into the evidence on mental health, psychology and neuroscience. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxx9 **Tags:** psychology, neuroscience, mental-health, radio --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/cognitive-psychology