The definition of cognition: the origins of cognitive psychology;
Attention: definition, attention as an sensorial input filter, automatic and controlled processes;
Perception: Pattern recognition and problems of perception, Gestalt principles, top-down elaboration, face recognition
Memory: short-term memory;serial position effects, definition and structure of working memory, phenomena linked to WM; Long-term Memory: definition and characteristics, encoding specificity, autobiographical memory;
Language and cognitive elaboration: understanding spoken language, identify word meaning, case grammar, from words to sentences, reading.