Human Cognitive Capacities & Limitations

This course is part of Human Factors & Usability Engineering: Designing for Humans Specialization

Instructor: Robert Gray

What you'll learn

  •   Learn to distinguish between types of attention & memory, and identify strategies and heuristics used for decision making & problem solving.

    • Skills you'll gain

  •   Decision Making
  •   Human Learning
  •   Psychology
  •   Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  •   Problem Solving
  •   Creativity
  •   User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design

    • There are 5 modules in this course

    Course 4 presents an overview of cognitive capacities and limitations. You will distinguish between different types of attention, compare and contrast different types of memory, identify the most common strategies and heuristics humans use for decision making and problem solving.

    Module 1: Motor Control

    Module 2: Human Memory and Attention

    Module 3: Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

    Module 4: Motor Learning and Skill Acquisition

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