Studio Curriculum Suite Cognita
Cognita: Learn Psychology
Wundt to fMRI — including the studies that failed to replicate.
- Subject
- Psychology
- Lessons
- 100
- Glossary
- 743 terms
- Profiles
- 60
Cognita covers what an introductory sequence and the first two years of a degree teach: research methods and statistics first, then biological psychology, then learning, memory and cognition, then development, personality, social psychology and clinical practice.
The course teaches the evidence rather than the vocabulary list. Where a famous result failed to replicate, the lesson says so and gives the numbers — ego depletion, social priming, the tapes from the Stanford prison experiment. Every effect size, sample size and date is stated, because a claim about behaviour that carries no number cannot be checked.
- 60 researcher profiles, from Wundt and James to Kahneman and Loftus.
- 18 landmark studies reconstructed: Milgram, the Stanford prison experiment, Little Albert, Robbers Cave.
// how it is built
What you get
100 lessons, four years
A full degree-shaped sequence, 15 to 25 minutes a lesson, in the order the subject is actually taught.
On-device narration
Listen instead of read. Narration uses the system speech synthesizer, so no audio ever leaves the phone.
Cross-linked glossary
Hundreds of terms, each linked back to the lessons that use it and forward to the ones that build on it.
Case files
18 landmark studies, experiments or episodes reconstructed in full, each listing the record it rests on.
Spaced repetition
The scheduler brings back the terms you keep forgetting, on the interval that makes them stick.
Daily widgets
Three Home Screen widgets — a quote, a term and a figure — each rotating daily.
- Works offlineNo signal required — everything ships in the download.
- No accountNothing to sign up for. No email, no password, no profile.
- One-time unlockA single purchase, not a subscription. Family Sharing enabled.
- Home Screen widgetsGlanceable widgets that update on their own.
// common questions
FAQ
How much is free?
The first ten lessons. One purchase of $9.99 unlocks the remaining ninety and everything else, permanently, with Family Sharing enabled.
Does it need an internet connection?
No. The app makes no network connections of any kind. Every lesson, profile, glossary entry, quiz and case study is bundled in the download, which is why the download is large.
Is this accredited? Do I get credit?
No. It is a self-study course written to the level of a university survey sequence. It carries no accreditation and grants no credit.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every effect size, sample size and date in a lesson is stated so it can be checked. Case files list the specific record they rest on. Where a familiar textbook figure is wrong, the lesson gives the real one and explains why it moved.
How do I move my progress to a new phone?
Progress, bookmarks and notes are stored on-device and are included in an encrypted iPhone or iCloud device backup. Restoring that backup onto the new phone brings them across. There is no account-based sync.