Cognitive Psychology 1 2020 Spring

Cognitive Psychology 1

Wednesday, 14:00-17:30 (30 mins break included) Izu 301

Leading lecturer: Márton Nagy

Aim of the course

The main objective of the course is to give an overview on the theoretical frames of cognitive psychology, with its basic concepts. As cognitive processes serve as basics for all human behavior, also its problems influence wellbeing and social relations, especially important to deliver a comprehensive overview for students. The course overviews the applied consequences of the models, such as the localization of the cognitive functions and tests that measure specific abilities.

Learning outcome, competences

Knowledge

- Basic concepts of cognitive psychology
- Theories of perception, memory and thinking, including current research trends and their outputs
- Relations of cognitive mechanisms and their malfunctioning

Attitude

- Ability to understand and ask questions in relation to the functioning of mind,
- Utilisation of knowledge in scientific communication, presentation

Skills

- Skills af applying main methods
- Skills of identifying and segmenting basic psychological mechanisms

Content of the course

The slides are available from here. If the slides are not modified compared to the last semester, find the files in the appropriate semester subfolder.

Learning activities, learning methods:

Lectures and interactive discussions

Evaluation of outcomes

Requirements: Reliable basic knowledge in the domain of cognitive psychology based on the compulsory reading list Mode of evaluation: Written essay-type exam with two questions. The grade is the mean of the two topics, supposing that none of them is grade 1.

Exam information for the 2020 Fall semester:

Online exam on Moodle with open questions. Please, check your Moodle account a few days before your exam whether you see the course. For the exam, you can log in at the exact time of the exam. The exam includes 4 open ended questions. You'll have 25 minutes to give the answers. 3-5 sentences per questions are expected. You'll see the questions one by one and cannot return to previous questions.

We ask you to work individually. Lecturers evaluating the exam will carefully check for very similar responses and plagiarisms. In case of copying the responses the grade will be failure. It is not allowed to copy or distribute the questions. Copying and distributing the questions entail failed exam and disciplinary procedure.

Maximum 3 points could be given for each questions, maximum 12 points for the whole exam. Grades: 6 points or below: 1, 7-8 points: 2, 9 points: 3, 10 points: 4, 11-12 points: 5.

Criteria of evaluation:

Knowledge on basic concepts and the skill of utilizing the theoretical models and basic methods of cognitive psychology adequately

Reading list

Compulsory reading list

Eysenck, M., Keane, M.T. (2015): Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook, 7th Edition. Psychology Press, London
Baddeley, A., Eysenck, M. W., & Anderson, M. C. (2014). Memory (2nd edn). Abingdon: Psychology Press: Chapter 1, 6, 7, 11.
Sperber, D., & Wilson, D. (1987). Précis of relevance: Communication and cognition. Behavioral and brain sciences, 10(04), 697-710.
Goldman,A.I, Margolis, E.,Samuels, R. & Stich, S. (2012).Theory of mind. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science, 404-424.
The content of lectures