SUBJECT
Title
Cognitive Psychology
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Part of degree program
Credits
4
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
Aim of the course:
This course provides an overview of the field of cognitive psychology, including its research methods, theoretical questions, and fields of application. A major goal of the course is to show how the major questions in cognition are addressed through empirical research
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 a nd segmenting basic psychological mechanisms
Content of the course
Topics of the course
13-14 weeks, 2x2 hours weekly fo each following topic set:
- Visual perception
- Spatial cognition
- Consciousness
- Social cognition
- Semantic memory and categorization
- Memory and memory development
- Numerical cognition
- Speech perception
- Music and cognition
- Attention and detection of environmental changes
- Cognitive control
- Risk-taking
Learning activities, learning methods
Lectures and interactive discussions
Evaluation of outcomes
Learning requirements, mode of evaluation, criteria of evaluation:
requirements
- Reliable basic knowledge in the domain of cognitive psychology
mode of evaluation: written exam
criteria of evaluation:
- Knowledge on basic concepts and the skill of utilizing the theoretical modells and basic methods of cognitive psychology adequately
Readings
Compulsory reading list
- Sekuler, R., & Blake, R. (2006). Perception. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
- Baddeley, A., Eysenck, M. W., & Anderson, M. C. (2009). Memory. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
- Eysenck, M. W., & Keane, M. T. (2005). Cognitive Psychology. A Student’s Handbook. 4th Edition. Hove; New York: Psychology Press.