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Kar

Pedagógiai és Pszichológiai Kar

Szervezet

PPK Pszichológiai Intézet

Kód

PSYB19-112

Cím

Cognitive Psychology 2.

Tervezett félév

Őszi

Meghirdetve

2025/26/2

ECTS

3

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

Aim of the course: To review the most important experimental methods and paradigms of cognitive psychology in the topics of perception, attention, cognitive control, learning, memory, language, thinking and problem solving. The presented exparimental paradigms and the tasks are also useful help for successfully cpmpleting the comprehensive exam. Learning outcome, competences knowledge: acknowledgeing the genral structure and reason of designing experiments introduction to basic experimental paradigms undertanding the imponrtance of making experiments attitude: realization of the importance of experimental methods skills: understanding the methodological part of scientific papers acquitition of the skill of understanding the visually represented results acquisition of a critical and alanytic attitude

Tantárgy tartalma

Topics of the course Introduction & how to write a research report Vision: faces and complex patterns Auditory attention: localization Learning: creating habits 1st Homework deadline (Introduction) Working memory 6. Declarative memory 2nd Homework deadline (Method) Midterm Categorization Decision making 3rd Homework deadline (Results) Intentionality Cognitive control 4th Homework deadline (Abstract) Final exam/ Midterm re-take Deadline of re-take homework Final exam re-take/Closure

Számonkérés és értékelés

Requirements: Written exams (midterm+final): 2 x 25 = 50 points Presentations (10-15 min): 10 points Presentation about the theoretical background of the actual class, paired work Homework: 4 x 5 = 20 points short (approx. half page) written summaries of different parts of experiments (theoretical background, description of methods, results, abstract) Two from each part, only the better one will count in the end of the semester Deadline: see the detailed syllabus Final paper 20 points full lab report: short (1-2 pages) written summary of one individually chosen experiment: introduction, stimuli, methods, results, discussion, references Deadline: see the detailed syllabus Regular attendance, max. 3 misses (except the first practice)

Irodalomjegyzék

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.

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