APSB23603U Advanced Cognitive Psychology

Volume 2024/2025
Education

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Content

Advanced cognitive psychology focuses on advanced theories and methods within important areas of cognitive psychology, e.g., perception, attention, decision making, problem solving, cognitive development and social cognition. The course will give the students insights into the most recent research in cognitive psychology. The emphasis will be on research methods based on experimental cognitive psychology and neuroscience as well as advanced statistical analyses and experimental data.

Learning Outcome

On completion of the course, students should be able to:

 

Knowledge

  • account for theories in advanced cognitive psychology.
  • account for methods in advanced cognitive psychology and analyses of experimental data.

 

Skills

  • discuss experiments in cognitive psychology in light of theories and methods.
  • interpret empirical data and results in cognitive psychology in light of theories and methods.
  • integrate methodologies and theories from several scientific disciplines in the study of behavior.

 

Compentencies

  • discuss and evaluate advanced experimental and statistical methods in scientific articles with aim of critically assessing hypotheses, experimental designs, methods of analysis, and results.
Literature

750 standard pages of compulsory literature.

Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Probability Theory and Statistics
Programming and Problem Solving
The classes consist of lectures and exercises.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Lectures
  • 28
  • Class Instruction
  • 14
  • Preparation
  • 164
  • Total
  • 206
Oral
Individual
Collective
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
Feedback by final exam (In addition to the grade)
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Oral examination
Type of assessment details
Oral exam with preparation.

At the exam, the student draws 1 question in the form of an article from the syllabus list. Group regulations: The exam can only be taken as an individual exam. Extent: The exam time is 30 minutes including 10 minutes of voting and feedback. The examinee prepares for 15 minutes before the exam.
Exam registration requirements

To qualify for the exam the student must have approved participation in 75 % of the classes

Aid

The student can bring written aids.

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
External censorship
Re-exam

Same as the ordinary exam.

Criteria for exam assesment

Please see the learning outcome.