PSA_006 General psychology III - metacognition

Faculty of Arts
Spring 1999
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Lubomír Kostroň, M.A., CSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Tyrlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Tyrlík, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jarmila Valchářová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PSA_033 General psychology II.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The history of cognitive psychology. Essential concepts, the relation to other psychological disciplines. Main contemporary trends. The information paradigm, information processing, coding. Symbolic processes, sign and symbol, Ch.Peirce, F. de Saussure, N.Chomsky, sign systems, semiotics. Presentation and representation, representation within congnitive psychology, perception. Compason between J.J.Gibson and U.Neisser. Mental representation, imaginative and propositional forms, dual coding, episodic and semantic memory , mental model. The concept, extension and intention, abstraction, generalization, language, speach and thinking, the prototype. Analysis of mental representations, conscious and subconscious contents. Self-concept as a mental representation, cognitive processes within action, attribution, sopcial-cognitive theory A.Bandura. Judgment and inference of the new Egon Brunswik's probabilistic funstionalism K.R.Hammond's social judgment theory K.R.Hammond's cognitive continuum theory J.Rohrbaugh's the structure and dynamics of problems an introduction to the theory of chaos (Ray Cooksey)
Syllabus
  • The history of cognitive psychology. Essential concepts, the relation to other psychological disciplines. Main contemporary trends. The information paradigm, information processing, coding. Symbolic processes, sign and symbol, Ch.Peirce, F. de Saussure, N.Chomsky, sign systems, semiotics. Presentation and representation, representation within congnitive psychology, perception. Compason between J.J.Gibson and U.Neisser. Mental representation, imaginative and propositional forms, dual coding, episodic and semantic memory , mental model. The concept, extension and intention, abstraction, generalization, language, speach and thinking, the prototype. Analysis of mental representations, conscious and subconscious contents. Self-concept as a mental representation, cognitive processes within action, attribution, sopcial-cognitive theory A.Bandura. Judgment and inference of the new Egon Brunswik's probabilistic funstionalism K.R.Hammond's social judgment theory K.R.Hammond's cognitive continuum theory J.Rohrbaugh's the structure and dynamics of problems an introduction to the theory of chaos (Ray Cooksey)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1998, Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 1999, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/spring1999/PSA_006