PSY274 Human Mind and Cognition

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2012
Rozsah
1/1. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Michaela Porubanová (přednášející)
Garance
Mgr. Michaela Porubanová
Katedra psychologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra psychologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
St 18:00–19:40 U32
Předpoklady
class conducted in English
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 15 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/15, pouze zareg.: 0/15, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/15
Jiné omezení: international students only, if the capacity is not reached, domestic students can register
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
- to learn the basic concepts and mechanisms of human cognition - to understand the experimental evidence supporting understanding of cognition - to be able to critically evaluate research in cognition
Osnova
  • Topics covered: The class is focused on introductory topics in psychology, more concretely on topics in cognition and mind. How do we process information, manipulate and transform into a meaningful, coherent entity? How do we retrieve information retained in our memory? What are some memory biases? How does brain relate to mind (mind-body problem)? How does brain give rise to consciousness? Those, but more questions will be answered in the class. Introduction to Cognition. Philosophical and psychological underpinnings of study of mind and human cognitive faculties (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, gestalt); research methods in cognitive psychology. Perception and Vision. Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing in Perception. Object recognition. Perceptual organization. Color perception. Optical illusions. Attention. Broadbent´s theory. Treisman´s theory. Selective attention. Divided attention. Stroop´s attention. Automatic processing. Inattentional blindness. Memory. Short-term memory vs Long term memory. Working memory. Eye witness testimony. Theories of forgetting. Theories of recall. Consciousness. Theories of consciousness. Current approches to understanding consciousness (Chalmers, Noe, Ramachandran, Logothesis etc.). Consciousness versus attention. Language. Language production vs. language comprehrension. Speech perception and reading. Thinking and Reasoning. Theoretical approaches to reasoning. Deductive vs inductive reasoning. Theories of emotional processing. Judgment and Decision Making. Theories of decision making. Representativeness heuristic. Availability heuristics. Support theory. Cognition and emotion. Emotions and their influence on cognitive processing. Emotions versus memory. Emotion, attention and perception. Free will. Perspective from philosophy of mind.
Literatura
  • literature provided in the class (based on the textbook of Eysenck & Keane, Cognitive Psychology).
Výukové metody
lecture, seminar, class discussion, 1 individual class project, 2 quizzes, 1 final exam
Metody hodnocení
1 individual class project, 1 essay, 2 quizzes, 1 final exam
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
International students mainly.
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Studijní materiály
  • Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
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