Syllabus for MA course - TAU



Syllabus for BA course

Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Fall Semester, 2014-2015

Instructor: Prof. Dominique Lamy

T.A. : Ziv Peremen

Group 1: Thursday, 12:15 – 13:45

Group 2: Thursday, 14:15 – 15:45

Assignments

- The weekly reading is compulsory for all students. It most often does not overlap with the material taught in class.

- There will be an exam at the end of the semester on the material covered in class and in the reading assignments.

Format

Lectures will be frontal, and accompanied by Powerpoint presentations.

Reading material

The reading assignments for each week are drawn from the following sources. The articles are posted on the website for the course.

- Book: Goldstein, E. B. (2011). Cognitive psychology. 3rd international edition.

- Article 1: Theeuwes, J. (1992). Perceptual selectivity for color and form. Perception & Psychophysics, 51(6), 599-606.

- Article 2: Strayer, D. L., & Johnston, W. A. (2001). Driven to distraction: Dual-task studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular telephone. Psychological science, 12(6), 462-466.

- Article 3: Maurer, D., Le Grand, R., & Mondloch, C. J. (2002). The many faces of configural processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 255-260.

- Article 4: Simons, D. J., & Ambinder, M. S. (2005). Change blindness theory and consequences. Current directions in psychological science, 14(1), 44-48.

- Article 5: Halligan, P.W.,& David, A.S. (2001). Cognitive neuropsychiatry: towards a scientific psychopathology. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 209–215.

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Week #1: 29/10/2014

Behavioral methods of Cognitive Psychology

Week #2: 06/11/2014

Visual Perception I

Reading material: Goldstein, pp. 57-66.

Week #3: 13/11/2014

Visual Perception II

Reading material: Goldstein, pp. 70-76.

Week #4: 20/11/2014

Attention I

Reading material: Article 1: Theeuwes (1992)

Week #5: 27/11/2014

Attention II

Reading material: Article 2: Strayer & Johnston (2001)

Week #6: 04/12/2014

Memory I

Reading material: Goldstein, pp. 130-137.

Week #7: 11/12/2014

Memory II

Reading material: Goldstein, pp. 161-167.

Week #8: 18/12/2014

Memory III

Reading material: Goldstein, pp. 187-198.

Week #9: 25/12/2014

Face perception

Reading material: Article 3: Maurer et al. (2002)

Week #10: 01/01/2015

Visual imagery

No reading

Week #11: 08/01/2015

Visual consciousness

Reading material: Article 4: Simons & Ambinder (2005)

Week #12: 15/01/2015

Psychopathology of cognitive functions

Reading material: Article 5: Halligan & David (2001)

Week #13: 22/01/2015

Cognitive psychology in everyday life

No reading

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