PSİ320

School of Humanities \ Psychology

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Compulsory

English

PSİ 104

Psychology Bachelor's Degree Program

This course examines cognitive processes and covers perception, attention, and memory. Students will have the opportunity to comprehend and evaluate cognitive psychology. The main problems, research methods, and main hypotheses of cognitive psychology will be introduced. Study findings of cognitive psychology and how they are interpreted will be shown.

Ashcaft, H. A. & Radvansky, G. A. (2014).
Cognition (5th or 6th ed. ). Pearson.

The aim of this course is to gain knowledge on sensation and perception with a historical perspective; to give information about sensory systems, to introduce basic research and phenomena on sensation and perception.

1. At the end of the course, students will have information about the basic issues related to sensation and perception.
2. They will understand the place of sensation and perception in daily life.

Week 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Week 2: Cognitive Science Approach
Week 3: Cognitive Science Approach
Week 4: Perception and Pattern Recognition
Week 5: Perception and Pattern Recognition + Attention
Week 6: Attention
Week 7: Short Term Memory and Working Memory
Week 8: Short Term Memory and Working Memory + Learning and Recall
Week 9: Learning and Recall
Week 10: Recognition and Semantic Memory
Week 11: Recognition and Semantic Memory Memory Illusions and MetaMemory
Week 12: Memory Illusions and MetaMemory