Module PSYC40715: Advanced Cognition

Department: Psychology

PSYC40715: Advanced Cognition

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To provide students with advanced in-depth knowledge of the current theoretical issues in the field of cognition
• To provide students with advanced in-depth knowledge of historical and philosophical issues within the field of cognition

Content

• The module uses seminars to examine current research issues in a range of areas within the field of cognition
• These current issues may include topics in the field of memory, attention, emotion processing amongst others
• Students will be presented with a choice of classic papers from the field and workshops will support students to carry out in-depth reviews of two of these papers and place them in the context of modern theory

Learning Outcomes

• Detailed understanding of specific research questions in the field of cognition
• Acquisition of knowledge about the history, background and development of research within the field of cognition
• Detailed understanding of 'classic' experiments in cognition
• Understanding the relevance of 'classic' studies to modern research

• Developing the ability to incorporate a response to peer review into written material

• Good written communication skills
• Developing the ability to learn independently within broad guidelines

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Seven weekly seminars in Michaelmas term (from week 4 onwards) will support in-depth learning about specific research questions in the field of cognition
• Seminars will involve both small group teaching and student-led discussion, which will assist students to learn independently and develop their oral communication skills
• The formative essay on material arising from the seminars will assess students' written communication skills as well as their in-depth knowledge of these research issues
• Workshops in the Epiphany term will support the students' learning of classic studies in cognition and will support students' oral communication skills.
• Students' understanding of classic experiements will be formatively assessed through a poster presentation of the work
• There will be formatively assessed peer review of the posters
• This peer review will be responded to in the summative assignment which will be a write-up of the literature review of the classic studies
• The written exam will also assess students' written communication skills and their ability to learn independently

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

2000 word essay on seminars in term 1 Poster presentation in Epiphany term Peer review of others' posters (two peer reviews of 200 words)

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University