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SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS CreditsLast Updated Date
3PSYF211COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY5+0+051002.10.2025

 
Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program PSYCHOLOGY
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Elective
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course The objectives of the course are;
to raise awareness of the students on how humans understand the world around us
to familiarise the students with how human mind operates and we, the human beings retrieve memories and use them to comprehend the world
enable students to discuss and elaborate on how the mental processes relate to the other behaviours, investigated in various other psychology fields.
Course Content The course contains the essential topics of cognitive psychology, which is a field of psychology dealing with how the human mind and memory operates. Therefore, the course covers the following topics respectively: introduction to cognitive psychology and brain, -brief introduction of- sensational and perceptual mechanism, and how human mind process information, covering attention, short-term memory, long-term memory, everyday memories, memory errors, and representation of knowledge.
Course Methods and Techniques This is a departmental fundamental lecture course at an introductory level, allowing participants to explore essential topics in psychological sciences, particularly in cognitive psychology. Therefore, you are expected to engage, understand, analyse, and synthesise a wide variety of psychological topics in this course
Prerequisites and co-requisities ( PSYC102 ) and ( PSYC101 ) and ( PSYC103 ) and ( PSYC104 )
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Associate Prof.Dr. M. Akif Güzel https://avesis.agu.edu.tr/akif.guzel akif.guzel@agu.edu.tr
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Baddeley, A. D. (1999). Cognitive psychology: A modular course. Essentials of human memory. Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis (UK)
Course Notes Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)

Course Category
Social Sciences %70
Science %30

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Quiz/Küçük Sınav 2 % 60
Final examination 1 % 40
Total
3
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Okuma 14 6 84
Yüz Yüze Ders 14 5 70
Der Dışı Final Sınavı 1 40 40
Ders Dışı Ara Sınav 2 50 100
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 10 294

 
Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 identify the basic principles of how cognitive psychology deals with human behaviour and investigate human mind and memory
2 define and differentiate the processes of human sensation, perception, and cognition
3 distinguish and realise the difference between various kinds of human memory involving sensory, short-term, and long-term memories
4 discuss how evidence is gathered in psychology research, particularly in experimental (and specifically in cognitive) psychology
5 express and discuss how mental processes are related to the human behaviour in various other context such as social or clinical settings

 
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Introduction Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
2 Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
3 Perception Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
4 Perception & Attention Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
5 Attention, Short Term Memory, Working Memory Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
6 Short Term Memory & Working Memory Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
7 Mid-Term Exam-1 Preparation for the exam Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
8 Spring break None .
9 Long term memory: Structure Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
10 Encoding and retrieval Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
11 Everyday memory and memory errors Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
12 Mid-Term Exam-2 Preparation for the exam Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
13 Knowledge Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
14 Visual imagery & language Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)
15 General discussion Reading Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Australia, Wadsworth Cengage Learning (4th Edition)

 
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12
All 5 1 1 4 4 3 2 1 1 1 2 2
C1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
C2 5 2 1 4 4 2 2 2 3 1 3 2
C3 5 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
C4 2 1 2 4 5 2 1 1 1 1 2 2
C5 3 2 4 3 3 4 1 1 1 2 1 1

  Contribution: 1: Very Slight 2:Slight 3:Moderate 4:Significant 5:Very Significant

  
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