Ders Planı

ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY

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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction	Türkçe
Level of Course	Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery	Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator	Assist. Prof. Dr. ENGİN EKER
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course	to gain students an overall point of view about cognitive pschology.
Course Content	In this course, the definition of cognitive psychology, history, research methods in cognitive psychology, brain anatomy and mechanisms, visual perception, attention processes and consciousness, memory measurement and models and memory processes are taught.

Learning Outcomes

Know historical development and also basics of theoretical approaches of psychology; have knowledge about such theoretical information and different approaches.
Learn and evaluate theories and perspectives of psychology (e.g. behavioral, biological, cognitive, evolutionary, humanistic, psychodynamic, socio-cultural).
Have information about subfields of psychology and contribute in development.
Describes the information obtained from the science of psychology to the social and social field; explains the analytical methods suitable for the situation and problems.
Have skills about forming a scientific research design, collecting data, interpreting and analyzing results by using related statistical techniques.
Evaluate the relations between psychology and other social sciences (e.g., history, sociology, politics, literature etc.) with an interdisciplinary approach.
Have skills related scientific and critical thinking.
Meet the fields of application according to their own interests and develop skills in related areas.
Recognizes the modern measurement and evaluation tools necessary for psychological assessment; acquire basic interview skills.
Take the resposibility in cases of social and individual problems.
Produce scientific solutions in complicated problems by taking individual responsibility.
Contribute to the development of new ideas professionally and individually.
Follow current scientific developments in psychology.
Comprehend the social and universal effects of solutions produced in the field of psychology.
Have communication skills and social competence that will be beneficial in different fields of working.
Gain compentence of executing their profession in accordance with professional responsibility and ethical principals.
Contribute social responsibility projects related to their own fields.
Organize and manage the activities within the field of psychology.

Weekly Course Subjects

1	Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, Brief History
2	Research Methods, Paradigms
3	Cognitive Neuroscience (Neuropysiological assesment techniques)
4	Perception (sende, perception, perception spatialization, visual memory)
5	Attention (types of attention, PET, human brain)
6	Memory Models (two stores, cognitive neuroscience)
7	Analysing of memory model using researches
8	Representation of knowledge (semantic organisation, network models, cognitive models)
9	MIDTERM
10	Representation of knowledge (neurocognitive approach, amnesia, consolidation)
11	Mental imaging
12	Proofs od cognitive neuroscience, analysing with research
13	Visual representation (visual interpretation techniques)
14	k Nature of visual interpretation, principles of visual interpretation, criticals to visual interpretation

Resources

1-Ayçiçeği-Dinn, A (Çevirmen) (2010). Bilişsel Psikoloji, Kitapevi Yayınları, İstanbul.

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