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200252 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn (2024S)

Fundamental Topics in Cognitive Science + Colloquium

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 20 - Psychologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Vertiefungsseminare können nur fürs Pflichtmodul B verwendet werden! Eine Verwendung fürs Modul A4 Freie Fächer ist nicht möglich.
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Details

max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

PLEASE NOTE: This course is not "Memory-related aspects of vibrotactile perception".

The course title/concept will be "Fundamental Topics in Cognitive Science + Colloquium"

  • Freitag 08.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 15.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 22.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 12.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 19.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 26.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 03.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 10.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 17.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 24.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 31.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 07.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 14.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 21.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Freitag 28.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal F Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Aims: Through discussions, in English, centered on the reading of target research papers, we aim to foster critical thinking in the area of the Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences. After taking this course, attendees should be especially able to reflect on the “bigger picture” underlying academic discussions, to approach scientific communications and ideas critically. We do this by focusing, unlike many other courses which target specific empirical study papers, targeting seminal papers or book chapters in Cognitive Sciences which provide the framework and context for much Psychology and Cognitive Science work itself. Where do our terms, our problems, or solutions in Psychology come from, and why is this so?

Second, we aim to train skills in participating in such discussions in English—a skill that is a growing, ever-present reality for life as a postgraduate—in a “safe space” with minimal pressure.

Contents: The seminar involves reading, presenting, and discussing seminal papers or book chapters in Cognitive Sciences. This includes topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Psychology as a Science, how research findings can be generalized, the replication crisis, Philosophy of Mind, research practice and scientific utopia etc.. Though the topics raise fundamental issues in psychology, the discussions also regularly touch relevant topics of everyday life, such as the future of science, consequences of digitalization, cultural dependence on psychological concepts, development of language, truth, or free will.

Methods: Student presentation of a paper/book chapter, student-guided discussion of the text in the seminar, presentation and listening to topic-related podcasts.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Assessment is based on participation and contributions to the discussion in class. In each unit a specific paper/book chapter will be discussed. In the beginning of the session, students will present the assigned reading in short and should raise important questions pertaining to the topic. These will then be discussed in the remainder of the unit.

The presentation will be assessed in detail on the following criteria: completeness, creativity and critical thinking (see template of the evaluation form). The feedback will be provided on the following week after the presentation was held.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Attendance at class sessions (max 2 missed sessions) AND listening to assigned podcasts mandatory
Presentation of the assigned reading is mandatory.

Grading:
a) Active participation --> 40%
b) Presentation of the paper and discussion --> 40%
c) Attendance on colloquium (listening to podcasts) --> 20%

Please note that active participation (40% of the total grade) is a major determinant of the grade. We would like to point out that missing a session results in no participation for this session.

Prüfungsstoff

Tentative plan (Note, may be subject to slight change):
Week 1: Introduction, overview of class, syllabus

2. Example Session (Matthew Pelowski): Mindless statistics (Gigerenzer, 2004)

Session 1: Summary of Social Science (Meehl, 1990)
Session 2: Generalizability of findings, external validity (Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010)
Session 3: Naming the mind (Danziger, 1997)
Session 4: Digital memory, History of memory (Draaisma, 2000)
Session 5: AI (Turing, 1950)
Session 6: Psychology (James, 1890)
Session 7: Threats of statistical procedures (Bennet et al. 2010, Fiedler, 2011).
Session 8: QRP (Simmons, 2011; Benjamin, 2017)
Session 9: Replication (Zwaan et al. 2018)
Session 10: Scientific Utopia III. (Uhlmann et al., 2019)

Literatur

Assigned in class.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Fr 08.03.2024 14:26