Universität Wien

200084 PS Proseminar General Psychology (2008W)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 20 - Psychologie
Continuous assessment of course work

Gegebenenfalls finden sie aktuelle Nachrichten sowie Skripten, Unterlagen u.ä. zu dieser Lehrveranstaltung unter http://psychologie.univie.ac.at.
Die Voraussetzungen für diese Lehrveranstaltung entnehmen Sie bitte dem Studienplan für das Diplomstudium Psychologie (Homepage der Fakultät für Psychologie - Studium - Download - SSC Psychologie: Allgemeine Informationen).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 16.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 23.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 30.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 06.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 13.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 20.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 27.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 04.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 11.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 18.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 08.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 15.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 22.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 29.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The seminar consists of two parts. Part A covers introductions to A.1 the organisation of the University, the studies, and the research, A.2 the searching, reading, writing, and presenting of topical literature, and A.3 the methods and topics of Experimental Psychology. Part B consists of presentations to be prepared and held by small groups of participating students.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular attendance, routine reading of the literature, presentation, and successful participation in final exams.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Acquisition of key study skills for a successful graduation (searching and citing literature, presenting); acquisition of topical knowledge in the areas of learning, attention, perception, and human information processing.

Examination topics

Reading, Presenting, Disussing.

Reading list

Allgemein (general):

Sternberg, R. (2006). Cognitive Psychology (4th edition). Thompson/Wadsworth.

Referate (presentations):

Bacon, W. F. & Egeth, H. E. (1994). Overriding stimulus-driven attentional capture. Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 485-496.

Dehaene, S., Naccache, L., Le Clec'H, G., Koechlin, E., Mueller, M., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., van de Moortele, P. & Le Bihan, D. (1998). Imaging unconscious semantic priming. Nature, 395, 597-600.

Eagleman, T. M. & Sejnowski, T. M. (2000). Motion integration and post-diction in visual awareness. Science, 287, 2036-2038.

Eastwood, J. D., Smilek, A. & Merikle, P. M. (2001). Differential attentional guidance by unattended faces expressing positive and negative emotion. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 1004-1013.

Hommel, B. (1997b). Interaction between stimulus-stimulus congruence and stimulus-response compatibility. Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung, 59, 248-260.

Horstmann, G., Scharlau, I. & Ansorge, U. (2006). More efficient rejection of happy than angry face distractors in visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 1067-1073.

Kiefer, M. (2002). The N400 is modulated by unconsciously perceived masked words: Further evidence for a spreading activation account of N400 priming effects. Cognitive Brain Research, 13, 27-39.

Kouider, S. & Dupoux, E. (2004). Partial awareness creates the "illusion" of subliminal semantic priming. Psychological Science, 15, 75-81.

Kunde, W., Kiesel, A. & Hoffmann, J. (2003). Conscious control over the content of unconscious cognition. Cognition, 88, 223-242.

Nijhawan, R. (1997). Decomposition of colour through motion extrapolation. Nature, 386, 66-69.

Skinner, B. F. (1948). Superstition in the pigeon. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 38, 168-172.

Theeuwes, J. (1994). Stimulus-driven capture and attentional set: Selective search for color and visual abrupt onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 799-806.

Tolman, E. C., Ritchie, B. F. & Kalish, D. (1946). Studies in spatial learning. I. Orientation and short-cut. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 36, 13-24.

Wühr, P. & Ansorge, U. (2007). A Simon effect in memory retrieval: Evidence for the response-discrimination account. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 984-988.

Association in the course directory

12500

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