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200190 SE Scientific Readings (2017W)

Biologische Psychologie

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

Das Fachliteraturseminar kann zur schriftlichen BA-Arbeit führen (siehe Studienplan BA-Studium neu).
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

/!\/!\/!\ FIRST COURSE WILL START AT 11:30 AM in Hörsaal G /!\/!\/!\

Morning courses will start at 10:00 AM instead of 9:45.
Morning courses will focus on theory (teachers' advices).
Afternoon courses will be time dedicated for supervised group work.

  • Thursday 05.10. 11:30 - 14:30 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Thursday 05.10. 14:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Thursday 19.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 19.10. 14:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Thursday 09.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 09.11. 14:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Thursday 16.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 16.11. 14:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Thursday 30.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 30.11. 14:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Thursday 14.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0618
  • Thursday 14.12. 14:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Thursday 11.01. 11:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Thursday 25.01. 11:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

/!\/!\/!\ FIRST COURSE WILL START AT 11:30 AM in Hörsaal G /!\/!\/!\

This course aims to train the students at proficiently perform the steps necessary to conduct an experiment in psychology when starting from nothing but a designated topic (see below). This course aims to prepare the students to conduct an experiment for their bachelor project in summer semester 2018. Attendance to summer semester 2018 course is not mandatory but strongly recommended.
The steps:
(1) Become familiar with a topic
(2) Find a research question and formulate hypotheses
(3) Identify and assess the methods available
(4) Design your experiment
(5) Implement your experiment
(6) Conduct the experiment
Program: The students will taught the steps 1 to 6. The students will be requested to produce a group-based work for each step from 1 to 4 and will be evaluated on this basis. Groups of 4 students are to be created.
Morning courses will focus on theory (teachers' advices).
Afternoon courses will be time dedicated for supervised group work.

Assessment and permitted materials

Grading system: 4 group reports (800 words max, bibliographical references excluded) counting 15% each; One online quiz counting as 20%; individual participation in class and online counting as bonus for up to +10%.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Good reading and writing skills in English. Courses given in English.

Examination topics

Designated topic: To guarantee teachers’ expertise in researched topics and to constrain the vastness of scientific literature, this year’s designated topic is the relation between “Self-awareness” (measured or manipulated) and “Self-Other distinction” (measured in empathy, mentalizing, and automatic imitation). Three possible tasks to measure self-other distinction are fixed in advance.

Reading list

4 papers to start with...
Brass, M., Bekkering, H., & Prinz, W. (2001). Movement observation affects movement execution in a simple response task. Acta Psychologica, 106(1–2), 3–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0001-6918(00)00024-X
Samson, D., Apperly, I. A., Braithwaite, J. J., Andrews, B. J., & Bodley Scott, S. E. (2010). Seeing it their way: Evidence for rapid and involuntary computation of what other people see. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36(5), 1255–1266. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018729
Silani, G., Lamm, C., Ruff, C. C., & Singer, T. (2013). Right Supramarginal Gyrus Is Crucial to Overcome Emotional Egocentricity Bias in Social Judgments. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(39), 15466–15476. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1488-13.2013
Lamm, C., Bukowski, H., & Silani, G. (2016). From shared to distinct self–other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1686), 20150083. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0083

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