Psychology

The course examines language as a system of human communication, focusing on its biological, cognitive, and social foundations. It introduces key concepts in psycholinguistics, pragmatics, language comprehension, and production, and explores how language is processed in the mind and used in social interaction.

This course examines the main psychological phenomena at play in economic decisions including how knowledge about psychology and economic behavior can be used in practice.

This course familiarizes students with fundamental issues in the area of self-regulation, motivation, and emotion. Topics include basic self-regulatory processes such as goal setting and goal striving, self-control, and self-knowledge and facilitating and disruptive factors that influence self-regulatory processes, such as motivation, emotion (regulation), habits, and automatic influences. Strategies for improving self-regulation are also discussed. These topics are focused on four specific themes of interest: health, education, finance, and sustainability. The course consists of lectures and tutorials with assignments.

This course examines the definition, history, and scope of abnormal behavior with an emphasis on the psychological factors that control its origins, maintenance, and modification.

This version of the Developmental Neuropsychology course includes an Independent Study Project (ISP) done under the direction of the instructor. The ISP is 10-12 pages and counts for 1/3 of the overall grade for the course. In this course, students are introduced to the innovative field of developmental neuropsychology. The anatomy of the brain and relevant brain functions are introduced at the beginning of the module. Through case studies, students explore the fundamental research and the most recent advances in the field. Students attempt to find solutions to the questions presented by researching various articles and group discussion. Cognitive development is typically measured by changes or improvements in cognitive processes. In this course, processes such as language, reasoning, and memory, etc. are explored in terms of their developmental trajectory and how this trajectory relates to changes in the maturing brain. Students examine how these developmental changes can be measured by various neurological methods (e.g. fMRI and EEG). The field trip included in the course focuses on the importance of neuroscientific research methods and forms a unique and practical insight into the subject matter. Midway through the course the students construct a research proposal regarding developmental neuropsychology in subgroups and present this proposal. Prerequisites for this course include at least one intermediate level psychology course. It is recommended that the students have an interest in the development of the human brain and cognitive development. An interest in scientific research and methods is also recommended.