All essays for Fall-term students are to be handed in on:
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Thursday 17 December 2009
to the General Office
at 4 p.m.
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Word limit is 2,000 words maximum and students need to hand in two essays per psychology course.
Best,
Irma
Tuesday 27 October 2009
Friday 23 October 2009
Essay questions for PSYC 2207 Perception, Attention, and Action
PSYC 2207 Questions for Affiliate Essays 2009
1. Critically assess alternative theories of pitch perception
2. Describe the structure of a cortical hypercolumn in primary visual cortex.
3. What evidence points to the importance of the configuration of the face in face perception?
4. Do speakers use auditory feedback to control their vocal productions?
5. Assess motor theory as an account of the relationship between speech perception and production.
6. Are we always conscious of our actions and intentions? Discuss.
7. Describe how the brain enables the understanding of others’ actions.
8. Can we simply describe attentional selection as space-based?
9. Critically evaluate the evidence in favour of early selection in vision.
Prof. Alan Johnston
Convener Psych2207
22/10/2009
1. Critically assess alternative theories of pitch perception
2. Describe the structure of a cortical hypercolumn in primary visual cortex.
3. What evidence points to the importance of the configuration of the face in face perception?
4. Do speakers use auditory feedback to control their vocal productions?
5. Assess motor theory as an account of the relationship between speech perception and production.
6. Are we always conscious of our actions and intentions? Discuss.
7. Describe how the brain enables the understanding of others’ actions.
8. Can we simply describe attentional selection as space-based?
9. Critically evaluate the evidence in favour of early selection in vision.
Prof. Alan Johnston
Convener Psych2207
22/10/2009
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Essay questions for PSYC3108: Organisational Psychology
Students are allowed to use past-exam questions to write essays for this course which can be accessed from here:
http://digitool-b.lib.ucl.ac.uk:8881/R/HP684XXYIMDBY8C3STCVY8MKTCEMV43THBI44LYKCH1E4RDHBF-01488?func=collections&collection_id=1363
http://digitool-b.lib.ucl.ac.uk:8881/R/HP684XXYIMDBY8C3STCVY8MKTCEMV43THBI44LYKCH1E4RDHBF-01488?func=collections&collection_id=1363
Essay questions for PSYC 2206: Clinical and Health Psychology
Please choose ONE from Health Psychology and ONE from Clinical Psychology.
Health Psychology:
1. Describe and critique two social cognition models in relation to predicting health-related behaviour.
2. “There is no such thing as pure pain without emotion”. Discuss.
3. What determines how a person copes with chronic illness and hospitalization?
4. What factors should be considered when developing a theory-based intervention to change health professional behaviour?
Clinical Psychology:
1. Discuss antisocial behaviour in adolescence using the framework of developmental psychopathology
2. How does exposure therapy work as a treatment for anxiety disorders?
3. Through what mechanisms could the social environment bring about depression?
4. Critically evaluate the evidence that neurotransmitter dysfunction plays a major causal role in schizophrenia.
5. Is drug dependence best conceptualised as primarily a psychological or a biological state?
Health Psychology:
1. Describe and critique two social cognition models in relation to predicting health-related behaviour.
2. “There is no such thing as pure pain without emotion”. Discuss.
3. What determines how a person copes with chronic illness and hospitalization?
4. What factors should be considered when developing a theory-based intervention to change health professional behaviour?
Clinical Psychology:
1. Discuss antisocial behaviour in adolescence using the framework of developmental psychopathology
2. How does exposure therapy work as a treatment for anxiety disorders?
3. Through what mechanisms could the social environment bring about depression?
4. Critically evaluate the evidence that neurotransmitter dysfunction plays a major causal role in schizophrenia.
5. Is drug dependence best conceptualised as primarily a psychological or a biological state?
Essay questions for PSYC 3109: Psychology of Health
Students can use the seminar essay questions on the outline as essay questions. You need to be careful not to write two essays on overlapping topics.
Essay questions for PSYC 3207: Human Learning and Memory
Choose two from the questions below:
1. How does memory relate to the self?
2. Does age-related decline in memory have a different basis from age-related decline in other aspects of cognition?
3. Critically evaluate the concept of memory consolidation.
4. Describe some of the empirical findings on memory that should be taken into account in designing educational and training programmes.
5. Discuss the neuroscience of shotl-term memory.
6. What is the evidence that long-term memory involves distinct subsystems?
7. How is endoding related to retrieval?
8. What has been learnt from the study of false memories?
9. Why do people forget, and how can forgetting be reduced?
1. How does memory relate to the self?
2. Does age-related decline in memory have a different basis from age-related decline in other aspects of cognition?
3. Critically evaluate the concept of memory consolidation.
4. Describe some of the empirical findings on memory that should be taken into account in designing educational and training programmes.
5. Discuss the neuroscience of shotl-term memory.
6. What is the evidence that long-term memory involves distinct subsystems?
7. How is endoding related to retrieval?
8. What has been learnt from the study of false memories?
9. Why do people forget, and how can forgetting be reduced?
Saturday 10 October 2009
Affiliate Seminar Groups-Fall 2009
Affiliate Seminar Groups
Fall 2009
Seminar Group 1
Mondays, 12.30-1.30 p.m.
BW 215
Demonstrator: Irma
| 1 | Alexander | |
| 2 | Kho | Irene |
| 3 | Kwatra | Rashmi |
| 4 | Nagler | Gabrielle |
| 5 | Norgard | Holly |
| 6 | Rapaport | Alison |
| 7 | Reddy | Vignatha |
| 8 | Ruiz | Sarah |
| 9 | Schuster | Abigail |
| 10 | Suter | Tracey |
| 11 | Tone | Erika |
Seminar Group 2
Mondays, 4-5 p.m.
BW 311
Demonstrator: Irma
| 1 | Andrews | Margaretta |
| 2 | Elizondo | Caitling |
| 3 | Hodges | Moira |
| 4 | Holtz-Eakin | Eleanor |
| 5 | Lin | Alison |
| 6 | Liu | Joan |
| 7 | Menezes | Tarika |
| 8 | Park | |
| 9 | Petitjean | |
| 10 | van Cutsem | Aurelie |
Seminar Group 3
Tuesdays, 9.30-10.30 a.m.
BW448
Demonstrator: Matthias
| 1 | Ali | Zarah |
| 2 | Chung | Christine |
| 3 | Fasolo | Anna |
| 4 | Gray | Sophia |
| 5 | Kim | Hai Jung |
| 6 | McArdle | James |
| 7 | Perlmutter | Jen |
| 8 | Schneider | Katherine |
| 9 | Wilmanski | Tomasz |
Seminar Group 4
Wednesdays 11-12 p.m.
BW 311
Demonstrator: Matthias
| 1 | Brown | Meghan |
| 2 | Bucchioni | Giulia |
| 3 | Glukhovsky | Lisa |
| 4 | Kallen | Emily |
| 5 | Kelly | Kathleen |
| 6 | Kestenman | Paige |
| 7 | Kochar | Arshneel |
| 8 | Landstrom | Cecilia |
| 9 | Neustadter | Eli |
| 10 | Rosen | Sara |
| 11 | Slater | Joel |
Monday 5 October 2009
Welcome Affiliates 2009-2010
Dear affiliates of academic year 2009/2010,
We would like to say welcome to all of you. I hope the first a week and a half have been fun and exciting. This is the platform for us (Brad, Irma, & Matthias) to transmit various information about the seminars and assignments that you need to complete. We will post relevant information on this blog as they come up and email you everything we post here, so make sure we have your correct email address.
First, there is going to be a sign-up sheet for seminar slots this Wednesday on the wall outside the common room on BW 3rd floor from 1.30 p.m.. If your primary department is Psychology, or if you're taking 2 psych courses, you need to put your name for one of the slots. There is a limit of 10 students for each slot, so please choose another slot if one gets filled up. Note that this is not the final seminar allocation so do email us if you have a problem with this.
The sign-up sheet will be taken down on Friday ~2.30p.m., and we will email you about the final seminar allocation on Saturday, Oct 10.
Second, remember to send an email to Matthias (m.gruber@ucl.ac.uk) about your psych courses and timetable for non-psych courses (e.g., Fri 2.4p.m.).
We look forward to seeing you next week for the first seminar meeting.
Best,
Matthias and Irma
We would like to say welcome to all of you. I hope the first a week and a half have been fun and exciting. This is the platform for us (Brad, Irma, & Matthias) to transmit various information about the seminars and assignments that you need to complete. We will post relevant information on this blog as they come up and email you everything we post here, so make sure we have your correct email address.
First, there is going to be a sign-up sheet for seminar slots this Wednesday on the wall outside the common room on BW 3rd floor from 1.30 p.m.. If your primary department is Psychology, or if you're taking 2 psych courses, you need to put your name for one of the slots. There is a limit of 10 students for each slot, so please choose another slot if one gets filled up. Note that this is not the final seminar allocation so do email us if you have a problem with this.
The sign-up sheet will be taken down on Friday ~2.30p.m., and we will email you about the final seminar allocation on Saturday, Oct 10.
We look forward to seeing you next week for the first seminar meeting.
Best,
Matthias and Irma
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