PSYC3303 Topics in Neurobiology 2007-2008

Essay questions for this course is listed in the course outline given in the beginning of the term.
Please email me if you need one.

Best,
Irma

Essay submission for Fall-term students

Below are some information for Fall-term students.

Just to remind you again that all Fall-term students who are taking a psychology course have to submit two essays with 2000-words MAXIMUM length for each course.

All essays need to be handed in at the General Office, Bedford Way level 3 on
*14th December 2007 at 5 p.m. *
You need to submit one hard copy of each essay with a signed seminar essay declaration form. You'll find the form in page 8 of the 'seminar hand-out for students' which is sent through email and can be found on the intranet of psychology website http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/intranet/staff.htm

Remember to put the course name and code and the name of the course convenor on the declaration form - not Brad's, Irma's, Matthias' name, or the name of the person who gave the lecture that the essay is on.

The essay needs to roughly conform with APA guidelines and you'll find all the information in the document attached. You'll also need to email the electronic version of the essays to i.kurniawan@ucl.ac.uk with your surname, course code, and 'essay1' or 'essay 2' as the email subject. Please do this by 15th December 2007 at 1 p.m. (e.g., kurniawan, 2207,essay1).
I will send out a reminder closer to the date.

Best,
Irma

Orienting questions for PSY2007 (perception, ATTENTION, and action)

For those who are taking PSY2007 "Perception, Attention, and Action", you may have realised that we've only put up essay questions themed in Perception and Action only. Pete Howell, the lecturer for 'Attention' in this course had provided a CD with power point slides at the beginning of the lecture course for each of you with the first slide including "orienting questions". These questions would be useful for the students to think about while they go through the lectures and students can use the orientation questions (or a question from last year's exam paper) for their essays.

Please contact me should you have any questions.

Best,
Irma

Essay questions for health part of the health and clinical psychology

Below are two questions for the affiliate students for the health part of the clinical and health psychology course

1. There are several types of social support which can influence health relevant processes. Discuss and give examples.
2. How does nicotine cause addiction to cigarettes and what can be done to treat it

best wishes,

Susan

PSYC 1101 essay titles

1.Can consciousness be decomposed?

2.Distinguish between explicit and implicit memory, giving examples of
each. Discuss the evidence for the reality of this distinction.

3.Why is conversation so easy?

4.How has the development of the 'object concept' been investigated in
young children? What have these investigations revealed?

5.Explain what is meant by 'executive control'. Why is it necessary, and
when does it fail?

6.What is gender identity and what influences its development?

7.How are intelligence tests constructed? What problems are encountered
by those attempting to compare the intelligence of different populations?

8.How would you test whether someone had a 'theory of mind'? If they did
not, what difference would it make to their everyday behaviour?

9.Can mental imagery be studied scientifically?

10.How is attachment assessed? What do the results of these assessments
reveal about the caregiver-child relationship?

11.What are the differences between our normal waking state, dreaming,
deep sleep, and hypnotic trance?

12.Am I happy because I smile, or do I smile because I am happy?
Evaluate theories of emotion.

13.Write an essay on mental representations.

14.Is the concept of a critical period useful for understanding human
development?

15.What is meant by 'body image'? Describe the ways in which body image
can become distorted or disrupted.

Essay titles for Memory course (3207).

You can choose two essay topics from all the topics below:

There are two new essay topics:

• Why do we become forgetful as we get older?
• Write an essay on the neuroscience of memory.

Essay topics from last year's exam:

Critically evaluate some of the theories that have been proposed to
explain age-related memory decline.

Describe some of the ways in which fluent processing affects memory.

What evidence is there that memories are often blocked or inhibited at
retrieval?

Compare the episodic/semantic and transfer-appropriate processing
theories of memory.

Compare and contrast the roles of the hippocampus, amygdala, and
frontal lobes in memory.

What have neuropsychological and/or brain imaging studies revealed
about short-term memory?

Are memories consolidated after their initial formation?

What would your advice be to someone who has just witnessed a road
accident and wants to provide accurate eyewitness evidence?

What is the relationship between implicit leaming and implicit memory?

PSYC 2007 (perception) essay titles

What mechanisms determine how we detect the direction of motion?

Describe Hubel and Wiesel's account of the hypercolumn. On what evidence did they base their theory?

In what sense, if any, does conscious experience of action precede action itself?

What overlap is there between the processes of performing an action andof observing someone else's action?

from Prof Patrick haggard:


In what sense, if any, does conscious experience of action precede
action itself?

What overlap is there between the processes of performing an action and
of observing someone else's action?

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from Lilli Navie:

What is the fate of unattended information in the dichotic listening paradigm?

One main function of attention is to bind visual features into acoherent object. Discuss.

from Pete Howell:

Hearing:

Describe time and place principles for determining the frequency of a sound .

How can conductive and sensorineural hearing losses be distinguished?

Speech:

Describe and evaluate ways in which speech perception and productionare modeled.

Assess Levelt's model of language production .