COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPUTER BASED EXPERIMENTATION IN PSYCHOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PSI 6075 COMPUTER BASED EXPERIMENTATION IN PSYCHOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

PSYCHOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜLAY DIRIK

Offered to

PSYCHOLOGY

Course Objective

True experiments offer a powerful means to investigate causal relationships between variables. As such, experimental methods form a cornerstone of empirical investigation within many subdisciplines of psychology. This course addresses experimental design and analysis from both a conceptual and a practical point of view and it is designed to teach basic computer methods that are relevant to work in experimental psychology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learn the basic physiological, perceptual, and cognitive components of human learning and memory
2   Gain theoretical knowledge of and practical experience in the fundamental aspects of designing and implementing user interfaces.
3   Learn to analyze humancomputer interaction problems from a technical, cognitive, and functional perspective.
4   Develop an awareness of the range of general humancomputer interaction issues that must be considered when designing experimental research designs.
5   Know and have practiced a variety of simple methods for creating user interface.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to human-computer interaction
2 What is programming - Introduction to SuperLAB
3 Programming - SuperLab
4 Variable types - Introduction to DirectRT
5 Random numbers - DirectRT
6 Midterm Exam
7 Data analysis - Introduction to EPrime
8 Modeling - EPrime
9 Neural networks - Introduction to Visual Basic
10 Stimulus presentation - Visual Basic
11 Examples from literature
12 Examples from literature
13 Presentation
14 Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Bird, R. J. (1981) The computer in experimental psychology, Academic Press.
All of the prestigious journal that publish psychological research.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Presentation
Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.40 + PRS * 0.10 + ASG * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-2: Assessed with Midterm exam
LO 3-5: Assessed with homework/report, presentation and final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Seventy percent attendance is obligatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

seda.dural@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 3 6 18
Project Preparation 1 15 15
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.15
LO.25
LO.355555
LO.45
LO.555

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