PSY 2206 – Cognition, Emotion and Language (10 ECTS)
Fall 2009
Coordinator:
Francisco Pons
Teachers:
Annika Melinder (AM) & EKUP, Geir Overskeid (GO), Francisco Pons (FP), Eva Skoe (ES), and Stephen von Tetzchner (SvT)
Literature:
There is no compulsory literature. The problem formulation of the semester essay will decide the literature that the students have to read (minimum 800 pages). The students may leaf through the following book and journal as a “starter”:
· Dalgleish, T., & Power, M. (1999). Handbook of cognition and emotion.
· Cognition & Emotion (via for example PsycINFO)
Exam
Individual semester essay. For deadline see the website of the course. Compulsory requirements about the form and the content of the semester essay will be provided at the beginning of the course. A copy of these instructions will be put on FRONTER.
Schedule
Week 34 to 42: Tuesday from 16.15 to 18.00, Auditorium 3
Week 34 to 41: Thursday from 16.15 to 18.00, Auditorium 3
|
Week |
Day |
Session |
Topic |
Teacher |
|
34 |
Tuesday |
1 |
Introduction to the course & to the Individual semester essay |
FP |
|
|
Thursday |
2 |
Children’s understanding of the relation between cognition and emotion |
FP |
|
35 |
Tuesday |
3 |
Social cognition and language in typically and non-typically developing children |
FP |
|
|
Thursday |
4 |
Theory of Mind, language and mental images in people with autism |
FP |
|
36 |
Tuesday |
5 |
Consciousness from a Neo-Piagetian perspective |
FP |
|
|
Thursday |
6 |
Emotion and morality |
ES |
|
37 |
Tuesday |
7 |
Emotions and sex |
ES |
|
|
Thursday |
8 |
Metaphors in cognition and language |
SvT |
|
38 |
Tuesday |
9 |
Executive Function development |
AM & EKUP |
|
|
Thursday |
10 |
Memory development |
AM & EKUP |
|
39 |
Tuesday |
11 |
Decision making, emotion, and the brain. |
GO |
|
|
Thursday |
12 |
Witnessing |
AM & EKUP |
|
40 |
Tuesday |
13 |
Emotion regulation from a developmental and psychoanalytical point of view |
FP |
|
|
Thursday |
14 |
Seminar 1 |
FP |
|
41 |
Tuesday |
15 |
Seminar 2 |
FP |
|
|
Thursday |
16 |
Seminar 3 |
FP |
|
42 |
Tuesday |
17 |
Seminar 4 |
FP |