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Here is a list of the courses that I will teach this year or that I have taught recently. Sample course outlines and links to the relevant departmental web pages are also given. Please note that course offerings vary from year to year. |
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PSYC2700—Introduction to Cognitive Psychology |
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Introduction to cognitive processes, including a survey of theories, issues, methods and findings. Topics covered include pattern recognition, attention and automaticity, learning and memory. |
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PSYC3700—Honours Seminar in Cognitive Psychology |
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Major theoretical and empirical issues relevant to the study of human cognition will be discussed with emphasis on the methodologies in three research areas: implicit learning, categorization, and attention. |
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PSYC2001—Introduction to Research Methods |
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A general introduction to research methodologies employed within contemporary psychology. Topics covered include research designs (experimental, quasi-experimental) and techniques (observations, surveys), basic descriptive statistics, and how to interpret and report research findings. |
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PSYC5800—Concepts and Categories |
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This seminar is a survey of research on concepts and categorization. Historical and contemporary questions are covered. Focus is on the psychological theories that have been proposed to explain categorization (rules, prototypes, and exemplars) and on the main experimental paradigms that have been used to conduct the research (induction, rule-based, inference-learning, unsupervised learning). |
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Email: guy_lacroix@carleton.ca |
Guy Lacroix |
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PSYC5700—Advanced Topics in Cognition I |
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The goal of this seminar was to assimilate and critically review the arguments presented in Keith Stanovich’s book The Robot’s Rebellion. We read and abundantly discussed the book. Moreover, in support of the seminar’s main endeavor, we surveyed multiple primary sources that covered a wide range of topics in experimental psychology and cognitive science including evolution, dual-process theories of cognition, reasoning, evolutionary psychology, rationality and meme theory. |