160.631 (16W) Cognitive ageing

Wintersemester 2016/17

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First course session
03.10.2016 16:00 - 18:00 V.1.07 On Campus
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Overview

Lecturer
Course title german PS Allgemeine Psychologie: Cognitive ageing
Type Proseminar (continuous assessment course )
Hours per Week 2.0
ECTS credits 4.0
Registrations 31 (35 max.)
Organisational unit
Language of instruction English
possible language(s) of the assessment English
Course begins on 03.10.2016
eLearning Go to Moodle course

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Course Information

Intended learning outcomes

After the course students should be familiar with the main theories of cognitive ageing in psychology and factors that are contributing to the change of different processes over the lifetime.  Additionally, students should know main methodological and statistical procedures to study the psychology of cognitive ageing. 

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

Lecture, exercise and discussion

Course content

The course is intended to introduce students with various approaches in the cognitive ageing domain. For every class the students are required to read and prepare one study that is going to be discussed. Every class starts with the introduction of the methodology, statistical, and theoretical approach used in the discussed study. After the introduction of the unknown concepts, the study is being thoroughly examined. 

Literature

Salthouse, T. A. (1996). The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition.Psychological review, 103(3), 403.
Salthouse, T. A. (2004). What and when of cognitive aging. Current directions in psychological science, 13(4), 140-144.

Examination information

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Examination methodology

Oral and written exam.

Examination topic(s)

All covered topics at the classes in the field of cognitive aging. 

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

Students discussion during the course are going to serve as an oral exam, while every student is suppose to write a plan of his own study in the domain of cognitive aging at the end of the course (introduction, hypothetical assumptions, methods).  

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

  • Bachelor's degree programme Psychology (SKZ: 640, Version: 11W.5)
    • Subject: Allgemeine Psychologie (Compulsory subject)
      • PF 2.3 Proseminar Allgemeine Psychologie ( 0.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
        • 160.631 Cognitive ageing (2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 3. Semester empfohlen

Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts

Sommersemester 2018
  • 160.631 PS PS Allgemeine Psychologie: Cognitive ageing (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)