These seminars give students grounding in the skills necessary to use computer software for their research. The seminars focus on Superlab and E-Prime, which are two of the main computer programs for generating psychology experiments and collecting behavioral data via a computer. Students are taught most aspects of these programmes, including presentation of visual or auditory stimuli, the provision of feedback, and multi-block experiments. Additionally, students are taught how to employ Excel to automate the analysis. These skills are developed through workshop-style seminars, the conduct of practical tasks, and constructive peer evaluation. Students¿ skills are assessed by their application in a project comprising the writing of a computer programme to run a psychological experiment in Superlab.
The module provides an in depth look at the cognitive processes underlying important higher level functions such as language, thinking, problem solving, reasoning and making decisions. The module will start covering a series of topics within perception and attention such as visual perception, biological motion, auditory perception, chemical senses, touch and proprioception, multisensory experiences, attentional mechanisms, and attention in driving. This will be followed by the most important and hotly debated issues in psycholinguistics, including how children acquire language, how language is processed in the adult mind with particular emphasis on reading, spelling dyslexia and bilingualism. The last part of the module will deal with the way in which humans make judgments, reach decisions and resolve problems and puzzles by examining the research evidence and exploring the classical and current theories.
Students conduct an independent research project under the supervision of a member of staff. The research topic is decided in conjunction with supervisors and Research topics. Students must obtain ethical approval, design, conduct, analyse and write up a piece of research in order to achieve Graduate Basis for Chartership with the British Psychological Society (BPS).
This optional module provides students with the opportunity to conduct an extended literature review to discover what is currently known about an interesting, but less well known, area of psychology that is not taught as part of the psychology curriculum in Level 5 or 6. Students work independently, guided by their dissertation supervisor, to research a topic of their choice. In recent years students have written dissertations about `political psychology¿, `positive psychology¿ `why people take part in extreme sports¿, `does cannabis use cause schizophrenia¿ and many other diverse lines of enquiry.
Students conduct an independent research project under the supervision of a member of staff. Students must obtain ethical approval, design, conduct, analyse and write up a piece of research in order to achieve Graduate Basis for Chartership with the British Psychological Society.
Language Research Centre
Spanish Experimental Psychological Society (SEPEX)
Brain and Cognition Group
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Swansea University Scholarship, Online Grooming |
| 2014 | Research Initiatives Fund, Online Grooming, From communicative modelling to paedophile profiling |
| 2014 | Swansea University Scholarship, An Investigation of the Interfacing of Dementia, Cognitive Reserve and Cognitive Decline |
| 2012 | Winner of the 'Best Paper of the Year' award by the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology |
| 2012 | Bridging the Gaps Escalator Fund - Communicative profiling of online sex predators |
| 2012 | Bridging the Gaps Escalator Fund - A comparative exploration of the distinctive qualities of oral, hand written and language |
| 2010 | Profiling the mental lexicon |
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