Module PY2210-KP04, PY2210

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

4

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Media Informatics 2020, compulsory, psychology
• Master Entrepreneurship in Digital Technologies 2020, optional subject, interdisciplinary competence
• Bachelor Media Informatics 2014, compulsory, psychology

Classes and lectures:

• Psychology of Perception and Cognition (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Psychology of Perception and Cognition (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 45 hours in-classroom work
• 75 hours private studies and exercises

Contents of teaching:

• History of cognitive psychology
• Attention
• Visual perception
• Hearing
• Skin senses, haptic and tactile perception
• Psychophysics
• Expertise, learning, memory, and knowledge
• Reasoning and problem solving
• Judgment, decision making

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The students can understand, classify, and use cognitive psychological scientific contributions.
• They are able to describe processes of media use and human-machine-interaction referring to basic cognitive functions, to judge demands to users, and to account for them in the design of media and technological systems.
• They know how to evaluate technological systems and interactive media with methods from cognitive psychology.

Grading through:

• portfolio exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Franke

Teacher:

• Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Franke
• MitarbeiterInnen des Instituts

Literature:

• J.R. Anderson : Kognitive Psychologie (7. Auflage) Heidelberg: Spektrum, 2013
• E. B. Goldstein : Wahrnehmungspsychologie (9. Auflage) Heidelberg: Spektrum, 2014

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

27.07.2021