2-IKV-141 Current trends in cognitive psychology

Evaluation during the course: test, independent work

Concluding evaluation: exam and work

Subject aim: To present basic approaches in statistics, to learn to collect, describe and manipulate empirical data. To learn to formulate scientific questions, hypotheses and verifiable probabilistic estimates. To learn to interpret results on facts of psychological origin, to learn to use symmetries in understanding of systems, with emphasis to practical application of this knowledge.

Brief curriculum of the subject:

Introduction - the goal and the spirit of course

Methodological tools - statistics as lingua franca in the science, especially in the psychology

Descriptive statistics with examples from the psychology, SPSS as tool for data handling

Inference statistics with examples from the psychology. Artificial neural nets and multivariate statistics - Symmetries in science, especially in mathematics, physics and psychology

Point of view of invariance and "objective reality"

Examples of symmetries in science - continuous and discrete symmetries

Gauge invariance in physics, psychology, models of psychological spaces

Some special problems of cognitive psychology

Perception , perception of speech. Libet´s experiments of, free will and consciousness

What is MP3 and MPEG - informatics meet physics and psychology (student´s activity)

Scientific research of sleep and dream - (student´s activity)

Speech recognition of as a cognitive problem - recognition of speech and ANN

Literature:

Tarski A.: Úvod do logiky a metodologie deduktivních věd, Academia, Praha, 1969

Kolmogorov, A.N.: Osnovnije poňatja teorii verojatnosti, Nauka, 1974

Clauss. G., Ebner, H.: Základy štatistiky pre psychológov, pedagógov a sociológov, Bratislava, SPN, 1988

Sachs, L.: Applied Statistics, Sprienger-Verlag, New York Heidelberg Berlin, 1978

R. Penrose: The Emperors New Mind, Oxford University Press, 1990

Hofstadter, D. R. : Godel, Escher, Bach, Penguin Books, 1979

Majstri vied, celá edícia, vydáva Kaligram 1991 - 2006

Kolumbus, celá edícia, vydáva Mladá fronta, 1960- 2006

Language in which the subject is taught: Slovak

Date of the last sheet revision: 2.2.2009