Lessons:
2 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial
Assessment:
Class Participation 5%
Mid-term 20%
Group Presentation 15%
Finals 60%
Exam Format:
Midterms - MCQs
Finals - MCQs + Essays
Description:
This module focuses on the mechanisms of cognition. Topics covered include memory, attention, reasoning, problem-solving, etc. The content is rather heavy and will require quite a lot of memorisation.
Readings consist of weekly readings from assigned textbook, which is compulsory as exams is based mostly on textbook.
Lecture is recorded, and it covers content that are not found in the textbook. I actually find recorded lectures more effective as the professor speaks kind of fast, but you need self-discipline to listen online lectures..
Tutorials include a weekly quiz (not graded) and discussion of the quiz questions. Later part of the semester will also include group presentation. You will also need to do up a summary for that week's lecture and bring it to tutorials.
Group presentation will be done in pairs or threes. You are required to analyse a secondary article in terms of credibility, accuracy, etc, and also discuss the primary article on which the secondary article is based. You may also be required to do a in-class demonstration of the experiment that you have researched on.
Mid-terms consist of 70 MCQs, and is mostly based on the textbook. Finals consist of 80 MCQs and 3 long-essays. So you do need good time management skills for this. MCQs consist of a lot of application, whereas the essays will require memorisation, but more importantly, understanding. You will be required to give examples, show your knowledge of the concepts, and experimental procedures.
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