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Dr. Cutting's PSY369 Course Syllabi
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Course Catalog description
PSY 110 or 111, PSY 231 required.
Basic theories and findings in the study of
psychological processes of language use.
Course Description & Objective.
Basic theories and findings in the study of the
psychological processes of language use, with a
focus on the comprehension, production,
acquisition, and representation of language.
Psycholinguistics is an area of specialization
in cognitive psychology that focuses on the
psychological components of the language
processor. This course provides an introduction
to Psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics is the
field that studies the information processing
mechanisms that govern the use of language in
comprehension and production, acquisition, and
representation. A common misconception is that
one learns about the specifics of particular
languages in a course on psycholinguistics; for
example, how Russian uses different case-endings
than German. Instead, this course emphasizes the
commonalities that underlie human languages
everywhere, and we will focus on what these
commonalities tell us about the basic nature of
the human language-making capacity. I hope you
will find the material to be both interesting
and challenging. The main course objectives
include:
- Understand current theories of human
language use.
- Understand many of the current methodologies
used to study language.
- Understand how language processing relates
to other fields of psychology.
- Develop writing skills through short-answer
questions on exams and through a written
research paper.
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