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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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