| Course Type | Elective Course |
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| Course Level | Master's Degree With Thesis |
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| Year of Study | - |
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| Semester | - |
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| ECTS | 7 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- Apply social perception and social cognition to different topics in social psychology.
- Apply topics in social perception and social cognition to the community problems.
- Apply topics in social perception and social cognition to the problems in their own lives.
- Develop applications for other subareas of psychology.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face |
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | None |
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| Course Description | Some of the major questions addressed by this field can be stated as follows: How do we perceive, represent, interpret, and remember information about ourselves and other individuals and groups? How do we utilize our social knowledge? How does our social knowledge determine our social judgments, including stereotypes? To what extent can we control the thought processes that influence our judgments about ourselves and others? In what ways are our social judgments influenced by our motivations, feelings and desires? |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Introduction |
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2nd Week |
Dual Models in Cognition |
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3rd Week |
Attention and Encoding |
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4th Week |
Representation in Memory |
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5th Week |
Self in Social Cognition |
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6th Week |
Attribution Processes |
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7th Week |
Heuristics and Biases |
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8th Week |
Mid-term Exam |
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9th Week |
Social Inference |
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10th Week |
Cognitive Structures of Attitudes |
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11th Week |
Cognitive Processes of Attitudes |
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12th Week |
Stereotyping |
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13th Week |
Prejudice |
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14th Week |
Cognition and Affect |
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15th Week |
Behavior and Affect |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Fiske, S. T., & Taylor, S. E. (2010). Social cognition: From brains to culture. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
* The primary textbook for this course is renewed every year.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
- Lecture
- Discussion
- Questions/Answers
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Mid-term |
1 |
50 |
| Total(%) |
|
50 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
|
50 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
|
50 |
| Total(%) |
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100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
1 |
3 |
3 |
| Preparation for Quiz |
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| Individual or group work |
14 |
9 |
126 |
| Preparation for Final exam |
1 |
20 |
20 |
| Course hours |
15 |
3 |
45 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
1 |
14 |
14 |
| Laboratory (including preparation) |
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| Final exam |
1 |
3 |
3 |
| Homework |
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| Total Work Load | 211 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 7.03 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 7 |
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| Language of Instruction | Turkish |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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