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How our brain is constantly making a fool out of ourselves and why is it our biggest strength? Memory, attention, making decisions, motivation and boredom from the perspective of neuropsychology

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Course ID:	2500-EN-PS-EAc-40
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.4 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0313) Psychology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	How our brain is constantly making a fool out of ourselves and why is it our biggest strength? Memory, attention, making decisions, motivation and boredom from the perspective of neuropsychology
Name in Polish:	How our brain is constantly making a fool out of ourselves and why is it our biggest strength? Memory, attention, making decisions, motivation and boredom from the perspective of neuropsychology
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Psychology
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ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language:	English
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Completed course in Biological Basis of Behaviour 1 (BBB 1)
Short description:	The aim of the course is to familiarize students of the first three years of the studies with the specificity of the field of clinical neuropsychology. Students learn the brain location of particular cognitive functions, different forms of their disorders and basic information about neuropsychological diagnosis and rehabilitation.
Learning outcomes:	After completing the classes students are expected to be able to give appropriate information when it comes to: - knowledge of the brain location of areas responsible for discussed cognitive functions - knowledge about basic neuropsychological disorders - basic knowledge about neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span:	2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO TU SEM W TH FR
Type of class:	Seminar, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	(unknown)
Group instructors:	Ewa Malinowska
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Grading Seminar - Grading
Full description:	Proposed classes are thought as general introductory course to the field of clinical neuropsychology. Classes are going to be divided into blocks concerning specific cognitive domains such as: memory (models of memory, processes of learning and forgetting etc.), language, attention (its models and possible disorders) or executive functions (goal oriented behaviour, making decisions and choices, planning with the proper perspective of time, boredom etc.). Each of the domains is going to be presented from the perspective of its neural corelates, disorders, especially from the clinical perspective. In each of the cases, general rules of neuropsychological diagnosis and rehabilitation is going to be introduced.

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