BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Psychology

MODULE: Cognitive Psychology

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 30 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

Despite phenomenal advances in our understanding of the nervous system, many fundamental questions concerning the relation between brain and mind remain unanswered. How are memories stored and retrieved? How is sensory input converted to subjective percept? Is the brain a general-purpose learning machine or a toolbox of innate, specialized processors? This program reviews the methods, findings, and controversies of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. A comparative, developmental perspective will be adopted throughout, using data from animals and young children to inform theories of human cognition and brain evolution.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Neural Science

Language Acquisition

Academic Supervisor: Fernando Miralles

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Neural Science

The juncture of biology and psychology, of brain and behavior... This course provides a comprehensive coverage, from the molecular level right up to human conscious experience, of the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the brain and nervous system with the psychological reality of the mind.

Instructor: Ruben Von Stopeck

Language Acquisition

This course explores the question “How do children manage to learn language?” It introduces classic and contemporary theories of language acquisition. Topics include early speech perception; word learning; acquisition of phonology, morphology, and syntax; development of pragmatic and metalinguistic knowledge; and developmental change in language comprehension and production.

Instructor: Philomena Wavinya Ndambuki

Natural Intelligent Systems

This course studies how the natural intelligent systems are all biological and how its work cannot always be understood in purely computational terms. A biological system must be understood in terms of its environment, it ecological niche, and its evolutionary history.

Instructor: Elena Lorente Rodríguez

Human Consciousness

This course examines the human consciousness. The brain appears to be more a complicated organism to register and channel consciousness rather than produce it. Consciousness, the subjective experience of an inner self, could be a phenomenon forever beyond the reach of neuroscience. Even a detailed knowledge of the brain's workings and the neural correlates of consciousness may fail to explain how or why human beings have self-aware minds.

Instructor: Elena Lorente Rodríguez

Cognitive Neuroscience

This course examines the neurological basis of cognition. It includes the study of brain-injured patients, neurophysiological research in animals, the study of normal cognitive processes in humans and the non-invasive behavioral and physiological techniques. It examines perception and object recognition, attention, language, motor control and executive functions, and the neural systems involved in learning and remembering different types of information.

Instructor: Elena Lorente Rodríguez

Psychology of Perception

This course deals with the theories of perception, perceptual phenomena, and the complex process by which information is gathered by our sensory organs and converted to a subjective precept. It focus on findings of neuroscience and psychology, with emphasis on sensation, attention, meaning, and structural concepts.

Instructor: Fernando Miralles

Psychology of Language

This course examines the psychological processes that underlie the use of language. It explains how the principles are applied to linguistic development and organization, including language structure, speech perception, language acquisition, and the psychological processes underlying comprehension and production of language. It examines the relation between brain and language, and the question of the species-specificity of human language.

Instructor: Elena Lorente Rodríguez

Learning & Memory Development

This course reviews the principles of learning and memory by examining various learning theories, memory research, perception, information processing, and problem-solving. How are memories stored and retrieved? How is sensory input converted to subjective percept? Is the brain a general-purpose learning machine or a toolbox of innate, specialized processors?

Instructor: Elena Lorente Rodríguez

Cognitive Development

This course will focus on the theories and models of learning as applicable to the fields of education, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. It reviews different theoretical orientations to learning and memory, metacognition, analogy, language acquisition, reading, writing, mathematics, concept learning, skill acquisition, and self regulated learning.

Instructor: Elena Lorente Rodríguez

Cognitive Psychology

This course deals with the study of human cognition: the methods, findings, and controversies of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It adopts a comparative, developmental perspective throughout using data from animals and young children to theories of human cognition and brain evolution. It includes perception, attention, memory, knowledge representation, language, problem solving, and reasoning.

Instructor: Elena Lorente Rodríguez

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Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.