Experimental Psycholinguistics
Postgraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 15
- Teaching semesters
- Autumn
- Course code
- LING306
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- English if students not speaking Norwegian attend, otherwise Norwegian
- Resources
- Schedule
Course description
Objectives and Content
Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to ...
- describe important principles and methods in experimental psycholinguistics, including ethical concerns
- design and carry out simple experiments, interpret the results and disseminate the activities in the form of a report.
- express themselves in written form about an experiment and its results in a report in APA format.
- have a critical view of one's own and others' experiments and results
ECTS Credits
Level of Study
Semester of Instruction
Place of Instruction
Required Previous Knowledge
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Access to the Course
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching is done in lectures and through the design/programming of an experiment on a computer, execution of the experiment, statistical analysis and interpretation of the results, about 36 hours per semester. Furthermore, one to two hours of individual supervision is provided in connection with writing the report.
If fewer than five students are registered to a course, the department might reduce the teaching, please see the department's guidelines regarding this on "Mitt UiB". For courses where this is a possibility, the students get information about this at the beginning of the semester, and before the deadline regarding semester registration February 1 / September 1.
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Students must participate in the design and execution of experiments (either personal or laboratory work) during the semester. Obligatory learning activities must be approved before the student is allowed to take the exam in the subject.
The mandatory activities are valid only in the teaching semester.
Forms of Assessment
Supervised term paper with a length of about 4000 words (not counting references, appendices etc). The report should be written in APA format or another internationally accepted format for reports.
The exam can be submitted in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.