Language and individual differences

Pre-requisites: For Course Attendance additional prerequisites are not required, except those provided with the Statute of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

Course objectives: Providing information on the content and assessment of cognitive resources on which are the use of language and the ways of skill evaluation in the field of language based.

Course description: a)Psychometric approach to research of skills in the field of language. b)The experimental approach for studding of individual differences in the domain of language c)The role of memory and memory processes in the manifestation of individual differences in the domain of language.d)Age and sex differences in memory and the abilities in the domain of language.e)Application of neurophysiological methods and techniques, Neuroimage techniks in studies of individual differences in the domain of language.f) Application of measures of language abilities in the domain of so-called applied psychology field

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge of basic theoretical approaches to the study of individual differences in language skills, knowledge of the application and usage of the results of the primary methods for assessment of language abilities.

Language and individual differences

Pre-requisites: For Course Attendance additional prerequisites are not required, except those provided with the Statute of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

Course objectives: Providing information on the content and assessment of cognitive resources on which are the use of language and the ways of skill evaluation in the field of language based.

Course description: a)Psychometric approach to research of skills in the field of language. b)The experimental approach for studding of individual differences in the domain of language c)The role of memory and memory processes in the manifestation of individual differences in the domain of language.d)Age and sex differences in memory and the abilities in the domain of language.e)Application of neurophysiological methods and techniques, Neuroimage techniks in studies of individual differences in the domain of language.f) Application of measures of language abilities in the domain of so-called applied psychology field

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge of basic theoretical approaches to the study of individual differences in language skills, knowledge of the application and usage of the results of the primary methods for assessment of language abilities.

Literature/Reading:

• Dejan Lalović (2008): "Jezik i individualne razlike", Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd.
• J. B. Carroll (1993): Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies. Cambridge University Press. (odabrani delovi)
• L.L. Light and D. M. Burke (1993): Language, Memory, and Aging. Cambridge University Press. (odabrani delovi)
• D. Halpern (2000): Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (odabrani delovi)
• R. Cabeza and Alan Kingstone (2006): Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition. The MIT Press. (odabrani delovi)
• C. M. Brown and P. Hagoort (1999): The Neurocognition of Language. Oxford University Press. (odabrani delovi)
• D. J. Herrman (2005): Applied Cognitive Psychology: A Textbook. LEA (odabrani delovi)