These include a one semester course on topics in perception and learning, and a two-semester sequence taught by multiple faculty and covering various topics from a cognitive perspective, including memory, psycholinguistics, perception, and development.
All students complete a two-semester statistics course.
After this time, students focus on preliminary exams and on developing a dissertation project . The weekly Cognitive Lunch , a research seminar series attended by all faculty and graduate students in the cognitive area, provides a forum for presentation and discussion of current research by faculty and students . The lunch meetings are an integral part of graduate training, and student presentations of thesis proposals or research are incorporated into the series each year. Training for Teaching and Teaching Experience Teaching is a part of many careers following the Ph.D., and thus graduate study in the Psychology Department prepares students by including a specific teaching curriculum . This begins with a course on the teaching of Psychology, and continues with experience as a teaching assistant.