Psychology Bilkent University

Overview

The Psychology programme from Bilkent University focuses on cognitive, social, personality, and evolutionary psychology, as well as neuroscience. Graduate students are expected to participate in research activities upon entering the program. 

Key facts about the Psychology programme

To support psychological research, the university has developed an infrastructure that includes the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM), along with state-of-the-art research laboratories equipped with observation rooms for testing children and adults, a genetic testing room, and testing rooms for psychophysical and behavioral experiments. The compulsory courses include:

Advanced Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology

This course is a graduate level course in statistics and research methods for the psychological sciences. In this course, students will work with real-life data sets to conduct inferential statistical tests and will receive practical training in the use of the statistical software package SPSS.

Advanced Cognitive Psychology

This course will serve as a general introduction to cognitive psychology at a graduate level. It aims to give breadth and depth of expertise to cognitive area students and relevant background knowledge to non-cognitive area students, and to highlight methods and approaches as well as new trends in cognitive psychology.

Advanced Developmental Psychology

This course is a general introduction to developmental theory and research. It will cover developmental theories such as attachment theory, Vygotsky, and Piaget's theories, etc. as well as areas of research such as language development, infancy, social cognition, emotional development, moral development and cognitive development.