<p> Year 2 Tutorials, 2017-18</p><p>Tutor: Tobias Bast</p><p>Mentor: Yasmin Atthill</p><p>Group Bence-Hogg Rosa C850 Benns Lucy Catherine C800 Bialasinska Natalia C800 Bickford Amelia C800 Bird Megan C800 Bomford Aimee C850 </p><p>Group meetings Office B26 1. Mon, 2 Oct 17, 16-17h Topic: Career and postgraduate plans and specific opportunities during year 2 To prepare: Everybody thinks about her/his career/postgraduate plans and what to do to achieve them, researching relevant resources on the internet </p><p>2. Tues, 24 Oct 17: 9-10 h Topic: C82CHIP – Empiricism vs. Rationalism Brief presentation by: Rosa To prepare: Everybody to read article about Empiricism and Rationalism in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosopy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism- empiricism/). Everybody to think about some psychological research that supports one of the two viewpoints (everybody to find at least one example).</p><p>3. Mon, 20 Nov 17: 15-16h Topic: C82PIN – Personality theories Brief presentation by: Lucy & Megan To prepare: Everybody revises relevant lecture notes and relevant text book chapters, as appropriate.</p><p>4. Mon, 27 Nov 17: 16-17h Topic: C82COG, Reasoning about probabilities – Bayes’ theorem Brief presentation by: Aimee To prepare: 1. Revise Richard Tunney’s lecture on “Reasoning about probabilities”, supplemented by reading of relevant text book chapter and, if appropriate, additional selected papers (Richard Tunney suggested: Sedlmeier & Gigerenzer (2001). Teaching Bayesian reasoning in less than two hours. JEP:G, 130, 380- 400). 2. Try to understand Bayes’ theorem. 3. Consider the following questions: Is people’s reasoning about probabilities consistent with Bayes’ Theorem (consider examples)? Why not (what explanations have been proposed)? 5. Mon 4 Dec 2017: 15-16h, Essay meeting Essay deadline: Wed, 29 Nov, 10 AM</p><p>6. Mon, 5 Feb 2018, 13-14h C82NAB – Key principles of neurotransmission Brief presentation by: Natalia To prepare: Please read up on transmission within a neuron (action potential generation) and between neurons (synaptic transmission). Have a look at the relevant C81BIO lectures and relevant text book chapters (e.g., in Carlsson, the relevant subsections of chapter 2, p. 41ff and p. 51ff).</p><p>7. Tues, 20 Feb 2018, 15-16h C82SAD – Reading other people’s minds Brief presentation by: Amelia To prepare: Everybody needs to read this paper: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049859.</p><p>8. Tues, 8 May (after Easter break) 2018, 15-16 h, Essay meeting Essay deadline: Tues, 1 May, 10 AM</p><p>Individual meetings: To be arranged</p>