Lilia Rissman
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
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Monday 2-3 PM Friday 11 AM-12 PM
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Lilia Rissman
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
Bio
Lilia Rissman joined the Department of Psychology in Fall 2023 and is the director of the Meaning, Language, and Cognition Lab. She investigates how cross-linguistic diversity reflects cultural and cognitive diversity, and how, by contrast, people conceptualize and communicate about the world in similar ways despite their linguistic differences. Her research is broadly interdisciplinary and collaborative, integrating cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, theoretical semantics, child development, and language evolution.
Currently Teaching
PSYC-101
Introduction to Psychology
3 Credits
Introduction to the field of psychology. Provides a survey of basic concepts, theories, and research methods. Topics include: thinking critically with psychological science; neuroscience and behavior; sensation and perception; learning; memory; thinking, language, and intelligence; motivation and emotion; personality; psychological disorders and therapy; and social psychology.
PSYC-250
Research Methods I
3 Credits
This course will serve as an introduction to research methods in psychology, with the goal of understanding research design, analysis and writing. Topics include examining the variety of methods used in psychology research, understanding research ethics, developing empirical hypotheses, designing experiments, understanding statistical concepts, interpreting results, and writing research and review papers in APA style. This is a required course for all psychology majors, and is restricted to students in the psychology program.
PSYC-712
Graduate Cognition
3 Credits
This course will survey theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding the nature of the mental processes involved in attention, object recognition, learning and memory, reasoning, problem solving, decision-making, and language. The course presents a balance between historically significant findings and current state of-the-art research. Readings that have structured the nature and direction of scientific debate in these fields will be discussed. The course also includes discussions of methodology and practical applications. Students will have opportunities to develop their research skills and critical thinking by designing research studies in cognitive psychology.