Home
NORTHERN CYPRUS CAMPUS

Psychology

Image: 
Title: 
Instr. Dr.
Surname: 
ÖZÜORÇUN KÜÇÜKERTAN
Status: 
Title: 
Instr. Dr.
Email: 
nurtenk@metu.edu.tr
Educational Background: 
  • B.S., PhD., METU
Image: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Surname: 
ŞENTÜRK
Status: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Email: 
ozgozde@metu.edu.tr
Educational Background: 
  • B.S., Boğaziçi University; M.S., Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, M.S.; PhD., Michigan State University
Image: 
Title: 
Instr.
Surname: 
NAMIKKEMALOĞLU
Status: 
Title: 
Instr.
Email: 
ncisem@metu.edu.tr
Educational Background: 
  • ,
Image: 
Title: 
Instr. Dr.
Surname: 
AVCI
Status: 
Title: 
Instr. Dr.
Email: 
naavci@metu.edu.tr
Educational Background: 
  • B.A., M.A., METU; Ph.D., Bremen University; Jacobs University Bremen
Image: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Surname: 
KARAKALE
Status: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Email: 
karakale@metu.edu.tr
Educational Background: 
  • B.A., University of Sydney; M.S., University of Essex; Ph.d., University of Auckland
Image: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Surname: 
KIŞLIOĞLU
Status: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Email: 
resit@metu.edu.tr
Educational Background: 
  • B.S., M.S., METU; Ph.D., Jacobs University, Bremen
Image: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Surname: 
NİYAZİ
Status: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Telephone: 
+90 392 661 2915
Email: 
nasli@metu.edu.tr
Room: 
R-133
Educational Background: 
  • B.S., METU; M.S., University of Kent; Ph.D., London South Bank University
Research Interests: 
  • General area of Health Psychology
  • Cognitive processes and health with particular interest in addictive behaviours
  • Effects of psychological processes on health
  • Effects of personality on health and performance
  • Implicit attitude measurement
  • Management of pain
Courses Taught: 
  • PSYC 340 THEORIES OF PERSONALITY
  • PSYC 449 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
  • PSYC 342 PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
  • PSYC 343 PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTION
  • PSYC 242 COPING WITH STRESS
Selected Publications: 
  • Mmopelva, T.,,,,,Niyazi, A., ....Acaroglu, E. (2018). Analysis of factors affecting baseline SF-36 Mental Component Summary in Adult Spinal Deformity and its impact on surgical outcomes. Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica.
  • Hooper, N., Back, C., Karekla, M., Niyazi, A., & McHugh, L. (2018). Cognitive defusion versus experiential avoidance in the reduction of smoking behaviour: an experimental and preliminary investigation. Addiction Research & Theory.
  • Nabiyev, V.. Ayhan, S., Yüksel, S., Niyazi, A. et al. (2016). Does surgery for adult spinal deformity affect the cognitive abilities in patients over 50 years of age? Turkish Neurosurgery.
  • Niyazi, A. (2013). Health behaviour change models. In Ü. Okyayuz (Ed.), Health Psychology (2nd ed.). Ankara: Turkish Psychological Association.
  • Niyazi, A. (2013). Addictive behaviours. In Ü. Okyayuz (Ed.), Health Psychology (2nd ed.). Ankara: Turkish Psychological Association.
  • Niyazi, A. (2013). Pain. In Ü. Okyayuz (Ed.), Health Psychology (2nd ed.). Ankara: Turkish Psychological Association.
  • Albery, I.P., Sharma, D., Niazi, A., Moss, A.C. (2006). Theoretical perspectives and approaches. Cognition and Addiction (1 29). Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Niyazi, A. & Albery, I. (2005). Attentional bias and outcome expectancies in smokers, ex smokers and non smokers. Psychology & Health, 20 (Conference supplement 1), 192 193.
  • Niyazi, A. & Albery, I. (2005). Attentional bias and outcome expectancies in smokers, ex smokers and non smokers. Psychology & Health, 20 (Conference supplement 1), 192 193.
  • Niyazi, A. & Albery, I. (2004). Implicit and explicit attitudes towards drinking and the attitude behaviour consistency in problem drinkers and non problem drinkers. Psychology & Health, 19 (Conference supplement), 121 122.
  • Niyazi, A. & Albery, I. (2004). Implicit and explicit attitudes towards smoking and the attitude behaviour consistency in smokers and non smokers. Psychology & Health, 19 (Conference supplement), 122.
Image: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Surname: 
ERDENER
Status: 
Title: 
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Telephone: 
+90 392 6613424
Email: 
vdogu@metu.edu.tr
Room: 
TZ-31
Educational Background: 
  • B.S., METU; M.A., Ph.D., University of Western Sydney
Research Interests: 
  • Second language acquisition and bilingualism
  • Audio-visual speech perception, development and its applications
  • Audio-visual speech perception in clinical populations
  • Applied Cognition
Courses Taught: 
  • PSYC100 General Psychology
  • GPC100 First Year on Campus Seminar (Guest lecturer)
  • PSYC101 Introduction to Psychology I
  • PSYC102 Introduction to Psychology II
  • PSYC116 Statistics – I
  • PSYC113 Research Methods – I
  • PSYC200 Ethics in Research and Practice of Psychology
  • PSYC214 Research Methods – II
  • PSYC221 | GPC122 Developmental Psychology I
  • PSYC222 | GPC253 Developmental Psychology II
  • PSYC281 Experimental Psychology – I: Learning
  • PSYC284 Experimental Psychology – II: Cognition
  • PSYC384 Speech Perception
  • PSYC400 Summer Practice (coordination)
  • PSYC414 Computer Applications in Psychology
  • PSYC422 Language Acquisition & Development
  • PSYC444 Undergraduate Research Thesis (design and coordination)
Selected Publications: 
  • Erdener, D. (2017). Auditory-visual speech perception and second language instruction. Proceedings of 1st Black Sea Conference on Language and Language Education. In İ.Yaman & E.Ekmekçi (Eds.) (page numbers and ISBN forthcoming)
  • Erdener, D. & Burnham, D. (2017). Auditory-visual speech perception in 3- and 4-year-olds and its relationship to perceptual attunement and receptive vocabulary. Journal of Child Language, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000917000174 (volume and page numbers forthcoming)
  • Erdener, D. (2017). Teaching Turkish as a foreign language: extrapolating from experimental psychology. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 13(1), 156-165.
  • Erdener, D. & Yordamlı, A. (2016). Auditory-visual speech perception in bipolar disorder. In C.Pracana (Ed.) Proceedings of InPact 2016 International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends. (pp.137-141) Lisbon, Portugal: World Institute for Advanced Research and Science.
  • Erdener, D. (2016). Basic to Applied Research: Benefits of Audio-Visual Speech Perception in Teaching Foreign Languages. The Language Learning Journal, 44(1), 124-132. doi: 10.1080/09571736.2012.724080
  • Erdener, D. (2015). The McGurk Illusion in Turkish, Turkish Journal of Psychology, 30(76), 19-27.
  • Erdener, D. & Burnham, D. (2013). The Relationship between Audio-Visual Speech Perception and Language Specific Speech Perception at the Onset of Reading Instruction in English-Speaking Children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 120-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.03.003
  • Erdener, D., Sekiyama, K., & Burnham, D. (2010). The development of auditory‐visual speech perception across languages and ages. In M. Burgess, J. Davey, C. Don & T. McMinn (Eds.) Proceedings of 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010. (pp.1-10). Sydney, Australia: Australian Acoustical Society, NSW Division.
  • Dodd, B., McIntosh, B., Erdener,D., & Burnham, D. (2008). Perception of the auditory-visual illusion in speech perception by children with phonological disorders. Clinical Phonetics & Linguistics, 22, 69-82.
  • Burnham, D., Sekiyama, K., & Erdener, D. (2008). Cross language auditory visual speech perception development. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3879-3880.
  • Erdener, V.D. & Burnham, D.K. (2005). The role of audiovisual speech and orthographic information in non native speech production, Language Learning, 55 191 228.
Subscribe to RSS - Psychology
LIVE CHAT