Learning and Memory

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lecturing and doing exercises, and individual written assignment (out-of-lecture room work).

 

- Periodic Assessment

 

Two A-Type Tests (written test on all the subjects taught): 7.5 points each.

 

One C-Type Test (individual work): 5 points. (practical exercise written report; the exercise for the written report is chosen by the student).

 

Formula for calculating the final classification:  1st Midterm exam grade+ 2nd Midterm exam grade + Individual work

Learning Outcomes

Objectives

Knowing how non declarative and declarative knowledge are acquired

Knowing how the knowledge can be stored and retrieved from memory

 

Competencies

Knowing fundamental concepts and different approaches to learning and memory from experimental cognitive psychology.

Developing an integrated comprehension of the processes underlying both learning and memory

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Habituation: Basic phenomena. Learning of co-occurring events (classical conditioning): Basic procedures, indirect conditioning and interference phenomena; inhibitory conditioning; temporal contiguity versus contingency.

Learning about consequences of one’s behaviour (operant conditioning): Basic and complex reinforcement schedules; stimulus’ control; errorless learning.

 

Basic memory processes: Encoding/storage, retention and retrieval. Memory systems (declarative and non declarative). Memory models: Modal model and other models.

Forgetting: Decline and interference, accessibility versus availability; inhibition.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Salomé Ferreira Estima Pinho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 25.0%
Frequency: 75.0%

Bibliography

Baddeley, A. (1997). Human memory: Theory and practice (revised edition). Hove: Psychology Press.

 

Baddeley, A., Eysenck, M. W., & Anderson, M. C. (2015). Memory (2nd ed.). Hove: Psychology Press.

Byrne, J. H. (2017). Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Academic Press.

 

Domjan, M. (2014). The principles of learning and behavior (7th edition). Toebben Drive, KY: Wadsworth.

Dudai, Y. (2004) Memory from A to Z: Keywords, concepts and beyond (rev. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press,

 

Mazur, J. E. (2005). Learning and behavior (8th edition). Oxford, UK: Routledge.

 

Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (2003). Human memory: An introduction to research, data, and theory (2nd edition). London: Thomson/Wadsworth.

 

Schwartz, B. L. (2017). Memory: Foundations and applications (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Tulving, E., & Craik, F. I. M. (2005). The Oxford handbook of memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.