Memory Systms

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lecturing, practical exercises and writing of a report on one of these practical exercises (individual work).

Learning Outcomes

Objectives:

1. To know different subsystems of non-cognitive memory (action system)

1.1 To know how to acquire anticipatory responses to repeated events

1.2 To know how to learn responses through their consequences

2. To know the characteristics of different cognitive memory systems or cognitive representation

2.1 To know how knowledge is remembered

2.2 To know how experiences are remembered

 

Learning outcomes:

Knowledge of basic concepts and different approaches to experimental and cognitive psychology of memory

Development of an integrated understanding of the processes involved in the memory systems of action (non-cognitive memory) and cognitive representation (cognitive memory).

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

THEORETICAL CLASSES

Notion of memory system

1. Non-cognitive memory (acquisition of responses)

1.1 Non-associative learning

1.2. Learning anticipatory responses to repeated events: classical conditioning (e.g., indirect conditioning, generalization)

1.3 Learning behaviors through response consequences: operant conditioning (reinforcement programs; choice behavior)

1.4 Forgetting (e.g., extinction; interference)

2. Cognitive memory (remember experiences / knowledge)

2.1 Primary Memory

2.1.1 Short-term memory

2.1.2 Working memory

2.2 Secondary / long-term memory

2.2.1 Perceptual Representation System (Priming)

2.2.2 Semantic memory

2.2.3 Episodic memory (retrospective and prospective)

2.3 Forgetting (e.g., interference; inhibition)

 

PRACTICAL CLASSES

Practical exercices on non-cognitive memory (e.g., conditional suppression technique; contingency calculation; reinforcement programs) and cognitive (e.g., serial effects; DRM paradigm).

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Salomé Ferreira Estima Pinho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
One written lab report: 25.0%
Frequency: 75.0%

Bibliography

Anderson, J. R. (2000). Learning and memory: An integrated approach (2nd edition). Danvers. MA: Wiley.

Baddeley, A., Eysenck, M. W., &, Anderson, M. C., (2014). Memory (2nd Edition). Hove: Psychology Press.

Dudai, Y. (2002) Memory from A to Z: Keywords, concepts and beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Frieman, J. (2001). Learning and adaptive behavior. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

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

Otani, H., & Schwartz, B. L. (2019). Handbook of research methods in human memory. New York: Routledge.

Surprenant, A, & Neath, I. (2009). Principles of memory. Hove: Psychology Press.

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