Subject
Cognitive psychology
General details of the subject
- Mode
- Face-to-face degree course
- Language
- English
Description and contextualization of the subject
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: A brief history; The human information processing approach; Perception & psychophysics; Memory & attention; Categorization and semantic memory; Decision making, motivation, and reward.Teaching staff
Name | Institution | Category | Doctor | Teaching profile | Area | |
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MARIN GARCIA, EUGENIA | University of the Basque Country | Profesorado Agregado | Doctor | Bilingual | Basic Psychology | eugenia.marin@ehu.eus |
RUZZOLI , MANUELA | BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language | Otros | Doctor |
Competencies
Name | Weight |
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CE1. Advanced knowledge of specific areas of cognitive psychology | 25.0 % |
CE2. Main research techniques in specific areas of cognitive psychology. | 25.0 % |
E3. Applying knowledge creatively to identify research questions and plan experimental designs for topics discussed during the course. | 25.0 % |
CE4. Identification of systems and processes in advanced areas of cognitive psychology. | 25.0 % |
Study types
Type | Face-to-face hours | Non face-to-face hours | Total hours |
---|---|---|---|
Lecture-based | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Applied classroom-based groups | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Applied computer-based groups | 10 | 25 | 35 |
Assessment systems
Name | Minimum weighting | Maximum weighting |
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Practical tasks | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Presentations | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Temary
This course offers an overview of Cognitive Psychology and the mechanisms and neural correlates of main cognitive processes.It is oriented to psychologists, biologists and psycholinguists interested in understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying brain functions. Perception, attention, consciousness, emotion, learning and memory, will be the highlighted topics to be discussed within this course. Students will be introduced to different methodological approaches used in in cognition, such as behavioral, electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods, including brain stimulation. Through the analysis and discussion of previous empirical evidence, students will learn how these processes operate in the brain and how it is possible to assess these processes in healthy and pathological human subjects experimentally.
Bibliography
Compulsory materials
There is no textbook for this class, but the following manual can be used as a guide:Goldstein, E. B. (2008, 2011). Cognitive Psychology. Wadsworth, USA.
Gazzaniga, Michael S.; Ivry, Richard B.; Mangun, George R. (2009). Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind (3rd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-92795-5.
A list of readings selected from scholarly articles and book chapters will be provided as well at the beginning of the course.
Basic bibliography
Anderson, J. R. (1995). Learning and Memory: An integrated approach. New York: John Wiley & Sons.Anderson, M. C., & Neely, J. H. (1996). Interference and inhibition in memory retrieval. In E. L. Bjork, & R. A. Bjork (Eds.), Handbook of perception and memory, Vol. 10: Memory (pp. 237-313). San Diego: Academic Press.
Craik, F. I. M., & Tulving, E. (1975). Depth of processing and the retention of words in
episodic memory. J Exp Psychol Gen, 104, 268-294.
Cowan, N. (2005). Working memory capacity. New York: Psychology Press.
Craik, F. I. M., & Tulving, E. (1975). Depth of processing and the retention of words in
episodic memory. J Exp Psychol Gen, 104, 268-294.
Cowan, N. (2005). Working memory capacity. New York: Psychology Press.
Crowder, R. G. (1976). Principles of Learning and Memory. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Dosher, B. A. (1979). Empirical approaches to information processing: Speed-accuracy tradeoff functions or reaction time. Acta Psychologica, 43, 347-359.
Lachman, R., Lachman, J. L., & Butterfield, E. C. (1979). Cognitive Psychology and information processing: An introduction. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Macmillan, N. A., & Creelman, C. D. (2005). Detection Theory: A User's Guide (2nd ed.). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Murphy, G. L. (2002). The big book of concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Rayner, K., & Pollatsek, A. (1989). The psychology of reading. New York: Prentice-Hall.
Shipley, T. (1961) Classics in Psychology. New York: Philosophical Library.
Styles, E. A. (2005). Attention, Perception, and Memory: An integrated introduction. New York: Psychology Press.
Tulving, E. (1972). Episodic and semantic memory. In E. Tulving & W. Donaldson (Eds.), Organization of Memory (pp. 382-402). New York, NY: Academic Press, Inc.
Tulving, E., & Thomson, D. M. (1973). Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory. Psychological Review, 80(5), 352-373.