Learning and Memory (level 5)
Overview
- Credit value: 15 credits at Level 5
- Convenor: Professor Eddy Davelaar
- Assessment: a two-hour examination (100%)
Module description
This module aims to:
- provide an introduction to research into learning and human memory
- identify theoretical and methodological issues in learning and memory
- contribute to your knowledge of human cognition.
Indicative module content
- Habituation and sensitisation
- Classical conditioning
- Instrumental conditioning
- Learning processes
- Debate between Skinner and Chomsky on language
- Structure of human memory
- Working memory
- Memory processes
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you should be able to:
- identify the main theoretical approaches to learning and memory covered in the module
- specify the main theories and concepts covered in each of the lecture topics and the phenomena on which they are based
- critically evaluate (with reference to empirical considerations) the main theories covered in each of the lecture topics
- provide examples of empirical techniques used in research on learning and memory.