Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Overview
- Credit value: 15 credits at Level 7
- Convenor: Professor Eddy Davelaar
- Assessment: a 1500-word mid-term essay (50%) and 1500-word final essay (50%)
Module description
In this module we introduce you to research into learning, memory and cognition. We will take a historical perspective and identify theoretical and methodological issues in the field. We start with a history of learning, memory and cognition and then continue on to psychological concepts and research into learning, memory, reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making.
Indicative syllabus
- Historical perspectives
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Short-term store and working memory
- Long-term store
- Theories of forgetting
- Reasoning
- Problem-solving
- Judgement and decision-making
- Neuroscience of learning, memory and cognition
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- identify the main theoretical approaches to learning, memory and cognition 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, memory and cognition.