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
This module introduces research into learning, memory and cognition. It takes a historical perspective and identifies theoretical and methodological issues in the field. The module starts with a history of learning, memory and cognition and then continues on to psychological concepts and research into learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving and decision making.
Indicative module content
- 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.