Cognitive psychology B WF-PS-PP_B
(Lectures)
Evaluation: Written final exam (open and closed questions). Attendance is recommended but not mandatory. Students are invited to make use of e-learning.
Topics:
1. A brief history of memory research.
2. Methods of memory research. Signal detection theory.
3. Working memory.
4. Systems of memory.
5. Memory processes. Levels of processing framework.
6. Implicit memory.
7. Autobiographical memory.
8. Metamemory. Source monitoring framework.
9. Schemata. Dynamic memory by Schank.
10. Decision making.
11.-12. Thinking and reasoning.
13.-14. Applications of cognitive psychology.
15. Resume.
(Classes)
Attendance is mandatory, a student may miss two classes. Students will be evaluated via two in-class tests. The tests will cover class materials and textbooks. As additional work students may prepare a presentation of a paper from a scientific journal.
Topics
1. Learning curves and savings in learning.
2. Acoustic store and suffix effect.
3. Petersons' research on rehearsal. Retrieval and organization.
4. Short-term memory span.
5. Signal detection theory and threshold theories in memory research.
6. Learning of artificial grammar.Priming. Mere exposure effect.
7. False memories and DRM paradigm.
8. Generation effect. Self-reference effect.
9. Assessment of memory in clinical settings.
10. Methods of autobiographical memory research.
11. Process dissociation procedure by Jacoby.
12. Metamemory: Judgments of Learning, Feeling of Knowing, and Ease of Learning.
13. Verbal protocols.
14. Johnson-Laird's framework and mental models.
15. Resume.
(in Polish) Obowiązkowy poprzednik
Subject level
Learning outcome code/codes
Learning outcomes
Knowledge - a student knows the main approaches and paradigms in cognitive psychology; a student is able to conduct a deatailed analysis of cognitive processes (especially of memory and learning) and he/she interprets research results from various theoretical perspectives.
Abilities - a student is able to choose appropriate technics to study cognitive processes; he/she reads and interprete empirical texts from scientific journals; he/she is capable to search and make selection among sources, which are helpful in enhancing knowledge and abilities.
Skills - a student comprehends the need of empirical research which are reliable and according to the methodological rules; he/she takes a critical approach to speculations which are empirically untested as well as he/she realises the limitations of research in cognitive psychology.
ECTS:
lecture attendance: 15
classes attendance: 30
project preparation:10
learning to an exam: 45
learning to a class test: 20
Sum: 120
ECTS points: 4
Bibliography
Obligatory readings:
1. Maruszewski T. Psychologia poznania. Umysł i świat. GWP, Gdańsk 2011. (Rozdziały: 4 pamięć, 5 proc. pamięciowe, 6. pam. autobiogr., 8. pojęcia)
2. Draaisma D. Machina metafor. Historia pamięci. Wydawnictwo Aletheia, Warszawa, 2009.
Additional readings:
Lewicka, M. (1993). Aktor czy obserwator. Psychologiczne mechanizmy odchyleń od racjonalności w myśleniu potocznym. Warszawa-Olsztyn: PTP.
Nęcka, E. (2001). Psychologia twórczości. Gdańsk: GWP.
Anderson, J. R. (1998). Uczenie się i pamięć. Integracja zagadnień. Warszawa: WSiP.
Czerniawska, E. red. (2005). Pamięć: zjawiska zwykłe i niezwykłe. Warszawa: WSiP.
Jagodzińska, M. (2008). Psychologia Pamięci. Badania, teorie, zastosowania. Gliwice: Wyd. Helion.
Nęcka E., Orzechowski J., Szymura B.: Psychologia poznawcza. Warszawa: PWN i ACADEMICA, 2006. (R. 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12) Niedźwieńska, A. (2013). Pamięć prospektywna. Wyd. SEDNO.
Orzechowski J. (2012). Magiczna liczba jeden. Wyd. UJ.
Schacter, D. (2003). Siedem grzechów pamięci. Jak zapominamy i zapamiętujemy. Warszawa: PIW.
Additional information
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