Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences :: Psychology

PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA - 2021/2022

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Manuela Peixoto
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Manuela Peixoto

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Present and discuss general knowledge and concepts in the areas of perception, attention, and Human Memory.
Develop research skills based on experimental methodology through the method of replication of experiences on topics covered in class.
Understand and critically analyse the contributions of Cognitive Psychology in the areas of perception, attention, and Human Memory.

Specific Aims/Objectives

TMastery of experimental methodology in the field of cognitive psychology.
Development of the ability to perform laboratory work in the context of Cognitive Psychology

Skills to be acquired

Ability to search and integrate information (comprehension, analysis, and synthesis).
Oral communication skills (conceptual accuracy) and writing skills (writing scientific reports on experiments conducted and a poster).
Ability to plan, conduct an experiment, and present to the scientific community (prepare and present a poster)
Ability to think critically and reflectively

Teaching Procedures

Oral lecture for theoretical consolidation and open discussion for students.
Participation in experiments from the field of experimental and cognitive psychology and corresponding evaluation and discussion of the results obtained.

Programme

1. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology as a science
- Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Computational Cognitive science

2. Perception
- Basic processes of visual perception
- color vision
- Depth perception
- Perception without consciousness

- Recognition of objects and faces
- Pattern recognition and perceptual organization
- Approaches to object recognition
- Face recognition
- Visual imagination

- Perception, movement and action
- Direct perception and visually controlled action -
Perception of human movement

3. Attention
- Attention and performance
- Focused auditory and visual attention
- Intermodal effects
- Divided attention
- Automatic processing

4. Memory
- Memory, learning and forgetting
- Working memory and its capacity
- Levels of processing
- Learning by evocation and implicitly
- Forgetting in long-term memory

- Systems of long-term memory
- Declarative and non-declarative memory
- Episodic memory
- Semantic memory

- Autobiographical memory and its approaches

Evaluation Type

Two written examinations during the semester.
Elaboration of a group work with experimental (or semi-experimental) methodology on the topics of perception, attention and Human Memory with presentation of a poster and writing of a scientific report.

Teaching Resources

Multimedia Projector
Computer
Presentations in theoretical-practical lessons
Computer room where experiments can be carried out
Summaries
Bibliography

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Attention
Human Cognition
Memory
Perception
Cognitive Processes

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography