ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology
Areas: Basic Psychology
Center Faculty of Psychology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- To acquire a basic knowledge of memory systems, their functions and their characteristics.
- To acquire an adequate knowledge of the most widely used methodology for studying memory.
- To be able to identify the implications of memory mechanisms on real-life situations.
Theoretical:
1. Introduction to the study of human memory.
2. Short-term memory, working memory.
3. Long-term memory: encoding, retrieval and forgetting processes.
4. Semantic memory and representation of knowledge in memory.
5. Studying memory in real-life situations: autobiographical memory, eyewitness testimony and false memory.
Practical:
1. Serial position curve.
2. Search processes in short term memory.
3. Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory.
4. Mental rotation of images.
5. Eyewitness memory.
6. False memories.
Baddeley, A. D., Eysenck, M.W. and Anderson, M.C. (2018). Memoria (2nd ed). Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Fernández-Rey, J., Fraga, I., Redondo, J.M., Alcaraz, M. A. and Pardo-Vázquez, J.L. (2010). Procesos psicológicos básicos II: manual y cuaderno de prácticas de memoria y lenguaje (2nd ed.). Madrid: Pirámide.
Ruíz-Vargas, J. M. (2010). Manual de Psicología de la memoria. Madrid: Síntesis.
Both Baddeley et al.'s (2018) and Ruiz-Vargas' (2010) handbooks will be available at the Library not only in a paper version, but also in an electronic version.
(Specific bibliography on each topic will be recommended on the programme sheet)
General competences of the degree to which the subject contributes:
- To know and understand the functions, characteristics, contributions and shortcomings of the different theoretical models of Psychology.
- To know and understand the laws and principles that govern psychological processes.
- To understand and explain human behaviour by integrating different perspectives.
- To know and understand the methods and designs of research and the techniques of data analysis characteristic of Psychology.
- To select and administer techniques and instruments specific to Psychology.
- To work in teams.
- To be able to elaborate oral and written reports.
Specific competences for the subject:
- To know and understand the main theoretical methods used to study memory, and be able to critically assess their contributions and shortcomings.
- To understand the basic principles of memory functioning and its relationship to other psychological processes.
- To know the most widely used experimental techniques and procedures for studying memory.
- To be able to examine and interpret qualitative and quantitative data acquired through empirical research on memory.
- To be able to identify the most suitable measures for assessing memory functioning.
- To be able to identify the implications of memory mechanisms on real-life situations.
Work on this subject will be organized according to the following guidelines:
The fundamental contents included in the program will be presented and explained through lectures that will be supported with AV presentations in some cases.
Interactive sessions. Lectures will be supplemented with practical activities intended to have students familiarize with the experimental study of memory and also emphasizing some of its applied areas.
Student's individual work includes reading of bibliographic materials and preparing essays and reports of the activities carried out.
Support for this subject will be provided via the Moodle Platform on the USC Virtual Campus.
Depending on the health situation, the methodology may undergo changes that allow it to be adapted to telematic teaching or blended learning scenarios (see Observations).
Learning assessment will include students’ work (activity reports, formative evaluation test, preparing essays), and an end-of-term exam for conceptual competences. The exam will account for 60% (0–6 points) and student’s work for 40% (0–4 points) of the overall subject mark. The exam will be an objective multiple-choice test on the theoretical contents of the subject, including 15 % of questions on the practical activities. As an alternative to the end-of-term exam, students who wish to do so may take an oral test, provided that they request it well in advance.
During the lectures, the teacher will propose to the students who have attended the class the completion of complementary activities to the theoretical content developed, through which they can obtain 1 point for the overall mark, from the corresponding reports. Reports of activities that students have not attended will not be collected or assessed.
Practical activities are a prerequisite for passing the subject. Attendance will be compulsory, allowing only one absence (if justified) in each of the two blocks of activities. Successful completion of such activities will be assessed from students’ reports (0-2 points).
A mid-term test similar to the end-of-term exam will be held. Passing the mid-term exam does not preclude reassessment for the same contents in the end-of-term exam but entitles students to one additional point in their overall mark. This test is intended to provide a measure of fulfilment of the subject objectives and encourage students’ to study and work.
Students must prepare an essay on a specific topic with the aid of the recommended bibliography. The maximum grade for this essay will be 0.5 points on the overall mark. Those students failing to complete it will be subject to a penalty of 0.5 points on said mark. The same penalty will be applied in case of copying or plagiarizing the essay. In the event that a student is required to take the 2nd opportunity test and has not turned it in, he/she may do so before the date of the test.
The subject mark will be the sum of those of the above-described assessments provided a score of 3 or higher is obtained in the end-of-term exam. If this score is not obtained and the total sum is equal to or greater than 5 points, the overall mark will be 4.5 points.
The overall mark may be increased taking part in some research activity during the semester. In any case, the subject mark on a student’s academic record can never exceed 10 points.
The partial marks obtained by a student with a FAIL overall mark will be retained until the next assessment call. In any case, even if he did not take the end of term exam, his overall mark will appear in his academic record, following the criteria mentioned above.
Depending on the health situation, the assessment system may undergo changes that allow it to be adapted to telematic teaching or blended learning scenarios (see Observations).
Classroom hours: 37,5 hours
- Expositive sessions: 24 hours
- Interactive sessions: 13,5 hours
Non-attendance activities (reading of bibliographic materials, preparation of activity reports, study, etc.): 75 hours
Total workload: 112.5 hours (4.5 ECTS credits)
- It is advisable to regularly attend lectures and take an active role in them, as well as to carry out the proposed activities. The teachers’ explanations should be supplemented with self-study of the basic reference handbooks.
- Students should strive to conduct practical activities properly and write appropriate reports in order to better understand the phenomena concerned and strengthen their theoretical knowledge.
- It is very important to efficiently allocate time for self-study and personal work on the subject throughout the term in order to facilitate the gradual, reflective acquisition of its contents.
Depending on the health situation, the recommendations for the study of the subject may undergo changes that allow it to be adapted to telematic teaching or blended learning scenarios (see Observations).
CONTINGENCY PLAN
Teaching methodology: Given the uncertainty caused by the current health situation, part of the contents may be worked on independently by the student, who will be duly informed through the Virtual Campus of the subject.
In case telematic teaching is required (both the lectures and the interactive classes), in addition to the Virtual Campus, the Microsoft Teams tool will be used, which will also allow the monitoring of non-attendance activities. These will not in any case imply an additional workload to that programmed for the classroom teaching scenario. All the necessary material for the practical activities will be provided through the Virtual Campus.
Assessment system: Depending on the health circumstances, assessment tests may be carried out telematically. In the case of fraudulent exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and for the Revision of Qualifications will apply.
María José Sampedro Vizcaya
- Department
- Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology
- Area
- Basic Psychology
- Phone
- 881813794
- mariajose.sampedro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
José Fernández Rey
Coordinador/a- Department
- Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology
- Area
- Basic Psychology
- Phone
- 881813703
- jose.fernandez.rey [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 14:10-15:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Spanish | Classroom 7 |
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| 12:10-13:00 | Grupo A (A-L) | Spanish | Classroom 6 |
| 13:10-14:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Spanish | Classroom 7 |
| 01.14.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Classroom 1 |
| 01.14.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo A (A-L) | Classroom 1 |
| 01.14.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo A (A-L) | Classroom 5 |
| 01.14.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Classroom 5 |
| 01.14.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Classroom 6 |
| 01.14.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo A (A-L) | Classroom 6 |
| 01.14.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Classroom 7 |
| 01.14.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo A (A-L) | Classroom 7 |
| 06.24.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo A (A-L) | Classroom 1 |
| 06.24.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Classroom 1 |
| 06.24.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Classroom 2 |
| 06.24.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo A (A-L) | Classroom 2 |
| 06.24.2021 12:30-15:00 | Grupo B (M-Z) | Classroom 3 |
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