PS415-5-SP-CO:
Memory Attention and Language
2022/23
Psychology
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Monday 16 January 2023
Friday 24 March 2023
15
29 March 2022
Requisites for this module
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
PS491
BA 63C2 Psychological Studies,
BA C801 Psychology (Including Year Abroad),
BA C802 Psychology,
BA C807 Psychology (Including Foundation Year),
BA C810 Psychology (Including Placement Year),
BSC C800 Psychology,
BSC C800JS Psychology,
BSC C800NS Psychology,
BSC C803 Psychology (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C811 Psychology (Including Placement Year),
BSC C812 Psychology (Including Foundation Year),
BSC C806 Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C808 Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience,
BSC C809 Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience (Including Placement Year),
BSC C813 Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience (Including Foundation Year),
MSCIC999 Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience,
MSCICA98 Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience (Including Placement Year),
MSCICA99 Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C814 Psychology with Economics,
BSC C815 Psychology with Economics (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C816 Psychology with Economics (Including Placement Year),
BSC C817 Psychology with Economics (Including Foundation Year),
BA C841 Economics with Psychology,
BA C851 Economics with Psychology (Including Year Abroad),
BA C861 Economics with Psychology (Including Placement Year),
BSC C148 Economics with Psychology,
BSC C149 Economics with Psychology (Including Foundation Year),
BSC C158 Economics with Psychology (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C168 Economics with Psychology (Including Placement Year),
MSCIC998 Psychology with Advanced Research Methods,
MSCICB98 Psychology with Advanced Research Methods (Including Placement Year),
MSCICB99 Psychology with Advanced Research Methods (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C680 Sport and Exercise Psychology,
BSC C681 Sport and Exercise Psychology (including Year Abroad),
BSC C682 Sport and Exercise Psychology (including Placement Year)
This includes coverage of three major areas of cognitive psychology as defined by the British Psychological Society: Memory, Attention and Language. Students will be introduced to and will be encouraged to critically evaluate major theories, empirical approaches, and key experimental outcomes in each of these areas.
The module aims to provide students with a broad introduction to and analysis of important theoretical issues in the cognitive psychology of memory, attention and language. Students will examine a range of key methods and techniques used to investigate the cognitive processes underlying memory, attention, and language. Lectures will also, provide a detailed body of knowledge relating to the core empirical findings of historically and theoretically important cognitive psychological studies of memory, attention and language.
The lecture course will introduce students to the major theories related to memory, attention and language, and will examine the specific empirical findings on which these theories are based. Through this empirical focus in the lectures students will gain an appreciation of how to analyse and interpret quantitative information relevant to psychological research, in graphs, figures and tables.
In addition at the end of the lecture course students will be able to:
1. ) Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the psychological theory and empirical findings related to memory, attention, and language processing.
2. ) Demonstrate an awareness of the relative strengths of a range of theories and empirical techniques related to the cognitive psychology of memory attention and language.
Outcomes 1 and 2 will be assessed using a Multiple Choice Examination.
Students will also participate in a laboratory class in which they will test a novel research question related to memory, attention, or language under guidance. Through this activity students will gain an appreciation of how to:
3. ) Plan, undertake and report an empirical project
4. ) Effectively test research hypotheses using standard statistical techniques
5. ) Communicate ideas effectively by producing a written laboratory report.
Outcomes 3-5 will be assessed in the laboratory report that students will submit at the end of the module.
No additional information available.
The module contains 10 lectures and is supported by a laboratory class, that runs over the second five weeks of term 2, ending with the submission of a laboratory report.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Lab Report |
|
100% |
| Exam |
Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
|
| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 180 minutes during January
|
| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 180 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
|
Additional coursework information
All students must contribute to data collection for a laboratory class, and all students must produce a laboratory report based on their assigned class. The Summer examination will take the form of a multiple choice examination, that will include equal coverage of all three components, memory, attention and language.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Kevin Dent, email: kdent@essex.ac.uk.
(lecturers) Dr Kevin Dent, Dr Eva Gutierrez, Dr Bettina Zengel
kdent@essex.ac.uk
Yes
No
No
Dr Thomas Hunt
University of Derby
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Available via Moodle
Of 45 hours, 39 (86.7%) hours available to students:
6 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
Psychology
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