Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
---|---|---|---|
2502443 Psychology | OB | 2 | 1 |
There are no prior prerequisites. However, it is recommendable that students should revise the contents from previous courses on psychological processes, undertaken during the previous year.
This subject belongs to the group of Psychological Processes Courses (Motivation and Emotion, Memory, Attention and Perception, and Thought and Language). Contents provide students with the main features and research strategies used in this field of knowledge.
The primary aims of this subject are:
a) To make students aware of the fundamental aspects of the psychological processes related to learning and conditioning.
b) To enable students to address questions about learning, as well as to identify learning phenomena in human and animals both on laboratory and natural settings.
This course gives students the framework required to follow subsequent courses addressed to professional practice such as “Cognitive and behavioural treatments in childhood and adolescence”.
Introduction.
- Definition and characteristics of learning.
- Learning, execution, and behavioural change.
- Types of learning.
- Reflexes and innate behaviours.
Part I: Non-associative learning: Habituation and sensitization
- Definition, characteristics, and variables of habituation.
- Definition, characteristics, and variables of sensitization.
Part II: Associative learning (I): Classical conditioning
- Classical conditioning paradigm and terms.
- Basic phenomena in classical conditioning: acquisition, extinction, generalization.
- Methodology in classical conditioning research.
- Conditioned response measures.
- Temporal procedures in classical conditioning.
- Experimental control in classical conditioning.
- Experimental procedures in classical conditioning.
- Inhibitory classical conditioning.
- Variables involved in acquisition in classical conditioning.
- Other phenomena in classical conditioning: counterconditioning, second-order conditioning, sensory preconditioning, compound conditioning
Part III: Associative learning (II): Operant conditioning
- Introduction.
- Basic procedures in operant conditioning.
- Procedures, measures and variables in positive reinforcement.
- Schedules of reinforcement.
- Extinction procedures of operant responses.
- Theoretical analysis of positive reinforcement.
- Procedures, measures and variables on negative reinforcement (escape and avoidance).
- Theoretical analysis of negative reinforcement.
- Procedures, measures, and variables in punishment situations.
Directed Activities (30%):
Supervised Activities (15%):
Autonomous Activities (55%):
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
---|---|---|---|
Type: Directed | |||
Laboratory and practical classes | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 5, 6 |
Lectures | 28.5 | 1.14 | 1, 2, 4, 5 |
Seminar | 6 | 0.24 | 1, 2, 4, 5 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Moodle exercises | 11 | 0.44 | 2, 4, 5, 6 |
Simulation of classic and instrumental conditioning phenomena with Sniffy software | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 3, 6 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading and study of manuals | 81.5 | 3.26 | 4, 5 |
The competences of the subject will be assessed by different procedures:
Table with the main characteristics of the different Learning Evidences
Code |
Designation |
Weight |
Format (Oral, written or both) |
Authorship (individual, collective or both) |
Via (Attended, virtual or both) |
EV1 |
Written Report Practice 1 |
4% |
Written |
Group |
Attended |
EV2 |
Written Report Practice 2 |
4% |
Written |
Group |
Attended |
EV3 |
Written Report Practice 3 |
4% |
Written |
Individual |
Attended |
EV4 |
Written Report Practice 4 |
4% |
Written |
Individual |
Attended |
Ev5 |
Written Report Practice 5 |
4% |
|
Individual |
Attended |
Ev6 |
Written Examination Contents given until week 8 |
30% |
Written |
Individual |
Attended |
Ev7 |
Written Examination 2 Contents given between weeks 9 and 16 |
50% |
Written |
Individual |
Attended |
To pass the subject, students must obtain a minimum accumulated total score of 5 points.
The student who has submitted assessments with a weight equal to or greater than 4 points (40%) may not be classified in final results as "Not evaluable."
Students who at the end of the semester have not passed the subject, but meet the double condition that they have submitted assessments with a weight equal to or greater than 2/3 of the total grade and have obtained a minimum accumulated overall score (Ev1+Ev2+Ev3+Ev4+Ev5+Ev6+Ev7) equal to or greater than 3.5 points, will have the possibility to undertake re-sits during the re-sit examination period.
The re-sits (only for thel students with a total qualification of less than 5 points and equal to or greater than 3.5 points out of 10) will consist in a written examination of Ev6 and/or Ev7.
The score obtained in this examination will replace the score/s of the re-assessed evidence/s and the overall grade will be recalculated.
Students who are not enrolled for the first timein the subject will be assessed by the same activities as in their first enrolment. No synthesis test is foreseen.
Students who wish to take the exams in Spanish (instead of Catalan) will have to ask the subject Coordinator before the 4th week of the course and will have to prove that they are in one of two situations: a) Studying at the UAB on an exchange program; b) Have been residing in Catalonia for less than one year. Apart from these two cases, there will be no translation of the exams, although during the course, lecturers of the subject will answer if necessary the possible doubts about translation.
You can check the faculty assessment guidelines at the following link: https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/avaluacions-1345722525858.html
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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EV1. Written Report: Practice 1. | 4% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 6 |
EV2. Written Report: Practice 2 | 4% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6 |
EV3. Written Report: Practice 3 | 4% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6 |
EV4. Written Report: Practice 4 | 4% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6 |
EV5. Written Report: Practice 5 | 4% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6 |
EV6. Written examination 1 | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
EV7. Written examination 2 | 50% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Basic bibliography (reference manual):
Domjan, M. (2010) The principles of Learning and Behavior (6ª ed.). Traducció: Principios de aprendizaje y conducta. Mèxic: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2010.
You can get a digital version of this book in the next link: https://www.academia.edu/29486933/Principios_de_aprendizaje_y_conducta_Domjan_9th?auto=download
Complementary bibliography:
Cándido, A. (2000) Introducción a la psicología del aprendizaje asociativo. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
Domjan, M. (2000) The essentials of conditioning and learning (2ª ed). Traducció: Bases del aprendizaje y el condicionamiento. Jaén: Del Lunar, 2002.
Froufe, M. (2004). Aprendizaje asociativo. Principios y aplicaciones. Madrid: Thomson.
Alloway, T., Wilson, G. i Graham, J. (2005) Snifffy. The virtual rat, pro version 2.0. Traducció: Sniffy. La Rata Virtual. Pro Versión 2.0. Madrid: Thomson Editores, 2006.