ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree 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 | 1st year (Yes)
• To know and become aware of the cognitive division in human beings between a fast and intuitive processing, and other slow and deliberate one.
• To acquire the conceptual and phenomenological bases to understand the effects of the fast and intuitive processing system as a source of cognitive biases.
• To know the main cognitive biases and its implementation in different fields of human performance in which they produce effects (clinical diagnosis, judicial practice, political activity, advertising, etc.).
• To know the main experimental paradigms that allow to investigate the effects of cognitive biases on behavior.
Theory of the two systems.
Limits of attention.
Associative coherence.
Cognitive ease.
Psicology of causality.
The intuitive judgment.
Heuretics and biases.
The illusion of understanding.
Emotional biases.
Choices.
Behavioral economics.
Alvarez-Cruz, A. (2021). Psychology and torture: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Revista de Historia de la Psicología, 42(3), 2-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5093/rhp2021a12.
Kahneman, D. (2012). Pensar rápido, pensar despacio. Barcelona: Debate.
Danziger, S., Levav, J. y Avnaim-Pesso, L. (2011). Extraneous factors in judicial decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018033108
Öhman, A., Lundqvist, D. y Esteves, F. (2001). The face in the crowd revisited: A threat advantage with schematic stimuli. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(3), 381-396.
Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1999). A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts: An extension of Terror Management Theory. Psychological Review, 106(4), 835-845.
Simons, D. J. y Chabris, C. F. (1999). Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events. Perception, 28, 1059-1074.
Williams, J. M. G., Mathews, A. y MacLeod, C. (1996). The emotional Stroop task and psychopathology. Psychological Bulletin, 120(1), 3-24.
To have and understand the knowledge that gives a basis or opportunity of being original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
To have the learning abilities that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be mostly self-directed or independent.
To be able of performing an analysis of reality based on judgments and knowledge of psychology.
To show ability in the management of documental sources, selection, analysis, and synthesis of relevant information of scientific texts or documents.
To show ability for critical reflection and thinking.
To acquire advanced knowledge and develop an ability of critical assessment of psychological methods and techniques typical of master levels, to face up new problems in complex contexts.
To be able of assessing the effectiveness of strategies applied from ethical and good judgments.
• Lesson-explanation
• Tutoring
• Making and exposition of reports, essays, and works
MINIMUM WEIGHTING MAXIMUM WEIGHTING
Continuous assessment of activities 25 50
Assessment of reports and works 25 50
HOURS ATTENDANCE
Expository classes 9 100%
Seminar interactive classes 9 100%
Individual and/or small group tutorials 3 100%
Student perssonal work 48 0%
Work making 6 0%
To keep a pragmatic and applied perspective of the subject, thinking about it more as a tool or a methodology than as a theorical framework. It is not so relevant to be able of understanding and explaining the exact causes of the falibility of the human processing system (probably determined by a evolutionary history in a particular ecological context), as to perceive its influence in people attitudes and behavior.
Antonio Alfonso Álvarez Cruz
Coordinador/a- Department
- Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology
- Area
- Basic Psychology
- Phone
- 881813909
- antonio.alvarez.cruz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Tuesday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 18:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Seminar for the Basic Psychology Area |
| 18:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Teaching Laboratory of Basic Psychological Processes I |
| Wednesday | |||
| 18:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Seminar for the Basic Psychology Area |
| 18:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Teaching Laboratory of Basic Psychological Processes I |