Professional Competencies Lab I

Presentation

This curricular unit was designed as precursor of the academic trainee. The integration of contents, knowledgement and skills achieved in others curricular units is promoted in order to applying them to pratical situations of meuropsuchologycal interventions.  

Part of this Programme

Applied Neuropsychology

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 4

Year | Type of course unit | Language

1 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULHT789-15950

Recommended complementary curricular units

Neuropsychological Assessment

Cognitive Psychology

 Professional Competences Lab II

Prerequisites and co-requisites

n/a

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

Topics: 

• Procedures and safety rules in laboratory practice
  • Security and ethical issues
• Stimulus presentation paradigms
  • Using software of stimulus presentation
  • Planning intra and between-subjects experimental conditions
• Practice with psychophysiological methods
• Visualising videos of neuropsychological intervention
• Role-play of neuropsychological intervention

Objectives

This curricular unit aims to: 1) Promote theoretical and practical knowledge about experimental paradigms used in the study of neurocognitive functions; 2) Provide skills that allow the planning of neuropsychological interventions that may be applied to to normative and pathological contexts.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

Considering that this curricular unit addresses the main experimental paradigms for neurocognitive evaluation, the teaching methodology includes laboratory classes. In these classes, the practice of neuropsychological evaluation in a protected laboratory context is privileged. Thus, tutoring and guided study classes are part of the teaching methodology adopted for this work. The evaluation comprises two evaluation moments: an individual report (50%) and a test (50%). Class attendence is mandatory.  The exam consists of a written exam (100%) that wiill focus on the totality of theorical and practical content. As a final average, the student must have a minimum grade of 10 points.

References

American Psychological Association (2002).  Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct.  Retirado de: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code2002.html

Elias, L. & Saucier, D. (2018). Neuropsychology: Clinical and experimental foundations. Harlow: Person Education Limited.

Eysenck, W., & Brysbaert, M. (2018). Fundamentals of cognition. 3^rd edition. New York: Routledge.

Green, J. (2020). Neuropsychological evaluation of the older adult: A clinician´s guidebook. London: Academic Press.

Kingdom, F.A.A., & Prins, N. (2016). Psychophysics. A Practical Introduction. London: Elsevier. 

Larner, A.J. (2017). Cognitive screening instruments. A practical approach. Cham: Springer

Lezak, M., Howieson, D. Loring, D. (2012). Neuropsychological assessment. Oxford: University Press

Wilson, B.A. & Betteridge (2019). Essentials of Neuropsychological Reahabilitation. New York: The Guilford Press.  

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