PSY5033 - Mind, Brain and Social Behaviour

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

Methodological and ethical issues related to conducting psychological research and applying psychology to world issues including international and cultural perspectives, and consideration of conceptual and historical issues in psychology in the following areas:

Biological: brain structure and function related to topics such as pain, emotions, eating & drinking and sleeping, neurological disorders.

Cognitive: consideration of a range of processes such as memory and perception as well as disorders of cognition and applications of cognitive theories.

Developmental: topics such as attachment; parenting/social influences; identity, the self, self-esteem, adolescence and relationship formation.

Social: social influence, social relations, social identity, social justice in everyday life, critical psychology (including relativism and constructivism) and the implications of applying social psychology to social issues (both in the past and present).

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 60
Intended Group Size: 200

Guided independent study
Hours: 240

Further details relating to assessment
Formative assessment will take place in interactive lectures through the use of summary questions to check the development of understanding. This will help to support students in their ability to undertake the assessments. 35% of the module mark will be provided by a leaflet & exposition, 35% by a written assignment and 30% will be provided by the end of year Integrated Assessment, which will look at how the different areas of psychology can be applied to a case study or specific issue as appropriate to the programme of study.

Assessment:

001 Written assignment; 2,000 words; end of semester 1 35%
002 Leaflet and exposition; 2,000 words; end of semester 2 35%
003 Integrated assessment; 2,000 words or equiv. end of semester 2 30%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Paul McGivern
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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