PSY4003 - Understanding Human 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:

Foundational knowledge of core areas in psychology, including the application of psychology to world issues. International and cultural perspectives will be addressed throughout, beginning with the historical and cultural context and origins of modern psychology.

Biological: brain structure and function in areas such as such as pain, fear, eating & drinking and sleeping, physiology in a global context

Cognitive: attention, memory, and problem-solving.

Developmental: development across the lifespan, personality and temperament; behavioural genetics approach; resilience and vulnerabiltiy, constructivist and constructionist theories, information processing approach; the role of education and ecological systems theory;

Social: history of psychology, social thinking, beliefs & judgements, attitudes & behaviours, individual and society.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Formal scheduled learning and teaching activities
Hours: 60
Intended Group Size: 200

Guided independent study
Hours: 240

Further details relating to assessment
The assessment in this module is designed to ensure appropriate coverage of the core domains of psychology as determined by the British Psychological Society to support students’ progression to studying the core domains in greater depth at Level 5. The two written assignments draw on the workshops that contextualise the core domain approaches to the individual programmes. Formative assessment will take place in taught sessions and online through the use of summary questions to check the development of understanding. The end of year Capstone Assessment will draw upon the whole level’s learning (including Research Methods, Individual Differences, Professional Skills, and the Core Domains) to explain how psychology helps us to understand human behaviour in the context of the programme, again ensuring sufficient coverage of all of the core domains and their interrelationships to underpin study at Level 5.

Assessment:

001 Written Assignment; 1,000 words; end of semester 1 25%
002 Written Assignment; 1,000 words; end of semester 2 25%
003 Capstone Assessment; 1,000 words, Integrated Assessment Period 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Adam Lawrence
Level - 4
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4YL

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