Brain and Behaviour
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- Swinburne Online: Fully online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2022 teaching periods
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 1 |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 2 | |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Admission into GD-PSYS Graduate Diploma of PsychologyAims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Explain the general methods of investigation employed in psychological research and identify the main ethical issues in psychological research;
2. Explain key concepts from major content areas in psychology. These include: biological underpinnings of psychology; sensory processes, perception, and consciousness; personality; health, clinical, and abnormal psychology;
3. Locate, organise and integrate information from various sources concerning topics and problems relating to psychology;
4. Communicate in a logical and clear manner the results of investigating a topic or problems relating to psychology;
3. Locate, organise and integrate information from various sources concerning topics and problems relating to psychology
4. Communicate in a logical and clear manner the results of investigating a topic or problems relating to psychology
5. Apply psychological theories, methods, and data to explain everyday experiences and behaviours
Courses with unit
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
This unit will involve up to 150 hours of work including:
Type (SOL) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact | N/A |
|
|
Online Contact Blackboard Collaborate or other synchronous activities |
.33 |
12 |
4 |
Specified Learning Activities Discussion board activities Prescribed readings |
5 (approx.) |
12 |
60 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Assignment preparation Revision | Recommended |
| 86 |
TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours/12.5cp |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Examination | Individual | 40% | 2, 5 |
Assignment 1 | Individual | 25% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Assignment 2 | Individual | 35% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
General skills outcomes
• Problem solving skills
• Communications skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
Content
• Biological aspects of psychology
• Consciousness
• Motivation and Emotion
• Neurospsychology
• Health and abnormal psychology