PSYCHOLOGY

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr S Teunisse and Mrs C Green

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

This course introduces Psychology as the science of behaviour and mental processes by looking at knowledge gained from experiments and surveys across selected areas (Health psychology, Emotion, Developmental psychology, Memory), examining theoretical models and discussing the methodology used. There is a concurrent practical course consisting of experiments and demonstrations in large groups, computer-based experiments and computer-aided learning modules, and sessions when students are participants in experiments conducted by senior students and researchers in the Department. Assessment consists of demonstrating an ability to discuss and reproduce key terms and concepts, and completing multiple-choice answer questions from materials presented in lectures, practicals and the prescribed textbook.
3 one-hour lectures (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 2 pm) and one lab session (up to two-hours at times to be arranged) per week.
1 one-hour written examination paper (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr S Teunisse and Mrs C Green

Pre-requisites

PS 1005

Overview

This course continues showing Psychology as the science of behaviour and mental processes by looking at knowledge gained from experiments and surveys across several more areas (Consciousness, Biological psychology, Social psychology, Perception), examining theoretical models and discussing the methodology used. There is a concurrent practical course consisting of experiments and demonstrations in large groups, computer-based experiments and computer-aided learning modules, and sessions when students are participants in experiments conducted by senior students and researchers in the Department. Assessment consists of demonstrating an ability to discuss and reproduce key terms and concepts, and completing multiple-choice answer questions from material presented in lectures, practicals and the prescribed textbook. 12 week course - 3 one-hour lectures (Monday, Tuesday Thursday at 2 pm) and one lab session (up to two-hours at times to be arranged) per week.
1 one-hour written examination paper (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr P Russell and Dr D Pearson

Pre-requisites

PS 1005 and PS 1505. This course cannot be included in a minimum curriculum with PS 2005.

Notes

This course is available only to students registered for degrees in Neuroscience or Sports Studies.

Overview

Perception; quantitive Methods.
12 week course - 2 lectures per week and 1 laboratory session (practical and/or SPSS Workshop) per fortnight.
1 one-hour examination paper (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr P Russell and Dr D Pearson

Pre-requisites

PS 1005 and PS 1505. This course may not be included in a minimum curriculum with PS 2007.

Overview

Perception; Aging and Individual Differences; Comparative psychology; Quantitative methods.

12 week course - 4 lectures per week and 1 lab session (practical and/or SPSS workshop) per week.

1 two-hour written examination paper (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr P Russell

Pre-requisites

PS 1005, PS 1505 and PS 2007. This course may not be included in a minimum curriculum with PS 2505.

Notes

This course is available only to students registered for degrees in Neuroscience or Sports Studies.

Overview

Organizational psychology; behavioural neuroscience.
12 week course - 2 lectures per week and 1 laboratory session (practical and/or SPSS Workshop) per fortnight.
1 one-hour examination paper (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr P Russell and Dr D Pearson

Pre-requisites

PS 1005, PS 1505 and PS 2005. This course may not be included in a minimum curriculum with PS 2507.

Overview

Developmental; Cognition; Organisational psychology; Behavioural neuroscience.

12 week course - 4 lectures per week and 1 lab session (practical and/or SPSS Workshop).

1 two-hour written examination paper (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr C Gray and Dr P Kinnear

Pre-requisites

PS 1005, PS 1505, PS 2005, PS 2505 and permission of Head of Department.

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing an Honours Degree programme in Psychology.

Overview

The purpose of this course is to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to carry out and evaluate psychological research. It consists of lectures on data analysis (especially various models of the analysis of variance) and examples of specific research methodologies, as well as statistical and data exploration exercises using the statistical package SPSS for Windows. Students also work together in small groups under staff supervision on a practical project for which a full report (counting as the continuous assessment component of the course) is required.


12 week course - 1 lecture, 1 SPSS practical and 4 laboratory sessions per week.
1 ninety minute written examination paper (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr L Phillips

Pre-requisites

PS 1005, PS 1505, PS 2005 and PS 2505.

Co-requisites

PS 3012 and PS 3010.

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Psychology.

Overview

Outline and evaluation of various methods of psychological assessment including issues relating to their application. 12 week course - 1 one-hour lecture per week and one workshop every four weeks.
1 ninety minute examination, (75%) and continuous assessment (25%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr A Sahraie

Pre-requisites

PS 1005, PS 1505, PS 2005 or PS2007, PS 2505 or PS 2507.

Co-requisites

(Except Neuroscience students): PS 3010, PS 3011.

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Psychology or an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Neuroscience.

Overview

Theories and data relating to the normal and abnormal processing of visual attributes such as colour, motion, spatial structure and depth. Retinal and cortical structures for visual perception.
12 week course - 1 lecture per week and one workshop every four weeks.
1 ninety minute examination (75%) and continuous assessment (25%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Milders

Pre-requisites

PS1004, PS1504 (PS1005, PS1505 from 2005/6), PS2005 or PS2007, PS2505 or PS2507.

Co-requisites

(except Neuroscience students): PS3011, PS3012

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Psychology or an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Neuroscience.

Overview

The course examines how the nervous system represents its three-dimensional environment, how vision and kinaesthesis contribute to the control of goal-directed action, how behaviour becomes refined in normal and abnormal development, and how impairments in brain-damaged patients can help us to understand normal cognitive functioning. It also considers how models of normal cognition can explain cognitive deficits following brain damage.

1 lecture per week and 1 workshop every four weeks.

1 ninety-minute written examination (75%), continuous assessment (25%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Crawford and Dr P Kinnear

Pre-requisites

PS 3009

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing an Honours Degree Programme in Psychology.

Overview

This course is a sequel to PS 3003 aiming to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to carry out and evaluate psychological research. It consists of lectures on data analysis (especially correlation, regression, and various multivariate forms of analysis) and examples of specific research methodologies, as well as statistical and data exploration exercises using the statistical package SPSS for Windows. Students also work together in small groups under staff supervision on a practical project for which a full report (counting as the continuous assessment component of the course) is required.
12 week course - 1 lecture, 1 SPSS practical and 4 laboratory sessions per week.
Examination (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr A B Milne

Pre-requisites

PS 3010, PS 3011, PS 3012.

Co-requisites

PS 3515 and PS 3516.

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Psychology.

Overview

The Social Cognition approach; intergroup and interpersonal social behaviour.
12 week course - 1 lecture per week and one workshop every four weeks.
1 ninety-minute written examination (75%) and continuous assessment (25%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Reissland

Pre-requisites

PS 3010, PS 3011, PS 3012.

Co-requisites

PS 3515 and PS 3516.

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Psychology.

Overview

Theories and approaches to language acquisition; Mother-infant communication; Imitation; Human face processing; Theory of Mind and developmental psychopathy.
1 lecture per week and one workshop every four weeks.
1 ninety minute written examination (75%) and continuous assessment (25%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Pearson

Pre-requisites

(except Neuroscience students) PS 3006, PS 3007 and PS 3008. Neuroscience students: PS 3006.

Co-requisites

(except Neuroscience students): PS 3511 and PS 3512.

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing either an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Psychology or an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Neuroscience.

Overview

The cognitive study of human learning and memory; the modal and working memory models and the characteristics of their components; the application of memory models to everyday cognition.
12 week course - 1 lecture per week and one workshop every four weeks.
1 ninety minute examination (75%) and continuous assessment (25%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr P McGeorge and Dr L Phillips

Pre-requisites

120 credit points from level 3 Psychology courses.

Overview

A thesis based on an empirical investigation conducted under the guidance of a supervisor.
20 week course - 1 one-hour tutorial per week. Laboratory work as required. Continues in second half-session.
Assessment of the thesis counts for one ninth of the final Honours assessment.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr P Kinnear

Pre-requisites

BSc: Completion of Programme Year 3; MA: SO3521 Sport and Leisure Studies 2 Course.

Notes

This course is only available for students registered for the BSc Sports Studies degree or the MA Sports and Leisure Management degree.

Overview

Sport and motivation; the role of personality; the role of attitudes in sport; changing attitudes; the effect on performance of heightened arousal, stress and anxiety; maximising psychological state; leadership and coaching; team dynamics; sport and drug taking.
1 one-hour lecture per week and 1 one-hour tutorial per fortnight.
1 one and a half-hour written examination (80%) and continuous assessment (20%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr P McGeorge and Dr K Mearns

Pre-requisites

120 credit points from Level 3 Psychology courses.

Co-requisites

PS 4019

Notes

This course is only open to students taking Combined Honours in Psychology. Such students will take Psychology A for Combined degree plus Psychology B for Combined degree plus PS 4019 (thesis). These students cannot take other listed fourth year psychology courses.

Overview

Two options chosen from a list made available by the Psychology Department and which may change from year to year. Tutorials and essays will consider general issues and current developments in psychology.
12 week course - 2 one-hour lectures, 1 one-hour research seminar, 1 one-hour tutorial every three weeks.
2 ninety minute written examinations (66%) and continuous assessment (33%).

Credit Points

45

Course Coordinator

Dr P McGeorge and Dr L Phillips

Pre-requisites

120 credit points from Level 3 Psychology courses.

Co-requisites

PS 4019

Notes

This course is only open to single honours psychology students. Students registered for single honours psychology will take Senior Honours Psychology A plus Senior Honours Psychology B plus PS 4019 (thesis). These students cannot take other listed fourth year psychology courses.

Overview

Three options chosen from a list made available by the Department of Psychology and which may change from year to year. Tutorials and essays will consider general issues and current developments in psychology.
12 week course - 3 one-hour lectures, 1 one-hour research seminar, 1 one-hour tutorial every fortnight.
3 ninety minute written examinations (75%) and continuous assessment (25%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr P McGeorge and Dr K Mearns

Pre-requisites

60 credit points from level 3 courses. This course is for Joint Honours Psychology students only.

Overview

The course requires the student to carry out, under supervision, an empirical piece of research on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with the supervisor.
2 one-hour tutorials per week.
Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr P McGeorge and Dr L Phillips

Pre-requisites

PS 4029

Co-requisites

PS 4013

Notes

This course is only open to students taking Combined Honours in Psychology. Such students will take Psychology A for combined degrees plus Psychology B for combined degrees plus PS 4019 (thesis). These students cannot take other listed fourth year psychology courses.

Overview

Two options chosen from a list made available by the Psychology Department and which may change from year to year. Tutorials and essays will consider general issues and current developments in psychology.
12 week course - 2 one-hour lectures, 1 one-hour research seminar, 1 one-hour tutorial every three weeks.
2 ninety minute written examinations (66%) and continuous assessment (33%).

Credit Points

45

Course Coordinator

Dr P McGeorge and Dr L Phillips

Pre-requisites

PS 4030

Co-requisites

PS 4013

Notes

This course is only open to single honours psychology students. Students registered for single honours psychology will take Senior Honours Psychology A plus Senior Honours Psychology B plus PS 4019 (thesis). These students cannot take other listed fourth year psychology courses.

Overview

Three options chosen from a list made available by the Psychology Department and which may change from year to year. Tutorials and essays will consider general issues and current developments in psychology.
12 week course - 3 one-hour lectures, 1 one-hour research seminar, 1 one-hour tutorial every fortnight.
3 ninety minute written examinations (75%) and continuous assessment (25%).