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| Coffs Harbour | | |
| Gold Coast | | |
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Unit description
Introduces four core areas of psychological science: Social Psychology; Motivation and Emotion; Consciousness; and Personality. The unit has a focus on the role of the social milieu in the determination of behaviour, and complements Introduction to Psychology I, which is focussed on the regulation of individual behaviour.
Unit content
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Social Psychology
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Motivation and Emotion
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Consciousness
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Personality
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
GA1: Intellectual rigour,
GA2: Creativity,
GA3: Ethical practice,
GA4: Knowledge of a discipline,
GA5: Lifelong learning,
GA6: Communication and social skills,
GA7: Cultural competence| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 |
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| 1 | develop and communicate a written plan to critically address a topic in a core area of psychology | | | | | | Communication and social skills | |
| 2 | develop skills to write effectively in a scientific style appropriate for psychology | | | | | | Communication and social skills | |
| 3 | apply critical judgement, reasoning and evidence to the understanding of a core topic covered in the unit
| Intellectual rigour | | | | | | |
| 4 | demonstrate an understanding of the major themes and perspectives of psychology. | | | | Knowledge of a discipline | | | |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- develop and communicate a written plan to critically address a topic in a core area of psychology
- GA6:
Communication and social skills
- develop skills to write effectively in a scientific style appropriate for psychology
- GA6:
Communication and social skills
- apply critical judgement, reasoning and evidence to the understanding of a core topic covered in the unit
- demonstrate an understanding of the major themes and perspectives of psychology.
- GA4:
Knowledge of a discipline
Prescribed texts
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Prescribed texts may change in future study periods.