PSYC334-19W (C) Whole Year 2019

Learning and Behaviour Analysis

This occurrence is not offered in 2019

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 15 March 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 23 August 2019

Description

This course deals with learning and emphasises the way in which events in an individual’s environment control his/her behaviour. Laboratory work illustrates selected principles of behaviour control using animal subjects in controlled environments.

This course is concerned with the behaviour of individuals, both as a matter of practical importance, and as a subject of scientific interest.  Particular emphasis is given to how it is controlled by events in the individual's environment.  In this area of psychology, we seek some general principles that govern all behaviour, regardless of its type, placing rather less emphasis on the specific types of behaviour concerned (such as social behaviour, abnormal behaviour, etc).

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you may expect to have a thorough grounding in the principles of learning and behaviour control, and to be well prepared for graduate courses especially Behavioural Interventions and Experimental Analysis of Behaviour.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Anthony McLean

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Test 30%
Project Report 30%
Final Exam 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Mazur, James E; Learning and Behavior ; 7th Ed; Prentice Hall, 2013.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,701.00

International fee $8,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing .

All PSYC334 Occurrences

  • PSYC334-19W (C) Whole Year 2019 - Not Offered