PSYC346-19S1 (C) Semester One 2019

Judgement and Decision Making

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2019
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 1 March 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 10 May 2019

Description

The course covers risky and non-risky decision-making, theories of choice, and the way in which people make biased decisions and use short-cuts to make choices. We shall also examine decision criteria: reinforcement, subjective well-being, the value of life. Application in consumer and investment decisions, choosing between future and present good and self-control, and medical decisions will be a theme throughout.

The course covers risky and non-risky decision-making, theories of choice, and the way in which people make biased decisions and use short-cuts to make choices. We shall also examine decision criteria: reinforcement, subjective well-being, the value of life. Application in consumer and investment decisions, choosing between future and present good and self-control, and medical decisions will be a theme throughout.

Learning Outcomes

1) To explore psychological research in the areas of judgment and decision-making.
2) To show how this research has been used and can be used in real-world decision-making.

Prerequisites

PSYC206, or
equivalent preparation

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Simon Kemp

Lecturer

Randolph Grace

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Laboratory Exercises 30%
Research Assignment 40%
Final Exam 30%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Daniel Kahneman; Thinking, fast and slow ; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $850.00

International fee $4,000.00

* 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 .

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