PSYC334-09W (C) Whole Year 2009

Learning and Behaviour Analysis

28 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2009
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2009
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2009
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 September 2009

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 deals with learning and emphasises the way in which events in an individual's environment control his/her behaviour.  The general approach taken in the course is to present some fundamental principles of behaviour control, consider some of the experimental studies which have investigated their properties, and to examine their implications for dealing with human problems of living.  Later in the course some advanced topics in the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour will be studied.  Laboratory work will illustrate selected principles of behaviour control using animal subjects in controlled environments.  

PSYC334 is recommended preparation of PSYC415 Experimental Analysis of Behaviour, and for the postgraduate Clinical Psychology Programme.

Prerequisites

PSYC206 or EDUC224 or EDUC324 or EDUC230 or EDUC330

Restrictions

PSYC318

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Anthony McLean

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Class Test 02 Apr 2009 30%
Project Report due end of Term 3 30%
Final Exam 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Mazur, James E; Learning and behavior ; 6th ed; Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,112.00

International fee $4,853.00

* 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 Psychology .

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