PSYC382-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)

Culture and Cognition

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

Humans speak thousands of different languages, have drastically different systems of grouping and naming features of the natural world, and have a bewildering number of social norms. Underlying this variation in cognition and behaviour is the human capacity for culture. This course overviews the scope and limits of cross-cultural variation in human psychology, highlights the importance of culture in psychological research, and discusses the implications of cultural diversity in modern societies, including Aotearoa.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students should:
1. Appreciate the ways that human psychology shows both diversity and convergence across world cultures.
2. Have the ability to reflect on and identify one’s own cultural assumptions.  
3. Be able to identify, critically evaluate, and describe cultural assumptions in psychological studies.
4. Understand and describe the major contemporary theories on how culture and cognition interact.
5. Gain experience providing evidence-based contributions to group discussions.
6. Be able to critically evaluate, edit, and improve text produced by generative AI.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator

Joseph William Harry Watts

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Examination 30% Examination
Mid-semester test 20% Mid-semester test
Critical response essay 20% Critical response essay
Peer feedback (2 @ 5% each) 10% Peer feedback (2 @ 5% each)
Lab assignments (5 @ 4% each) 20% Lab assignments (5 @ 4% each)

Textbooks / Resources

There are no required textbooks for this course. Assigned readings for lectures/labs will be provided online via AKO|LEARN. Students should read the assigned readings before each lecture.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,036.00

International fee $5,188.00

* 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 PSYC382 Occurrences

  • PSYC382-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025
  • PSYC382-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)
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