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PSY330 - Learning and Memory

2023

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Psychology

Credit Points

Equivalent Units

(PSY340)

Prerequisites

Incompatible

Assumed Knowledge

PSY150 or PSY140, PSY151 or PSY141 and PSY101

Unit Description

This unit explores learning and memory in an integrated manner introducingstudents to key themes in the mechanisms that enhance our capacity to learn and refine our behaviour. Topics included in this unit; principles that underpin learning, behaviour formation and change, addiction, determinants of motivation, theories of memory processes, the role of implicit memory and learning, and the effects of aging on learning and memory.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Identify and explain the major principles of learning and memory
2.	Describe the empirical evidence and controversies about learning.
3.	Synthesise theory and research to explain learning and memory in human behaviour and motivation.
4.	Evaluate learning and memory theory and research in a reflexive, culturally appropriate and sensitive manner.
5.	Integrate and apply learning principles to understand and treat various psychopathologies.
6.	Integrate theory and empirical evidence to improve memory and learning across the lifecycle.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Quiz (10 minutes)	10%	1,2
2.	Presentation (10 minutes)	30%	1,3,4,6
3.	Report (1200 words)	30%	1,3,4,5
4.	Test (1 hour)	30%	1,2,3,5,6

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