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AZA1020

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 26 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

South Africa School of Social Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Ms Dionne Morris

Offered

South Africa

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit provides a further introduction to the behavioural science of psychology. Topics include social psychology; organisational/industrial psychology; psychopathology; basic processes and principles of cognition; descriptive statistics and an introduction to inferential statistics. Laboratory classes augment students' understanding of the lecture material and provide training in research techniques.

Outcomes

On the completion of the unit students will be able to:

  1. Explain basic cognitive processes.
  2. Describe the social basis of behaviour and psychopathology.
  3. Discuss on a basic level organisational/industrial psychology and its development in South Africa.
  4. Give a basic overview of research methodology and statistical analysis.
  5. Write a psychological report.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50%
Exam: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Ms Dionne Morris

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Psychology - South Africa

Co-requisites

AZA1019

Prohibitions

PSY1022, WEL1320, WEL1340, BHS1320, BHS1340, GSC1306, GSC1307, APY1910, PSS1711, PSS1712