DPSY5261 - Neuropsychological models of cognition and behaviour part 1 - 2019

0 points, SCA Band 1, 0.000 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

School of Psychological Sciences

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Jennie Ponsford

Coordinator(s)

Professor Julie Stout

Unit guides

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2019 (On-campus)

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology

Synopsis

Neuropsychological disorders will be considered from perspectives taken in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology. In particular, there will be an emphasis on establishing frameworks for conceptualising neuropsychological features of neurological and psychiatric conditions, and frameworks for approaching clinical assessment and rehabilitation.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will:

  1. Have knowledge of neural bases of attention, language, visuospatial functions, memory, executive functions, emotion processing, and complex adaptive behaviours, in both in normality and pathology;
  2. Understand the current theoretical models proposed to account for neuropsychological impairments.

Assessment

2 x assignments (10% each)

4 x assignments (15% each)

Visual-graphic assignment (20%)

Oral presentation (hurdle requirement)

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