MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

PSY2011

Cognitive psychology and the origins of behaviour I

Dr L Z Wise

8 points + Four 1-hour lectures and one 4-hour laboratory per week + First semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: PSY1011 and PSY1022 + Prohibitions: PSY2031, APY2010

Synopsis This subject is designed for students who wish to attain an accredited major in psychology with the possibility of entry to honours. Students take three compulsory lecture units (i) human development (ii) sensation and perception and (iii) parametric statistics, and choose one additional lecture unit among the following: (iv) crosscultural psychology , (v) behaviour and heredity, and (vi) drugs and behaviour. Laboratory work illustrates and complements material presented in lectures. It comprises a stand-alone unit which all students take weekly, whether or not they attend any particular optional lecture unit. Necessary background material is provided in association with the laboratory. Detailed descriptions of lecture unit content are given in the class notes distributed at the first lecture. Optional units offered may vary from year to year.

Assessment Examination of lecture material (3 hours): 60% (some examination of lecture material may occur in class) + Laboratory work: 40%

Prescribed texts

Berk L E Child development Allyn and Bacon, 1993
Ferguson G and Takane Y Statistical analysis in psychology and education McGraw-Hill, 1989
O'Shea R P Writing for psychology HBJ, 1993
Provost S Computers in psychology Harper Educational, 1995
Secular R and Blake R Perception 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1994
Siegel S and Castellan N J Jr Nonparametric statistics for the behavioural sciences McGraw-Hill, 1989

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