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Unit of Study PSYC1001 - Psychology Foundations: Brain and Cognition (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

Unit description

Introduces key topics in psychology using a combination of historical psychological experiments and the latest research techniques. The unit focuses on how the brain receives and processes information and supports students to develop their thinking on questions such as: Is what we perceive ‘real’? How do we learn? What makes us conscious? What happens when we sleep? How do psychedelic drugs affect us?

Unit content

  1. Perception 
  2. Sensation 
  3. Learning 
  4. The brain  
  5. Consciousness 
  6. Drugs and behaviour

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Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
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Gold Coast
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Online
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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

develop ideas on material presented in class through self-managed enquiry

construct a clear academic argument referencing psychological literature

identify key figures, experiments, and models of behaviour from the history of the discipline

describe the links between psychological research methods and knowledge

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