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Unit of Study PSYC3003 - Learning and Memory (2023)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Covers learning and memory in an integrated fashion. Learning and memory are concerned with understanding the processes by which behaviour is acquired through experience and expressed in later performance. Topics will include basic principles of behaviour change, learning and addictive behaviours, information processing account of memory, the role of implicit memory and learning, and the effects of aging on learning and memory.

Unit content

  1. Memory processes, cognition and behaviour 1: Long term memory (semantic and episodic)
  2. Memory processes, cognition and behaviour 2: Short term memory, working memory, and associated cognitive processes
  3. Everyday and applied topics 1: Memory
  4. Learning and behaviour
  5. Everyday and applied topics 2: Learning
  6. Everyday and applied topics 3: Learning, memory and their integration

 

Availabilities

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:

relate ways in which learning and memory have been studied, the critical results of these investigations, and theories that have been developed to account for these results

evaluate how knowledge of the theories and principles of learning and memory can be utilised in an applied context

appraise theories of learning and memory and related evidence in order to derive hypotheses about potential empirical tests of their principles

write a research report based on methods and data from a learning and/or memory study

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Gluck, MA, Mercado, E & Myers, CE, 2020, Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior, 4th edn, Worth, NY.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.