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  • Psychology Concepts

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    • This course introduces the discipline of psychology by examining the psychological foundations of how we develop, learn, socialise, our coping mechanisms and so much more. By doing this course, it will provide you with the skills and knowledge to analyse the world from a research-informed and theoretically grounded position. In particular, The course will focus on the bio-psycho-social model and will be incorporated into the various topics that will be covered.

      Learning Objectives:

      On completion of this course, you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following:

      LO1. Describe the major stages of human psychological development throughout the lifespan
      LO2. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of psychology including theories of learning, sensation and perception, personality, motivation, and interpersonal relationships
      LO3. Apply the basic concepts of psychology to health and illness
      LO4. Describe psychological models relevant to understanding well-being and ill health.

      This 10-week course is designed to scaffold your learning through the weekly content. As such, you will find between 4 to 5 formative assessments (learning activities) in each week that could be in the form of discussion forums, quizzes or padlets. Whilst these activities are not graded, I would highly recommend in engaging with them so that you have a better shot at your graded assessments. 

      Textbook

      You will need continual access to the following text to complete this course. The library does not hold an eBook version and thus it is strongly recommended that you purchase the textbook. 

      Myers DG, DeWall NC, 2015, Psychology, 11ed, Worth Publishers, New York

      You can purchase the textbook from the publisher's website through these links: 

      Please note that while the course assessments will be based on the course textbook, You can also access the Passer MW and Smith RE, 2015 Psychology: the Science of Mind and Behaviour e-textbook, available through the UniSA Library as a useful resource. 

      To get in contact with the teaching staff, you can click on the Connect drop-down menu on the top right-hand side of this page. From here you can either send your query to the course email if it's personal or to the course forum if it's a general question. 

      We sincerely hope that you enjoy exploring the course and we look forward to working with you. On behalf of the teaching team at UniSA online, please watch this welcome video below by Dr Georgina Heath, who will be the voice behind most of the academic content of the course.



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