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PSY348: Principles and Applications of Learning
This unit examines how people and animals learn, and how their behaviours change as a result of the process. The lectures cover some of the more important principles with a strong emphasis on applications to everyday life. These applications include: the principles underlying behaviour and motivation (stimulus control, reinforcement, punishment and extinction); goal setting; decision making; risk taking; social learning; phobias; and learned helplessness. The practical component of the unit allows students to apply these principles to their own behaviour in a self-regulation program conducted throughout the semester, and to design a programme for changing the attitudes and behaviours of others in a social marketing exercise. This practical program enables students to gain first-hand experience with the basic principles of behaviour change which are fundamental to many areas of psychological practice.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Julia Irwin |
| Prerequisites: |
PSY236(P) |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCW(s): | PSY325 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Psychology |
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