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As a result of College adapting your modules to combine face-to-face on campus and online teaching and learning support, the breakdown of notional learning hours set out under the heading “Technical Requirements” below may not necessarily reflect how each module will be delivered this year. Further details relating to this will be made available by your department and will be updated as part of the student timetable. |
| PS 2061 - Brain and Behaviour |
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Associated Term:
2022/23 Academic Session
Learning Objectives:
Content will include the following topics: (i) Why modern psychology requires an understanding of neuroscience; (ii) neuronal structure, function and information transmission; (iii) the organisation of the nervous system and how this reflects some principles of information processing; (iv) methods used to study structure and information processing in the brain; (v) functional architectures in the brain; (vi) the neural basis of learning; (vii) brain evolution; (viii) the biology and psychopharmacology of reward, reinforcement and psychological disorders.
Pre-requisites:
None
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the module students should be able to:
1. Develop an understanding of links between structure and function in the nervous system
2. Understand the methods used to study such relationships
3. Understand the conceptual and historical issues underlying cognitive psychology (e.g. psychology as a science, conceptual and historical paradigms and models).
Required Materials: Click here for the reading list system Technical Requirements: The total number of notional learning hours associated with the course are 150. These will normally be broken down as follows: 20 hour(s) of Lectures across 10 week(s) 130 hour(s) of Guided Independent Study Formative Assessment: Moodle Quiz Summative Assessment: Examination (2 Hours ) - 80% Weekly Moodle MCQ quizzes (10 quizzes of 10 questions) 10 hours - 20% |
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