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Unit Synopsis
In this unit, you will be introduced to the social and cultural bases of human behaviour. You will examine: • human lifespan development, including cognitive and social development • social psychology, including interpersonal behaviour and social cognition • personality, including theories of personality, mental health, and abnormal behaviour.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 1 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
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Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 10% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 30% |
| 3. Online Quiz(zes) | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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No previous feedback available
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching)
The weekly quizzes (Assessment 1) in this unit are outside of university assessment policy, which stipulates that summative assessment due dates must not occur before the last day of enrolment (i.e., Friday of Week 2). Weekly quizzes should also not overlap with other assessment due dates in the unit.
Restructure Assessment 1 (quizzes) to align with university policy, ensuring none are due prior to the enrolment deadline. Review and adjust assessment due dates to ensure there are no overlapping due dates.
Assignment due dates were reviewed and dates revised as advised. No assignment was set to be due before the enrolment deadline and overlapping due dates were avoided.
Source: Student feedback
Students indicated that they enjoy the variety of lecture content.
Continue to introduce a variety of lecture topics each week to maintain student engagement and interest and provide diverse perspectives on the applied topics in psychology.
Topics covered continued to provide diverse perspectives on applied psychological research.
Source: SUTE qualitative feedback
Students were uncertain as to how the weekly content was relevant to the written assessment and oral presentation assessment tasks, which involved developing and communicating an evidence-based solution to a real-world problem.
Introduce into tutorials a demonstration of the 'Problem - Solution - Impact' structure through an example relevant to each week's content. This approach should help clarify how the lectures, which present applied topics in psychology, enact the problem-solving process they are being asked to use in these assessments as they involve applying psychology research and theory to real-world issues and topics.
Lectures and tutorials covered real psychological issues (such as gambling and wellbeing). This research-based approach supported the problem-solution-impact structure.
Source: Student feedback
Some students felt that assessment requirements were not clear enough.
Instructions will be reviewed for clarity and exemplars provided to ensure expectations regarding assessment content is clear.
In Progress
Source: Student feedback
Students were unsure about the direct link between weekly content and the assessments.
Lectures and tutorial content will be reviewed to ensure they highlight the skills being assessed in each assessment item. To do this, the problem - solution - impact focus will be made explicit.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Identify a good, general, knowledge of the major principles and theories of the Social Foundations of Psychology
- Apply knowledge of the major principles and theories to human behaviour
- Demonstrate writing and research skills relevant to psychology.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | |
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | ||
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| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | ||||||
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | ||||||||