| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
not available in 2010 |
| Outcomes |
Students become familiar with some of the major theories and research findings in typical and atypical child development and with some of the particular research methods of psychology used in these areas to generate new psychological knowledge. Verbal and written communication skills are refined in the context of a scientific approach to solving psychological problems. |
| Content |
This unit focuses on typical and atypical human development. Underlying causes for ways in which human beings grow and change are investigated through the study of social and cognitive development and the examination of abnormal and normal developmental outcomes. Knowledge is gained of the common developmental disorders. |
| Assessment |
Students demonstrate achievement of the outcomes through completing a written assignment and an oral tutorial presentation, by participating in various tutorial activities and by sitting an end-of-semester examination. Allocation of marks is as follows: examination (60 per cent), written assignment (25 per cent), oral presentation (10 per cent) and student participation (5 per cent).
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Professor Murray Maybery |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: PSYC1102 Psychology: Behaviour in Context |
| Incompatibility: PSYC2202 Psychology: Cognitive, Social and Abnormal Development |
Contact hours—lectures: 2 hrs per week; labs: 2 hrs per week
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
- Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.
- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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