School Of PsychologyHuman Learning and CognitionWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 100016.2
Discipline: PSYCHOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Prerequisite
101184 Psychology: Human Behaviour AND 101183 Psychology: Behavioural Science AND 100020 Social and Developmental Psychology AND 100022 Biological Psychology and Perceptual Processes
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Pre-requisites will not apply to students enrolled in courses 1630 Graduate Diploma in Psychological Studies and 1501 Graduate Diploma in Psychology. Enrolment in these awards requires graduate status; hence the students have demonstrated proficiency in tertiary studies. Each applicant in these awards is assessed individually and provided with an individual study sequence by the Course Advisor.
About this Unit
In 2010 this unit replaced by 101676 - Human Learning and 101677 - Cognitive Processes. For most living organisms, learning and remembering are integral to the organism's survival. For animals, this means the ability to remember where food is located and learn where predators may be lurking. For humans, it also means the ability to learn to talk, read, write, drive a car, and operate a computer. Even if humans did somehow survive until now without the ability to learn or remember, our lives would be empty movements from one moment to the next without any past or future, and we would be doomed to repeat the same behaviours, whether or not those behaviours were useful. Learning and cognition are critically important and are at the core of our experience of life. This unit is concerned with the experiemental analysis of human behaviour. Definitions, assumptions and basic phenomena associated with the study of learning and cognition are described and evaluated in terms of their ability to account for various aspects of human behaviour and experience. The practical work highlights important concepts introduced in the lecture program.