School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Learning, Memory and Cognition
  • Unit Code

    PSY2204
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Shane Leslie ROGERS

Description

This unit reviews theories of the acquisition and organisation of knowledge and information processing. The unit covers major area of importance within modern cognitive science: Implicit and explicit processing; attention; memory; skill acquisition; expertise; language; communication; creativity; sex and aggression.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from PSY1101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSY4304, PSY3304

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the psychological basis of memory and different memory systems.
  2. Discuss the function, structure and processes of language.
  3. Explain the processes of acquisition, representation, and organisation of knowledge, as they apply to perception, memory, and language.
  4. Identify factors that limit human cognition.
  5. Identify steps in problem solving and reasoning.

Unit Content

  1. Theories underlying language, thought and communication.
  2. Communication.
  3. Processes and theories of learning, memory, attention, reasoning and decision making.
  4. Applications of learning and cognition theories to everyday life.
  5. Differences between implicit and explicit processing.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and online materials

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentOnline quizzes15%
ReportLaboratory report35%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentOnline quizzes15%
ReportLaboratory report35%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Learning, Memory and Cognition
  • Unit Code

    PSY2204
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Shane Leslie ROGERS

Description

This unit reviews theories of the acquisition and organisation of knowledge and information processing. The unit covers major area of importance within modern cognitive science: Implicit and explicit processing; attention; memory; skill acquisition; expertise; language; communication; creativity; sex and aggression.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from PSY1101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSY4304, PSY3304

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the psychological basis of memory and different memory systems.
  2. Discuss the function, structure and processes of language.
  3. Explain the processes of acquisition, representation, and organisation of knowledge, as they apply to perception, memory, and language.
  4. Identify factors that limit human cognition.
  5. Identify steps in problem solving and reasoning.

Unit Content

  1. Theories underlying language, thought and communication.
  2. Communication.
  3. Processes and theories of learning, memory, attention, reasoning and decision making.
  4. Applications of learning and cognition theories to everyday life.
  5. Differences between implicit and explicit processing.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and online materials

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentOnline quizzes15%
ReportLaboratory report35%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentOnline quizzes15%
ReportLaboratory report35%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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