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.

  • Unit Title

    Cognition
  • Unit Code

    PSY3304
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • 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 most of the major areas within modern cognitive science: Implicit and explicit processing; attention; memory; skill acquisition; expertise; language; communication; creativity; sex and aggression.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from PSY1101, PSY2202

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSY4304

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the psychological basis of remembering and forgetting.
  2. Discuss the function, structure and processes of language.
  3. Distinguish between different types of memory systems.
  4. Explain the processes of acquisition, representation, and organisation of knowledge, as they apply to perception, memory, and language.
  5. Formulate a report that evaluates several theoretical perspectives of cognition,presentsdata and analyses to critically evaluatehypotheses.
  6. Identify factors that limit human cognition.
  7. Identify steps in problem solving and reasoning.

Unit Content

  1. Aggression.
  2. Attention.
  3. Communication.
  4. Creativity.
  5. Decision making.
  6. Expertise.
  7. Explicit processing.
  8. Implicit processing.
  9. Language and thought.
  10. Memory.
  11. Sex.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The material in this unit will be presented in lectures, and extra materials delivered through Blackboard. Students will be provided with specific readings per week.

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.

  • Unit Title

    Cognition
  • Unit Code

    PSY3304
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • 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 most of the major areas within modern cognitive science: Implicit and explicit processing; attention; memory; skill acquisition; expertise; language; communication; creativity; sex and aggression.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from PSY1101, PSY2202

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSY4304

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the psychological basis of remembering and forgetting.
  2. Discuss the function, structure and processes of language.
  3. Distinguish between different types of memory systems.
  4. Explain the processes of acquisition, representation, and organisation of knowledge, as they apply to perception, memory, and language.
  5. Formulate a report that evaluates several theoretical perspectives of cognition,presentsdata and analyses to critically evaluatehypotheses.
  6. Identify factors that limit human cognition.
  7. Identify steps in problem solving and reasoning.

Unit Content

  1. Aggression.
  2. Attention.
  3. Communication.
  4. Creativity.
  5. Decision making.
  6. Expertise.
  7. Explicit processing.
  8. Implicit processing.
  9. Language and thought.
  10. Memory.
  11. Sex.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The material in this unit will be presented in lectures, and extra materials delivered through Blackboard. Students will be provided with specific readings per week.

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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