Unit of Study PSYC3003 Learning and Memory (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

PSYC1001 - Psychology Foundations: Brain and Cognition AND STAT2002 - Quantitative Methods in Psychology

Unit description

Covers learning and memory in an integrated fashion. Learning and memory are concerned with understanding the processes by which behaviour is acquired through experience and expressed in later performance. Topics will include basic principles of behaviour change, learning and addictive behaviours, information processing account of memory, the role of implicit memory and learning, and the effects of aging on learning and memory.

Unit content

Memory processes, cognition and behaviour 1: Long term memory (semantic and episodic)
Memory processes, cognition and behaviour 2: Short term memory, working memory, and associated cognitive processes
Everyday and applied topics 1: Memory
Learning and behaviour
Everyday and applied topics 2: Learning
Everyday and applied topics 3: Learning, memory and their integration

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Coffs Harbour	Term3	Term3
Gold Coast	Term3	Term3
Online	Term3	Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

relate ways in which learning and memory have been studied, the critical results of these investigations, and theories that have been developed to account for these results

evaluate how knowledge of the theories and principles of learning and memory can be utilised in an applied context

appraise theories of learning and memory and related evidence in order to derive hypotheses about potential empirical tests of their principles

write a research report based on methods and data from a learning and/or memory study

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Report	55%
Essay	45%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Report	55%
Essay	45%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Report	55%
Essay	45%

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