Human Development 3PS PSYCH3006

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 3 (SCQF level 9)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 1
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course provides insight into aspects of human development across the lifespan.

Timetable

Weekly one hour lectures

Requirements of Entry

A Grade D or better in Psychology 1A and 1B, and 2A and 2B.

Excluded Courses

None

Assessment

100% written assignment, completed and submitted in a group.

Course Aims

This course explores development and its diversity across the lifespan including childhood, adolescence, adulthood and ageing. It explores brain development, social and emotional development, cognitive development and their necessary interactions and the impact of factors such as culture and context on the interplay of these developmental strands.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of the course students will be able to : 

■ Understand data collecting procedures in developmental psychology, especially in complex and vulnerable cohorts

■ Interpret evidence from a range of empirical studies on age-related change at key stages through the life span from prenatal development through childhood, to adolescence,adulthood and into old age.

■ Discuss the evidence for risk and protective factors in development

■ Demonstrate knowledge of the interplay between physical, cognitive, and social and emotional development across development

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment