1997 QUT Handbook

and interpersonal behaviour and skills and its relevance to the
radiographer.
Courses: PH38
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ SSB911 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
This course is designed to give optometry students an ability
to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills in relation to patients
and other health professionals; indicate bases of individual
differences; diagnose patient needs and respond appropriately;
state causes of stress, effects on health, and indicate
appropriate techniques to reduce stress; indicate techniques
that may be used to modify patient attitudes.
Courses: OP42
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB912 PSYCHOLOGY
An introduction to general psychology to give a base for subsequent
studies in the various fields of psychology and to provide
limited skills training in some areas for personal development;
research approaches; learning and motivation; individuals
and groups; the development of groups and the assessment
of individuals within groups; perception, human
development, and stress management, individual differences,
psychological testing and personality.
Courses: HM42, PU49
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB913 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
A basis for the study of the promotion of psychological health
of individuals at differing developmental stages. The content
includes psychological adjustment, developmental theories,
developmental aspects of childhood, adolescence, middle
and old age and specific areas such as sexual development,
death and dying; relationships to work and professional
environments.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB003 or SSB932
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB915 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Philosophy of social science; historical perspective; social and
self and personal space; social perception and groups; research
methodology; stereotypes and prejudice; conformity; persuasion;
attraction and intimacy; help seeking and giving; aggression;
leadership.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: SSB003 or SSB912 or SSB932
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB917 PHYSIOLOGICAL & HEALTH
PSYCHOLOGY
The physiological and cognitive bases to human behaviour; the
nervous and endocrine systems of the body, the brain and its
functioning; learning, information processing, memory and
problem solving; consciousness and altered states of consciousness;
hormones and drugs and their effects on emotional expression;
the development of intelligence; the relation of physiological
and cognitive factors to motivation and behaviour.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: SSB912 or 96 credit points of approved study
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: SSB934
■ SSB921 COUNSELLING & CRISIS
MANAGEMENT
The basic theories and principles of crisis intervention methodology;
the roles of nurses in counselling clients who are currently
experiencing difficulties; appropriate interpersonal and
specific counselling skills to assist with this therapeutic communication
process; short-term strategies in crisis management.
Courses: NS48
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB922 SOCIAL & CULTURAL ASPECTS OF
HEALTH
A broad overview of the key theoretical and practical questions
currently being addressed in the field of the sociology
of health and illness providing a framework for individuals
wishing to develop professional skills in health education.
836
Courses: ED50
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB930 PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
METHODS
An overview of the purposes and strategies of research; elementary
research design; operationalising variables; descriptive
statistics; distributions; measures of central tendency and
spread; standard scores and percentiles. Comparing variables
through correlation; introduction to the use of SPSS.
Courses: SS07
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: MAB237, MAB247
■ SSB931 PERCEPTION
Explores the way we gain information about the world through
our various senses. Whilst most emphasis is given to hearing
and vision, the senses of touch, smell, taste, and orientation
are also covered. In each case, the unit provides an overview
of the nature of the physical stimulus, the peripheral and central
structures involved in processing these stimuli, and the
various theories which have been proposed regarding how each
modality operates. In all cases, a strong emphasis is placed on
critical assessment of theories and the experimental evidence
supporting them. The unit also introduces the major psychological
procedures employed in perceptual research, and highlights
applied research in each domain.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: SSB003 or SSB912 or SSB932
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: SSB937
■ SSB932 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY 1B
A more detailed consideration of a range of topics considered
in introductory psychology units with a focus on research processes,
in particular branches of psychology to be studied in
second and third years. Includes topics in social and organisational
psychology, developmental psychology and cognitive
psychology, physiological psychology, personality and
abnormal psychology.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB003 or SSB912
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB933 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
This unit explores both the cognitive mechanisms involved in
processing information and behavioural models of learning. The
information processing component covers topics including:
sensory storage, attention, pattern recognition, working memory,
long-term memory, and applied psychology. The learning component
deals with the phenomenology of behavioural learning
paradigms including classical and operant conditioning. In both
cases, the unit emphasises the need for critical analysis of theories
and the expermental evidence supporting them.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: 36 credit points of second or third year
Psychology units
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: SSB937
■ SSB934 PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
The physiological and cognitive bases to human behaviour;
the nervous and endocrine systems of the body, the brain and
its functioning; learning, information processing, memory and
problem solving; consciousness and altered states of consciousness;
hormones and drugs and their effects on emotional
expression; the development of intelligence; and overall the
relation of physiological and cognitive factors to motivation
and behaviour. Some attention is also given to comparative
psychology, with reference to animal/human behaviour.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB003, or SSB932
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB936 PERSONALITY & PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Overview of some of the major personality theorists and theories
in order to develop an understanding of contemporary approaches
to normal personality and psychological function; disordered
psychological function and Perspectives of research
and theory relating to the major classes of mental disorder iden-