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PSYCH 731
: Social Psychology and Intergroup Processes2025 Semester Two (1255)
Focuses on the application of social psychological knowledge and theory to the understanding of broad social and cultural processes and phenomena, such as violence, prejudice, group behaviour and conflict, intergroup dynamics, collective behaviour, social beliefs, cultural differentiation and contact.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
502
PSYCH 733
: Critical Health Psychology2025 Semester One (1253)
Utilising the frameworks of critical psychology, including gendered, Indigenous and intersectional frameworks, this course examines ways of theorising, understanding and promoting health for individuals, communities and societies.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
503
PSYCH 736
: Human Brain Mapping2025 Semester Two (1255)
Introduces human brain mapping based on structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Topics include MRI data acquisition, processing and analysis, as well as interpretation of analysis outcomes and fundamentals of neuroanatomy.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
504
PSYCH 741
: ABA: Communicating Behaviourally2025 Semester One (1253)
Provides the opportunity to gain practical experience with a range of mediums for communicating behavioural concepts.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
505
PSYCH 742
: Neuroscience of Awareness2025 Semester One (1253)
An advanced seminar on the neuroscience of awareness and related topics. The course will primarily consist of student-led discussion of original research, with particular emphasis on areas of active controversy or debate. In addition to the theoretical discussion of human awareness, there will be a strong focus on the methods and practice of research in human neuroscience.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
506
PSYCH 743
: Critical Qualitative Research in Aotearoa2025 Semester One (1253)
Equips students with conceptual, theoretical, political and practical understandings of what it means to do critical, qualitative research in psychology in Aotearoa. Situates methods in relation to who researchers are, where we are, and how we collaborate, including obligations and opportunities provided by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Indigenous-led approaches.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
507
PSYCH 744
: Experimental Design and Quantitative Methods for Psychology2025 Semester One (1253)
Covers applications of the general linear model to research design and analysis. Topics include: univariate techniques (analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, regression) and multivariate techniques (multivariate analysis of variance, discriminant analysis, multivariate regression, and factor analysis).
Prerequisite: PSYCH 306
508
PSYCH 746
: Perception, Cognition, Action2025 Semester Two (1255)
Seminar-based introduction to theories and models linking (human, animal and machine) perception, cognition and action, with emphasis on competing approaches to perceptual-motor control and learning, using evidence from classic and contemporary research in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
509
PSYCH 749
: Applied Behaviour Analysis Ethics2025 Semester Two (1255)
Investigates the similarities and differences between the NZPB and BACB codes and discusses how to reconcile the two in practical situations. Discusses the current legislation and frameworks that apply to clinicians working with vulnerable people, and the impact of culture when applying codes and working ethically. Different methods of ethical problem solving are covered.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
510
PSYCH 754
: Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities2025 Semester Two (1255)
Study of the behavioural aspects, aetiologies and therapeutic interventions for disorders usually diagnosed during childhood that are associated with reduced abilities to learn. Examples include intellectual disabilities and pervasive developmental disorders (e.g., autism).
Restriction: PSYCH 752
511
PSYCH 756
: Dynamics of Brain and Behaviour2025 Semester Two (1255)
Examines the behavioural and neural changes that result from normal development, those that may arise in the context of neurological diseases and disorders, and the changes that can be elicited via interventions. Topics include the design and implementation of interventions to improve mental and physical health, methods to evaluate characteristics of change, and the precise mechanisms of neural and behavioural change. Recommended preparation: PSYCH 305
No pre-requisites or restrictions
512
PSYCH 757A
: Advanced Applied Behaviour Analysis2025 Semester One (1253)
Advanced education and training in applied behaviour analysis (ABA) in preparation for a professional career. Topics include ethical, professional, and practical issues confronting behaviour analysts in employment; recent research in ABA and other sciences with respect to clinical, educational, and other populations with whom behaviour analysts typically work.
Prerequisite: PSYCH 750, 751
Corequisite: PSYCH 651
Restriction: PSYCH 753 To complete this course students must enrol in PSYCH 757 A and B, or PSYCH 757
Restriction: PSYCH 753 To complete this course students must enrol in PSYCH 757 A and B, or PSYCH 757
513
PSYCH 759
: Advanced Behavioural Psychology2025 Semester One (1253)
Examination of selected topics in contemporary behavioural psychology. The specific topics covered depend partly on student interest, exploring research on the relation between behaviour and environment, considering both animal and human behaviour, and both lab-based research and translation of that research into understanding behaviour of significance to society.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
514
PSYCH 761
: Organisational Psychology2025 Semester One (1253)
Focuses on attitudes and behaviours at work that reflect or impact on the relationship between employee and employer, with a particular emphasis on topics that are proposed to impact on employee well-being and productivity (e.g., job satisfaction, motivation, leadership). Students will be encouraged to adopt a scientist-practitioner perspective, through class discussions and assignments.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
515
PSYCH 765
: Special Topic: Pacific Psychologies2025 Semester Two (1255)
Explores how Pacific knowledges and worldviews shape and are shaped by Pacific communities to make meaning of and respond to a broad range of topics relevant to psychology.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
516
PSYCH 766
: Occupational Health Psychology2025 Semester Two (1255)
Students will focus on the in-depth treatment of this area, focusing primarily on occupational stress, including coverage of topics such as: work, life, and family, job insecurity, workplace incivility, abusive supervision, positive aspects of workplaces, as well as stress management interventions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
517
PSYCH 767
: Gender Violence2025 Semester One (1253)
What does it mean to say that violence is gendered? How does a gender analysis shape our understanding of the nature of problems like sexual violence, domestic violence, street harassment and online abuse? And how does it guide our responses to the harm of violence and our strategies for prevention? This course will bring a critical feminist lens to understanding key questions, theories and debates in research on gender violence.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
518
PSYCH 769
: Special Topic: Developmental Psychology: A Critical Lens2025 Semester Two (1255)
No pre-requisites or restrictions
519
PSYCH 770
: Behavioural Insights2025 Semester One (1253)
Explores how cognitive biases and errors cause us to behave in irrational ways and how nudging and debiasing can mitigate these effects. Introduces students to methods to run behavioural insight analyses in real-world settings.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
520
PSYCH 772A
: Clinical Practice 22025 Semester One (1253)
Advanced psychological assessment and therapy for diverse clinical populations, including adult, and child and family. Cognitive behaviour therapy, narrative therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and the trauma model are emphasised. Includes two, 200 hour placements, in either an adult setting or a child and family setting. Evaluation is by internal assessment, including assessment by field supervisors.
To complete this course students must enrol in PSYCH 772 A and B
521
PSYCH 775
: Special Topic: Visual Perception in Brains and Machines2025 Semester Two (1255)
Explores current debates on how to build and assess computational models of human visual perception. Students will learn how state-of-the-art artificial systems perform visual tasks, and gain hands-on experience interacting with these systems. Literature from the field of visual neuroscience will examine the ways in which these models may work similarly to, and differently from, human vision.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
522
PSYCHOL 700
: Special Topic: Wairua, Wellbeing and Cultural Considerations2025 Semester Two (1255)
Wairua is multi-faceted and central to holistic wellbeing. This course privileges Mātauranga Māori in the exploration of wairua and wellbeing and will provide a strong foundation for working with Māori. Students engage with topics relevant to indigenous cultural considerations in psychological research and practice. Includes self-reflection and group work in a wānaga/noho marae setting.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
523
PSYCHOL 702
: The Science of Behaviour Analysis2025 Semester One (1253)
A study of the science of behaviour analysis that helps students to understand and articulate the core principles of behaviour, the philosophy of behaviourism, and the interaction between experimental and applied research. The course introduces core approaches and concepts in behaviour analysis such as reinforcement, stimulus control, measurement, small-N design, and radical behaviourism. The underlying approach to understanding behaviour is constructional.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
524
PSYCHOL 703
: Clinical Behaviour Analysis2025 Semester Two (1255)
A study of the methods and tactics used to produce behaviour change in a range of real-world and clinical settings. Students will learn the relationship between interventions and assessments and the behavioural principles that underpin them.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
525
PUTAIAO 200
: Mātauranga and Kaupapa Māori Science2025 Semester Two (1255)
Mātauranga is central to the future practice of science in Aotearoa New Zealand. Explores foundational understandings of mātauranga Māori and Kaupapa Māori for scientists. Students will meaningfully and respectfully engage with te ao Māori through place-based relational learning and case studies grounded in whanaungatanga. Students will experience Māori ways of being, knowing, and doing.
Prerequisite: 60 points at Stage I