PSYC206 Notes

PSYC206 – 2025 (T2) Introduction

• Unit Coordinator: Dr Graham Jamieson
• Email: gjamieso@une.edu.au
• Phone: 02 6773 4278 (leave a message and your number)

Course Load

• PSYC206: 6 credit points = 150 hours (or 12 – 15 hours per teaching week)
• This is based on an average 2nd-year student with basic knowledge/experience of interpreting statistics and writing Research Reports.

Schedule of Topics, Activities, and Assessments

• Week 1 (23/6/2025): Introduction/Science of the Mind
  • Watch lectures 1.1 and 1.2
  • Read Chapter 1
  • Familiarize yourself with all assessment requirements
  • Submit data for Research Report
  • Select group for Assignment Reference (Groupwork)
• Week 2 (30/6/2025): Neural Bases of Cognition/Research Report
  • Watch lectures 2.1 and 2.2
  • Read Chapters 2 and 12
  • Find and post Assignment reference (include title & URL) to your group and post your evaluation paragraph – due by 11.59pm 7/7/2025
• Week 3 (7/7/2025): Perception
  • Watch lectures 3.1 and 3.2
  • Read Chapter 3
  • Post paragraph in response to another Assignment reference to your group – due by 11.59pm, 14/7/2025
  • RESEARCH REPORT DATA COLLECTION CLOSES 11.59PM 14/7/2025
• Week 4 (14/7/2025): Recognizing Objects/Paying Attention a Research Report
  • Watch lectures 4.1 and 4.2
  • Read Chapters 4 and 5
  • DATA OUTPUTS RELEASED FOR RESEARCH REPORT NO LATER THAN 21/7/2025
  • CENSUS – 21st July
• Week 5 (21/7/2025): Research Report
  • Watch lectures 5.1 and 5.2
  • Draft Research Report Introduction and Methods Interpreting Outputs/Writing
• Week 6 (28/7/2025): Memory Acquisition and Working Memory
  • Watch lecture 6
  • Read Chapter 6
  • Draft Results and Discussion for Report Revise Chapters 1 - 6 of the textbook/Draft Abstract, sort references for Report
  • MID-TRI QUIZ – 9am 4/8 – 11.59pm 11/8/2025.
• Week 7 (4/8/2025): Intensive and Assessment Period
  • Complete Mid-trimester Quiz
  • Re-draft Research Report, proof-read and finalize (Remember: Mid-trimester Quiz closes 11.59pm 11/8/2025)
• Week 8 (11/8/2025): Intensive and Assessment Period
  • Watch lecture 9.1 and 9.2
  • Read Chapters 7 and 8
  • RESEARCH REPORT DUE – 11.59pm 18/8/2025
• Week 9 (18/8/2025): Many Types of Memory/Remembering Complex Events
  • Watch lectures 10.1 and 10.2
  • Read Chapter 9 and 11
  • Create study notes for examinable lectures from weeks 1 - 5
  • EXAM SAQ POOL RELEASED NO LATER THAN 1/9/2025
• Week 10 (25/8/2025): Concepts and Generic Knowledge/Visual Knowledge
  • Watch lectures 11.1 and 11.2
  • Read Chapters 10 and 13
  • Create study notes for lectures from weeks 6 -11
• Week 11 (1/9/2025): Language/Problem Solving and Creativity Conscious & Unconscious Thought/Exam Preparation
  • Watch lectures 12.1 and 12.2
  • Read Chapter 15
  • Revise Chapters 8 – 11, 13 and 15
• Week 12 (8/9/2025): Revision
  • SAQs cover lectures in bold + Chapters 8 -11, 13 and 15 of the textbook

Important Dates

• Exam timetable published TBA
• 7th July: Post groupwork URL/title (Groupwork) Due by 11:59pm
• 14th July: Post response to URL/title (Groupwork) Due by 11:59pm
• 21st July: Census date, Last day to withdraw without incurring HECS
• 18th July: Last day to submit request for the Alternate exam (extraordinary circumstances excluded) Try-it-Out exam/Alternate Exam requests due
• 4th – 11th August: Mid-trimester Quiz, Mandatory – failure to attempt will mean a Fail-Incomplete grade
• 18th August: Research Report due, Mandatory – failure to attempt will mean a Fail-Incomplete grade
• 25th August: Last day to withdraw without academic penalty But will still incur HECS
• 22nd – 26th September: Exam period, Exam is mandatory – failure to attempt will mean a Fail-Incomplete grade
• 10th October: Results released

Resources

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Extensions Policy

• School of Psychology does not use the auto 7-day extension tool.
• Email gjamieso@une.edu.au if you require an extension.
• No extension requests after a due date will be granted except in TRULY EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
• Late penalties are applied at 5% per day up to a maximum of 10 calendar days (after which any submission receives 0).
• Contact the Unit Coordinator as soon as you can…but before the due by date!

Academic Misconduct

• Academic Misconduct includes:
  • Cheating, acting dishonestly.
  • Reusing or recycling an assessment task without acknowledgement.
  • Undertaking an assessment task for or on behalf of another Student.
  • Fabricating, falsifying or misusing documents.
  • Misrepresenting, fabricating or falsifying information, authorship or data.
  • Taking in and/or using unauthorised equipment, material, texts or information in a supervised assessment task.
  • Engaging in unauthorised communication of any form with any other person in an assessment task.
  • Attempting to bribe or coerce a University Representative or a Student to gain an academic advantage.
  • Communicating examination or quiz papers or answers to Students or unauthorised persons.
  • Claiming joint authorship with other authors without their permission.
  • Interfering with any research-related property or material of another person.
  • Failing to comply with reasonable instructions from an examination supervisor; and/or
  • Failing to comply with University rules, policies or codes of ethics.
• Plagiarism is a form of Academic Misconduct and is the use of another person's work without appropriate acknowledgement and includes:
  • The use of close paraphrasing of ideas, concepts, words, data or work of others without acknowledgement of sources;
  • Presenting extracts from sources without accurate and appropriate referencing;
  • Colluding with others to produce work that is presented misleadingly as the Student's own work;
  • Presenting under the Student's own name, work substantially written by someone else (e.g. using a ghost writer, purchasing work from someone or an electronic site, or using work obtained freely from a person or an electronic site); and/or
  • Failing to acknowledge work primarily produced by a collaborator.

Inherent Requirements

• To successfully study Psychology, there are certain things expected of you…for example, displaying appropriate professionalism and interpersonal skills.
• These have now been formalised into Inherent Requirements.
• Please take the time to read through these and familiarise yourself with these expectations.
• Diploma in Psychological Science PSYC101, 102, 200, 202, 206, 213 + any 2 x 300-level Psychology units
  • [For more information, contact the Course Coordinator – Dr Methuen Morgan – mmorga20@une.edu.au]

Grading Expectations

• High Distinction (HD):
  • Excellent performance indicating complete and comprehensive understanding and/or application of the subject matter
• Distinction (D):
  • Very good performance indicating reasonably complete and comprehensive understanding and/or application of the subject matter
• Credit (C):
  • Good performance indicating reasonable and well-rounded understanding and/or application of the subject matter
• Pass (P):
  • Satisfactory performance indicating adequate but incomplete or less well-rounded understanding and/or application of the subject matter

Assessment Overview

• Groupwork/Assignment Reference (10%)
  • Post URL or title of relevant reference to your group - 5%…due by 11:59 pm, 7/7/2025
  • Respond to another posting (roughly 250 words) – 5%…due by 11:59 pm, 14/7/2025
• Mid-Trimester Quiz (20%)
  • 30 x MCQs
  • 30 minutes
  • Opens: 9.00am Monday 4th August, 2025
  • Closes: 11.59pm Monday 11th August, 2025
• Research Report (30%)
  • Words: 2,000 (+/- 10%)
  • Due-by: 11:59pm Monday 18th August, 2025
  • [If you get an extension for the report, we may not be able to get it back to you before the exam]
  • Please also note that late assignments (not on extension) will receive only limited feedback
• Final Examination (40%)
  • Two and ¼ hours
  • 40 x MCQs
  • 4 x SAQs

OLX versus Alternate/Alternative Exam

• UNE now conducts Final Exams in an online format/platform called an Online Exam (OLX).
• We require that you test this approach with a Try-It-Out Exam to make sure that your equipment is reliable and that you can get familiar with the use of the platform.
• The Try-It-Out exam can be attempted via the Online Exams MyLearn site.
• If the online system (during the Try-It-Out exam) does not work for you, please contact AskUNE for assistance.
• If, however, this does not solve your specific problem, please email AskUNE, using the topic labelled Exam Venue, to request permission to complete an alternative assessment instead of the online exam.
• Alternative Assessment:
  • For PSYC206, an application for an alternative assessment must be made within four (4) weeks after the start of the Trimester Teaching period (that is, BEFORE 18/7/2025).
  • Any applications received after this date will likely be denied, unless it is due to exceptional and unforeseen circumstances of which you will be required to supply supporting evidence/documentation.
  • The alternative assessment for 2025 will be: a non-invigilated assessment to replace the invigilated exam.
  • This alternative assessment will include four (4) SAQs related to content covered in weeks 7-12 (both textbook and lectures) as well as four (4) SAQs drawn from lecture content across the entire trimester.
  • These SAQs will be of an applied nature - meaning, that they will require you to apply what you've learnt across the course of the trimester to a new context/problem.
  • They will assess the same learning outcomes as the main exam and you will have the same time-frame (i.e. 2 hours, 15 minutes) as the main exam.
  • For each of the eight (8) questions, you will be required to provide a written response of around 300 words.

Delivery Mode/s

• PSYC206 will be presented on-line for 2025.
• Each teaching week, two (2) pre-recorded one-hour lectures will be made available on Monday morning.
• For on campus (internal) students there will be a face-to-face tutorial each Tuesday from noon to 1 pm in Psychology S06 Seminar Room 1 but all who may be able are invited to attend.
• There will also be a live Zoom each Thursday (of teaching weeks) between 9.00 and 10.00am where you can ask any questions you might have.
• We will, however, be recording these live Zoom sessions and uploading to MyLearn, so if you can’t make the live sessions, you can still access the recording….and you can always ask your Qs on the appropriate Discussion Forum in advance of each Zoom.
• [Please note – there is NO such thing as a silly question in PSYC206…and it’s almost guaranteed that if you have a question, so do others!]

Resources

• Textbook
• Statistics of Doom YouTube channel
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/StatisticsofDOOM/videos

Connecting With Other Students

• On-line discussion forums
• Study Centres (e.g. Taree, Tamworth, Parramatta)

On-Line Behaviour

• There is a strict code of conduct for UNE students when it comes to on-line behaviour.
  • See: https://policies.une.edu.au/document/view-current.php?id=215 and https://policies.une.edu.au/document/view-current.php?id=253
• On-line bullying/intimidation/harassment of other students or staff will not be tolerated, nor will racism, sexism or any other type of discriminatory behaviour.
• Please keep all language, whether on the Discussion Forums or via email, respectful and reasonable.
• we have no control over social media sites, so please treat any information you find there with extreme caution

Other Pathways

• Counselling
  • Graduate Diploma in Counselling and the Master of Counselling
  • https://www.une.edu.au/about-une/faculty-of-medicine-and-health/school-of-health/counselling-and-mental-health-practice/counselling
• Social Work
  • https://www.une.edu.au/study/health/social-work
• Community Services
  • https://www.une.edu.au/study/courses/bachelor-of-community-services
• Research
  • Master of Philosophy or Science
  • https://www.une.edu.au/study/courses/master-of-philosophy
  • https://www.une.edu.au/study/courses/master-of-science