Intelligence Issues and Cognitive Ageing Research (P01578)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : PPL-P-IICA

To provide understand and advance research on the biosocial basis for differences and changes in intelligence, and to explore the relationships between intelligence and its social and individual consequences. We examine the different measures of intelligence, biological and genetic bases for these differences, and the paths by which individual differences impact on work, health and aging. Methodological issues are considered, the major approaches to the study of individual differences in intelligence are examined, and practical applications are discussed. Details of specific topics which will be covered in the course are provided below.

1. The methodology of cognitive differences research
2. general intelligence and specific abilities
3. Cognition and Personality
4. Biological bases of cognition
5. The evolution of Intelligence: Social groups and sexual-selection
6. Intelligence and health: Causes and correlations
7. Cognition and genetics: Gene finding for quantitative traits
8. Epidemiological study of cognitive differences
9. Cognition across the life span: Development and Aging
10. Applications of individual differences: work and relationships

Shared with UG Course U00595 Current Issues in Human Mental Ability Differences.

Venue:
Weeks 1-5 - S1, 7 George Square
Weeks 7-11 - Faculty Room North, David Hume Tower

? Keywords : Intelligence, Memory, Aging, Epidemiology, Individual differences, Information processing, pharmacology, genetics

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Psychology, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	09:00	11:00	Room S.1, 7 George Square	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

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

1.Demonstrate an advanced understanding of current issues in individual differences and intelligence research.

2.Critically evaluate the extent to which the different approaches can contribute to our understanding of individual differences and intelligence-related behaviours or illness.

3.Understand and apply the research methods of psychology and epidemiology to individual differences and intelligence research.

4.Discuss applications of individual differences and intelligence research in medicine, public policy, development, work, and aging.