Postgraduate Course: Intelligence Issues and Cognitive Ageing Research (PSYL11017)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Psychology |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
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. Examples of the sorts of specific topics which may be covered:
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. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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. |
Assessment Information
| One 3,000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Prof Ian Deary
Tel: (0131 6)50 3452
Email: I.Deary@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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