Credit Hours - 3

This course of study is designed to expose students to the basic conceptual, theoretical, technical and methodological principles in the development, administration, and interpretation of psychological tests and measurements. Applications/uses of psychological tests in industrial/organisational, educational and clinical settings are also covered. 

Credit Hours - 3

This course examines basic themes in life-span development, particularly in adulthood. Topics cover: the concept of adulthood, physical development, including changes in sense organs, cardiovascular organs, sex, reproductive organs and their psychological consequences. Others are health, vitality and diseases, the process of ageing, cognitive and psychosocial development during adulthood, retirement and widowhood, and culture and ageing.

Credit Hours - 3

This course is designed to introduce students to the psychology of abnormal behaviour. It explores the history, definitions and current status of abnormal behaviour. The topics include major paradigms / theoretical models, and approaches to abnormal behaviour: psychodynamic trait, phenomenological, cognitive, and behavioural. It will examine research, abnormal patterns of functioning and methods of treatment.

Credit Hours - 3

The course is intended to provide the student with basic skills needed to conduct psychological research, develop critical thinking skills regarding research and gain the capacity to design and conduct research as well as write research reports. Topics include an overview of the scientific approach to knowledge, definitions of basic concepts, types of scientific research, design, sampling, questionnaire construction, interviews and report writing. 

Credit Hours - 3

This course is to provide a survey of selected areas in cognitive psychology with emphasis on memory. Both experimental work and theoretical accounts of memory will be covered. Topics include structural and processing accounts of memory – how people acquire, store, transform, retrieve and communicate information. 

*The course has a compulsory practical component. 

Credit Hours - 3

This course basically deals with the psychology of learning and its application to everyday life situations. It covers the various types of learning such as Pavlovian, instrumental, observational and verbal learning. Topics include: reasons for using animals in research in learning, elements/features of classical and instrumental conditioning, use of reinforcement and punishment, learning principles and behaviour change. Others are cognitive learning, observational learning and various types of verbal learning. 

*The course has a compulsory practical component.

Credit Hours - 3

This course is concerned with understanding and explaining the changes that occur between conception and adolescence. Emphasis is placed on the major changes that occur in the physical, cognitive and the psychosocial domains and their implications for parents, educators, and care-giving professionals. 

Credit Hours - 3

The course covers the major personality theories, research and measurements of personality. It will explore the foundations of normally functioning individuals and problems. The topics will include definitions, psychodynamic, traits, cognitive, phenomenological/existential theories associated with personality development.

Credit Hours - 3

This course deals with statistics and the behavioural sciences. It delves into descriptive and inferential statistics, populations, samples, and parameters. The concept of variability, the strategy of inferential statistics, the standard curve and inferences about the means of two populations will also be discussed. Some topics in parametric statistics, such as t-tests, Pearson correlation, one-way analysis of variance, two-way analysis of variance, and non-parametric methods such as chi-square, will also be taught.