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Unit outline for PSYC3003 2021 Semester 2
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Faculty of Health Sciences School of Psychology

Unit Outline

PSYC3003 Adult Developmental Psychology Semester 2, 2020

Unit study package code:

PSYC3003

Mode of study:

Internal

Tuition pattern summary:

This unit does not have a fieldwork component.

Credit Value:

25.0

Pre -requisite units:

311591 (v.0) Child Developmental Psychology 313 or any previous version OR 314138 (v.0) Child Developmental Psychology 213 or any previous version OR PSYC2003 (v.0) Child Developmental Psychology or any previous version

Co -requisite units:

Nil

Anti- requisite units:

Nil

Result type:

Grade/Mark

Approved incidental fees:

Information about approved incidental fees can be obtained from our website. Visit fees.curtin.edu.au/incidental_fees.cfm for details.

Unit coordinator:

Title: Name: Phone: Email: Location: Consultation times:

Associate Professor Lauren Breen +61 8 9266 7843 [email protected] Building: 401 - Room: 317 By appointment

Name: Phone: Email:

Student Service Officer 1300 222 888 http://students.connect.curtin.edu.au/app/ask

Teaching Staff:

Administrative contact:

Learning Management System: Blackboard (lms.curtin.edu.au)

Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present. The Centre for Aboriginal Studies aspires to contribute to positive social change for Indigenous Australians through higher education and research.

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Syllabus This unit follows on from PSYC2003 Child Development Psychology and explores the psychological development theories through adulthood. The development of cognitive, social and personality are examined. In addition this unit covers the psychology of vocation and career development; the role of family; death and dying; and mental health in older adults.

Introduction In this unit, we will explore adult development from a "normal" perspective. That is, what changes (growthand decline)and what stays the same in healthy adults.Towards the end of the semester, we will look at some issues around development (e.g., dementia), as well as ways of working with older clients, or issues that arise throughout adulthood. In tutorials, we adopt a hands - on and reflective approach to the content. Tutorials will involve working on skills related to your assessments, as well as reflection of your own development and attitudes towards older adults.

Unit Learning Outcomes All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of six Graduate Capabilities during their course of study. These inform an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and capabilities which employers would value in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the Graduate Capabilities through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes notify you of what you are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully designed to test your knowledge of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes. Your course has been designed so that on graduating you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Capabilities through the assurance of learning processes in each unit. On successful completion of this unit students can: 1

Compare and contrast theoretical approaches to adult development

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Describe and evaluate biological, psychological and socio -cultural explanations of adult development Explain the role of cognitive, social and personality factors in older adult mental health Assess competing theoretical approaches to vocational and career development

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Graduate Capabilities addressed

Examine the role of family in development across adulthood

Curtin's Graduate Capabilities Apply discipline knowledge, principles and concepts

Innovative, creative and entrepreneurial

Effective communicators with digital competency

Globally engaged and responsive

Culturally competent to engage respectfully with local First Peoples and other diverse cultures

Industry connected and career capable

Find out more about Curtin's Graduate Capabilities at the Curtin Learning and Teaching website: clt.curtin.edu.au

Learning Activities 1. Textbook readings will be set for most modules and will provide you with the basic theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the content. See the program calendar at the back of this Unit Outline for the PSYC3003 Adult Developmental Psychology Bentley Campus 24 Jul 2020 School of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences

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assigned textbook readings. 2. Due to COVID -19, lectures are online this semester. Lecture recordings are available for each topic and are embedded in Blackboard. Lecture segments are typically, but not always, between 10 -20 minutes in length and focus on specific aspects of each topic. Lectures in Adult Developmental Psychology are designed to provide you with both general and specific details of each topic covered, current research findings, and guidelines for best practice when working with older adults.There will be some guest lectures provided by people working across the lifespan and explore areas of adult mental health. 3. The tutorials in Adult Developmental Psychology will be interactive, self reflective, and designed to help you progress toward completion of your assessments. Due to COVID -19, the tutorials will be available online via Collaborate.Some tasks in tutorials include examining your own career development and developing skills necessary for participating in an engaging and well -researched debate.

Learning Resources Library Reading List The Reading List for this unit can be accessed through Blackboard.

Essential texts The required textbook(s) for this unit are: l

Cavanaugh, J. C., & Blanchard -Fields, F. (2018). Adult development and aging (8th ed.).Cengage. Please note: you may also purchase this book as an electronic book from the publisher (significantly cheaper). (ISBN/ISSN: 9781337559089)

Other resources American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Author.

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Assessment Assessment policy exemptions l

There are no exemptions to the assessment policy

Assessment schedule Task

Value %

Debate activity and report

30%

Written assessment

30%

Exam

40%

1

2

3

Date Due

Unit Learning Outcome(s) Assessed

Late Assessment Assessments Extensions Accepted?* Considered?*

Week: 8 (slides) Presentation (week 10-13) Day: Your tutorial day Time: Your tutorial time Week: 5 Day: Friday 4th September Time: 5:00 pm AWST

2,3,5

No

No

1,2,3

Yes

Yes

Week: University Examination Period Weeks 16 & 17 Day: TBA Time: TBA

1,2,3,4,5

No

Yes

*Please refer to the Late Assessment and the Assessment Extension sections below for specific details and conditions.

Detailed information on assessment tasks 1. Debate Activity and Report: For this assessment you will be working in teams to present a tutorial presentation that will debate a contentious topic in adult development. Two teams of students will present 'for' or 'against' an assigned debate topic. It will be the job of each 'side' to research evidence that supports or counters the debate topic. These arguments will be presented in the assigned tutorial week. Students will be required to complete a reflection activity for each of the debates they are not involved in as part of the assessment that will be submitted in the final teaching week. Allocation to groups and the scheduling of presentations will occur during your registered WEEK TWO tutorial. It is your responsibility to ensure you have a debate group and that you are scheduled to deliver a presentation. Topics will be current issues that are a source of controversy in the general community and will focus on issues related to older adults and ageing. Further details will be given in class and in-class activities will help you prepare for this debate. One team member will be required to submit their groups presentation slides to Turnitin during week 8, Friday 25th September 5:00pm AWST on behalf of the group. This is to ensure that all groups have equitable time to prepare and develop their arguments and presentations. It will be the responsibility of the team member to circulate the Turnitin report to the rest of the team and to ensure there is no plagiarism. Please note: The presentation slides must be uploaded on the assigned day. Standard late penalties apply. 2. Written Assessment: This assessment is a plain language assessment, which assesses your ability to find relevant, recent articles on a topic, relate psychological research to real -life applications, and write a PSYC3003 Adult Developmental Psychology Bentley Campus 24 Jul 2020 School of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences

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coherent and concise piece of work that is suitable for a target audience. Insights gained from basic research can lead to practical uses in an everyday setting; however, these insights need to be communicated in an accessible way if the applications are to be used by others.While university students gain skills in scientific writing, when they are in the workplace it is common for them to need to write and speak for a ‘lay’ audience (i.e., communicate in plain language).As with scientific writing, plain language writing is a skill that is honed through extensive practice. Therefore, this assignment requires you to explain developmental changes, experiences, and research, to a naïve audience – that is, people who do not have a background in psychology. Further information about this written assessment will be available in Week 1 class and via Blackboard. 3. Exam: This has been changed to a TAKE -HOME TEST. This online, ope n-book Take -Home Test will take place at the end of Semester 2, during the University Examination Period (Monday 16th November to Friday 27th November, 2020).The times and dates of these examinations are scheduled by the University Administration.Note: You MUST keep these two weeks free of other commitments. Further information on the exam will be provided during the semester.

Pass requirements In order to pass the unit you must: l l

Complete and submit ALL pieces of assessment (and all components of each assessment) Obtain an overall mark of 50% or higher

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Assessment Moderation Fair assessment through moderation Moderation describes a quality assurance process to ensure that assessments are appropriate to the learning outcomes, and that students work is evaluated consistently by assessors. Minimum standards for the moderation of assessments are described in the Assessment and Student Progression Manual, available from policies.curtin.edu.au/findapolicy/

Pre-marking moderation Staff responsible for assessing student work will, as a minimum, be provided with an assessment rubric (or marking guide) in advance of the marking task.Assessment task details and marking criteria will be made available to students when the assessment task is assigned or in the unit outline. Staff engage in thepeer review of the assessment design,task details, and marking guides/rubrics.

Intra-marking / Post-marking moderation Intra-marking strategies may be implemented as deemed necessary following submission of assessment artefacts. Post-marking moderation will include (but is not limited to) at least one of the following methods: l l l

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An analysis of the variances between markers and locations Second marking or check second marking of a random sample of student work Second marking or check second marking of a sample of student work deemed to be at significant thresholds Second marking or check second marking of a sample of outliers (high or low scoring assessments) Panel of academics discuss and collectively reach a consensus.

Late assessment Where the submission of a late assessment is permitted, late penalties will be consistently applied in this unit. Where a late assessment is permitted for an assessment item or the entirety of the unit (refer to the Assessment Schedule table in this Unit Outline) and the student does not have an approved assessment extension: 1. For assessment items submitted within the first 24 hours after the due date/time, students will be penalised by a deduction of 5% of the total marks allocated for the assessment task; 2. For each additional 24 hour period commenced an additional penalty of 10% of the total marks allocated for the assessment item will be deducted; and 3. Assessment items submitted more than 168 hours late (7 calendar days) will receive a mark of zero. Where late assessment is NOT permitted for an assessment item or the entirety of the unit (refer to the Assessment Schedule table in this Unit Outline) and the student does not have an approved assessment extension: 1. All assessment items submitted after the due date/time will receive a mark of zero.

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Assessment extension Where an application for an assessment extension is permitted for an assessment item(s) within this unit (refer to the Assessment Schedule table in this Unit Outline): 1. A student who is unable to complete an assessment item by/on the due date/time as a result of exceptional circumstances beyond the student’s control, may apply for an assessment extension on the Assessment Extension Application Form as prescribed by the Academic Registrar. The form is available on the Forms page at https://students.curtin.edu.au/essentials/forms-documents/forms/ and also within the student’s OASIS (My Studies tab – Quick Forms) account. 2. The student will be expected to submit their application for an Assessment Extension with supporting documentation: a. Australian Campuses: via the online form b. Offshore campuses: to the School representative nominated below 3. Timely submission of this information supports the assessment process. For applications that are declined, delayed submission may have significant ramifications on the possible marks awarded. 4. An application may be accepted up to five working days after the due date/time of the assessment item where the student is able to provide a verifiable explanation as to why they were not able to submit the application prior to the assessment due date/time Where an application for an assessment extension is NOT permitted for an assessment item(s) within this unit (refer to the Assessment Schedule table in this Unit Outline): 1. All assessment items submitted after the due date/time will be subject to late penalties or receive a mark of zero depending on the unit permitting late assessment submissions. Your application for an assessment extension must be sent to the Student Service Officer as per administrative contacts (notthe Unit Coordinator).If the circumstances for your extension application are likely to impact on multiple units, please also make an appointment to see your Course Coordinator (Professor Natalie Gasson: [email protected])

Deferred assessments If your results show that you have been granted a deferred assessment you should immediately check OASIS for details. Deferred examinations/tests will be held from 09/12/2020 to 14/12/2020 . Notification to students will be made after the Board of Examiners’ meeting via the Official Communications Channel (OCC) in OASIS.

Further assessment Further assessment is not available in this unit.

Reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities/health circumstances likely to impact on studies A Curtin Access Plan (CAP) is a document that outlines the type and level of support required by a student with a disability or health condition to have equitable access to their studies at Curtin. Carers for people with disability may also be eligible for support. This support can include alternative exam or test arrangements, study materials in accessible formats, access to Curtin's facilities and services or other support as discussed with an advisor from AccessAbility Services. Documentation is required from your treating Health Professional to confirm your health circumstances or carer responsibilities. If you think you may be eligible for a CAP, please contact AccessAbility Services. If you already have a CAP please provide it to the Unit Coordinator in week 1 of each study period.

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Referencing style The referencing style for this unit is APA 7th Ed. More information can be found on this style from the Library web site: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/referencing.

Privacy As part of a learning or assessment activity, or class participation, your image or voice may be recorded or transmitted by equipment and systems operated by Curtin University. Transmission may be to other venues on campus or to others both in Australia and overseas. Your image or voice may also be recorded by students on personal equipment for individual or group study or assessment purposes. Such recordings may not be reproduced or uploaded to a publicly accessible web environment. If you wish to make such recordings for study purposes as a courtesy you should always seek the permission...