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Kinds of Minds
COGS101
What is a mind? And who has one? In this course, we will use a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human, animal, and artificial minds. Drawing on research and methodologies in the cognitive sciences of psychology, biology, and computer scien...
Popular Psychology
PSYC101
In this course, students will be introduced to a broad range of topics in psychology such as the way people cope with crisis, how we regulate our emotions, and the basic understanding of how the brain works. The course is taught entirely online.
Foundations in Psychology 1
PSYC121
PSYC 121 introduces core concepts in psychology with a focus on research methods, social psychology, social development, and mental health. Students will consider how psychology can be used in applied contexts and the importance of bicultural and cro...
Foundations in Psychology 2
PSYC122
PSYC 122 introduces students to theory and research in the biological basis of behaviour, learning and memory, cognition and perception, and applied psychology in the context of Aotearoa. In the lab programme, students develop skills that form the fo...
Foundations of Cognitive Science
COGS201
Cognitive Science is the interdisciplinary study of mind. In this course, we cover foundational topics in cognitive science from the perspectives of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and computation. Topics may include how ...
Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
PSYC201
This course explores the relationships between human thought, behaviour and the brain. Students will learn about the different methods that can be used to study brain-behaviour relationships, and how brain measures can be used to gain insights into h...
Culture in Psychology
PSYC202
The course broadly examines human behaviour and experience and its interdependence with cultural factors. Both comparative and indigenous approaches are applied to a range of psychological topics. The application of cultural theory and research, part...
Body, Mind and Well-being
PSYC212
This course explores research into the concept of well-being, its neural, cognitive and personality correlates, and how it is influenced by social relationships. Rather than taking a disease-oriented approach, the course focuses on adopting positive ...
This course introduces students to concepts of Mātauranga Māori by examining ancestral epistemological understandings and contemporary instances of Māori innovation in Psychology. Māori psychological frameworks are then introduced which allow student...
Psychology and Law
PSYC214
This course provides a grounding in the application of psychology to the area of criminal justice. The course will cover topics such as exploring psychological theories about the development of and desistance from criminal behaviour, principles of ri...
This course examines how people's thoughts, feelings, and actions depend on their social contexts and personalities. The course provides students a broad overview of contemporary and historic topics and establishes the background for various theoreti...
Psychology researchers need to be able to collect and analyse data about people’s behaviours and beliefs in everyday life. In this course, students will learn how to design surveys and apply observational and qualitative methods to collect data. Stud...
This course provides an introduction to theoretical questions and experimental research in developmental psychology, from infancy to adulthood. We will cover critical issues in perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, emotional, and social development.
Special Topic
PSYC239
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Experimental Research Methods
PSYC242
Experiments in psychology allow researchers to discover the causes of behaviour. In this course, students will learn how to design and conduct psychology experiments, to analyse data collected using common experimental designs, and to report the resu...
This course will examine human behaviour and psychological processes from an evolutionary perspective, focusing on how genes and culture interactively have shaped us in profound ways. Many psychological traits and processes only start to make sense w...
Special Topic
PSYC318
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This course provides an overview of the scientific study of commonly experienced clinical psychological issues. The course considers current theoretical explanations of these issues and reviews the evidence concerning their characteristics and potent...
Memory
PSYC322
This advanced course covers important methods, empirical findings, and theories for different types of memory. The course builds upon knowledge about memory gained from Cognitive Psychology (PSYC 231) to provide more breadth and depth on the topic.
Child Cognition and Development
PSYC324
This course presents a theoretical account of human cognition and development from infancy onwards. The topics are chosen to represent major areas of current theory and research in developmental psychology.
Discourse and Social Psychology
PSYC326
This course introduces students to the field of Discursive Psychology, a qualitative approach that considers language as constituting and ordering social life. The course covers one of the major frameworks used in discursive psychology - conversation...
The first part of this advanced course explores topics in general and behavioural neuroscience, neuroscience, including neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, methods and disorders involving specific neurotransmitter systems. The second part of the course exa...
Perception and Attention
PSYC331
This advanced course takes a cognitive neuroscience approach to the study of perception and attention, with a particular focus on vision. Topics may include: anatomy of visual system, psychophysics, colour vision, motion perception, depth perception,...
Behaviour Analysis
PSYC332
Based on human and animal research this course examines the acquisition and maintenance of behaviour. Topics covered include advanced theory and application of operant and Pavlovian conditioning.
Applied Social Psychology
PSYC333
The course examines how social psychology applies to several domains, including clinical psychology, health, wellbeing and happiness, inter-cultural and inter-group issues, work and sport. We also cover the psychology of risk and hazards and links to...
This course aims to develop your knowledge in Industrial and Organisational Psychology - how psychology can be used to select and train the best people for a job, how to motivate individuals, overcome workplace inequalities , understand and change cu...
Psychology, Crime and Law
PSYC335
This course covers theoretical and research approaches to crime, criminal behaviour and the legal and criminal justice system. Topics may include: psychological theories of crime; violent, sexual and property offending; juvenile delinquency; psychopa...
Special Topic
PSYC336
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Culture in Psychology
PSYC338
The course broadly examines human behaviour and experience and its interdependence with cultural factors. Both comparative and indigenous approaches are applied to a range of psychological topics. The application of cultural theory and research, part...
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This course covers advanced topics from areas such as sensation, perception, attention, consciousness, memory, language, and decision making. The topics focus on behavioural or neuroscience methods and results, and critical thought is given to theori...
This course provides students with an opportunity to complete a special project or take part in the day to day operations of a workplace or agency, undertaking forensic psychology-relevant work. The student will be jointly supervised by university st...
Theory and History of Psychology
PSYC401
This course deals with historical developments in the discipline of psychology as well as the philosophical and conceptual influences that have shaped the various approaches taken by psychologists.
This course provides students with an opportunity to complete a special project or take part in the day to day operations of a workplace or agency, undertaking forensic psychology-relevant work. The student will be jointly supervised by university st...
Social Cognition
PSYC402
This course will cover advanced topics in social psychology. Such topics may include social cognition, group dynamics and interpersonal relations.
This course provides students with an opportunity to spend 2 trimesters working on a special project or taking part in the day to day operations of a workplace or agency that undertakes forensic psychology-related work. The student will be jointly su...
Abnormal Psychology
PSYC404
The overall aim of this course is to introduce students to a range of current issues in the scientific study of selected psychological disorders experienced by adults. Emphasis is placed on the ability to approach these issues from a critical perspec...
Environmental Psychology
PSYC405
This course examines the dynamic interplay between human behaviour and the environment. Topics to be covered will include: environmental risk perception and assessment; psychological factors associated with conservation behaviour; interventions desig...
Gender, Media and Identity
PSYC406
This course will examine identity from a social constructionist perspective; it will explore the ways in which media representations construct and make available particular gendered identities, and the extent to which people incorporate these into th...
Consciousness and Cognition
PSYC408
The sense of being conscious - both of ourselves and of the world around us - is a central aspect of our psychological makeup. However, a great deal of perceptual and cognitive processing can be accomplished non-consciously. So what neural activity d...
This course examines learning in the context of the relation between behaviour and the environment. Topics covered include: a review of the relationships between stimuli, behaviour and reinforcement; a behavioural view of private events such as memor...
Special Topic
FPSY411
This course is part of the MSc in Forensic Psychology and is taught in the School of Psychology.
Want to turn your mind to a real-world behaviour-change problem? PSYC 411 centres on a consultancy project with a government, university, or community partner. Partners provide a behaviour-change goal in their professional context. You will develop a...
This course covers basic concepts in criminal justice and the study of crime, and examines the nature of offending from sociological and psychiatric, as well as psychological, perspectives. The major psychological theories will be critically examined...
Advanced Cognitive Psychology
PSYC413
The course provides in-depth coverage of different methods and theories for influential findings in perception, attention, memory, and cognition. Appropriate background for this course: PSYC 231
This course focuses on understanding the development of a foundational skill in early cognition— the ability to contemplate mental life (theory of mind). It explores diverse cognitive theories and methods surrounding the origins and nature of theory ...
Cognitive Neuropsychology
PSYC417
This course explores the effects of brain damage from a cognitive point of view. Theories from cognitive psychology are used as a framework for understanding the behaviour of brain-impaired individuals, and studies of impaired individuals are used as...
This course will build upon the foundations of PSYC 427. It will introduce additional ways interaction is organised to conduct psychological business and produce social action. It will further develop student's capacity to identify order and actions ...
This course provides students with an understanding of the conceptual, empirical and practical issues associated with assessment. Topics covered include: clinical assessment and reasoning, ethics, mood disorders, psychosis, personality disorders, sub...
Affective Neuroscience
PSYC420
This course will explore the major theoretical perspectives and research methods applied to our understanding of emotional processes. We will focus on cognitive and neurological approaches to an understanding of emotion.
False Memories
PSYC421
In this course, we learn about the legal system; the impact of eyewitness testimony; wrongful convictions; perceiving real world events; remembering real world events; the suggestibility of children; child creche abuse cases; UFO sightings and alien ...
Drugs, Brain and Behaviour
PSYC422
This course will examine how drugs affect brain functioning. Through lectures, discussions and debates we will explore how drugs are developed and how they can be used or misused. We will focus on major issues and controversies that are currently dis...
Culture and Social Behaviour
PSYC423
This course examines social psychology from a cross-cultural perspective. To what extent is social behaviour different or the same across the world? What theories can we use to understand the thoughts, feelings, actions, and beliefs of people across ...
Drug Addiction
PSYC424
This course examines the basis for drug addiction. Factors that contribute to the initiation and maintenance of drug-taking will be discussed as will factors that contribute to relapse. The focus is on addiction to drugs of abuse but other addictions...
Personality and Motivation
PSYC425
This course examines contemporary aspects of personality and motivation. Topics covered include: individual differences, including genetic versus environmental factors, the person versus the situation, and different models of personality and intellig...
Social Psychology and Well-being
PSYC426
This course examines aspects of social psychology that apply to well-being, with an emphasis on social judgements. Topics include: helplessness, the self, attributions, non-conscious processes and illusory cognitions and risk judgements. The course e...
Discursive Social Psychology
PSYC427
The aims of this course are to introduce students to the close and detailed observation of ordinary conversational interaction, and to some of the main ways in which such interaction is orderly and organised. The classes will be devoted to two kinds ...
Feminist Psychology
PSYC428
Does gender matter? What is feminist research? Should pornography be censored? Do gender roles have an evolutionary component? Over the past 25 years there have been significant theoretical and methodological developments in feminist psychology. This...
Psychology of Superstition
PSYC429
Why, in an age of exponential scientific progress, do people continue to think and behave irrationally? Students will consider this question from a range of social psychological, neurological, and behavioural perspectives. Topics covered might includ...
Political Psychology
PSYC430
Topics covered in this course might include heuristics and voting behaviour, rational versus symbolic models of political preference, the role of values and attitudes in candidate and party evaluation and political rhetoric. Course material will draw...
Culture and Human Development
PSYC431
Much of culture is passed to the next generation through families and other intergenerational contacts. This course will examine how cultural values, beliefs, behaviours, etc. are transmitted through family systems and across age groups. In addition,...
This course applies contemporary theory and research in cross-cultural psychology to issues arising from globalisation and life in multicultural societies. Topics are likely to include: communication across cultures; immigration, acculturation and ad...
The course introduces the major paradigms and contemporary approaches to understanding the relationship between culture and human behaviour, including an overview of the basic assumptions and guiding principles of cross-cultural psychology, cultural ...
This course will focus on theoretical and practical challenges for conducting research involving individuals from more than one cultural background or ethnicity. Topics are likely to include defining and measuring culture; developing culture-sensitiv...
In this course, we study the misconceptions people have about trauma and stress - specifically the way traumatic or stressful experiences are remembered. We will learn about how we perceive and remember traumatic events; the problems with many diagno...
Autobiographical Memory
PSYC436
In this course, we study memories about our own personal life experiences. We will learn about how we remember significant events, both happy and sad; that the music, movies and clothes from a specific time in our lives remain our favourites forever;...
Advanced Human Memory
PSYC437
This course covers several types of human memory errors and emphasises the importance of such errors in understanding memory function. It includes factors in production and avoidance of the errors, phenomenological experiences associated with the err...
Theories of Violent Offending
PSYC438
This course examines psychological theories and research that attempt to explain violent offending. It does not assume that students have prior knowledge in the area of criminology or forensic psychology, however, such knowledge will be helpful.
How and why do people sexually assault children and other adults? In this course we examine several interesting psychological theories of sexual offending and evaluate them both from a conceptual and an empirical perspective. We also scrutinise close...
Directed Individual Study
FPSY440
A supervised programme of study tailored to the particular student and approved by the Programme Director. It may include an introduction to clinical assessment and formulation, through participation in relevant sections of PSYC 451/452, or an opport...
Directed Individual Study
PSYC440
A supervised programme of study approved by the Head of School.
Family Psychology
PSYC441
This course will comprise an in-depth examination of family processes and dynamics and their relation to the well-being of families and their members. It will address current theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to families, and consider th...
This course focuses on the application of theory and research to practice. Our topics usually include theories and rehabilitation with various types of offenders, psychopathy, rehabilitation topics and forensic assessment.
Evolutionary Psychology
PSYC444
The course examines the current role nature (genes) and nurture (environmental factors) play in shaping our brain and behaviour with a focus on the interaction between nature and nurture and the role of epigenetics. Topics covered will include molecu...
This course uses face processing as a model to illustrate modern research in cognitive neuroscience. It combines theories and methods from psychology, vision science, and neuroscience to explore the workings of face processing in humans and non-human...
This is a discussion-based course focusing on theoretical and empirical work on social cognition in infancy and early childhood, with critical integration of perspectives from comparative psychology.
This course provides an overview of the “replication crisis” and the open science movement that has emerged from it. We will focus in particular on meta-analysis, a set of techniques for analyzing and integrating findings across existing studies. Stu...
What can science tell us about something as personal as our emotions? In this course we will explore emotion from evolutionary, neuroscience, cognitive, clinical, social, and developmental perspectives. We will consider how emotions affect how we thi...
What does it mean to ‘do’ gender? How can we understand sexual violence in the wake of Me Too? And what is discourse, anyway? This course provides an introduction to qualitative research through the lens of gender and sexuality. Students will use que...
The Moana—Pacific ocean, is home to a fertile and rich history of human cultural development. How does psychological science sit within a Tangata o le Moana indigenous context? This course will examine Pasifika cultural values, beliefs, and behaviour...
This course presents students with a basic understanding of the conceptual, empirical, and practical issues associated with the assessment of adults. Topics covered include: models of assessment and clinical reasoning, ethics, values and clinical ass...
This course focuses on the ethical, conceptual, empirical and practice issues in assessment and intervention with children, adolescents, and families in clinical contexts. The specific content will be: theoretical framework; developmental psychopatho...
This course consolidates and extends knowledge and skills in research methodology and statistics, focusing in particular on multivariate statistical methods (e.g. structural equation modelling). Topics may include mediation, moderation, psychometric ...
The course applies psychological theory and research to the study of acculturation (changes arising from intercultural contact) and intercultural relations. Research with immigrants, international students, refugees, indigenous peoples and members of...
Indigenous Psychology
PSYC463
This is a discussion-based course focusing on psychological theory and research relating to indigenous communities, with a particular emphasis on working alongside whānau Māori in New Zealand. The course will be organised around three interrelated th...
This course examines intimate relationships from a social psychological and socio-cognitive perspective. It also draws on concepts and evidence from evolutionary, developmental and clinical psychology. Content includes: attachment, mate-selection, lo...
This course provides an introduction to methods used in cognitive and behavioural neuroscience to explore the relationship between brain, cognition, and behaviour. Topics covered may include experimental design and stimulus preparation, eyetracking, ...
Research Project
PSYC489
Practicum
PSYC561
This practicum course extends the theoretical and practical skills gained in the probationary year of the program. The course consists of supervised practice in our psychology clinic for approximately 100 half days throughout the year and is compleme...
Advanced Practicum
PSYC562
Placements are either paid or unpaid internships. Students may apply for internship employment which will be for either six months or a year. Unpaid placements are also available. To do an internship, students must register with the New Zealand Psych...
This course addresses skills for advanced psychological interventions and therapies for adult, child and family problems, building on the core cognitive and behavioural treatment techniques covered in PSYC 561. This course focuses on theoretical topi...
Research Preparation
CPSY580
This course provides preparation for thesis research in Cross-cultural Psychology, including review of literature, research proposal and presentation.
Research Preparation
FPSY580
This is a practical course in which students will acquire the key skills needed to undertake postgraduate level research in some aspect of Forensic Psychology. These skills will be acquired via class-based seminars, discussions and practical exercise...
Thesis in cross-cultural psychology (includes cultural and indigenous psychology).
Thesis
FPSY591
Master's thesis in Forensic Psychology.
Thesis
PSYC591
MSc or MA thesis in Psychology.
Forensic Psychology for PhD
FPSY690
Psychology for PhD
PSYC690
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