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Module code:PALS1005(Add to my personalised list)
Title:History and Concepts in Psychology and Language Sciences
Credit value:.5
Division:Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Module organiser:Chris Donlan & Nichola Stuart
Organiser's location:209 & 319 Chandler House
Organiser's email:c.donlan@ucl.ac.uk & n.stuart@ucl.ac.uk
Available for students in Year(s):1,
Module prerequisites:None 
Module outline:The lectures on Language Learning and Language Development will address classic debates in the literature; students will be invited to participate in debating the issues themselves in tutorial groups. Lecture topics will include: Psychology as a Science Studying the Mind Psychopathology Origins of Neuropsychology Qualitative vs. Quantitative Methods Emotion Gender and Sexual Identity Language Learning (lecture + tutorial debate) Language Development (lecture +tutorial debate) Ethics of Research.  
Module aims:• give students an overview of the main areas of scientific psychology • provide historical context for understanding of key methods and concepts • provide background to the classic debates between psychological and linguistic accounts of human language and its development • introduce current cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of language  
Module objectives:(a) knowledge of key concepts in scientific psychology (b) understanding of the historical development of theory and methodology in scientific psychology (c) understanding of the challenges of linguistic theory to behaviourist accounts of language (d) understanding of historical approaches to the development of language in children  
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Module timetable:https://cmis.adcom.ucl.ac.uk:4443/timetabling/moduleTimet.do?firstReq=Y&moduleId=PALS1005 
Module assessment:One essay (2,000 words) 60.00%.
MCR test 40.00%. 
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Taking this module as an option?: 
Link to virtual learning environment(registered students only)https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=18057 
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