2016/17 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
PSYC5620M Understanding, Predicting and Changing Health Behaviours
15 creditsClass Size: 40
Module manager: Professor Mark Conner
Email: M.T.Conner@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2016/17
This module is not approved as an Elective
Objectives
On completion of this module, students should be able to provide an in-depth account of the following: What social cognition models contribute to our understanding of health behaviours; The major social cognition models of health behaviour; The operationalisation of a social cognition model to a health behaviour; How social cognition models might be used to change health behavioursSyllabus
Understanding, predicting and changing health behaviours. This module will examine a range of different health behaviours and what health psychology research has contributed to the understanding of such behaviours at the individual level of analysis. In particular the module will focus on what social cognition models (SCMs) have contributed to our understanding of the prediction of health behaviour and how we might change such health behaviours. Such SCMs have become to be regarded as an important contribution to the discipline of health psychology. The key SCMs will be outlined along with representative research in the health-arena employing these models to the understanding and changing of health behaviours. Students will learn how to operationalise the models in order to further understanding of a health behaviour.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Presentation | 1 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Lecture | 8 | 2.00 | 16.00 |
| Private study hours | 130.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150.00 | ||
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Assessment of the operationalisation of a social cognition model to a health behaviour (complete mid-way through module) Oral and written presentation.Methods of assessment
Exams
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 2 hr 00 mins | 100.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 100.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 09/12/2015
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