2016/17 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

PSYC5906M Understanding, Predicting and Changing Health Behaviours

20 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Professor Mark Conner
Email: m.t.conner@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

Pre-requisite qualifications

At least an upper second class honours degree in Psychology or a discipline containing a substantial amount of psychology and research methods training.

Co-requisites

PSYC5907M

Theory and Intervention in Food and Nutrition

This module is mutually exclusive with

PSYC5904M
PSYC5905M	Current Themes in Neuropsychology and Neuroscience

Module replaces

PSYC5620M Understanding, Predicting and Changing Health Behaviours (15 credits)

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to -

What social cognition models contribute to our understanding and predicting 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 behaviours.

Learning outcomes
By the end of this module, students should be able to -

Describe and evaluate a range of social cognition models.
Discuss and evaluate alternative social cognition models as applied to health behaviours.
Consider how social cognition models can be used to direct effects to change health behaviours.

Syllabus

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
Group learning	1	4.00	4.00
Lecture	11	2.00	22.00
Private study hours			174.00
Total Contact hours			26.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Students will have 174 private study hours. We envisage that this time will be spent thus:

Reading for each lecture: 11 x 6 hours = 66 hours
Preparing in-class presentation (group learning task – presenting application of one model) = 30 hours
Revision and exam practice = 40 hours
For the remaining 38 hours we anticipate that students will use electronic materials, participate in e-learning, and on-line discussion.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored primarily through participation in group discussion/presentation in each class session. In addition the mid-course group learning session will take the form of a presentation of the application of one social cognition model to a particular health behaviour and consideration of implications for changing this health behaviour. The other students plus the academic member of staff will give feedback on the presentation. In addition, the presentation will receive a mark (10% of total).

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Oral Presentation	Group Presentation	10.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		10.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr	90.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		90.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 18/04/2016

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