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NUS Module Review: PL3257 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

PL3257 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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This module will introduce students to the history, evolution, and contemporary practices of clinical psychology. Students will use the scientist practitioner model to study underlying theoretical frameworks and the skills and practices of clinical psychologists. Ethical and professional issues covered include classification and diagnosis, clinical research, assessment, case formulation and treatment planning, interventions, and prevention. The materials will be discussed in the context of typical work settings of clinical psychologists (e.g. mental health, forensic or neuropsychological) and across varied client populations (e.g. children, adults, couples).

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NUS Module Review: PL3241 PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

PL3241 PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
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My first psych elective module! Took this because I haven’t “unlocked”

other psych mods and this was one of the electives that don’t have any

core requirements.

Assessment format:

Tutorial Participation (5%)

Midterm (25%)

Group Presentation (10%)

Term Paper (10%)

Final exam (50%)

I think the module’s content is actually quite interesting! But it feels a bit cheem because it combines various aspects of psychology and I expect that this will happen in many other electives. Like there will be a biological component, a social component, a cognitive component etc.

Gave up reading the textbook called some personality puzzle thing after the first few weeks, i guess it’s quite informative but it’s quite wordy and content heavy. Points for having an interesting title though.

I don’t know how the 5% class part is given but i guess maybe just attending is sufficient? although the tutor does ask questions and expects answers.

Midterms was all mcq and it was pretty manageable.

10% for a group presentation felt abit pathetic though =/ it’s like you wouldn’t really want to put in super lot of effort because it feels like only 10%. My group had a senior who was a great directive leader and enabled us to finish the project efficiently. It’s like the first time a

project meeting was so efficient, we only met for like half an hour and like okay we should talk about this and that in the presentation then okay you take this part you take this part then we just went home to finish our own slides alr. The topics for the group presentation was

quite fun though, like nostalgia, middle-child-syndrome and my group got the dark triad. Never knew the existence of the dark triad of personality (narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy), i only know about the hongkong hei she hui hahaha. Didn’t do very well for the

presentation though sadly. Our evil scheme to use references of our tutor’s (sze ying) favourite idols/movie characters didn’t really work lol.

The percentages for this mod are quite scary. It’s like there’s so many components but in the end finals is still 50%. I was shocked when I saw that the term paper was only worth 10% because usually term papers require quite a lot of research and time spent so they are usually at least 20%. But in the end, the term paper turned out to just be a semi comprehension paper? We were given this intriguing research article and we just had to answer questions

like describe the results and talk about your own thoughts about this article. We were not allowed to use any references (Y) so the whole paper was either content from the research article or from our brains.

Just had my finals today and i think i did rather badly for it T_T

Finals was mcq (40marks) + 2 short essays (15 marks each) + 1 long essay (30marks)

Prof Hong gave REALLY REALLY OBVIOUS hints for the long essay

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NUS Module Review: PL3238 SOCIAL COGNITION

PL3238 SOCIAL COGNITION
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Social Cognition uses cognitive processes to explain how people think and behave in the social world. It operates on the assumption that interpersonal behaviour is cognitively mediated in that social interactions are determined by what we know and believe about ourselves, other people, and the situations in which we encounter them. Topics to be covered include person perception, person memory, social categorization, social judgment, unconscious processes, motivation and emotion, and the development of social cognition.

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NUS Module Review: PL3234 Developmental Psychology

PL3234 Developmental Psychology
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Group Project 1&2 （Essay) 30%

Online Quiz (MCQ） 30%

Take-home Exam (Essay) 40%

Groups are assigned for the group projects but my tutor (Grace Lee En Hui) allowed us to pm her if there was anyone in particular we wanted to work with (I didn’t know anyone yet as a Year 1 who hasn’t even stepped foot on campus), and the groups did not change for project 2. It was challenging to work as a group so often throughout the sem, especially when it came to ensuring group members were responsive and contributed to the project since the module (and thus projects) were completely online but I enjoyed the topics assigned for these group essays- choose 2 out of 3 questions:

a. Analysing the suitability of a toy based on its marketed age recommendation and developmental milestones/stages of children falling within the particular age range.

b. Paper on a Piaget’s test (expected to recruit child participants on your own).

c. Interview 2 parents from different families to determine their respective parenting styles and analyse the effects of such parenting styles on their children.

Prof Qin is very clear about her expectations for the assignments/quiz and provided detailed feedback after group project 1, which made it easy to understand and prepare/produce accordingly work that would do well.

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NUS Module Review: PL3232 Biological Psychology

PL3232 Biological Psychology
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Lecturer: Dr Camilo Libedinsky

Assessment format:

5% Pre-lecture Online Quizzes

50% Tutorial Individual Quizzes

10% Tutorial Group Quizzes

5% Tutorial Group Participation

30% Final Exam (Short-Answer Questions)

Textbook used (if any): Biological Psychology (12th Edition) by James W. Kalat (Supplementary. Trust me, you’ll have enough on your hands without even reading this.)

One of the required core modules for a Psychology major in FASS, covering the biological basis of psychology and the mind, which means brain stuff. You start with neurons and synapses, then move to nervous system anatomy, vision and hearing, then higher-level cognitive processes such as memory, learning, sleep, and emotions.

BIG WARNING: If you’re like me, whose last brush with biology was in Lower Sec Combined Science, well, you’re gonna have a bad time. Better brush up, or prepare to spend a lot of time on this, because there is a lot to cover. I mean it.

The module’s structure requires you to view video lectures before the actual lecture timeslot, which was used to discuss the material using questions. The NUS-sanctioned equivalent of Kahoot was used, but worry not, because it isn’t graded. What is graded is the small quizzes you have to do (3-4 questions) after viewing the pre-lecture video tutorial, but you can redo those until you get them right.

Tutorials: Tutorials were held as two-hour sessions once every two weeks. Each tutorial serves as continuous assessment sessions. You’re given a quiz (short-answer questions), you do the quiz, then you get together in groups and do the same quiz again, where hopefully your combined knowledge means you get a better score. How tutorial participation works is that your entire tutorial group gets the same tutorial participation score, so there’s no need to fight — just speak up and encourage others to do the same.

Exams: The final exam which I took consisted of a passage where you needed to correct any false information about the content you’ve learnt. I got bamboozled, and I think so did several others, because I’ve heard rumors that bad feedback was given. Hopefully you get to take the exam in a more sensible format.

Expected grade: B+

Final grade: B

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NUS Module Review: PL3106 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

PL3106 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
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This core module covers most of the common mental health problems identified for children and adults, e.g. eating disorders, behavioural problems, attention deficits, learning disabilities, schizophrenia, anxiety, stress, depression, personality disorders, sexual adjustment, substance abuse, suicide, and dementia. The lectures and discussion groups provide an introduction to clinical intervention, but emphasis is placed on the theoretical formulation of problems. Whenever possible, films and case studies are used to supplement the textbook and readings, and a visit to the local Institute of Mental Health will usually be arranged.

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NUS Module Review: PL3105 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

PL3105 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Reflection Essay (30%) – 1,000 words due week 6

Tutorial Participation + Forum Posts (20%)

Group Presentation (20%)

Final essay (30%) – 2,500 words due week 13

This module is a core module for all psychology majors but i would recommend this module to those who want to minor in psychology or perhaps UEMs. There are pre-lecture videos to watch in the multimedia tab which mainly covers the content for the week. Live lectures are not compulsory and not recorded. It is mainly just to expand more on the multimedia pre-lecture videos.

Reflection Essay. Pick on aspect of ourselves (race, religion, gender, vocation etc) that is important to us and how this aspect of our identity influences us (thoughts, behaviors, feelings) and interacts with the environment (other people). How the social aspect of us benefits us or holds us back. In the essay, it is about self-reflection and connecting it to 3 course concepts learnt earlier.

Final Essay. Identify 1 behaviour we want to change and set a concrete goal. Keep track of the behavior for a minimum of 2 days and then try to change it for 2 weeks. The essay will be about how this change attempt went and why it failed/succeeded. Connection to 4 course concepts needed and it is also about reflection.

Group presentation was done differently. Instead of a typical PowerPoint presentation, we were asked to do a podcast recording regarding anything to social psychology. Max 15mins. The podcast was fun to make and during the presentation day which is the 4th tutorial session, every group plays the podcast for everyone to listen.

Tutorial participation and forum posts. During tutorials, we go into breakout rooms and discuss some questions the tutor proposes. After which we return to the main room and then present what we have discussed. My tutor was Prof Kaur and she is amazing. She asks a lot of thought provoking questions and every session is very interesting.

Across the semester there were 3 forum posting periods. Each lasting a week. All 3 are regarding podcasts. First posting asks us to listen to 2 podcasts related to social psychology and write about what it is about and what are the good points about it which we can learn and use in our podcasts. Second posting asks us to review 4 posts made by others during the first round and assess if we agree / disagree with their posts. Last posting round asks us to assess at least 2 groups’ podcasts. What are our thoughts on it, what the podcast was arguing for and the strengths and weaknesses.

Overall, this module is really interesting and fun. The new approach to group presentation was fresh and fun. Concepts taught in this course are very applicable and interesting since it involves us and the environment. I recommend this module to those minoring in psychology.

Expected Grade: A-

Actual Grade: A

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NUS Module Review: PL3104 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

PL3104 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Conducted fully online

Lecturer – Dr. Qin Lili

Assessment:

Term paper (20%)

Group project (20%)

Tut participation (10%)

MCQ quiz (20%)

Finals (30%)

This module covers the development from conception till adolescence and early adulthood. Content taught is not very difficult and Dr. Qin is extremely patient and friendly and welcomes questions after lectures. There were 5 tutorials sessions where previous weeks lecture contents would be further explored and discussed on. There is no group presentation as the group project is a group paper to be submitted online.

The term paper is very flexible. There is a weekly log portion (reflections after lecture/tut) and a short 3-paged (double-spaced) paper on something we found interesting throughout the semester from the weekly log. The flexibility of this assignment made it enjoyable to do.

The group project would require us to pick 1 of 3 question options and write a paper together as a group. The paper was then due in week 11. My group was very happy to work together, and the project was not difficult to complete. Compared to past modules in NUS, this group project does not require a lot of time and is definitely manageable.

MCQ quiz and Finals test the content taught throughout the semester. Finals were essay-based questions. As long as you review frequently what was taught weekly you would have no problems with these 2 assessments.

Overall, this module is very interesting and fun. Dr. Qin is an amazing lecturer as well. The average scores for all components except the finals were made known and were quite high. The finals is what really determines your grade the most.

Expected grade: B

Actual grade: B+

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NUS Module Review: PL3103 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

PL3103 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
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This module deals with the psychological study of human information processing; learning and memory; acquisition, retrieval, and forgetting; and general knowledge, concepts, reasoning, and related issues in cognition. The impact of computational approaches on cognition is considered.

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NUS Module Review: PL3102 BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

PL3102 BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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This course provides a general one-semester introduction to the relationship between brain and behaviour. Although no background knowledge is assumed other than from the introductory psychology course, those with an interest in biological bases of behaviour or neuroscience will be advantaged. The course is intended primarily for students doing a single major in Psychology, and is designed as an introduction to those wishing to pursue advanced courses in Cognitive Neuroscience (PL3285 & PL4206). The course will focus on key questions asked about the brain, such as: How is the brain organised? How do drugs affect our behaviour? How does the brain see, hear and produce movement? How does it learn and think? Clinical topics, such as Parkinson’s Disease and schizophrenia will be integrated into the course, as will fMRI research methods and findings. Emphasis will be given to the key principles of nervous system function, however, the course still requires a lot of factual information to be assimilated and memorized.