MALKA212 Refinement of Behavior Analytic Terms Course description

The student must have been admitted to the study programme.

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can describe the structure and functioning of the musculoskeletal system
• can describe the structure and functions of the skin
• can describe the structure, mechanisms and functions of the circulatory and respiratory systems
• can describe the structure, mechanisms and function of the peripheral, central and autonomous nervous system
• can describe the mechanisms and functions of the endocrine system and its interaction with the other organ systems in the body
• can describe the mechanisms and functions of the immune system and the composition and function of the blood
• can describe important exercise physiology principles, tests and measurements relevant to a prosthetist's work
• can describe fundamental genetic principles
• can describe embryology and the development of the body

Skills

The student

• can palpate and identify structures on the surface of the body
• can carry out and explain simple functional examinations focusing on the lower limbs

General competence

The student

• can communicate with the user during a functional examination
• can take a respectful approach to the human body in connection with examinations and is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to examinations

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge and competence:

Knowledge

The student can

• differentiate between classical and operant conditioning, and provide examples of interaction between classical and operant conditioning
• describe the contingency in respondent and operant conditioning, and differentiate between contingency and contiguity
• give satisfactory accounts of aspects of concepts in classical conditioning, including reflexes, conditioning procedures and their effectiveness, and experimental methods
• give satisfactory accounts of aspects of concepts in operant conditioning, including reinforcement, punishment, reinforcement schedules, stimulus control, motivating operations, higher order classes, and molar and molecular analyses

Skills

The student can

• distinguish between motivating operations and discriminative control
• differentiate between extinction and forgetting
• decide whether conditioning and extinction has taken place
• interpret data from cumulative records, generalization gradients, histogram, and contingency spaces
• discuss ethical issues when using nonhuman animal subjects in research

Competence

The student can

• evaluate whether a behavior is the result of classical or operant conditioning
• predict whether and how relevant environmental variables might affect the immediate and future probability of behavior
• evaluate whether desired stimulus control is established or not

The methods used vary between lectures, seminars, skills training in functional examination of fellow students, database searches, use of digital resources and self-study. Parts of the course are taught jointly with other health sciences programmes.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• 3 individual written assignments submitted digitally, each with a maximum length of 6000 characters, including spaces. References are to be included in the 6000 characters.

Individual home examination, 4 hours, combination of essay assignments and multiple choice/digital tests.  Exam questions are in English. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English. 

Combined assessment:

Part 1) Supervised individual written exam (multiple choice test), 1 hour.

Part 2) Individual practical and oral exam, up to 30 min.

Weighting: One overall grade is awarded for part 1 and part 2. Part 1, written exam, is weighted 33%. Part 2, oral exam, is weighted 66%.

Resit assessment/exam: If a student fails one part of the exam, they must retake the part in question. Students can appeal the grade awarded for part 1, written exam.

No aids permitted.

Essay assignments: At least 20 % of the exam papers will be assessed by one external and one internal examiner. The remaining papers will be assessed by internal examiners.

Multiple choice/digital test: quality assured by an internal examiner and automatically assessed.