EPN-V2

MALKA215 Complex Human Behavior Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Kompleks menneskelig atferd
Weight
10.0 ECTS
Year of study
2025/2026
Course history
Curriculum
FALL 2025
Schedule
Programme description

  • Introduction

    Det benyttes intern og ekstern sensor til sensurering av besvarelsene.

    Et uttrekk på minst 25 % av besvarelsene sensureres av to sensorer. Karakterene på disse samsensurerte besvarelsene skal danne grunnlag for å fastsette nivå på resten av besvarelsene.

  • Required preliminary courses

    Alicja Olkowska og Thale Oberprieler

  • Learning outcomes

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

    Knowledge

    The student can

    • describe and discuss radical behaviorism as a philosophy of science
    • describe and discuss important aspects of verbal behavior
    • describe and discuss verbal governance and contingency shaping of behavior
    • describe and discuss principles involved in joint control
    • describe and discuss important aspects of stimulus equivalence
    • describe and discuss the naming hypothesis
    • describe and discuss Relational Frame Theory
    • describe and discuss problem-solving, thinking, remembering, and higher-order classes of behavior

    Skills

    The student can

    • analyze variables influencing complex human behavior
    • present theories of complex human behavior and the scientific data underlying these theories in a manner striving for fairness, honesty, and excellence

  • Teaching and learning methods

    Campus-based lectures, discussion from readings, exercises and Interteaching are the main teaching methods. Literature from the curriculum for the Interteaching sequences are announced at the university’s digital learning platform. Feedback is used on written assignments.

  • Course requirements

    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.

  • Assessment

    Individual school examination, 3 hours. Exam questions are in English. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

  • Permitted exam materials and equipment

    Authorized materials: Norwegian-English dictionary

  • Grading scale

    Grade scale A-F

  • Examiners

    All answers are assessed by one examiner.

    An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.