MABIO5100 Bakteriologi og antimikrobiell resistens Emneplan

Coursework requirements from MALK4000-401, MALK4000-403 and MALKA211 or equivalent must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALKA212.

Grunnleggende mikrobiologi på bachelornivå med et omfang tilsvarende 10 studiepoeng.

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 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. Exam questions are in English. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.;

Grade scale A-F

One internal and one external examiner will assess all exams.

Alle hjelpemidler tillatt.

Gradert skala A-F

Ekstern og intern sensor vurderer alle eksamensbesvarelser