EPN-V2

MALKA215 Kompleks menneskelig atferd Emneplan

Engelsk emnenavn
Complex Human Behavior
Omfang
10.0 stp.
Studieår
2025/2026
Emnehistorikk
Pensum
HØST 2025
Timeplan
Programplan

  • Innledning

    Emnebeskrivelsen finnes kun på engelsk. Velg engelsk versjon av nettsiden for å se fullstendig emnebeskrivelse.

  • Forkunnskapskrav

    For kull 2025: Coursework requirements from MALK4100, MALK4000-403, MALKA211, MALKA212, and MALKA214 or equivalent must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALKA215.

    For tidligere kull: Coursework requirements from MALK4000-401, MALK4000-403, MALKA211, MALKA212, and MALKA214 or equivalent must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALKA215.

  • Læringsutbytte

    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

  • Arbeids- og undervisningsformer

    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.

  • Arbeidskrav og obligatoriske aktiviteter

    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.

  • Vurdering og eksamen

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

  • Hjelpemidler ved eksamen

    Authorized materials: Norwegian-English dictionary

  • Vurderingsuttrykk

    Grade scale A-F

  • Sensorordning

    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.