PN4104
Aggressive Behaviour
2024-2025
15
7
SCQF level 10
2
Academic year(s): 2024-2025
SCOTCAT credits : 15
ECTS credits : 7
Level : SCQF level 10
Semester: 2
Availability restrictions: Available only to students in the second year of the Honours Programme
Planned timetable:
In this course, students will critically evaluate attempts by psychologists to understand aggressive behaviour in humans. This course will develop students' skills in reading and critiquing papers, presenting complex information in a range of formats, and identifying and refuting misleading claims using scientific evidence. Students will consider issues such as: defining aggression; measurement of aggression; the utility of theoretical approaches to explaining aggression; the utility of different approaches to treatment for aggressive individuals.
Weekly contact: 2-hour weekly class plus office hour
As used by St Andrews: Written examination: 100%
Re-assessment: Written examination: 100%
Module coordinator: Dr R C May
Module teaching staff: Dr Bobby May
Module coordinator email bobby.may@st-andrews.ac.uk