Learning, Behavior and Environment

This course provides an overview of key developing psychological issues such as inheritance versus environment, dynamic systems theory and learning psychological issues such as learning processes, learning principles, social and cognitive processes in learning, biological processes in learning, abilities versus skills, flow and learning. In this course, importance will also be placed on understanding developmental and learning difficulties as well as gain an understanding of the processes that makes some people unable to perform at a high level. This course is also open for students from other disiplines than psychology. For students who do not have a Bachelor degree in Psychology, the course lecturer will recommend some background literature in addition to the curriculum.

Knowledge: The student has a thorough knowledge of learning, skill development and learning processes in a lifespan perspective. The emphasis is on the reflecting on and the understanding of the interaction between behavior and environment. Skills: The student can independently apply relevant psychological theories and empirical findings to analyze defined theoretical issues and empirical phenomena related to learning, skill development and the learning process. General competence: The student has insight into and can communicate in writing the relevant field and illustrate subject issues.

Lectures and seminars.