Large Lecture Room 3

As philosophers, scientists, and writers, both ancient and modern have recognised everything is constantly changing-nothing remains the same. Developmental psychology is the study of changes in people’s lives from conception to death. We are conceived, nurtured in a womb, born and cared for in infancy.  

1. To enable student learn how to organize and present raw or wild data in a meaningful way (descriptive statistics).
2. To provide skills in establishing cause and effect relationships among variables (inferential statistics).

The course provides an opportunity to students to understand decision making in a wider sense as a way of improving decision making in practice. It begins from the premise that many decisions are almost reflex actions undertaken with little conscious thought and awareness of what is happening. The consequence is severe poor decisions.

Competitive advantage is becoming a serious issue for companies.  Companies have to compete in the market place and competitive companies will be the ones to survive.  Psychology comes in to help companies compete by boosting company sales.  This entails understanding of causes of the behavior of people while in the market place, including an understanding of how consumers make decisions. 

This course hinges on the laws governing the manner in which public authorities and public officials perform their functions.  Legal issues relating to procedures, discretion and remedies against abuse of discretion/office are discussed.

The course gives an overview of some important topics in the field of Labor economics, with a strong emphasis on theoretically motivated empirics or data driven theory. The builds on micro and macro-economic foundations, introduces recent ideas and labor market experiences in the light of technological and structural changes, to ensure relevancy to both the current and future demands of labor market economic practice. 

Although many factors will determine whether an organization thrives or not, the discipline of organization theory has a major part to play

To provide the students with the theories and models of Environmental Psychology to enable them appreciate and explain the interrelationship between the environment (social, built, natural) and human behavior as well as apply this knowledge to attempt to solve environment – behavior problem  

To provide students with knowledge about human developmentTo give appropriate expectations for children and adolescents as well as help students recognize departures from normal development

To provide the student with the classical theories of personality that help to explain the nature and causes of human behavior and uniqueness and to prepare the student for further studies that employ these theories as models of psychotherapy