Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

This module will provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to apply theoretical models in economic and psychological sciences to real-world problems. It therefore complements the other modules through showing how formal models of judgement and decision-making can be applied outside the laboratory. The module therefore feeds into a key aim of the degree course overall, which is to enable students to apply models in a useful way.

Principal learning outcomes

Identify the key areas where theoretical models of judgement and decision-making either have been or potentially can be applied to real-world problems; approach new problems and show how insights from economic and psychological science can be brought to bear on them; critically evaluate the empirical success of real-world applications of the relevent theoretical models; understand how agent-based simulations can provide insight into the emergent behaviour of groups of individuals in social and economic contexts.

Timetabled teaching activities

1 lecture and 1 seminar per week, and two 2-hour laboratory sessions over the course of the module

Other essential notes

7 hours per week of self-directed study related to seminar preparation and background reading; 60 hours on assignments

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
10 CATS (Module code: PS919-10)
A (Assessed work only)	Class Tests (MC short answer)	50%
	2000 word Assessed Essay	50%
15 CATS (Module code: PS919-15)
A1 (Assessed work only)	Class Tests	50%
	Project	50%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

• Postgraduate Taught Behavioural and and Data Science (C803) - Year 1

Optional Core

N/A

Optional

• Postgraduate Taught Behavioural and Economic Science (Science Track) (C8P7) - Year 1
• Postgraduate Taught Behavioural and Economic Science (Economics Track) (C8P8) - Year 1
• Postgraduate Taught Cognitive Systems (G4C8) - Year 1
• Postgraduate Social Science Research (L98B) - Year 1