*NOTE: All assessment times and other times in this unit BEFORE 5 April 2020 are GMT+11 (AEDT, Australian Eastern Daylight Time, SYDNEY) and AFTER 6 April 2020 are GMT+10 (AEST, Australian Eastern Standard Time, SYDNEY)

Online Quizzes

This unit contains 3, 15-item multiple-choice quizzes. These quizzes assess information provided in the lectures, tutorials, and textbook. Together, these quizzes amount to 10% of your final grade. Quizzes will open 24 hours before the deadline. Once you open a quiz, you will be given 30 minutes to complete it. As such, you are advised to study relevant material before beginning a quiz. After you complete a quiz, you will be given feedback regarding your performance.

The online quizzes will be delivered via the iLearn webpage for the unit. Therefore, access to a reliable computer that connects to the Internet is required. Technical difficulties will not be accepted as a reason for special consideration.

These quizzes are administered under the honour system: Although you can use your notes and textbook to complete these quizzes, you should not work with classmates to complete them.

Students who experience serious and unavoidable disruption, and hence are unable to complete a quiz within the 24-hour timeframe, can apply for special consideration via ask.mq.edu.au for an extension. Students who have not been granted special considerations will not be given an extension.

Case Study

This unit requires you to submit a case study, which is worth 40% of your final grade. The case study will require you to 1) diagnose a case, 2) describe a science-based theoretical model for the principal diagnosis and use it to support the case’s principal diagnosis, and to 3) propose and support a science-based treatment for the case. You also must write clearly and succinctly and comply with APA style guidelines. More information is provided on iLearn.

Your case study must contain less than 1500 words; however, you will be given a 5% leeway (e.g., 75 words) before penalties are applied. Every 100 words over the limit will receive a 5% penalty off the original mark (e.g., 1575 words = no penalty; 1576 words = 5% penalty; 1676 words = 10% penalty). In-text citations are included within the word count, but references do not count towards the word limit. Ensure that you use the header “References” as required by the APA style guide so that Turnitin will not assess your references for plagiarism.

A penalty of 5% of the maximum mark per day will be applied to late assignments. For example, if a student submits their Case Study one day late, then 2 marks [= 5% x 40 (worth 40% of the final grade)] will be subtracted from the original mark. Assignments one minute late are considered 1 day late. Assignments will not be accepted after they are 5 days late.

Requests for extensions on the Case Study are done via ask.mq.edu.au. All extensions must be made prior to the due date for the assignment. A decision will be made by the staff in the Student Centre. PSYU/X3337 staff do not have the ability to grant extension nor will they be notified that you have applied for an extension or told if an extension is approved or denied. Thus, if you receive an extension, you must attach the paperwork after the Reference section of your Case Study.  If you have not received a decision regarding your extension before the assessment deadline, and your request is denied, the official deadline will remain and the official late penalty will be applied.

Procedure for Requesting Remarking:

1. Read over your marker's feedback.
2. Wait 48 hours and reread your marker's feedback.
3. If you continue to identify a marking error, contact your marker and organise a time to discuss your Case Study with them in-person. Generally, this process does not result in a change of grade but an increase in clarity as to why you received your grade.
4. If you continue to disagree with your marker, you will need to lodge a formal request for a remark. Remarking is done by the unit convenor and their grade will be final. If they mark you lower than your original marker, you will receive the lower grade. In many cases this is the outcome as the convenor is an expert in the topic you have been assessed upon and has trained the tutors to mark to a gold standard.
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Final Exam

The final exam consists of 100 multiple-choice questions and counts for 50% of your final grade. It assesses all material covered during the unit (lectures, tutorial, and textbook) throughout the whole semester.  

It is crucial that you print your name and Student ID number on both the final exam question paper and also on the multiple-choice answer sheet for the final exam. Failing to comply, or incorrectly entering your details, will result in your exam not being marked as we will be unable to determine who took the exam.

You have been provided with a practice final exam on iLearn. Please note that this practice exam only provides you with an opportunity to see the structure of the exam and some aspects of the content of the unit that the actual final exam may assess you upon. The questions you receive on the day of the exam will not be the same.

Special Considerations for the Final Exam:

• You are expected to present yourself for the examination at the time and place designated by Open Universities Australia https://www.open.edu.au/your-studies/getting-started/exams
• The only exception to not sitting an exam at the designated time is because of documented illness or unavoidable disruption. In these circumstances, you may wish to consider applying for special considerations. Information about unavoidable disruption and the special consideration process is available in the Disruption to Studies policy (mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html)
• To be eligible for special considerations, a student must notify the university of a serious and unavoidable disruption no later than five (5) working days of the assessment task date or due date. Notifications of Disruption of Studies after 5 days will still be assessed, however they are more likely to have a remedy of Withdrawal Without Academic Penalty applied if they are deemed serious and unavoidable.
• If a Supplementary Examination is granted as a result of the special consideration process, the exam will be scheduled after the conclusion of the official examination period. The format of a supplementary exam is at each unit convener's discretion and is subject to change from the original final examination.
• Supplementary exams are only offered to students who have satisfactorily completed all other assessments for the unit and were unable to sit the final exam because of documented illness or unavoidable disruptions
• Instructions on applying for sitting a supplementary exam are available at https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration
• If you are approved to sit a supplementary final exam, you will receive an email with information from the Faculty office. Students who are granted to sit for a supplementary exam must make themselves available to sit for the supplementary exam on the specified date. There will only be one time. It is the student's responsibility to email Student Centre to confirm attendance at the supplementary exam.
• You are advised that it is Macquarie University policy not to set early exams for individuals or groups of students. All students are expected to ensure that they are available until the end of the teaching session, which is the final day of the official examination period.

This unit includes weekly online lectures and fortnightly tutorial activities. Each lecture has a set reading from the textbook. The Unit Schedule on iLearn will provide you with a week-by-week agenda for the lectures, textbook chapters, and tutorial topics. You are expected to complete the lectures and required readings in a timely fashion so that you have the necessary information for each tutorial. Tutorial participation is a requirement of this unit. The more that you participate in this unit and its assessments, the more you will derive benefits.

Barlow, Durand, & Hofmann (2018). Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach from Cengage learning is the required textbook for this unit.

You are also required to use the Seventh Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2019) to format your case study.