Psychology

Course summary

The compulsory modules are: • Social psychology with a focus on social influence and conformity • Attachment psychology • Psychopathology focusing on OCD, depression and phobias • Approaches in psychology looking at the learning, cognitive, biological, humanistic and psychodynamic approaches • Biopsychology • Issues and Debates in psychology including gender and cultural bias in research, free will vs determinism, the nature-nurture debate, holism vs reductionism, idiographic vs nomothetic approaches and the ethical implications of research and theory. • Research methods and statistics