Psychology

Course summary

Psychology is the study of human behaviour and experience. The course will introduce you to the theories and methods of psychology. It offers the opportunity to look at some of the explanations psychologists make to understand humans and their interactions with the world. From a personal perspective you should find the fundamental questions of the psychologist interesting: Why do I behave like this? Why do I think like this? Research Methods: Planning, conducting, analysing and reporting psychological research across a range of experimental and nonexperimental methodologies and techniques. Core Studies Paper: Introduces some of the central areas of investigation in psychology organised in key themes. Each key theme is represented by a classic and a contemporary core study. The studies include: one of the first accounts of the phenomenon of multiple personality; an experimental study that explores the thinking styles of autistic children and how these differ from neurotypical people, and a study that uses split-brain patients to look at the functions of different areas of the brain. Applied Psychology: Compulsory section on Issues in mental health. Learners will also study two of the following applied options: Child Psychology, Criminal Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Sports and Exercise Psychology.