Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Course Title:
Psychology in Action
Course Number:
ISSU0014
Course Description:
Our aim is to develop students’ psychological literacy through the cycle of enquiry and evidence. Students will
be introduced to key conceptual issues, methodological approaches and significant findings in scientific
psychology, their historical background, and the kinds of empirical evidence on which these findings are based.
We will take simple questions, and cut across traditional disciplines looking for answers.
• Week One - The science of mind and behaviour; methodological and conceptual issues; experimental
design
• Week Two - Perceptual processes; visual attention; cognition; learning and memory; neuroscience
methods
• Week Three - Human development, the interplay of nature and nurture; genes and personality; social
and emotional development; clinical disorders
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
PSYC 3---
Attachment Files:
module_syllabus_psychology_in_action_0.pdf
