PSYCHOLOGY
About this course
Psychology is the study of how humans think, act and feel, therefore it is the duty of a psychologist to do just that - explain the current and changing behaviours of an individual and/or group. In other words they apply the knowledge obtained from the theoretical part of psychology to a more practical one. Psychologists typically take on one of three pathways - teaching, research or the practical application. Those who engage in the teaching aspect are usually found within the university setting and are more often than not linked to the research side of things.
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What you will learn:
An introductory deβinition of general psychology
What psychologists do
The main branches of psychology
How psychology is applied in the real world
The history of general psychology and the key founders
Psychology in the UK speciβically
What you will learn:
A basic deβinition of cognitive psychology
The history of this branch of psychology and its founding contributors
The approaches used to understand cognitive psychology
The discipline's strengths and limitations
How cognitive psychology is applied in the real world
What you will learn:
How to deβine educational psychology
The history and key contributors to the discipline
The four perspectives and main theories of educational psychology
Some of the controversies of education standards
The methodologies used to test educational theories
What you will learn:
The background of this discipline, including a definition
The key features of biological psychology
About the interlinked history, and the key figures that helped to develop the βield
The concepts of biological psychology
The practice's strengths and weaknesses.
What you will learn:
How to deβine developmental psychology
The history and key contributors of the discipline
The concepts that help to test developmental psychology
The differences between the life stages
How developmental research is conducted and the typical research areas.
What you will learn:
About different theories related to identifying and understanding personality
The differences in personality between genders, regions and siblings
The common deβinitions of intelligence and how this is measured
About the basics of mental disorders
How mental disorders are diagnosed and treated.
What you will learn:
About conceptual change and how it happens
How the βield of psychology has changed over the last century
How those changes will inβluence future research
The beneβits gain by society from psychological research
The key debates in psychology, going forward.
What you will learn:
How to deβine psychological research
The three types of psychological research and the various methods used
About the steps required in research ethics
About the processes of data analysis and interpretation
The details of three high-proβile psychological research cases
What you will learn:
The types of psychologists and what they do
Typical roles of the psychologies from the branches covered in earlier modules
Salary expectations
About some of the alternative career choices.
