Psychology
Psychology Foundation Course
Psychology Foundation Course £150.00 per 2 units
Gain a valuable insight into peoples' actions and reactions. Discover many things about yourself, and gain a real intellectual edge over those around you. You'll learn about a very wide range of subjects, including social and cognitive psychology, child development, and the psychology that lies behind atypical behaviour - as well as an understanding all the main issues in psychological methods.
Course syllabus (4 units)
Unit 1 - Introducing Psychology
a) Approaches
* Key Approaches in Psychology
* Biopsychology - Physiological Psychology and The Genetic Basis of Behaviour
b) Gender Development
* Gender Development - Concepts and Explaining Gender Development
c) Research Methods
* Methods of Research - Planning Research, Experimental Methods and Non-experimental Methods
* Representing Data and Descriptive Statistics - Representing Data and Descriptive Data
* Ethics
Unit 2 - Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and Individual Differences
a) Social Psychology
* Social Influences
* Social Cognition
b) Cognitive Psychology
* Remembering and Forgetting
* Perceptual Processes
c) Individual Differences
* Anxiety Disorders
* Autism
Unit 3 - Child Development and Applied Options
a) Child Development
* Social Development - Early relationships and Later Relationships
* Cognitive Development - Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development and Alternative Approaches to Children's Cognition
* Moral development - Piaget and Kohlberg and Alternatives to Piaget and Kohlberg
b) Applied Options
* Cognition and Law - Recognising and Rembering Faces and Recalling Events
* Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders - Mood Disorders
* Stress and Stress Management - Stress and Illness and Stress Management
Unit 4 - Approaches, Debates and Methods in Psychology
a) Approaches in Psychology
* Biological, Behaviourist, Social Learning, Cognitive, Psychodynamic and Humanistic Approaches - Biological Approach, Behaviourist Approach, Social Learning Theory, Cognitive Approach, Psychodynamic Approach, Humanistic Approach, and Comparison of Approaches
b) Debates in Psychology
* Debates in Psychology
c) Methods in Psychology
* Inferential Statistics - Statistical Inference and Statistical Tests
* Issues in Research
