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Content: We will take simple questions, and cut across traditional disciplines looking for answers. Experiencing this cycle of enquiry and evidence will give students the psychological literacy to integrate knowledge across psychology and apply it to the world around them.
Teaching delivery: This module will be taught using a combination of in-person lectures, online videos and short weekly assignments. There are a total of 20 hours of in-person sessions over 10 teaching weeks. Activities related to this module will also take place within the Psychology seminar system and lab class.
Indicative Topics: We cover a range of topics such as the mind and the brain, perception, behaviour change, knowledge and learning. Each lecture frames the topic by asking a different everyday question, such as 鈥榃hy do people see Ghosts?鈥�, 鈥楥an you sue a Casino?鈥� or 鈥榃hy do people drink Red Bull?鈥� (Indicative lecture topics 鈥� based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes)
Module Aims: Our aim is to create an introductory psychology course that develops 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. Students will be encouraged to think critically and evaluate their own behaviour through in-lecture experiments. A scientific approach will be developed through an appreciation of how empirical data can be used to test competing theories.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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