Psychology

Course summary

Psychology is the study of people and all aspects of their behaviour: how they think, react, interact. What are the biological and cultural influences on the way we behave? Why do we laugh, argue, lead, follow, feel stressed and develop different personalities? Modern psychologists use scientific methods to analyse behaviour. They will observe, measure, test hypotheses, experiment and use statistics to analyse their results. Areas of Psychology covered on the course include; social influence, memory, attachment, psychopathology, approaches in psychology, biopsychology, research methods, gender, schizophrenia, aggression and issues and debates in psychology.