Psychology - week 1

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Psychology

is the scientific study of individual and group BEHAVIOUR

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Core Areas

  1. Social

  2. Research methods

  3. Personality and individual differences

  4. Cognitive

  5. Development

  6. Biological basis of behaviour

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Development Psychology

is a study of human development (lifespan): stages, phases; cognitive, affective, social and biological

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Cognitive Psychology

is a study of perception, attention, learning, memory and problem-solving.

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Social Psychology

is a study of cognition, affect and behaviour as a function of the social context; the ‘power of the situation’; group identity

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Individual differences

is a study of reliable differences between people; theories of personality

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Biological psychology

is a study of basic biological processes that explain cognition, affect and behaviour as response to psychological processes