Psychology
Vocational qualification
In Darlington
Description
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Type
Vocational qualification
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Location
Darlington
Psychology is the study of mind and behaviour. It is a rapidly growing discipline which pervades all areas of life, from work and family relationships to the normal, and sometimes abnormal, workings of the brain. This course aims to give an introduction to the subject and to develop skills of analysis, evaluation and investigation of Psychology to the standard of university entrance.
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Psychology is the study of mind and behaviour. It is a rapidly growing discipline which pervades all areas of life, from work and family relationships to the normal, and sometimes abnormal, workings of the brain. This course aims to give an introduction to the subject and to develop skills of analysis, evaluation and investigation of Psychology to the standard of university entrance.
Students who wish to study this course need no prior understanding of psychology.
Course Content
Students will study topics from each of the following areas
Unit 1
- The nature of Psychology
- Approaches to Psychology
- Schools of Thought
- Social Psychology
- Conformity and obedience
- The formation, maintenance and breakdown of interpersonal relationships
- Development Psychology
- Attachment and separation, sociability, effects of early experience
- Approaches to formation of sex and gender
Unit 2
- Ethical issues, ethical considerations on the use of humans and animals as subjects
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Evolutionary accounts of intelligence: brain size and cognition
- Abnormal Psychology: concepts of normality/abnormality
- Medical psychodynamic and behavioural approaches
- Psychopathology: psychobiological explanations for mental illness
- Therapeutic approaches and evaluation of different treatment types
- Introduction to research methods and statistics
- Basic statistical recording methods
- Summary statistics
- Basic understanding of statements of the statistical significance of research results and the testing of statistical significance using non-parametric tests
- Planning and carrying out an investigation
- Correlation methods
- Presentation of results
Unit 2 also provides an introduction to research methodology and all students carry out their own research projects.
Assessment
Unit 1
- Written assignment (1500 words) - 60% of marks
- Class-based end test (1.5 hours) - 40% of marks
Unit 2
- Project (1500 words) - 60% of marks
- Written exam (1.5 hours) - 40% of marks
This course is offered during the day - Monday 10.50 - 11.50am, Tuesday 2.10 - 3.00pm and Wednesday 1.40 - 3.00pm
and on an evening - Thursday 6.30 - 9.30pm.
Psychology