B.Sc. Psychology

You will receive a general introduction to psychology, covering biological, social and developmental psychology, the psychology of memory and perception, individual differences and language and thinking. You will also learn about research methods and statistics, and you will have a practical introduction to laboratory-based psychology research. the opportunity to practice some ‘real world’ psychology.

You will continue to study the core areas of psychology, along with neuropsychology, abnormal, and historical psychology, and you will develop your research skills by practising statistics further, running practical experiments and learning to write scientific psychology reports.

You will take an advanced tutorial course to help you critically analyse psychology research papers. You will choose advanced courses in the core areas required for British Psychology Society accreditation (social, developmental, biological, cognitive and differential psychology) and carry out a literature review and a group research project in one of these core areas.

Most students can choose from a range of specialised, research-led options. These include Clinical Neuropsychology, Human Cognitive Abilities, Memory, Ageing and the Brain, Causes and Consequences of Personality, Children with Language Impairments and many others.

For one-third of your time, you will carry out a personal research project of your choosing.

Courses include:

• Critical Social Psychology
• Development of Core Domains of Thought
• Clinical Neuropsychology: a Cognitive Perspective
• Mind, Body and Consciousness
• Parapsychology
• Causes and Consequences of Personality
• Children with Language Impairments
• Marxist Psychology
• Psychological Therapies
• Human Cognitive Abilities
• Memory, Ageing and the Brain
• Multisensory Integration
• Frontal Lobe Functions
• Sentence Processing and Psycholinguistics
• Moral Judgment and Behaviour
• Consciousness and Perceptual Awareness
• Intelligence, Personality and Health
• Emotions and Emotional Intelligence
• Working Memory
• Psychology of Counselling
• Developing Relational Concepts
• Debates in Current Personality
• Eye Movements and Visual Cognition
• Class: The Psychology of Wealth, Poverty, and Social Rank