introduction to higher psychology
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- 1. Higher Psychology Introduction
2. Lorraine Kelly [email protected] 0131 559 4667 skype id: lorraine.psychology 3. Introductions Drop me a message on Moodle and tell me Why do you want to study Psychology? Have you studied before and if so, what did you learn about? 4. What is psychology? 5. What is psychology? The scientific study of behaviour and experience. (Glassman and Hadad, 2013: 2) 6. Why do we behave the way we do? People behave the way they do because theyve learned to by responding to their environment. People behave the way they do because of the way they think, the way their brain is programmed to, like a computer. People behave the way they do because they are driven to by unconscious conflicts and things that happened in their childhood. People behave the way they do because its in their genes, their physiology and their biochemistry. 7. Match these approaches/perspectives with the explanations you have been considering Psychodynamic Biological Behaviourist Cognitive 8. Break 10 minutes 9. Why do we behave the way we do? People behave the way they do because theyve learned to by responding to their environment. Behaviourist! People behave the way they do because of the way they think, the way their brain is programmed to, like a computer. Cognitive! People behave the way they do because they are driven to by unconscious conflicts and things that happened in their childhood. Psychodynamic! People behave the way they do because its in their genes, their physiology and their biochemistry. Biological! 10. What does a psychologist do? What you think psychologists do? 11. http://careers.bps.org.uk/ 12. Aiming for Psychology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpS8g34vPGQ &list=PLCkLQOAPOtT2ATuX2Kz0tApFp-UUFwlIZ 13. Higher Psychology Understanding the Individual o Memory o Stress Investigating behaviour o Experimental methods o Non-experimental methods o Research Project Individual in the Social Context o Conformity and Obedience o Atypical Behaviour o Optional Unit? 14. Internal Assessments Understanding the Individual o Internal assessment of 30 minutes o One single re-sit opportunity Investigating Behaviour o Part 1 - Practical Portfolio of a piece of research o Part 2 - Internal assessment (one single re-sit opportunity) Individual in the Social Context o Internal assessment of 30 minutes o One single re-sit opportunity 15. External Assessment Research Investigation (RI) report (20%) o April 2013 Exam (80%) 16. Further reading Williamson, M., Cardwell, M. and Flanagan, C. (2007) Higher Psychology, Cheltenham: Nelson Thornes 17. Keegan, G. (2009) Higher Psychology 2nd ed. Paisley: Hodder Gibson 18. Glasgow: Leckie and Leckie 19. Further reading online British Psychological Society o www.bps.org.uk Simply Psychology o http://www.simplypsychology.org/ S-Cool Psychology o http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/psychology OCR Psychology o http://www.holah.net/ Revision World o http://revisionworld.co.uk/a2-level-level-revision/psychology 20. Homework Starts next week