Course Contents

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Detailed Content

• Historical aspects
• Different schools of psychology
• Psychology in everyday use

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• Psychology and philosophy
• Illusions
• Mind and Brain
• Methods in psychology
• Theoretical approaches
• The primacy of the person

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• Behavioural genetics
• Our individual development
• Brain and behaviour
• Behaviour and the nervous system
• Psychochemistry
• States of Awareness
• Brain abnormalities
• Paranormal psychology

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• Cognitive psychology
• The senses
• Sight
• Hearing
• Early experience
• Social perception
• Remembering
• Language learning
• Movement and skill
• Thinking
• The artificial brain

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• Living in time
• Aspects of development
• Stages in development
• Developmental tasks
• The importance of childhood
• Life-span development

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• Styles of learning
• Behaviour change
• The behaviouristic model of man
• Habits

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• The birth drama
• Views of emotion
• Emotions and relationships
• What are feelings?
• Motivations
• The hidden self
• Sleep and dreams
• Defense mechanisms
• pecific emotions
• Anxiety and stress
• Emotions and thinking
• Emotions and health
• Happiness as an emotion

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• Individual differences
• Who's average?
• Sex differences
• Dividing up the person
• Measuring intelligence
• Predicting behaviour
• The roots of individuality
• Who is likely to be violent?

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• Multiple personality?
• The enigma of personality
• Personality and the universe
• Popular approaches to personality
• Images of man
• The importance of self-concept

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• What is social about psychology?
• Physical appearance
• Facial expression
• A model for social behaviour
• Communication - let's get in touch
• Liking and loving
• Falling in love

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• What is mental health?
• What is normal?
• The stress of life
• Neurosis and psychosis
• Anxiety disorders
• Approaches to treatment
• Self-help psychotherapy
• Medical psychology

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• Psychology - an applied science
• Kids and teachers - educational psychology
• Non-specific educational problems
• Teachers and psychologists
• Psychology and work
• Managing stress at work
• Sex in the office - sexual harassment
• Applied psychology and society

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