Program Student Learning Outcomes
This course will introduce you to research methods, empirical findings, and perspectives of social psychology through topics including conformity, interpersonal attraction, persuasion, stereotyping, and impression formation. Students will cultivate skills for analyzing social events and develop critical ways of thinking about theory and research within social psychology.
This module enables you to examine the fundamental concepts of the biological bases of human behavior, to develop a familiarity with the relevant scientific terminology of psychobiology and to critically evaluate the key concepts and findings in this area. You will also develop an insight into the discipline of cognitive psychology via an appraisal of the history, methodology and key empirical findings of the area. This will promote your understanding of cognitive theories and models within the context provided by the information-processing paradigm that characterizes the discipline.