BA (Hons) Education and Psychology Bachelor's degree at Strathclyde

You'll take this class in semester 1 and are not expected to have any prior knowledge of psychology. It explores learning theory, developmental psychology, personality, biological psychology, and the scientific basis for psychology.

This class is taught in semester 2 and covers sensation and perception, cognitive psychology, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and research methods.

This class introduces students to a large and rich seam of disciplinary knowledge. It is an introductory class of potential interest to all who want to understand more about Education. Some of the key content to be addressed in the module is around the following: the field of study that is education: what it is and how we know that the context of education: some contribution of political, historical and economic dimensions to curriculum, schooling, policy, globalisation education achievement: so

Placement learning is one of the most powerful learning experiences for you on initial teacher education programmes at the University of Strathclyde. The seventy-hour first-year placement allows you to work with children 0 – 14 years in a setting out-with mainstream schools and nurseries. This class allows for real diversity and student choice in selecting a placement. In the past students have worked in prisons, with families, in community projects and in a whole range of settings that have hel

This class reveals how our understanding of higher mental functions has been enhanced through: theoretical and experimental studies of normal human cognition neuropsychological studies of how cognitive functions may be damaged as a result of brain lesions Topics covered include disorders of the perceptual system, memory and attention, and the role of the frontal lobes in planning, motivation, emotion, and personality.

This class introduces social psychological theories and research that provide insights into why people believe what they believe, and why they behave the way they do. Topics covered include attribution theory, aggression, prosocial behaviour, group influence, norms, conformity, obedience, and attitudes. It ends with an introduction to health psychology, demonstrating how social psychological principles covered earlier in the class are applied to pressing, real-world health issues such as dietary

You'll be introduced to the main features of measurement, research design, and statistical analysis in psychology. Following a general introduction, the course presents fundamental concepts, issues, and debates in the field of research methods. You'll also become familiarised with the conceptual basis for inferential statistical testing, and introduced to different inferential statistics. Finally, a brief introduction to qualitative research methods takes place.

The overall purpose of this class is to develop your understanding of educational thought and language. Because this class is not organised around a given profession (e.g. teaching in schools) the discussion of education will be quite general and applies to any educational context, from parenting, to school, to college, to lifelong learning and informal education. 'Education and Learning' addresses questions that are at the heart of understanding what education is and what learning is. That thes

The purpose of Culture, Society, Formation is to introduce students to a sample of foundational texts which have informed and transformed our understanding of culture and society, and to consider the impact that these understandings have had and continue to have on education.

This class equips you with a broader, more advanced set of methodological and analytic skills. These skills are essential for carrying out the year 4 dissertation and for being able to read and understand articles published in academic journals.

You're encouraged to think scientifically about conceptual and practical issues related to the study of individual differences, with specific reference to intelligence and personality. You'll gain the chance to put this knowledge into practice by designing your own measurement instrument.

You'll be introduced to some of the core topics in cognitive psychology Perception and action, particularly how we perceive time and recognise faces Memory and learning, including models of episodic and working memory Language, including word production, sentence comprehension, and discourse processing Thinking, specifically problem solving, deductive reasoning and judgement and decision making.

This class reviews the ways that children develop from infancy right through to the end of adolescence. Key theories are presented and used to explore the extent to which children's development is continuous or stage-like and whether specific skills develop more quickly than others. Issues relating to infancy, 'theory of mind' (understanding ot