BA (Hons) Psychology Bachelor's degree at Strathclyde

Explores learning theory, developmental psychology, personality, biological psychology, and the scientific basis for psychology. Taught in semester 1 with no prior knowledge of psychology expected.

Covers sensation and perception, cognitive psychology, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and research methods. Taught in semester 2.

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

Introduces social psychological theories and research providing insights into why people believe what they believe and why they behave the way they do. Topics include attribution theory, aggression, prosocial behaviour, group influence, norms, conformity, obedience, and attitudes. Ends with introduction to health psychology, demonstrating how social psychological principles are applied to health issues such as dietary behaviour, smoking/alcohol-use, and suicide.

Introduces the main features of measurement, research design, and statistical analysis in psychology. Presents fundamental concepts, issues, and debates in research methods, familiarises with conceptual basis for inferential statistical testing, introduces different inferential statistics, and provides brief introduction to qualitative research methods.

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.

Encourages scientific thinking about conceptual and practical issues related to the study of individual differences, with specific reference to intelligence and personality. Provides the chance to put knowledge into practice by designing your own measurement instrument.

Introduces 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.

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', executive function, language, and communication form the core themes.

Provides the opportunity to learn the basic principles of brain function and to address the implications of this understanding for view of how behaviour is generated. Includes coverage of electrophysiology and psychopharmacology, neuroanatomy, research methods in neuroscience. Focused sections relating to the visual system and the motor system.

Allows you to consider current ideas and positions within social psychology. Four themes drive the class: Attitudes and attitude change, covering the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Health Belief Model; Identity, with a focus on social, personal and group identities; Prejudice, connecting both attitudes and identities, and covering a broad range of areas such as social representations, stereotyping, prejudice and conflict; Epistemology, where consideration is given to the theory of knowledge

An opportunity to undertake an original piece of research, supervised by a member of staff. Dissertations can be of such high standards that they are subsequently published in peer-reviewed academic journals.

Supports students' development in applying their knowledge and understanding of psychological theory and evidence in a work setting, as well as their ability to articulate the knowledge, understanding, and skills they have developed through the placement, their studies, and other extra-curricular activities. The placement involves completing a minimum of 60 hours of active engagement within a suitable organisation. An additional 50 hours has been added to account for travel time.

Assessment: 2000 word written assessment covering: an account of their role within the placement organisation, including critical reflection on the student's professional practice; demonstration of understanding of the application of psychological theory and evidence relevant to the placement; discussion of personal and profession

Enables you to critically consider how theory and research from psychology can be applied in design of systems, services and products.

Helps you develop an understanding of the emerging field of moral psychology. Learn how this area of study has progressed from Piaget's and Kohlberg's work on moral reasoning in the mid-20th century, to modern conceptions of morality such as the social intuitionist approach and moral foundations theory. Exposes you to theories of moral judgment, empirical research findings relating to these theories, and invites you to critically apply moral psychological theories and evidence to your understand

Explores the application of psychology to the field of mental health, with the consideration of the theoretical, practical and ethical underpinnings of the mental health field. Also explores approaches to psychological assessment, formulation and treatment that are commonly used in mental health practice. Lectures cover psychological assessment, psychological formulation, overview of most common mental health problems (e.g. depression, anxiety), clinical practice and psychological interventions,

Provides an introduction to the scope of health psychology as an academic and applied branch of psychology. Introduces the theories, methods and evidence base of health psychology. Key topics include: Health Behaviour-Change; Stress and Coping; and Chronic Illness.

Introduces students to the scientific study of belief in religion and belief in / experience of 'paranormal' phenomena. The content is not concerned with the veracity of experiences or beliefs but rather how psychology can measure associated variables, explain the formation and maintenance of beliefs and examine the effect that holding such beliefs or having such experiences can have, both physically and psychologically. Students will be expected to critically evaluate experimental methodology a

A one semester class in which students will select an approved psychology topic for intensive, non-empirical study. Students will demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the conceptual and theoretical content of an area of psychology drawn from a list of approved topics.