Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• describe how cultural and societal factors shape some core psychological processes, namely how people think, remember and perceive the world
• describe some different cultural approaches to wellbeing
• understand how early life experiences impact infant development, specifically how early visual and auditory experiences shape cognitive and language development in infants
• recognise the historical limitations of early psychological research and how this has affected psychology’s understanding of human behaviour
• appreciate the importance of incorporating diverse cultural perspectives in psychological research.