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Investigating psychology
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Investigating psychology

...psychology is to know about its history and core questions. This free course, Investigating psychology, allows you to explore psychology using an interactive resource. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover information, images and links from across psychology. The resource also links each of these people, contexts, perspectives and...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Cognitive Psychology
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Cognitive Psychology

...psychology's most complex questions: what does it mean to be a conscious human, and what purposes our consciousness serves. This material forms part of The Open University course DD303 Cognitive psychology... Cognitive Psychology A short introduction to this album. What is consciousness? What does consciousness mean? How artists, writers and scientists understood...
Festival of Psychology
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Festival of Psychology

...psychology talk about their research and areas of work...These presentations, given by speakers from universities across Wales, provides an opportunity to: Learn about excellent psychological research happening in Wales and beyond Understand the impact psychological research has many areas of everyday life Hear about the breath of areas in psychology and the diversity...
Exploring Psychology
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Exploring Psychology

...psychology? The audio tracks feature disabled people who reflect on how disability has affected their sense of identity. Also featured are the cases of twins who didn't grow up together, people coping with memory loss, and the famous case of the soprano Lisa-Lee who discovered in her twenties that a rare genetic disorder meant she was actually a girl, not a boy. Studying...
Audio 1 hr 33 mins
Psychological profiling
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Psychological profiling

...psychological profiler. He has helped police solve some of the country's most shocking crimes. How did he get started?...[Paul Britton] "Unless I help to get it right then someone who is hurting people might very well stay out there, continuing to hurt them." "I had a telephone call from the head of CID in Leicestershire, explaining that they had a murder that they hadn't...
The psychology of cybercrime
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The psychology of cybercrime

...psychology of cybercrime, you will explore different questions about cybercrime from a psychological angle in an attempt to better understand this relatively recent field of psychology. You will consider the realms and limits of cybercrime, distinguishing between the different types of cybercrime (e.g. trolling, cyber-stalking, fraud, hacking), the experiences of being...
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Forensic psychology

...psychology, you will discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice...Explore how your own mind works, and discover how the limitations of the human brain can lead to major miscarriages of justice. Despite advances in forensic science, eyewitness testimony remains a critical component of...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Starting with psychology
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Starting with psychology

...psychology, makes a start...The most 'important and greatest puzzle' we face as humans is ourselves (Boring, 1950, p. 56). Humans are a puzzle, one that is complex, subtle and multi-layered, and it gets even more complicated as we evolve over time and change within different contexts. When answering the question 'what makes us who we are?' psychologists put forward a...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs