One of the keys to understanding psychology is to know about its history and core questions.

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April 7, 2022

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Description

This 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 methods so you can see how each element is connected in the history of psychology.

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • Use the investigating psychology resource with confidence
  • Understand how the resource can be used to investigate historical and conceptual issues in psychology independently
  • Understand the interconnected nature of the history of psychology
  • Appreciate how the methods and questions asked in psychology have changed over time
  • Appreciate the conceptual and contextual issues on the development of psychology.

Course Curriculum

  • Introduction and guidance 00:10:00
  • Learning outcomes 00:10:00
    • Introduction 00:05:00
    • Introducing the CHIP resource 00:10:00
    • Investigating CHIP 00:05:00
    • Using CHIP 00:05:00
    • The ‘Narratives’ function 00:05:00
    • Influences on and from psychology 00:05:00
    • Studying psychology 00:05:00
    • Crowd psychology 00:05:00
    • Summary 00:05:00
    • Introduction 00:10:00
    • The CHIP resource 00:05:00
    • Job applications from the past! 00:05:00
    • Relationships 00:05:00
    • Methods and history 00:05:00
    • Asking questions about ethics 00:05:00
    • Summary 00:05:00
    • Introduction 00:05:00
    • Perspectives: Phenomenology 00:05:00
    • Perspectives: social constructionism 00:05:00
    • Summary 00:05:00

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