Psychology

This course offers a study of ethology and evolution of behavior. It analyzes the relative importance of different ecological and social factors that shape behavior, as well as how evolution and adaptation contribute to the development of individual and social behavior. Through evolutionary reasoning, it examines the socio-spatial, sexual, and reproductive behavior in the human species and in other animal species.

This course introduces different approaches to learning and memory including behavioral, computational, and cognitive. It analyzes recent findings in neuroscience, qualitative and quantitative models of learning, real-world examples, and clinical cases.

This course provides an advanced evaluation of psychological knowledge on human reasoning that builds on the foundation provided in the PS1234 Thinking module. It familiarizes students with the core theoretical and methodological issues in the scientific study of human reasoning and decision making. The course helps students to develop a critical assessment of experiments on human social reasoning, including moral judgment, intentional reasoning, and reasoning about social dilemmas. It facilitates students in the formulation of rigorous evaluations of experimental studies of human hypothetical thought, including conditional reasoning, counterfactual thought, causal reasoning, and argumentation. It fosters a critical appreciation of experimental investigations of decision making, including planning and risky choices

This course presents the origin, development and methodology of the different approaches to the study of human social behavior. It also explores the processes of social behavior; social attitudes; patterns of interpersonal relationships, psychological structure, and the functions of various groups.

This course provides students with an overview of practices within, and applications arising out of, the discipline of psychology. It is designed to introduce students to the many areas of psychology and provides an essential grounding in the discipline and the basis for further study in the School of Psychology.