- Student Records
Programme & Unit Catalogues
SAMIS

Programme/Unit Catalogue links

Other related links

Notes

 

Department of Psychology
Unit Index 2015/16

Below is a list of units offered by the Department of Psychology in 2015/16. Follow the links on the unit codes to view individual unit descriptions. Units are sorted by level and then by period slot. To find a specific unit code or title please use your browser's find on page function.



Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)

Academic Year

PS10086 Mind and behaviour 12 Credits
PS10087 Psychology research 12 Credits

Semester 1

PS10105 Controversies in Psychology 1 6 Credits
PS10120 Representations of childhood and youth 6 Credits
PS10121 Applying psychology 6 Credits
PS10154 Being a psychologist 6 Credits

Semester 2

PS10088 Quantitative methods 1 6 Credits
PS10089 Controversies in Psychology 2 6 Credits
PS10153 Psychological skills 6 Credits

Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)

Academic Year

PS20028 Psychology placement 60 Credits

Semester 1

PS20093 Quantitative methods 2 6 Credits
PS20108 Cognitive psychology 6 Credits
PS20109 Social psychology: traditional and critical approaches 6 Credits
PS20124 Research methods and design 6 Credits
PS20152 Health psychology 6 Credits

Semester 2

PS20104 Personality and individual differences 6 Credits
PS20106 Biological psychology 6 Credits
PS20107 Developmental psychology 6 Credits
PS20125 Research project 6 Credits
PS20150 Psychopathology 6 Credits

Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)

Academic Year

PS30094 Applied psychology dissertation 18 Credits
PS30155 Psychology dissertation 18 Credits

Semester 1

PS30014 History of psychology 6 Credits
PS30083 Stress, immunity & health 6 Credits
PS30101 Psychology of pain 6 Credits
PS30102 Traffic, transport and environmental psychology 6 Credits
PS30103 Attitudes and social cognition 6 Credits
PS30115 Contemporary educational psychology 6 Credits
PS30126 Developmental psychopathology 6 Credits
PS30151 Psychology and neuroscience of blindness 6 Credits
PS30158 Forensic psychology 6 Credits
PS30159 Language development 6 Credits

Semester 2

PS30110 Psychology of risk 6 Credits
PS30113 Developmental disorders 6 Credits
PS30116 Cyberpsychology 6 Credits
PS30122 Clinical psychology 6 Credits
PS30128 A health psychology approach to loss, grief and bereavement 6 Credits
PS30129 Children and young people as consumers 6 Credits
PS30130 Organisational psychology 6 Credits
PS30156 Affective neuroscience 6 Credits

Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)

Dissertation period

PS50051 Health psychology placement 6 Credits
PS50055 Health Psychology dissertation 30 Credits

Semester 1

PS50029 Introduction to issues in health and health beliefs 6 Credits
PS50030 Biopsychosocial mechanisms in health 6 Credits
PS50031 Communication in health 6 Credits
PS50033 Advanced research design in health 6 Credits
PS50148 Multivariate statistics for use in health contexts 6 Credits

Semester 2

PS50081 Extended essay in health psychology 6 Credits
PS50112 Advanced statistics for use in health contexts 6 Credits
PS50160 21st century public health psychology 6 Credits
PS50161 Advanced qualitative analysis 6 Credits
PS50162 Informing interventions with health psychology 6 Credits