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  1. 1.1 Key concepts

    1. 1.1.1Bias

      • Understand bias as a limitation in objective thinking and in research, theory, diagnosis and everyday decisions. • Consider researcher, participant, sampling, confirmation, publication, gender, cultural and cognitive biases.

    2. 1.1.2Causality

      • Understand how psychologists investigate cause-and-effect relationships between variables. • Recognize that behaviour often results from interacting factors, not one simple cause.

    3. 1.1.3Change

      • Understand how psychology explains and promotes change in behaviour, health, learning and development. • Consider planned, unplanned, gradual and sudden change, plus resistance to change.

    4. 1.1.4Measurement

      • Understand challenges in observing and measuring human behaviour. • Apply ideas such as operationalization, validity, reliability, triangulation, quantitative and qualitative data.

    5. 1.1.5Perspective

      • Understand that biological, cognitive and sociocultural perspectives each explain behaviour differently. • Evaluate how multiple perspectives can give a fuller understanding of human behaviour.

    6. 1.1.6Responsibility

      • Understand ethical and social responsibility in psychological research and application. • Consider informed consent, deception, anonymity, harm, withdrawal, animal research, stigma and advocacy.