Course review
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Learning objective
• 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.
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Learning objective
• Understand how psychologists investigate cause-and-effect relationships between variables. • Recognize that behaviour often results from interacting factors, not one simple cause.
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Learning objective
• Understand how psychology explains and promotes change in behaviour, health, learning and development. • Consider planned, unplanned, gradual and sudden change, plus resistance to change.
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Learning objective
• Understand challenges in observing and measuring human behaviour. • Apply ideas such as operationalization, validity, reliability, triangulation, quantitative and qualitative data.
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Learning objective
• Understand that biological, cognitive and sociocultural perspectives each explain behaviour differently. • Evaluate how multiple perspectives can give a fuller understanding of human behaviour.
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Learning objective
• Understand ethical and social responsibility in psychological research and application. • Consider informed consent, deception, anonymity, harm, withdrawal, animal research, stigma and advocacy.
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