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PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology

100 levelSocial Sciences8 topics

PSY 101 covers 8 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Brief history and aims of psychology
  2. Early schools: structuralism, functionalism, behaviourism, gestalt, psychoanalysis
  3. Later schools: cognitive, evolutionary, humanistic and biological
  4. Fields of psychology (clinical, industrial, social, developmental, educational, neuropsychology)
  5. Psychology as a scientific discipline: objectivism, empiricism, determinism
  6. Methods of investigation: experimentation, observation, case study, survey, archival
  7. Relationship between psychology and other disciplines
  8. Current issues: mind and body, nature versus nurture controversies

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Brief history and aims of psychology

This topic introduces how psychology developed from philosophical ideas about the mind into a scientific discipline, and it explains the major aims of psychology. For exams, you should master the key historical milestones, know the major early schools and contributors in broad terms, and clearly state the aims of psychology as describing, explaining, predicting, and influencing behaviour and mental processes.

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