Psychology

Course summary

Topics include conformity, obedience, resisting obedience, influences on social change, memory and why we forget, eye-witness testimony, development of attachments, maternal deprivation, orphan studies, definitions of abnormality, the causes and treatments of mental disorders: phobias; depression; OCD; schizophrenia, origins of psychology, approaches to psychology, the nervous system, neurons and synaptic transmission, how psychological investigations are conducted, statistical analysis and data collection, brain localization, biological rhythms, the endocrine (hormonal) system, cognitive development, forensic (criminal) psychology.