Subjects · Social and behavioural sciences
ψ Psychology
Lectures, studies, statistics and research methods, connected from first year to dissertation.
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The toolkit
- Statistics learning centreAvailable
Layered explanations, a test library, decision tree, output interpreter and interactive explorers.
- Research methods centreAvailable
Designs, validity, sampling, ethics, and a Design a Study workflow.
- Study recordsAvailable
Structured summaries of classic and current studies, linked to researchers and theories.
- BPS curriculum mapAvailable
Link your modules to the BPS core areas, spot gaps and track your reading in each area.
- Effect sizes and sample sizeAvailable
Cohen’s d and Hedges’ g with confidence intervals, paired dz, correlation intervals, partial eta squared, odds ratios, conversions, a priori sample size and standard scores.
- Experiment design helpersAvailable
Balanced Latin square counterbalancing, reproducible block randomisation and a factorial design planner.
- Scale reliabilityAvailable
Paste item scores to reverse-score items and get Cronbach’s alpha with a confidence interval, item-total correlations and alpha if deleted.
- Signal detectionAvailable
d′, criterion, β and A′ from hits and false alarms, with corrections for perfect scores and a drawing of the model.
- Method selectorsAvailable
Step-by-step choice of research design, sampling, developmental design, qualitative approach, neuroscience method and type of reliability.
- Psychology worksheetsAvailable
Thirty-two templates and checklists: operationalisation, hypotheses, confounds, ethics, power, preregistration, thematic analysis, critique, lab reports and revision.
Skills you build
- Evaluating research evidence
- Designing and running studies
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Ethical research practice
- Scientific writing (APA style)
How you are assessed
- Lab reports
- Essays
- Statistics exams
- Research proposals
- Empirical dissertation
Referencing: usually APA 7. Your department's handbook has the final word.
Learn: 261 teaching pages
Psychology has 261 teaching pages, a full course, topic by topic. Each page has a plain-English explanation with the key idea in a box, figures and worked examples where they help, check-your-understanding questions with model answers, and a reference list.
- Applied psychology and careers
- Selection and assessment
- Work motivation
- Leadership
- Teams at work
- Wellbeing and stress at work
- Human factors and ergonomics
- Organisational culture and change
- Diversity and inclusion at work
- Learning and memory in education
- Motivation, mindset and self-regulation
- Learning to read and learning maths
and 249 more.
Subject guide
261 teaching pages with figures and self-test questions, plus a starter map of 96 topics in 13 areas, with 59 key terms, 39 researchers and 30 key studies that students can add to their notes in one click. Written for Degree Margins and checked against current sources.
History and approaches
Philosophical roots of psychology · Wundt, introspection and structuralism · James and functionalism · Psychoanalysis · Behaviourism · Humanistic psychology · The cognitive revolution · Biological and evolutionary approaches · Social and cultural perspectives · Psychology in Britain and the BPS
Conceptual issues and philosophy of psychology
The mind-body problem · Free will and determinism · Nature and nurture · Reductionism and holism · Idiographic and nomothetic approaches · Is psychology a science? · The replication crisis and open science · Bias: gender, culture and WEIRD samples · Ethics and socially sensitive research
Biological psychology
Neurons and synaptic transmission · The nervous and endocrine systems · Brain structure and localisation of function · Brain plasticity and recovery · Ways of studying the brain · Biological rhythms and sleep · Genes, behaviour and heritability · Evolution and behaviour
Cognitive psychology
Perception · Attention · Models of memory · Types of long-term memory · Forgetting · Language · Thinking, reasoning and decision-making · Consciousness
Developmental psychology
Attachment · Piaget's theory of cognitive development · Vygotsky and sociocultural development · Theory of mind · Language development · Moral development · Adolescence · Ageing and the lifespan
Social psychology
Conformity · Obedience to authority · Minority influence and social change · Attitudes and persuasion · Attribution · Prejudice and intergroup relations · Social identity · Helping and bystanders · Aggression · Relationships
Personality and individual differences
Trait theories and the Big Five · Measuring personality · Psychodynamic and humanistic views of personality · Intelligence and its measurement · Nature, nurture and individual differences · Self-esteem and self-concept
Mental health and clinical psychology
Defining abnormality · Classification: DSM and ICD · Depression · Anxiety disorders and OCD · Schizophrenia · Biological and psychological treatments · The clinical psychologist's role
Forensic psychology
Explaining offending: biological and psychological theories · Offender profiling · Eyewitness testimony · Interviewing witnesses and suspects · Juries and courtroom decisions · Risk assessment · Dealing with offending behaviour
Health psychology
Stress and the body · Coping and social support · Health beliefs and behaviour change · Pain · Addiction · Adherence to treatment
Applied psychology and careers
Occupational psychology · Educational psychology · Counselling psychology · Sport and exercise psychology · Environmental psychology · Routes to chartership with the BPS and HCPC
Research methods and statistics
Experimental design · Sampling · Descriptive statistics · Inferential statistics · Regression and ANOVA · Qualitative methods · Open science
Academic and professional skills
Reading research · Writing essays and reports · Referencing · The dissertation
Accreditation and professional routes
- British Psychological Society (BPS) accreditation, giving eligibility for the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC)
Our teaching pages and tools are a study guide to support your degree, not a replacement for your lectures, seminars, reading or university materials. We take great care over accuracy, but where anything differs from what your course teaches, follow your course.