interact™ Secondary Psychology helps learners to gain insights into human behavior. Students explore the role of the nervous system in determining behavior; learn about processes involved in visual perception; compare the characteristics of normal waking consciousness with altered states of consciousness and learn about memory, learning and research methods. Student Home Use License contains 30 CDs and entitles 30 students to home use rights. Your school must own a network unlimited license for the specific subject of the Student Home Use License you wish to purchase.
Topic List
The Biological Basis for Behaviour:
- Cerebral hemispheres
- The spinal cord
- Sensory and motor neurons
- Somatic and automatic nervous systems
- Polygraphs
- Stress
Visual Perceptions:
- Light
- Gestalt principles
- Factors that affect visual perception
- Physiological factors that affect visual perception
- Visual Illusions
- Ponzo (the railway illusion)
- Muller-Lyer illusion
- Ames room
- The moon illusion
States of Consciousness:
- Definition of consciousness
- Normal waking consciousness
- Altered states of consciousness
- Sleep and dreams
Memory:
- Encoding, storage and retrieval
- Measures of retention: recall, recognition, relearning
- Sensory, short-term and long-term memory
- Forgetting curve
- Organic causes of forgetting
- Memory decline over a life span
- Theories on forgetting
- Enhancing retrieval and improving memory
- Mnemonic devices
Learning:
- Behaviour not dependent on learning
- Classical conditioning
- John B Watson and 'Little Albert'
- Ethical issues in conditioning human behaviour
- One trial learning
- Operant (instrumental) conditioning
- Schedules of reinforcement
- Punishment
- Elements in operant conditioning
- Observational learning (modelling)
- Learning by sight
- The influence of 'Learning Set' on future learning
Research Methods in Psychology:
- Inferential statistics
- Participant selection
- Random and stratified sampling
- Participation allocation
- Control and experimental groups
- Placebo effect and experimenter effect
- Single blind and double blind procedures
- Ways to minimise the effects of extraneous variables
- Operational hypothesis
- Inferring data
- Appropriateness of conclusions and generalisations
- Scatter diagrams
- Positive correlation
- Negative correlation
- Ethical considerations in psychological research
- Participant's rights
- Informed consent procedures
- Deception in research
- Debriefing
- Professional conduct
- Empirical research
Features
- animated visual illusions
- engaging memory games
- a range of media - text, audio, images and interactive activities
- interactive revision activities
- exam and study tips
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