The core areas covered in this degree programme are: biological psychology (e.g. how the brain works, and how drugs can alter its functioning; how we treat schizophrenia, depression, or anorexia nervosa); cognitive psychology (e.g. how we remember, learn, think, reason, perceive, speak and understand); developmental psychology (e.g. how humans develop mentally, socially and physically during childhood and adolescence); social psychology (e.g. how humans are affected by others; how crowds and groups behave); personality and individual differences (e.g. why some people are more introverted than others; how we can measure intelligence); conceptual and historical issues (e.g. how psychological explanations have changed over time); research methods (e.g. experimental design; data collection using experiments, surveys, observation and other methods; data analysis and interpretation); there are also further specialist options in 3rd and 4th year, such as psychology and the law, psychology of education, animal psychology, sports psychology, psychology of language, face recognition, psychopharmacology etc.
