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Eating behaviour - Explanations for the success and failure of dieting

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:01


Explanations for the success and failure of dieting

Eating behaviour - Psychological explanations for obesity

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:24


Psychological explanations for obesity, including restraint theory, disinhibition and the boundary model.

Eating behaviour - Biological explanations for obesity

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:25


Biological explanations for obesity, including genetic and neural explanations.

Eating behaviour - Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa: Cognitive

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 5:19


Psychological explanations for anorexia: cognitive theory, including distortions and irrational beliefs.

Eating behaviour - Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa: SLT

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:22


Psychological explanations for anorexia: social learning theory, including modelling, reinforcement and media.

Eating behaviour - Psychological explanations for anorexia nervosa: FST

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:43


Psychological explanations for anorexia: family systems, including enmeshment, autonomy and control.

Eating behaviour - Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:38


Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa, including genetic and neural explanations.

Eating behaviour - Neural and hormonal mechanisms in eating behaviour

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:58


Neural and hormonal mechanisms involved in the control of eating behaviour, including the role of the hypothalamus, ghrelin and leptin

Eating behaviour - Explanations for food preferences: The role of learning

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:17


Explanations for food preferences: the role of learning in food preference including social and cultural influences.

Eating behaviour - Explanations for food preferences: Evolutionary

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 4:27


Explanations for food preferences: the evolutionary explanation, including reference to neophobia and taste aversion.

Gender - Atypical gender development

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:58


Atypical gender development: gender dysphoria; biological and social explanations for gender dysphoria

Gender - The influence of culture and media on general roles

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:42


The influence of culture and media on general roles

Gender - Other explanations of gender development: Social learning

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:37


Social learning theory as applied to gender development

Gender - Other explanations of gender development: Psychodynamic

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:44


Psychodynamic explanation of gender development, Freud's psychoanalytic theory, oedipus complex; Electra complex; identification and internalisation

Gender - Cognitive explanations: Gender schema theory

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:14


Cognitive explanations of gender development, gender schema theory

Gender - Cognitive explanations: Kohlberg's theory

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:33


Cognitive explanations of gender development. Kohlberg's theory, gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy

Gender - Atypical sex chromosome patterns

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:12


Atypical sex chromosome patterns: Klinefelter's syndrome and Turner's syndrome

Gender - The role of chromosomes and hormones

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:28


The role of chromosomes and hormones (testosterone, oestrogen and oxytocin) in sex and gender

Gender - Androgyny

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 4:42


Androgyny and measuring androgyny including the Bem Sex Role Inventory

Gender - Sex and Gender

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 2:37


Sex and gender. Sex-role stereotypes

Issues & Debates - Ethical implications of research studies and theory

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 13:58


Ethical implications of research studies and theory, including reference to social sensitivity.

Issues & Debates - Idiographic and nomothetic approaches

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 4:34


Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation.

Issues & Debates - Holism and reductionism

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 4:14


Holism and reductionism: levels of explanation in psychology. Biological reductionism and environmental (stimulus-response) reductionism.

Issues & Debates - The nature-nurture debate

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 4:16


The nature-nurture debate: the relative importance of heredity and environment in determining behaviour; the interactionist approach.

Issues & Debates - Free will and determinism

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 3:35


Free will and determinism: hard determinism and soft determinism; biological, environmental and psychic determinism. The scientific emphasis on causal explanations.

Issues & Debates - Gender and culture in Psychology: Cultural bias

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 4:42


Gender and culture in psychology - universality and bias. Cultural bias including ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.

Issues & Debates - Gender and culture in Psychology: Gender bias

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 5:12


Gender and culture in psychology - universality and bias. Gender bias including androcentrism and alpha and beta bias.

Research Methods - Features of science

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 2:40


Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method; replicability and falsifiability; theory construction and hypothesis testing; paradigms and paradigm shifts.

Research Methods - Reporting psychological investigations

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 2:03


Reporting psychological investigations. Sections of a scientific report: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing.

Research Methods - Probability and significance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 2:35


Probability and significance: use of statistical tables and critical values in interpretation of significance; Type I and Type II errors.

Research Methods - Statistical testing

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 1:58


Factors affecting the choice of statistical test, including level of measurement (nominal, ordinal and interval) and experimental design. When to use the following tests: Spearman's rho, Pearson's r, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, related t-test, unrelated t-test and Chi-Squared test.

Research Methods - Reliability and validity

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 5:07


Reliability across all methods of investigation. Ways of assessing reliability: test-retest and inter-observer; improving reliability. Types of validity across all methods of investigation: face validity, concurrent validity, ecological validity and temporal validity. Assessment of validity. Improving validity.

Research Methods - Content analysis and coding

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 2:27


Content analysis and coding. Thematic analysis.

Research Methods - Case studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 2:11


Research Methods - Psychological research and the economy

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 1:00


The implications of psychological research for the economy.

Research Methods - Peer review

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 1:38


The role of peer review in the scientific process

Research Methods - Statistical testing: The sign test

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 2:36


Introduction to statistical testing; the sign test. When to use the sign test; calculation of the sign test.

Research Methods - Presentation of quantitative data

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 2:17


Presentation and display of quantitative data: graphs, tables, scattergrams, bar charts, histograms. Distributions: normal and skewed distributions; characteristics of normal and skewed distributions.

Research Methods - Measures of central tendency and dispersion

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 2:43


Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency - mean, median, mode; measures of dispersion - range and standard deviation; calculation of range.

Research Methods - Types of data

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 2:48


Qualitative and quantitative data; the distinction between qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. Primary and secondary data, including meta-analysis.

Research Methods - Self-report techniques and design

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 5:20


Self-report techniques: questionnaires; interviews, structured and unstructured. Questionnaire construction, including use of open and closed questions; design of interviews. Pilot studies and the aims of piloting.

Research Methods - Observation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 5:38


Observational techniques. Types of observation: naturalistic and controlled observation; covert and overt observation; participant and non-participant observation. Observational design: behavioural categories; event sampling; time sampling.

Research Methods - Correlations

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 1:48


Correlations. Analysis of the relationship between co-variables. The difference between correlations and experiments. Positive, Negative and zero correlations.

Research Methods - Ethical issues and ways of dealing with them

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 2:29


Ethics, including the role of the British Psychological Society's code of ethics; ethical issues in the design and conduct of psychological studies; dealing with ethical issues in research.

Research Methods- Sampling

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 3:54


Sampling: the difference between population and sample: sampling techniques including: random, systematic, stratified, opportunity and volunteer; implications of sampling techniques, including bias and generalisation.

Research Methods - Types of experiment

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 5:50


Types of experiment, laboratory and field experiments; natural and quasi-experiments.

Research Methods - Experimental Method

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 5:55


The experimental method

Biopsychology - Endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2022 5:17


The effects of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers on the sleep/wake cycle

Biopsychology - Biological rhythms: infradian and ultradian rhythms

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2022 4:32


Biopsychology - Biological rhythms: infradian and ultradian rhythms

Biopsychology - Biological rhythms: circadian rhythms

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2022 4:54


Biopsychology - Ways of studying the brain

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2022 5:09


Ways of studying the brain: scanning techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); electroencephalograms (EEG's) and event related potentials (ERP's); post-Mortimer examinations.

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