Birmingham City University (BCU) • Bsc Psychology

This is a complete lab report from Level 6. They topic is "Attitude Change towards Medical Marijuana: Manipulating Message Sidedness and Communicator Expertise". This document includes 26 APA formatted references and all of the appendices, including all forms, questionnaires and spss outputs.

This is an essay in Biological Psychology on the topic of Aetiology of Major Depressive Disorder: The Monoamine Theory and Neuroanatomical Changes. This assessment includes 28 references, is formatted in APA style and has received a grade of 75%.

This is an assessment in Infancy called "Development of Morality: An Examination of literature and theory from a modern perspective." This assessment has 35 references, is formatted in APA style and received a grade of 72%

This is a Level 6 assessment in Gender and Sexuality. It is comprised of three essays answering the following questions: To what extent do you agree that gender is socially constructed? To what extent do you agree with Adrienne Rich’s argument that heterosexuality is compulsory? How does the media shape meanings around gender and sexuality? This assessment has in total 53 references formatted in APA style and received 84% grade.

These notes cover definition of attraction, determinants of attraction, and then explanations and limitations of all the determinants of attraction, beauty bias, reciprocity, attachment theory, and romantic relationships. Really good as an outline for an essay or exam question.

These lecture notes cover definitions of groups, two approaches to understanding groups, productivity of groups vs individual, social facilitation, arousal and narrowing of attention, evaluation apprehension, self-expectations, social loafing, gender and cultural differences, group problem solving, deindividuation, ABC's of group perception, stereotype threat, diversity, discrimination. These notes are extensive and have lots of studies and examples. Really good as introduction to groups or for ...

Includes Freud, psycho, bio, social approaches to aggression, types of aggressive behaviour, culture, gender, situational factors, individual factors, models of aggression, excitation-transfer, socio-cognitive model, social learning theory, criticism of the Bobo doll study, TV and violence, media violence, pro-social behaviour, egoism vs altruism, Kitty, bystander effect, biological approach to helping, genes, social learning approach, moral reasoning, cultural norms. These notes are very extens...

This document covers a Social Psychology lecture on Attitude Change. It includes attitudes, attitude change, message-based persuasion, persuasion, motivational theories, Yale approach, elaboration likelihood model, cognitive consistency, cognitive consistency theories, balance theory, cognitive dissonance theory, self-perception theory, resisting attitude change, attitude inoculation, awareness of product placement, reactance theory, predicting behaviour from attitudes, two key models of behavio...

These are lecture notes from Social Psychology lecture on Attitudes. They cover definition of attitude, ABC model, availability and accessibility of attitudes, attitude formation, measurement, attitudinal ambivalence, examples, and theories such as direct experience, mere exposure effect, self perception theory and social representation theory. Great as exam revision.

These are notes from Social Psychology lecture on Cults. It covers gender differences, personality differences, culture, resisting social pressure, minority influence, consistency, differences in process and effect, definition and characteristics of a cult (C.U.L.T.), obedience to authority, how people get sucked into cults from attending the first meeting, the methods and processes of a cult, obedience.