1. Welcome back and welcome to the new BSc Psychology programme.
Level 8 Induction
Welcome back and welcome to the new BSc Psychology programme.

2. Outline Welcome from Professor Jim McKechnie Psychology Society
Year Leader
Module Information
Questions
3-4pm – direct entry students

4. Aims of today’s session
Give an overview of your new degree programme
Role of your Year Leader
Information on timetable
Importance of attendance
Introduce new modules and give information about the assessments

5. Aims of today’s session
Extenuating Circumstances (Mitigation)
Student Representatives
Personal Development Planning
Personal Tutor Groups
Enrolment
Answer any questions

6. Overview of new degree programme
BSc Psychology
BPS core areas
Level 7: intro – taster – covered some topics from the core areas - social, cognitive, individual differences
Level 8: covers social, cognitive, biological, developmental and research methods
Level 9: develops these core areas and also study individual differences
Level 10: electives, based on staff research interests, psychological theory and psychology dissertation

7. Year Leader Year Leader: Dr Lesley Calderwood
Room: M109
Telephone:
Office hours – Thursday 10-11am
you do not need an appointment during these hours, other times – make an appointment by or telephone

8. Timetable/classes
3 psychology modules in second year (1 in Trimester 1 & 1 in trimester 2 and 1 40 credit module that runs over T1 and T2).
You will choose 1 additional module per trimester from a choice of social science and science modules depending on what you studied in L7.
Lectures and seminars
Typically 2 hour slots for lectures per week
Typically 1 hour slots for seminars
You will be informed about seminar times/groups by module co-ordinators.
Personal Study

9. Optional modules Social sciences
Trimester 1: Foundations of Social and Political Thought or Power, State & Citizenship
Trimester 2: Global Society, or Social Policy & Social Change
Science
Trimester 1: Human Biology
Trimester 2: Evaluating Forensic Evidence

10. Timetable – Trimester 1 9-10am 10-11am 11-12pm 12-1pm 2-3pm 3-4pm
MON
Power, State & Citizenship
Lecture
TUES
Introductory Cognitive and Social Psychology
R101
WED
THUR
Foundations of Social & Political Thought
E337
Research Skills in Psychology
F124
FRI
Human Biology

11. Timetable – Trimester 2 Biological and Developmental Psychology
9-10am
10-11am
11-12pm
12-1pm
2-3pm
3-4pm
4-5pm
MON
Biological and Developmental Psychology
Lecture
TUES
Global Society
WED
Social Policy and Social Change
Evaluating Forensic Evidence
THUR
Research Skills in Psychology
FRI

12. Module Co-ordinators Introduction to Social and Cognitive Psychology:
Dr Carrie Ballantyne
Research Skills in Psychology:
Dr Lesley Calderwood
Biological and Developmental Psychology:
Dr Ailie Robertson

13. Reminder about attendance
You are expected to attend all classes
Make sure you sign the register!
Inform school office and module coordinator of any classes that you cannot attend
If you do not attend you will receive s/letters asking you to make contact.
It is possible that you will be withdrawn from modules for non attendance/ non-engagement.
Keep in Touch!
Conduct in classes

14. Assessment
Different modules have different types of assessment. (Programme handbook & module handbooks).
Deadlines (module handbooks).
Extensions – year leader can grant an extension of up to one week for exceptional circumstances such as ill health or personal reasons e.g. bereavement
- year leader where possible before the deadline and copy in the relevant module-coordinator
- No extensions for August re-sit diet.
Possible Outcomes (check banner)
Progression (check banner)

15. Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri 6 7 Exam/reass 8 Cog&Social CW 9 10 11 12
Level 8 T1 Psychology Assessment Map (2016)
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri 6
7 Exam/reass 8
Cog&Social CW 9 10 11 12
 Res Skills CW1 13 14
15/Exam Diet
Cog & Social Exam
ResSkills CW 1
Qual Portfolio
Cog&Social CW
Report

16. Moodle Each module will have a Moodle site
Contains module specific information/announcements/assessments etc
Check it regularly!
Also a general moodle site BSc Psychology with a separate section for L8.
Access moodle via
Also check and please use your student for contacting staff.

17. Extenuating Circumstances
Where you believe your performance in an assessment has been adversely affected by extenuating circumstances, such as an illness, then you can submit an EC Form.
The University's extenuating circumstance process is online and can be accessed via self-service banner.
The Extenuating Circumstance process guide is available to download in pdf and will guide you through the online process. 
If assistance is required, students are advised to get in touch with the Students' Association

18. Becoming a Student Representative
I will be in touch over the next couple of weeks to ask for volunteers/see if any of the L7 reps would like to continue their roles.
Time commitments but important role.
Relates to overall student experience and skill development.

19. Personal Development Planning
Develop key skills and attributes in addition to module specific knowledge.
PDP allows you to manage and monitor the development of these key skills.
Personal tutor meetings.
Also the Library and online help tools.
Build an e-portfolio via the online learning environment - mahara.

20. Personal Tutors
You will be allocated a personal tutor and this person will be your PT in L8 and L9. In L10, your PT is your dissertation supervisor.
List of PTs on moodle
Role of PT -
Get to know you
Monitor progress
PDP
Offer advice about academic career
Keep appointments!

21. Online enrolment Enrol online at www.uws.ac.uk/enrol
Has everyone enrolled?
Has everyone enrolled for the correct modules?
Speak to us at the end if you are not sure if you have enrolled on the correct modules.

22. Any questions?

23. Research Skills in Psychology
Module Coordinator: Dr Lesley Calderwood

24. Research Skills in Psychology
This is a 40 credit module that runs in T1 and T2.
This module will teach you the skills that you need to carry out research in psychology throughout your degree, culminating in your individual dissertation in 4th year.
There will be a 1 hour lecture and a 2 hour workshop most weeks.
The lectures provide you with the theory behind research methods and the workshops provide you with an opportunity to put theory into practice and develop the research skills you will need for ALL of your psychology modules – do not think about this module in isolation.

25. Research Skills in Psychology
In T1, lectures are on Thursday from 12-1pm in F124.
Workshops are on Thursdays from 1-3pm, 3-5pm, and on Fridays 12-2pm.
Workshop allocation sorted by end of week 2.
In T2, lectures are on Thursday from 10-11am and workshops are on Thursdays and Fridays.

26. Research Skills in Psychology
In the lectures, you will learn about the theory behind research methods and yes, statistics! Do not be scared.
Purpose of the workshops is to carry out real research and put theory into practice.
Study both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
You will gain experience of carrying out an interview, constructing a questionnaire, carrying out an experiment and will learn how to analyse the data using each of these methodologies.

27. Research Skills in Psychology
Assessment:
Over the course of T1, you will build up a qualitative portfolio with several pieces of work and this will be submitted in week 12. Worth 40%.
Similarly, over the course of T2, you will produce a quantitative portfolio containing several pieces of work and submit this in week 14. Worth 40%.
In T2, you will also take part in some research studies that the 4th year dissertation students are carrying out and will then write about the ethical issues involved in carrying out research. Worth 20%, submit in week 9.

28. Research Skills in Psychology
Teaching team
Module coordinator
Dr Lesley Calderwood
Module moderator
Dr Chris O’Donnell
Other teaching staff – Dr Ailie Robertson, Dr Leanne Fleming
Lectures will be delivered in T1 by myself, Dr O’Donnell and Dr Robertson
We will also take workshop groups as will Dr Fleming.
Some changes to teaching staff in T2.

29. Research Skills in Psychology
Week 2
Lecture will introduce to the idea of Psychology as a science and you will learn key concepts related to carrying out scientific psychological research.
Week 3
Workshops – you will form small groups and begin the research process.
Literature Review – draw on your skills from USW when evaluating sources.
Topics – Applied Psychology: Health and Exercise

30. Introduction to Cognitive and Social Psychology Overview and Methods
Recommended Reading
Meyers: Ch 1
Sternberg & Sternberg Ch 1

31. Overview of Course Two core areas of Psychology
Social
Cognitive
Attendance and Coursework submissions
Text books
Moodle site- seminar groups, updates etc
Assessment
CW- experimental report (50%)
Exam (50%)

32. Overview of Course Dr. Carrie Ballantyne (module co-ordinator)
Teaching team:
Cognitive:
Dr. Carrie Ballantyne (module co-ordinator)
Dr. Melody Terras
Social:
Dr. Graham Scott
Dr. Leanne Fleming

33. Cognitive and Social Research Methods
Similarities and differences in areas of interest
Same Aim: understand and explain behaviour
Psychology: Empirical Science
Experimental Method
Theory and Hypothesis Testing
Statistics
Standardised reporting
Ethics

34. What is Cognitive Psychology?
Study of mental processes involved in making sense of the environment and deciding what action might be appropriate.
Aim: Specify the processes and structures involved
Assumption: Information Processing Approach
Analogy between the mind and a Computer
Processing in people resembles that in computers
Why Computer?
Active processors of information.
Trace flow of information through the system
Representations, Structure & Process

35. Tracing the Flow of Information

36. Cognitive Psychology: Evaluation
Limitations
Strengths
Provides indirect evidence of underlying processes
Findings are often paradigm-specific and tasks lack ecological validity
Lack of an overarching theoretical framework
Ignores individual differences
first systematic approach to understanding human cognition
Versatile & Sophisticated Methods
Methodological impact within Psychology

37. What is Social Psychology?
Aims: Understand behaviour in a social contexts.
How behaviour as influenced by other people.
“the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behaviuor in social situations”. (Baron, Byrne & Suls (1989) p. 6).

38. Main Areas of Social Psychology
Social Thinking
The self, Beliefs, Attitudes and behaviour
Social Influence
Conformity & Obedience, Persuasion
Social Relations
Aggression, Altruism, Relationships
People in groups
Intergroup relations and prejudice, group influence, social identity

39. Social Psychology Research Methods
Another branch of Psychology, so uses many of the same techniques as Cognitive Psychologists.
Experiments
Hypothesis testing
Quasi-experiments
Self-reports
Surveys
Case studies and Observations
Implicit measures
Neuroscience
Qualitative Approaches
Convergence