Course topics.

Try this with Psychology

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Sensation, perception and attention
• The multi-store model of memory
• The working-memory model
• Brain structures, Henry Molaison and memory
• Remembering, levels of processing and rehearsal
• Forgetting and causes of memory loss
• Classical conditioning and designated studies
• Operant conditioning and designated studies
• Social learning and behaviour modification
• Ethics, designs, sampling, data and research evaluation
• Sources of motivation and self-determination theory
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs
• Diener's subjective and Ryff's psychological wellbeing
• Stress, stressors, eustress and distress
• Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
• Holmes–Rahe stimulus model and the SRRS
• Transactional stress, appraisal and coping
• Sleep purpose, circadian rhythm and stages
• Sleep deprivation, sleep hygiene and improvement
• He et al. (2020) and evaluating sleep research