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Overview
Key facts
These foundational topics include key concepts such as evolution, genetics, neuroscience, and culture, and specific topics, such as perception, memory, cognition, decision-making, child development, psychopathology, personality, intelligence, emotion, attraction, cross-cultural differences, prejudice, norms, attitudes, social learning, social influence, and group processes.
Uniquely, London School of Economics and Political Science's Foundations of Psychological Science course will offer an integrated perspective on these topics, investigating the evolution and variation in human psychology over time, across cultures, and over the lifespan. The course will introduce the history of the study of humans and human psychology, offering students the historical context to trends in research.Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Major Approaches to Psychological Science: History of the Study of Humans and Human Evolution
- Genetic and Cultural Evolution
- Social Learning
- Perception and the Brain; Cognitive Processes
- Language, Rationality, and Reasoning
- Individual Differences: Intelligence and Psychopathology
- Individual Differences: Personality and Attitudes
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
Language
English
Credits
7 ECTS
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Psychology View 185 other Short Courses in Psychology in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
The course is suitable to students in psychology and behavioural science and also those enrolled in other programmes who wish to enrich their understanding by drawing on the psychological sciences. As well as clinical or educational applications, this course can be applied to a broad range of careers including Marketing, Human Resources and Recruitment.
Tuition Fee
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International
2950 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2950 GBP for the full programme during 3 days. -
National
2950 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2950 GBP for the full programme during 3 days.
- Student rate: £2,950
- Standard rate: £3,950
Living costs for London
1137 - 2157 GBP /month
Living costs
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