Compulsory modules

Assessment in Clinical Psychology: presents psychopathological conditions and provides a basic understanding of the underlying neuronal and cognitive-behavioural mechanisms.
Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience (provides an understanding of psychological knowledge in several inter-related domains concerned with the biological bases of behaviour) or Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology (provides an understanding of major evolutionary forces and how they have shaped animal and human behavioural capacities).
Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives: addresses the historical and philosophical background to current debates in psychology.
Developmental Psychology: offers a broad perspective spanning infancy to childhood, and a range of key topics in cognitive and social development.
Methods of Data Analysis in Psychology: advanced training in research design, statistics, qualitative methods and modelling.
Perception (develops an understanding of visual perception and its functions) or Cognition (develops an understanding of human memory and attention).
Quantitative Research in Social Science: provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of quantitative analysis - underlying principles, research design, sampling strategies, uncertainty and missing data, and some statistical approaches to data analysis.
Review: develops the ability to write a good review on a particular topic within the field of psychology.
Social Psychology: explores in depth key topics across the breadth of social psychological enquiry.

Dissertation
Student dissertations will be supervised by members of the teaching staff who will advise on the choice of subject and provide guidance throughout the research process. The completed dissertation of not more than 15,000 words must be submitted by a date specified in August