Lecture Notes

PLEASE NOTE: The notes for the 2011/2012 course will be online until the end of August 2012 after which they will be deleted.

Michaelmas Term

Oct 12   Introduction to the Brain 
Oct 19   Early Adversity and Later Development
Oct 26   Criminological Psychology and Forensic Investigation
Nov 2    Perceiving our World (week 3 - swap)
Nov 9    Evolution and Human Behaviour
Nov 16  How Can We Bring A Damaged Brain Back Into Action?
Nov 23  Individuals & teams: work, rest and play
Nov 30  Experimental Neuropsychology: Revelations from the Broken Brain
Dec 7     Humanitarian Work Psychology

Hilary Term

Jan 18    Emotional Difficulties: How Clinical Psychology can help
Jan 25    How Psychotherapy Works – empirical perspective
Feb 1     The Language Puzzle – How Babies Learn To Talk
Feb 8     Childhood Sexual Abuse and its Psychological Consequences
Feb 15   What can Experimental Psychology tell us about the Unconscious Mind?
Feb 22   Stress and Heart Disease
Feb 29   Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Personal Meaning (no notes provided for this class)
Mar 7    Social Neuroscience
Mar 14  Why Do Some Children Develop Psychological Problems And Others Do Not?