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Investigating psychology

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One of the keys to understanding psychology is to know about its history and core questions. This free course, Investigating psychology, allows you to explore psychology using an interactive resource. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover information, images and links from across psychology. The resource also links each of these people, contexts, perspectives and methods so you can see how each element is connected in the history of psychology.

Syllabus

  • Introduction and guidance
  • Introduction and guidance
  • Learning outcomes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Session1Session 1: Asking questions about psychology
  • Introduction
  • 1 Introducing the CHIP resource
  • 2 Investigating CHIP
  • 3 Using CHIP
  • 4 The ‘Narratives’ function
  • 5 Influences on and from psychology
  • 6 Studying psychology
  • 7 Crowd psychology
  • 8 Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Session2Session 2: Exploring psychology
  • Introduction
  • 1 The CHIP resource
  • 2 Job applications from the past!
  • 3 Relationships
  • 4 Methods and history
  • 5 Asking questions about ethics
  • 6 Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Session3Session 3: Qualitative methodologies and CHIP
  • Introduction
  • 1 Perspectives: Phenomenology
  • 2 Perspectives: social constructionism
  • 3 Summary
  • Where next?
  • Acknowledgements

Reviews

4.0 rating, based on 6 Class Central reviews

4.6 rating at OpenLearn based on 18 ratings

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  • Disappointing Experience with Faulty Course Functionality
    Despite following all technical best practices and verifying no user-side errors, the course consistently failed to track my progress. Refreshing the page, switching browsers, and clearing cache had no effect—progress remained unregistered throughout. Additionally, the actual course material was significantly longer than advertised, making the time estimate misleading and impractical for structured learning.
    This disconnect between description and delivery suggests a clickbait approach rather than a genuine educational offering. Unfortunately, the experience amounted to a complete waste of time. I expected better reliability and transparency from a credentialed platform.
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    Азизхан Ержанов
    i think this course was very well made, it had a lot of great tasks that really made me intersted in the topic, i learn lots of many things about psychology and how it works, and also many people who helped to shape it in the way it is now. i also enjoy the site structure and how it works, with this chip device that not only give solution to questions is also very great way to learn more about the subject. i think this assigment was very great! and i would like to study it more!
  • Anonymous
    This psychology course was very interesting and useful. I learned how to understand human behavior, emotions, and thinking better. The lessons helped me improve my self-awareness and communication skills, and I can use this knowledge in real life
  • Медина Кызылкул
    This psychology course was very interesting and useful. I learned how to understand human behavior, emotions, and thinking better. The lessons helped me improve my self-awareness and communication skills, and I can use this knowledge in real life
  • Anonymous
    This psychology course was very interesting and useful. I learned how to understand human behavior, emotions, and thinking better. The lessons helped me improve my self-awareness and communication skills, and I can use this knowledge in real life.
  • Anonymous
    From this course I learned a lot about the psychology of the history of psychology, as well as scientists who studied different types of psychology, such as critical psychology, etc., and about the periods of evolution of people's thinking.

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