Introduction to Psychology

This module introduces psychology as an empirical and behavioural science.

The aim is to provide students with a broad overview of the different questions covered in psychology. The emphasis of the course is thus two-fold: (1) provide students with an introduction to the diversity and richness of the discipline of psychology; (2) acquaint students with the important questions and approaches used by psychologists to answer those questions. These approaches would include looking into the biological bases of behaviours, and the approaches of developmental psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, and abnormal psychology respectively.