Posted by alexandra_k on June 15, 2005, at 17:13:57 [reposted on June 15, 2005, at 21:50:15 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Ok, I'm ready. Falls and everyone. » Dinah, posted by Tamar on June 15, 2005, at 16:32:07
Don't know if you people have these or not...
It is basically taking all the undergrad papers for one subject. Instead of doing another whole degree (with first support and option papers etc) you can just focus on a single subject.
The program takes one year full time.
(I think part time is an option)
You have to have a prior degree.Once you have a post-grad diploma in the subject then you can enroll at grad level in the subject.
I think...
Picking up psychology at grad level without pre-requisites would pretty much doom one to failure :-(
There are necessities such as APA formatting
Proficiency with SPSS statistical analysis progam
Understanding scientific method and Interpretation of experimental findings
One also needs to work within a paradigm and it is nice to know about the different ones to make an informed decision and be able to explain how you differ from this to others.And a whole heap of other background stuff...
I remember *huge* first year psych papers...
I don't know how the 'standard' first year psych paper is run (even if there is such a thing). I had a look at MIT because they put all their lecture notes and everything on the net. But their first year psych paper most certainly is not standard (it is Stephen Pinker (or at least Stephen Pinker's doctoral assistant)) teaching his books.In general...
Because they are such huge classes multi choice seems to be the preferred form of assessment.
We also had 2 hr labs once per week. In the labs we had to do part of an experiment (from our lab book) and write one section of a report (introduction, method or whatever) in APA format to hand in the next week.
We also had a multi choice stats test in the second half of the lab.
We had 2X 2 hour lectures per week.
The topics were- Behaviourism
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuro-psychology
- Research Methods
- Human Development
- Abnormal PsychologyTo give us a bit of a taste of some different areas.
But I guess it is different in different places.
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