University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

Introduction to Philosophy Summary Study Notes/ Exam prep- Descartes Meditations (Cartesian Doubt, The Dream + Evil Demon Arguments, Cogito, Trademark + Ontological Arguments etc.) Some possible exam questions with answers.

Overview of medications commonly encountered in clinical practice/ clinical placement (indications, counter-indications, usual dosages for adults, side effects). Overview of the symptoms, treatment approaches of some common physical health conditions: Type-2 Diabetes, Hypertension, UTI and Hypercholesterolemia Atherosclerosis. Referencing style: Harvard

Overview of the key features, advantages and disadvantages of overt and covert participant observations, unstructured interviews and the case study method. (Some famous research examples are also listed.)

For this assignment, I decided to try to reduce my intake of foods and drinks high in refined sugars. The following report looks at how this eating behaviour and behaviour change might be influenced by personality and exercise, as well as how they may be explained by the Health Behaviour Model. Grade: A, Referencing style: APA

Research Proposal Assignment: A longitudinal, single-arm nutrition intervention study with a pretest-posttest design was proposed to investigate the effect of a pescatarian diet on the cognitive performance of older adults with type-2 diabetes mellitus. Grade: A, Referencing style: APA

Psychology Undergraduate Research Report with Appendices A mixed methods study was conducted to investigate the effect of time pressure on moral decision-making. (Stage 1- experiment with an independent groups design, Stage 2- interviews). Referencing style: APA

Overview of the key features, strengths and weaknesses plus some key theorists of structural functionalism, social conflict theories (Marxism and Feminism), symbolic interactionism (labelling/social reaction theory also described).

Summary Study notes on moral, cognitive, social development and language acquisition: Overview and evaluation of Kohlberg's, Eisenberg's, Piaget's theories, the cupboard love theories of attachment, Bowlby's and Ainsworth's contributions to our understanding of attachments, different parenting styles and their effects on development, ACEs, plus Chomsky and Skinner on language development etc. Referencing style: APA

Summary Study Notes Personality Psychology: Overview and evaluation of trait theories (Eysenck's Trait Theory, Norman's FFM, Costa and McCrae's Big Five), Jungian model of psyche and psychological types (Type Theories; MBTI, KTS), Freud's model of personality and stages of psychosexual development, Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. Referencing style: APA

Memory Psychology Notes: Description and evaluation of the Multistore Model of Memory (MSM), the Working Memory Model (WMM), 3 theories of forgetting: Interference theory, Cue-dependent Forgetting and Motivated Forgetting, overview of encoding, storage (capacity and duration) and retrieval in STM and LTM as well as factors that can affect eyewitness testimony (post-event information, social pressure, cultural variations, emotions and arousal).