University of Westminster (UOW)

The lecture provided in-depth information about conformity and obedience, all factors involved, and various famous experiments in this field.

The lecture on persuasion, covers the definition, explanation of different paths to persuasion (central, peripheral route), and elements of persuasion (communicator, message, how the message is communicated, audience).

Lecture focused on self and society, covering self-concepts, the spotlight effect, memories and self, self-perception, theory on imagination, theories on social comparison, upward and downward social comparison, culture, theory of multiple selves.

This document cover the topic of Violence against women in current society. Covering female genital mutilation (types, prevalence, risks, tackling) and human/sex trafficking (prevalence, geography, focus, tackling)

Covering Prosocial and helping behavior, a range of theories and studies in this area, how prosocial we are, social norms, how we’ve been brought up, age, sex, religious beliefs, levels of empathic concern or egotistical tendencies, and how the presence of others inhibits helping.

Providing insight into the topic of language. Covers definition, diversity, hypothesis, studies on color perception, studies on focal colors, bilingualism, and restricted and elaborated code learning.

Providing an insight into decision making. Covering framework for studying decision-making, rationality, availability heuristic, anchoring and adjustment, conjunction fallacy, framing, rationality, emotion in decision making, risky decision-making.

Covers working memory. Includes the Information processing model, Atkinson & Shiffrin model, the working memory model, the phonological loop, the central executive system, Baddeley's model, long-term memory and forgetting, retrieval, interference, and false memories.

A short introduction to all basic information about memory, the types, processing, encoding and retrieval, memory organization, recall and recognition, imagery, and memory effects.

Lecture 5 covers all theories connected to vision.