Investigating psychology

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.

• 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