James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

Organisation development.
Tertiary teaching.
Selection – developing a process for Medical School selection.
Foster carers.
Various aspects of memory.
Autobiographical memory – semantic memory.
Short term memory.
Visual, spatial sketch pad.
Memory for objects.
Spatial memory.
Biological evolutionary processes.
Evolution of development.
Environment and puberty.
Human mate selection.
Female sexual choice.
Trying to understand functional world for self perception.
Conscious processing.
Unconscious processing.
Human ability to form cooperative alliances.
Love of self.
Role of self perception in personality traits.
psychological aspects of oncology.
Psychological management of cancer.
Preparing patients for stressful therapy.
Getting across the idea of risk.
The way doctors communicate risk and the way people interpret risk.
Casual judgment.
Large scale health activities in remote areas.
Womens’ health.
Health in the workplace.
Early childhood experiences.
Lawyers: practices and interactions with older clients.
Exercise programs for older people.
Cognitive changes in older people.
Psychological measurement.
Rehabilitation and chronic pain.
Relationships between orthographic and morphological information.
Spanish language production.
Parallels between English and Spanish.
Visual perception and stereopsis.
Drugs and human performance.
The locus of alcohol’s cognitive effects.
Visual perception.
Neural mechanics to form perception.
Symmetry and patterns.
Skin cancer discriminations.
Social cognition.
Attribution theory.
Heuristic biases.
Collective of guilt and responsibility.
Circadian rhythms.
Ageing.
Biopsychology of diseases.
Gerontology.
Test development of premorbid IQ.
Cognitive models of attention and exec functioning.
Mild trauma brain injury, early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.
Child ADHD.
Mild brain injury.
Forensic mental health.
Chronic offender behaviour.
Training programs for prison officers.
Menopause.
Abuse of the elderly.
Social identity theory.
Bullying in children.
Environmental management.
Environmental psychology.
Personality theory.
Multiple selves.
Recovery from injury in sport.
Identifying criminogenic need in perpetrators of domestic violence.
Support of rape victims in court.
Witnesses with learning disabilities.
Hypnosis and treatment of young sex offencers.