James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

Women’s health;
Psychosocial aspects of stress;
Stress management;
Disability;
Social development;
Health psychology;
Research methods;
Cognitive representation of orthography and phonology;
Psycholinguistic variations across languages;
Neural network models of memory;
The effect of mood and arousal on the cognitive processing of information;
Applications of computers in psychology research and teaching;
Circadian rhythms;
Aging;
Gambling;
Clinical neuropsychology;
Outcome after mild traumatic brain injury;
Predicting safe driving behaviour after brain injury;
Assessment of executive functioning;
Early identification of Alzheimer’s disease;
Drug dependence;
Behavioural medicine;
Adult psychopathology;
Cognitive behaviour therapy;
Socio-behavioural aspects of primary health care;
Psychosocial rehabilitation;
Organisation development;
Staff development and training;
Intervention;
Soft systems methodology;
Tertiary teaching;
Sports and exercise psychology;
Working memory;
Face recognition;
Alcohol and cognitive functioning;
Social and emotional development in young children;
Eating disorders;
Suicide;
Critical and social psychology;
Personality;
Narrative psychology;
Stress;
Occupational health and safety;
Identity conflict;
Visual perception including stereoscopic depth perception;
Multimedia courseware design;
Human memory and attention;
Alcohol and human performance;
Psychophysical and biochemical correlates of desire for alcohol;
Social cognition and language;
Gender bias and stereotyping;
Self and social identity;
Social scientific metatheory;
Evolutionary perspectives on development;
Stress and development;
Human mate selection;
Evolution of psychological mechanisms, especially self-deception;
Visual perception: symmetry perception, orientation processing and binocular rivalry;
Visual neuroscience;
Perceptual learning and discriminations: skin cancer identification strategies;
Time perception;
Computational modelling;
Research ethics.