CoursePSY502

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This week’s topics

Defining intelligence

Defining intelligence
Psychometric theories (Spearman, Burt and Vernon, Thurstone, Guilford)
Fluid and crystallised intelligence
Gardner

What you will be able to do

1.1 Analyse the similarities and differences between definitions of intelligence.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the similarities and differences between definitions of intelligence.

Study materials

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Course plan

Week 1: Defining intelligence
Week 2: Intelligence testing: Stanford-Binet, Wechsler, Army Alpha …
Week 3: Heredity vs environment: twin (Minnesota), adoption and fam…
Week 4: Classifying personality theories: nomothetic vs idiographic
Week 5: Psychometric approaches: Eysenck and Cattell, the Big Five
Week 6: Applying criminological psychology: age, gender and offendi…
Week 7: Theories of criminal behaviour: personality and criminality…
Midterm: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Offender profiling and investigative psychology: Canter’s a…
Week 10: Situational crime prevention, punitive prison regimes and t…
Week 11: Practical and ethical problems in profiling offenders; cour…
Week 12: Assessment workshop: drafting against the assessment criter…
Week 13: Supervised completion and submission
Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Final: Final assessment and submission

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