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🧠Psychology (Aotearoa NZ)

Understand the mind, judge the studies, and know the NZ context

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What psychology actually is

Psychologist, psychiatrist, and counsellor in NZ

The biological perspective

The behavioural perspective

The cognitive perspective

The psychodynamic and humanistic perspectives

The evolutionary perspective and putting the lenses together

Te Whare Tapa Whā, a NZ model of wellbeing

Te Wheke, and holistic versus individualist models

How psychologists actually study the mind

Why correlation is not causation

Milgram and obedience, then the fine print

Asch, conformity, and the power of the group

Stanford Prison and the replication crisis

Neurons, the brain's basic unit

Three myths about the brain

Sensation versus perception

How we learn, classical and operant conditioning

Memory is not a recording

Thinking and cognitive biases

Emotion and motivation, Maslow read carefully

How we develop, attachment and Piaget

Personality, Big Five over MBTI

Social psychology, the power of the situation

Stress, health, and the mind body link

Mental health in Aotearoa, and where to get help

Being a smart consumer of psychology

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