I like reading weird stuff and right now I’m not-yet-super-but-definitely-really interested in higher psychology but there’s no wikipedia profile on it. So I’m writing this.
Higher Psychology is designed to develop learners’ understanding of
the study of human behavior through the application of psychological topics,
concepts, theories and approaches. Learners will develop skills in investigating
and evaluating existing evidence and also develop the ability to plan and carry
out psychological research.
The discipline aims to enable learners to develop:
- knowledge and understanding of psychological concepts, theories,
approaches and terminology and the ability to use thinking skills when
analysing, evaluating and applying knowledge and understanding of
psychology - understanding of the role of research evidence in explaining human
behavior - investigation skills to select, organize, interpret and evaluate information
- ability to plan and carry out psychological research using appropriate
methods and according to ethical and scientific standards - communication and numeracy skills used in psychology
Requirements to study this discipline:
- Maturity
- Independent thinking
- Life experience
A profiler writes psychological profiles. Psych profile is a tool that can help crime investigators by telling them the kind of perpetrator they are seeking. To create a psych profile, an expert profiles the subject (which is why they’re called a profiler). Profiling is the act or process of extrapolating information about a person based on known traits or tendencies consumer profiling specifically : the act of suspecting or targeting a person on the basis of observed characteristics or behavior racial profiling. The development of psychological profiling began in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Behavioral Science Unit during the 1960s in an attempt to understand violent criminal behavior.
While they deal with personalities, for God’s sake don’t believe in fixed personality types. Myers-Briggs and other personality tests are BS okay.
If you’re interested in learning it in a structured way, here’s a YouTube course of Higher Psychology, where Mr. Martin explains the biological, cognitive, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, evolutionary approaches, the nature of memory and those approaches to it, multi-store model of memory, the working memory model, factors in eyewitness testimony, exam revision, specimen question, the nature of sleep & dream and approaches on it, restoration and reorganizational theory of sleep & dreams, applications of sleep research, the nature of conformity and its situational and individual factors, the Stanford prison experiment, the Milgram study of obedience and its situational and societal factors, and resisting social pressure.
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