If you want to improve your psychological knowledge in a way that is more fun than just studying and trying to memorise, I recommend reading a popular science book. You will be surprised how often the ideas in these books pop up in your actual course! And you’re far more likely to actually understand these ideas having read about their wider context.

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My top 10 psychology(ish) books for psychology students.

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari https://amzn.to/3X7jJ2j
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre https://amzn.to/3CNcxAd
The Psychopath test by Jon Ronson https://amzn.to/3H2kmEF
The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine https://amzn.to/3XkAZRg
The Brain by David Eagleman https://amzn.to/3W8fdiK
Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg https://amzn.to/3kdEeLY
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks https://amzn.to/3WaF4qj
Humankind: A Hopeful History By: Rutger Bregman https://amzn.to/3Xwt2s2
The Psychology book by Nigel Benson https://amzn.to/3Xt3xIl
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt https://amzn.to/3XaOOlo

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This video includes:Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method; replicability and falsifiability; theory construction and hypothesis testing; paradigms and paradigm shifts.

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Created for the requirements of AQA A level psychology. However, information should be useful for students of other psychology courses.

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0:00 Intro
1:55 Scientific concepts
2:07 Empirical Method
2:54 Objectivity
4:52 Replicability
5:32 Falsifiability
7:12 Paradigm shift
9:54 Stages of scientific theory construction
11:54 Outro