Public Health and Personal Fitness
Module 5
Psychology
10 Courses
Introduction to Psychology Platform: Coursera Institution: Unviersity of Toronto Started: 10/10/2015 Finished: 09/12/2015 Foundations of Psychology Platform: Open2Study Institution: RMIT University Started: 05/01/2015 Finished: 03/02/2015 Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Chicago Started: 23/02/2015 Finished: 11/03/2019 Good Brain, Bad Brain: Basics Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Birmingham Started: 27/01/2014 Finished: 13/02/2014 What is a Mind? Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Cape Town Started: 11/09/2015 Finished: 07/07/2016 Social Psychology Platform: Coursera Institution: Wesleyan University Started: 05/06/2015 Finished: 06/07/2016 The Science of Everyday Thinking Platform: edX Institution: The University of Queensland Started: 22/06/2016 Finished: 11/03/2019 Psychology and Mental Health: Beyond Nature and Nurture Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Liverpool Started: 29/03/2018 Finished: 11/05/2018 Literature and Mental Health: Reading for Wellbeing Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The University of Warwick Started: 13/05/2018 Finished: 01/09/2018 COVID-19: Psychological Impact, Wellbeing and Mental Health Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Maudsley Learning & The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Started: 09/06/2020 Finished: 11/06/2020
7 Books
Freudian Slips: All the Psychology You Need to Know Author: Joel Levy Publisher: Michael O’Mara Books Limited Published: 2013 Started: 31/10/2013 Finished: 03/11/2013 Subliminal: The New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us Author: Leonard Mlodinow Publisher: Penguin Published: 2014 Started: 21/05/2014 Finished: 22/08/2014 The Female Brain Author: Louann Brizendine Publisher: Bantam Books Published: 2007 Started: 31/07/2015 Finished: 21/09/2015 The Male Brain Author: Louann Brizendine Publisher: Harmony Published: 2010 Started: 21/07/2019 Finished: 21/07/2019 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Author: Joshua Foer Publisher: Penguin Published: 2012 Started: 11/06/2018 Finished: 13/11/2018 Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit Author: Ian Leslie Publisher: Quercus Published: 2012 Started: 15/12/2013 Finished: 11/03/2014 Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind Author: Judson Brewer Publisher: Avery Published: 2021 Started: 18/03/2021 Finished: 25/03/2021
“People are more than the raw products of their biology and are not mere pawns of the vicissitudes of life. People are born as natural learning engines, with highly complex but very receptive brains, ready to understand and then engage with the world. We develop, as a consequence of the events and examples we experience in life, mental models of the world that we then use to guide our thoughts, emotions and behaviours.“
Peter Kinderman, The New Laws of Psychology: Why Nature and Nurture Alone Can’t Explain Human Behaviour, 2014:1
Psychological health is equally as important as physical health. Your mind and your body should not even be thought of as separate, because they are highly interdependent, and both can have a huge influence on your overall wellbeing. But the mind is subjective to each and every person and not always as easily treated when something goes wrong.
Making an effort to maintain your psychological health, even when you are completely healthy, is vitally important. Bad habits and negative thinking can come back to haunt you further down the line.
Like most people, I’ve always been interested in psychology and what makes people tick. When I was an undergraduate student, I consumed many books on the topic and I was an avid reader of the Psychology Today blog.
I’ve mostly always approached the subject from the Positive Psychology perspective of how I can use this information to improve myself (hence why I have a Positive Psychology module in my Leadership and Management concentration).
However, when I became interested in the field of neuroscience – that studies the nervous system and the physical mechanisms that empower the brain to generate conscious thinking – I started to take a more general dive into the field and theories of psychology.