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Diploma in Psychology
Take online psychology courses to receive your Diploma in Psychology and gain a greater understanding of theory, behavior and ethical issues.
Course Description
ALISON's free online Diploma in Psychology is an engaging course, and is packed with features to help you understand and evaluate classic and contemporary psychology. These online psychology courses are ideal for those who want to gain comprehensive understanding of the main elements of psychology, and will be of great benefit to students in their career progression.
Topics covered include classical conditioning, learning theory, the biological basis of behavior, visual perceptions, memory, and cognition.
The Research Methodology section allows you to cast a critical eye on the research process, to explore the nature of psychology as an evolving science, and understand some of the ethical issues faced by psychologists.
CERTIFICATION
To qualify for your official ALISON Diploma, Certificate or PDF you must study and complete all modules and score 80% or more in each of the course assessments. A link to purchase your Diploma certificate will then appear under the My Certificates heading of your My Account page.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of these online psychology courses, you will have an understanding of classical conditioning terms, ethical issues and more. It will teach you operant conditioning such as practice, punishment and learning aspects. You will have knowledge of psychology of attention such as visual perception, visual illusions, memory, sensory and different theories. This course will help you understand the research methods in psychology, including aspects such as ethical considerations, professional conduct, negative correlation, scatter diagram, strength of correlation when measuring a relationship between variables, placebo effect, random and stratified sampling. This course will be extremely beneficial when learning how to write references from journals, books, the internet and CD-ROMS.
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| Course Rating (By Learners): | 4 stars based on 2745 votes |
| Course Title: | Diploma in Psychology |
| Course #: | 261 |
| Course Publisher: | XSIQ |
| Course Category: | 25 |
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| Course Description: | ALISON's free online Diploma in Psychology is an engaging course, and is packed with features to help you understand and evaluate classic and contemporary psychology. These online psychology courses are ideal for those who want to gain comprehensive understanding of the main elements of psychology, and will be of great benefit to students in their career progression. Topics covered include classical conditioning, learning theory, the biological basis of behavior, visual perceptions, memory, and cognition. The Research Methodology section allows you to cast a critical eye on the research process, to explore the nature of psychology as an evolving science, and understand some of the ethical issues faced by psychologists. |
| License: | Not for download or distribution. |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2013 |
| Content | |
| Course Duration (Avg Learner): | 6-10 Hours |
| Video/Audio: | None |
| Audio Only: | None |
| Animation: | Medium |
| Assessments: | Yes |
| Education Level | |
| Age appropriateness: | 18+ Years |
| Minimum Grade/Class Level: | Third Level |
| Validation: | Level 5 |
| ALISON Testing: | Yes |
| Certification Availability | |
| PDF Download: | No |
| Parchment: | Yes |
| Framed Certification: | Yes |
Study for Free at Your Own Pace! Start This Course
Study for Free at Your Own Pace! Start This Course
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Fara Abidov
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I really would like to study in Psychology field. But at the same time I am also studying Tourism management and hospitality so
I do not enough time to study it, like attending another courses or going to the university. This type of studying will be best for me. 2016-08-27 21:08:13
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Jacob Manyuon Malual
South Sudan
Hello, I am Jacob Manyuon from the Republic of South Sudan, and the Diploma in Psychology is a very interesting course and applicable in my country were the communities are so traumatized by the effect of civil war. 2016-08-23 09:08:59
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Kazibwe Edward
Uganda
To better understand theory, behavior and ethics since they are essential in my carrier 2016-08-21 18:08:52
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Arokun Esther
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It is a very helpful and interesting course. I love studying people. I love Psychology. Thanks Alison. 2016-07-28 09:07:58
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Daltro Lucena Ulguim
Brazil
It is very important. 2016-07-27 19:07:42
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Karthikeyan karthi
India
Its very useful to our b.ed and B.Sc.b.ed students and also the teacher educators. It is very practical based diploma course. 2016-07-22 07:07:51
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Elaina Kenny
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Very concise and clear so far! 2016-07-21 23:07:14
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Abderrahim Benabbes
Libya
Is an important period and graduate certificate to improve the knowledge and can serve to upgrade the status in many fields . Also can help to understand peoples and their characters, and help to find the right solution to communicate, to lead, to teach, and to be more adapted to find solutions for different social problems. 2016-07-21 17:07:40
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Davina Zahira Charles
Grenada
The course was highly informative and educational. the materials were well presented and so i found no difficulty in achieving my objective. 2016-07-21 16:07:27
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Kingsley Amah
Nigeria
Psychology is a nice field of study. I love it. It has helped me a lot in improving my thoughts and knowledge. 2016-07-20 23:07:49
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