Psychological Literacy Flashcards
What is the goal of a capstone unit?
- Make students aware of graduate capabilities they have developed
- Help students consolidate and synthesise discipline specific knowledge and skills learned in different units in psychology
- Facilitate student reflection on how undergraduate learning might be used to explain everyday behaviour
- Use 1 - 3 above to facilitate employability
What is the employability of psychologists?
- About 25% of psychology graduates go on to further education or professional training in psychology
- Many work in psychology related fields: mental health workers, counsellors, case-workers, welfare workers, social services
- Others work in the knowledge economy
True or False in 2018 via the QILT MQ psych graduates were the most employable in Sydney
TRUE
What are the important attributes a graduate should have?
- Communication skill
- People skills and emotional intelligence
- Teamwork; fits in, aligns well with org. culture
- Problem solving
- Ability to negotiate
- Being well organised
- Motivation and perseverance
- Works well under pressure
- Confidence
- Leadership
- Understands core business of employer
What is scientific literacy?
Central: The capacity to apply your skills and knowledge to everyday life and the workplace
The OECD PISA Framework (2015) defines scientific literacy as:
“the ability to engage with science-related issues, and with the ideas of science, as a reflective citizen.”
Required for:
* Personal decision making
* Participation in civic and cultural affairs
* Economic productivity.”
If you are scientifically literate you should be able to:
- Read with understanding, and interpret, articles about science, and engage in social conversation about the validity of the conclusions of what was read.
- Ability to describe, explain and predict natural phenomena
- Ask, find, or determine answers to questions derived from curiosity about everyday experiences.
- Identify scientific issues underlying world/national issues/decisions and express scientifically informed positions.
- Evaluate the quality of scientific information on the basis of its source and the methods used to generate it.
- Pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence and to apply conclusions from such arguments appropriately.
- Understand the science relevant to environmental and social issues.
- Communicate clearly about science.
- Make informed decisions about social and environmental issues.
- Understanding the basic concepts and principles of psychology
- Understanding scientific research practices
- Having problem solving skills
- Applying psychological principles to personal, social or organisational problems
- Acting ethically
- Thinking critically
- Communicating well in different contexts
- Having cultural competence and respecting diversity
- Having self-awareness: being insightful and reflective about your own behaviour and that of others
Simple definition of psychological literacy:
Thinking like a psychologist across multiple spheres of life
Reflecting on these thoughts
Using these thoughts and reflections to the betterment of society
This includes ‘calling things out’ sometimes
Describe heurisitcs
analytics approach
5 machines
47 days
Why do visual illusions like the famous blue/gold dress happen?
Witzel et al 2017
“the striking individual differences in dress colour perception are due to individual differences in the interpretation of illumination cues to achieve colour constancy.”
What are some reasons Adam Goodes may have been booed?
