Course: Research Methods in Psychology: Using Animal Models to Understand Human Behaviour

In this video, we’re going to consult with rats and pigeons. We’ll ask for their help to shed light on the power of punishments on choice behaviours, and how they’re …

Our behaviour rests on the experience of reinforcements and punishments. Reinforcement Reinforcement is a process of increasing the frequency of a given behaviour. Any stimulus/event that intensifies the likelihood of …

Have you ever asked: “How do we learn? What happens in our brain when we learn something?”. In the 1960s, James Schwartz and Eric Kandel embarked on a research program …

Do you know how neurons communicate with each other? If you ask this question to psychology students, they will easily tell you that most of the communication in our brain …

Let’s clear things up! Based on the quiz you just answered, you should already have a clue as to how much animals have helped us in understanding our learning processes. …

Now let’s conclude this video series with a famous motion illusion, rotating snakes! Try not to get too dizzy with this illusion. After watching the three videos, is there still …

Now that we’ve taken a look at the Delboeuf illusion, let’s move on to the second one in the series: the solitaire illusion. Exploring the solitaire illusion will help you …

To further unravel the nature vs. nature debate, we’ll try to pick something up from chicks. The domestic chick has become an important model for innate or inborn preferences. Watch …

Welcome to the FutureLearn course Research Methods in Psychology: Using Animal Models to Understand Human Behaviour. Did you know that we can learn a lot about humans through animal research? …