Birmingham University Course Assignments
Introduction

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Essentials of Applied Psychology

1 Identify one example of behaviour of current interest, either from the press/media or from your experience or professional practice. Choose two theoretical perspectives from psychology and suggest ways in which each would explain and investigate the behaviour.

Critically compare the two approaches in terms of their ability to explain and investigate the behaviour.		 68%
Planning and organisation of material:
A clear focused plan which examines three microbehaviours in details. It was good to see ethical issues included.

Use of sources:
A range of sources used, but could be more critical of the sources and comment/evaluate these.

Analysis:
Good level of analysis and critical analysis. You surfaced the underlying perspectives of the two approaches well, but could have examined the deficits of the cognitive perspective in more detail, in a more critical manner.

Presentation:
Articulate, fluent style with a few grammatical errors.

Overall comments:
You have related theory well to the case study, and included some interesting ideas.