Below are a range of works I submitted as part of my BSc in Psychology at the University of Lincoln between 2010-2013. They cover a selected range of topics on areas I read during my degree:
- vision
- face perception
- social influence
- decision-making
- motor development
- drawing skills
Click below to view them. Please reference my wordpress if citing from them.
(Recommended citation: Lennon, Henry (2015). Selected Essays (blog). Retrieved from https://henrylennon.wordpress.com/)
Cognitive Psychology
Distributed Modularity for Face Perception
Nuthsell: a number of interconnected brain structures underly our ability to preferentially process and understand faces.
Nuthsell: we actively construct the world through our senses, primarily our eyes; illusions demonstrate just how powerful this really is.
Social Psychology
How Do Minorities Influence Majorities
Nuthsell: while uncommon, minority groups can get their way in some cases, but always involve specific strategies to persuade a majority.
Nuthsell: traditionally decision-making was premised around rationality, especially in scientific disciplines; in recent times this has become more nuanced and emotion has also been acknowledged as a key driver of why we veer towards certain decisions over others.
Developmental Psychology
Maturation vs. Culture in Gross Motor Development
Nuthsell: while learning how to move can be implied as universal, there are actually deviations to this development; it’s more cultural than we take for granted.
Culture and Child Drawing Development
Nuthsell: as with moving, drawing development implies some linearity, but research suggests that it is much more reliant on contextual factors (i.e., cultural attitudes, parenting, etc.) than we might think.
Henry Lennon 