Critically discuss the role of persuasion in influencing the outcome of an election or referendum. Use psychological research and theory to support your answer.
This assessment allows students to critically analyse how psychological theory and research can help us to understand human behaviour in a broader, real-world context.
It is important that students understand how what they are learning can be applied in a broader, non-academic context.
The use of psychological theory and research is quite self-evident within the context of the practitioner disciplines, but not always in nonacademic settings.
Recommended Reading Davey, G. (2011). Applied Psychology. Blackwell: London. Holt et al (2019). Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour.
Critically discuss the role of persuasion in influencing the outcome of an election or referendum.
