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Attendance

• Is mandatory for domestic students.
• Offers are usually made early to mid-December.

Becoming a Psychologist

• Requires social perceptiveness, active listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills.

Professional Organisations

• Joining provides opportunities for learning, networking, maintaining professional standards and ethics, and public recognition.

Australian Psychological Society (APS)

• Has 9 colleges (e.g., clinical, counselling, clinical neuro) and 2 divisions (Research, Education and Training and General Practice).

American Psychological Association (APA)

• Has 54 divisions (e.g., media psychology and technology, Society for Personality and Social Psych.).

Organisational Psychology

• Focuses on workplace issues like bullying, aggression, dominance, and status.

Perception Psychology

• Examines the role of sight, sound, and touch in influencing behaviour.
• Examines the fight or flight mechanisms triggered by cues like peripheral vision, noise, and heat.

Personality Psychology

• Attributes aggressive drives to innate impulses, as proposed by Sigmund Freud.
• Acknowledges the inhibiting nature of aggressive urges in advanced animals.
• Explores personality traits linked to aggression, including trait anger, trait irritability, impulsivity, emotional susceptibility, and callous and unemotional traits (psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism).
• Considers the "Big 5" personality traits, including low agreeableness, low conscientiousness, high neuroticism, and low extraversion as potential contributors to aggression.

Relationship Psychology

• Focuses on indirect and relational aggression in relationships
• Explores topics such as domestic violence, child abuse, power dynamics, jealousy, and the influence of evolutionary psychology and relational schemas.

Social Psychology

• Attributes aggression to situational factors rather than individual personality traits.
• Considers cognitive dissonance, social cognition (schemas, scripts, learned behaviors), and media effects on aggressive behaviors.

Social Interaction Theory

• Views aggression as a tool for achieving goals.
• These goals can include obtaining something of value, seeking revenge, or projecting a specific image.

Master of Organisational Psychology

• The only accredited Organisational psychology program in NSW.
• It applies psychology theories and methods towards improving workplace well-being and behavior.
• Clients include work organizations, government agencies, employers, leaders, and employees.
• Roles include specialists, consultants, and designers in fields like recruitment/selection, psychometric assessment, talent management, leadership, and organisational development.
• Offers 4 placements in roles aligned to potential employment.

Graduate Certificate/Diploma of Business Psychology

• Covers content similar to the Master of Organisational Psychology but is not an accredited program.
• Admission is competitive and requires a Bachelor's degree with 2 years of full-time equivalent work experience at a managerial or professional level or an APAC-accredited AQF level 8 qualification (Honours 1st or 2nd class) or recognised equivalent.

Entry/Selection Criteria

• Requires APAC-approved 4th year study or equivalent in the past 10 years.
• International students need to apply for equivalence of international qualifications through the Australian Psychological Society.
• A strong academic record is required, with Honours 1st class or a strong 2.1 GPA.
• Referee reports are required.
• Strong interpersonal skills, capacity for independent/critical thinking, IELTS (if relevant), life experience, and performance in selection events.

How to Apply

• Applications are submitted through UAC.
• Requires UAC application submission, 2 referee reports through the Australian Psychology Postgraduate Reference System, and a supplementary form detailing relevant additional information.
• Shortlisted applicants are invited to attend a selection event, usually in late November.