STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Written final exam (100%) which includes:
- Multiple choice test
- Quick Response Questions
- Judgement questions
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After the end of the course students will be able to:
- To learn the meaning of psychological terms so that other psychology texts are accessible to them.
- To know the different psychological theories.
- To think about the limits of normal and pathological behavior.
- To understand that man is an indivisible psychosomatic whole.
- To reflect on their interpersonal relationships in their professional space
GENERAL COMPETENCES
- Adaptation to new situations
- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- Respect for the natural environment
- Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking
- Teamwork
- Work in an interdisciplinary environment
- Decision making
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic psychological concepts and to capture the dynamic nature of modern psychology so that they want to learn more about this field
Course Outline
SYLLABUS
THEORY
- General information on the subject of health psychology. The science of psychology, the branches of psychology, the related specialties, the multidisciplinary team.
- Methods of psychology.
- Biological background of behaviour.
- Individual differences. Sources of individual differences. Assessment of individual differences.
- Behavioural theory and learning.
- Classical learning, collaborative learning, social learning.
- Psychoanalytic theory. Freud, the structure of mental apparatus, defence mechanisms, psychosocial development, personality types and their characteristics in psychoanalytic theory.
- Cognitive approach.
- Humanitarian approach.
- Psychology of pathology.
- Psychotherapy techniques. Historical background, psychotherapeutic models.
- Critical periods in development, the importance of early experiences, the stages of Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development.
- Infant, preschool, school, teen, juvenile, middle age and elderly.
- Health and the science of psychology.