Psychology

Maria Grzegorzewska

ECTS: 8
Semester: all

Key words: Psychology, personality, emotions, memory, stress

Psychology (print)

Course description:

• Sensationand perception (phenomenon of sensory adaptation)


• Cocktail-party phenomenon?


• The systems of memory (Enumerate the sub-systems of long-term memory, the reasons why we forget)


• Emotions


• Three systems of personalityaccording to S. Freud.


• The views of Freud’s early followers: Adler, Jung and Horney


• Milgram’s experiment


• Stress. What is GAS? What are its stages?


• Coping strategies


• What role does cognitive dissonance play in changing attitudes?


• Empathy-altruism hypothesis

Literature:

• Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook by Michael W. Eysenck and Mark T. Keane


• Psychology: An International Perspective by Michael Eysenck


• Social Psychology by Eliot R. Smith & Diane M. Mackie


• Representations, Community and Culture by Sandra Jovchelovitch


• A General Theory of Emotions and Social Life by Warren D. TenHouten

Grading system:

Exam

Comments:

Course is given on individual tutorial basis.