Psychology Course

10 articles

• Personality and Social Psychology — the Five-Factor Model, the Person–Situation Debate, Attitudes and Persuasion, Prejudice and Contact, and the Replication Crisis How many dimensions describe personality? Do people act according to their personality or the situation? The Big Five and HEXACO, cognitive dissonance and the elaboration likelihood model, contact that reduces prejudice, and psychology's replication crisis — closing the course at university level.
• Learning — Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Learning, Observational Learning, Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation How does experience change behaviour? Pavlov's dogs and the Garcia effect, Skinner's schedules of reinforcement and the limits of punishment, Tolman's cognitive maps, Bandura's Bobo doll experiment and self-efficacy, and the overjustification effect in which rewards dampen interest, at university level.
• Developmental Psychology — Research Methods, Cognitive, Socioemotional and Language Development, Adolescence and Adulthood How do people grow up and grow old? From research designs for studying development to Piaget and Vygotsky, theory of mind, attachment and temperament, sensitive periods for language, the adolescent brain, adult intelligence and emotion in old age, at university level.
• Cognitive Psychology — The Structure of Memory, Encoding and Retrieval, Forgetting and Distortion, Attention, Thinking and Problem Solving How is memory structured, and what makes things stick? Working memory, levels of processing, retrieval practice and spacing, memory distortion, the bottleneck of attention and problem solving — the core research of cognitive psychology at university level.
• Clinical Psychology — Psychological Assessment, the Limits of Diagnostic Systems, Evidence-Based Treatment and Common Factors How do clinical psychologists assess mental health problems and choose treatments? Reliability and validity of tests, the projective-test debate, the DSM and dimensional models, evidence-based treatment, common factors such as the therapeutic alliance, and combining medication with psychotherapy, at university level.
• Foundations of Psychology & Human Behavior Explore the definition of psychology and its major schools (Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Cognitivism, etc.) and learn how the human mind is studied scientifically.
• How We Grow: Developmental Psychology Study the physical, cognitive, and psychological changes humans experience from birth to death, focusing on the major theories of Freud, Erikson, and Piaget.
• The Engine Within: Motivation, Emotion, and the Dynamics of the Mind Explores the roots of motivation that drive human behavior and the nature of the emotions we feel. From Maslow's hierarchy of needs to modern people's emotional regulation strategies, we gain a dee...
• Shadows of the Mind: Abnormal Psychology and the Journey of Healing Exploring the complex spectrum of mental health. We psychologically examine the definition of abnormal behavior, the diagnostic criteria for major disorders, and the multifaceted healing approaches...
• The Science of Happiness: Positive Psychology and Fulfilling Living Beyond deficiency and disease, we explore the essence of human strength and happiness. Starting with Martin Seligman's PERMA model, we present specific psychological strategies for flow, resilience...