General Psychology WT-SBL-PSY1
course contents:
1.Consciousness: consciousness vs unconsciousness; difficulties in integrating conscious and unconscious processes; alternating states of consciousness.
2.Mind – Processing information as the basic function of the mind; types of mind, models of mind
3.Perception: perceiving as a bottom-up i top-down process; Perception from the point of view of Psychology of Personality
4.Attention: the field of attention vs field of consciousness; pre-attention processes; theories of divided attention
5.Learning: conditioned learning; motivation in learning
6.Memory: models of memory; theories of forgetting; coding information
7.Cognitive representations: imagery; debate concerning the nature of imagery; script and schemata theory
8.Thinking and problem-solving: structure and functions of thinking
9.Intelligence: measuring intelligence; theories of intelligence
10.Cognitive styles: cognitive style as an object of interaction
11.Temper; temper and other psychological structures
12.Emotions: the mechanism of stimulating emotions
13.Motivation: motivation in theoretical systems
14.Self-cognition: sources of knowledge about oneself
15.Perceiving others: peculiarity of interpersonal perception; distortions in perceiving others
assessment methods:
Students’ attendance and papers are the basic criteria of evaluation/ no grades at the end of the semester
(in Polish) E-Learning
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
(in Polish) Punkty ECTS
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Course coordinators
Bibliography
1.Myers D. (2005), Psychologia
2.Sternberg J (2000), Wprowadzenie do psychologii
3.Strelau J. (2000), Psychologia, t.2
4.Zimbardo P. (2006), Psychologia i życie
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