Course: Basics in Psychology and Psychosocial Factors (Research Master)

Frequency:
Once per year, September - November

This course is primarily intended for Research Master students. PhD students can only participate if there is enough space.

The course gives an overview of major theories and concepts of psychology so that students will be able to describe and explain key concepts and theories of psychology. Each Module covers several of the book chapters and concepts and theories in psychology. The Modules are:

• Research Methods and Social Psychology
• Learning & Motivation
• Development & Personality
• Memory & Reasoning    

In each Module, students follow a teacher-driven lecture and a student-driven seminar. For the student-driven seminar, students will work on group assignments and prepare the seminars based on the chapters belonging to each theme. A focus point will be how the concepts in the book relate to serious illness.

Duration: 8 ECTS for 4 Modules/themes (2 per Module), PhD students or post-docs of the GSMS can choose one or more Modules to follow.

Teaching methods: Lectures, interactive seminars

Evaluation: Attendance for the two lectures per Module, involvement in interactive seminars (sufficient/insufficient), written exam (multiple choice and essay questions).

Material: Peter Gray, Psychology (8th edition), Worth Publishers
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Assignments provided during the lectures.

Objectives: After this course, the student:

• Can define psychology and explain the focus of psychological working areas
• Can describe the research methods in psychology and its possible pitfalls
• Can describe the most important theories within and related to psychology (e.g. classical and operant theories of learning, information processing theories, reasoning and intelligence, and social theories)
• Can describe the most important concepts within and related to psychology (e.g. aspects of intelligence, child development & language, attitudes, social perception and social norms)
• Can apply the concepts from the book on the context of health or illness 

 

Registration deadline

Four weeks prior to the start of the course

EC (with exam)

8

Course coordinators

• Prof. Mariët Hagedoorn
  
• Marrit Tuinman, PhD
  

Language

English

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