Complutense University of Madrid

This course analyzes consumer society including how and why subjects and social groups adopt certain behaviors and consumer practices in the context of a social structure and a certain model of production and marketing of goods.

This course introduces the principles of microeconomic analysis including choice and equilibrium, competitive markets, and market failures. 

This course offers a study of the basics of marketing including its multiple dimensions, as well as consumer knowledge, market research, and strategic decision-making.. 

This course examines the main international economic organizations. It analyzes, from a theoretical and practical perspective, the implications and effects of their actions, decisions, and policies on various countries and the international economy as a whole.

This course examines the cognitive development and changes that occur from early childhood to adolescence. Topics include: perception, attention, and memory; origin of communication; sensorimotor intelligence; representation systems; language; intuitive theories; intelligence and reasoning. 

This course explores the psychology of thought including characteristics that make it adaptive and flexible and limitations such as biases, memory, and processing capacity. Topics include: cognitive models of different facets of thinking; normative theories on logical thinking and theories of probability, statistics and economics; the difference between everyday and normative thinking; the influence of evolution on human thought.

This course explores the principles of neuropsychological and psychopharmacological intervention based on scientific knowledge about the relationship between the brain, behavior, and cognitive process. It discusses diagnostic and therapeutic applications to the main types of cognitive dysfunctions, brain injuries, and mental disorders.

This course provides a study of the theoretical and methodological approaches used in teaching and learning comprehension, oral, and written expression skills necessary for the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. It covers linguistic and non-linguistic elements of oral and written communication; the relationship between speaking and writing; conversational, standard, formal and specialized styles.