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This course develops skills for conducting psychological evaluations through individual interviews in order to perform diagnostic, intervention, and clinical research functions.
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In this course, students design social intervention programs from a promotional approach. Students also develop social intervention programs based on the self-directed school.
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This course introduces students to key concepts and research in the study of developmental psychology, with particular focus on cognitive development, social and emotional development, moral development, and gender development.
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This educational psychology course covers how humans learn and remember information. Topics are approached from the perspectives of Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism. Using different learning theories, the course discusses the most effective ways to learn and the best ways to build educational material. How people process information is covered, along with how people develop over time, how they behave in different learning situations, and the differences between beginners to experts. The course has both historical and current perspectives.
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The course discusses research on the dynamics of peer interactions, their impact on multiple aspects of social development, and the risk factors and consequences of peer difficulties in childhood and adolescence. In particular, the course emphasizes the importance of peer relationships for emotional competence, psychological well-being, and achievement. The course reviews how individual characteristics interact with family, group, and contextual factors throughout development to shape social behavior. Each topic is presented with a brief theoretical overview, measures and methods used in research, research findings and implications, and future directions. The course discusses topics including conceptual origins of peer research; overview of concepts and methods of assessment of peer relations; individual characteristics, contextual factors, and peer interactions; group dynamics and their effects on peer relations; and methodological issues in studying peer relations. The course requires students to have basic knowledge of developmental social psychology and research methods as a prerequisite.
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This course uses PS1001 and PS1002 (taught at the University of St Andrews), as the foundation for a more advanced treatment of a number of areas in psychology. Course PS2001 complements PS2002; together, the two courses involve advanced treatment of the following areas of psychology: the relations between brain and behavior; cognition; perception; comparative aspects of behavior; social and health psychology. It also contains a methodology component covering laboratory and field techniques; no methodological grounding beyond PS1001 and PS1002 will be assumed.
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Topics in this Psychometrics course include: foundations of measurement and scaling models; construction of psychometric tests; item analysis; reliability; validity; standardization and test manual.
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This course introduces students to a variety of theoretical models, tools, and techniques which explore psychological well-being and their applicability in personal and professional development, and in the business world. These models are used as the basis for developing self-awareness, personal and professional strength and growth, and evaluating how these can be fostered in others, in order to achieve a positive impact on personal, professional, and organizational performance, through adaptability and change.
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This course is intended to provide an introduction to psychological researches on human love. It will focus on love and attachment. The course is the study of the underpinnings of love and the ways from infant attachment to adult attachment. How to earn your credit Grades will be based on attending course (30%), an essay on your own attachment experience (20%), a final paper (30%), and participating my experiments (20%).
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The course consists of topics including pre-natal development: central nervous system maturation; post-natal development: neuroplasticity; neural network development; investigation techniques in neuropsychology of vision in infants and old people; and how to use eye-trackers with practical demonstration in lab; neurobiology of ADHD and of learning disabilities; eye movements and eye-tracking in infants and old people; the aging brain; and neurovisual problems in the elderly.
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