Psychology

This course uses PS1001 and PS1002 as the foundation for a more advanced treatment of a number of areas in psychology. The course involves advanced treatment of the following areas of psychology: the relations between brain and behavior, cognition, perception, comparative aspects of behavior, and social and health psychology. It also contains a methodology component covering laboratory and field techniques; grounding in the methodological skills of PS2001 will be assumed.

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.

Social psychology studies the psychology and behavior of individuals and groups in social situations and their development patterns. This course will cover the important concepts and theories in mainstream social psychology,including how individuals look at themselves and others,critical thinking about social phenomena, human aggression and helping behavior, attitude formation and change, social influence and its performance, the foundation of interpersonal relationships and intimacy, group psychology and behavior, how culture affects people, the psychosocial factors that affect human health, and the latest positive psychology. This course focuses on the application of social psychology in social life, the formation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships, principles of interpersonal communication and conflict resolution, and a smooth team work.This course will also focus on contemporary scholars' researches on human psychology and behavior under different cultural backgrounds. Through this course, students will master the research contents, research methods and major research results of social psychology and better understand social life and events.

Educational psychology is an advanced freshman/sophomore-level course in the field of education. It is the study of classroom learning and teaching. This course provides an introduction to the concepts and theories of educational psychology and explains how they can be applied to actual situations. Topics include characteristics of learners, principles of learning, and principles of teaching. This course aims to construct students’ general knowledge and skills on learning and teaching activities, and to demonstrate the practical educational implications derived from each theory. It is expected that students will be able to become efficient learners in their future study.

Through the analysis of specific cases of communication in different situations and the systematic study of relevant theories, students can understand the basic theories of communication and master the methods to improve communication efficiency in different situations. Through a series of case discussions, students are trained to analyze and solve interpersonal conflict, team management, negotiation, cross-cultural adaptation and other related problems in practice by combining relevant theories. At the same time, through actual research and reporting, students will be trained to discover, analyze and solve problems, as well as expression and teamwork skills.

In today's society, with the process of globalization and informatization, people are more and more exposed to individuals and groups with different backgrounds. How to communicate with different individuals? How to improve the efficiency of the team? How do you adapt to a new environment?

Through the study of this course, students will be able to better understand and master the theory and skills of communication, management and negotiation in life and work.

This lecture aims to introduce knowledge and psychological approaches regarding the diagnosis, status, and causes of mental disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, etc.). This course ultimately provides a kind of preventive knowledge about one's mental health and is expected to play a positive role in interpersonal relationships in social life. This course is to understand the symptoms, causes, and treatments of various mental disorders; to promote mental health literacy; and o improve psychological adaptation.

This class will introduce Mindfulness Intervention for Emotional Distress. It includes concept of Mindfulness and evidence for Mindfulness intervention. It will teach the common practice of mindfulness, including body scan, mindfulness siting, body stretch, mindful walking, mindful eating. Students need complete 15 minutes mindfulness practice daily, and other relative tasks. The object of this class: through study and practice, students will learn mindfulness practice, the strategies of reduction of emotional distress.

How do infants extract conceptual/abstract representations from sensory/perceptual information? How can studying development help us understand how the impressive cognitive abilities of humans are structured in the mind? This course teaches students about the development of human cognition; how to design and analyze developmental studies to answer outstanding questions in developmental psychology; and how to present material succinctly in written and oral form.