Psychology

This course examines sex, love, and attraction in humans and other animals from a broad-based perspective including comparative, psychobiological, cross-cultural, and evolutionary approaches. An emphasis of the course is placed on evolutionary concepts and how these could be used to interpret sex, love, and attraction. It covers topics such as relationships, sexual behavior, social monogamy, paternity, parenting, and menopause.

This course explores the relationship between language and the human mind, studying how the mind, as a cognitive system, processes language. Utilizing the perspective of cognitive psychology, the course covers topics such as lexical knowledge and semantic processing of words, sentence processing, and text comprehension. It presents an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of language processing and learn methodologies of the psychology of language through experimental projects.

This course provides an opportunity for students to gain experience in a research laboratory in the School of Psychology. Students will participate in the day to day running of a research laboratory, which may involve attending lab meetings, assisting with conducting research, and conducting literature searches. 

This course examines the psychological factors in drug and behavioral addictions (such as gambling, sex, shopping, video game playing, eating), and associated interventions for recovery. 

This course probes the origins of the psychology of groups, discusses their importance to social psychology, and analyzes the different types of groups, group dynamics, and the development and structures of groups. Themes include the intragroup level in psychosociology, observation techniques, communication strategies, and normal and pathological expressions of group interactions. The class includes theoretical discussions as well as practice. Assessment is based on readings, participation, and a final exam.

Understand the basic laws of the interaction process between "learning" and "teaching"; master the psychology of students and teachers, master the general laws of students' physical and mental development, and the general laws of teachers' growth; be able to memorize and understand the principles of learning The nature, process and basic conditions of general learning, and master the general rules of individual learning. Master the basic principles of instructional design.

To enable learners to better understand the psychology of students and teachers, love teaching, care about the overall development of students, and invest more emotions in teaching.
To be able to consciously apply the educational psychology theory and knowledge learned in the practice of international Chinese education. Specifically: to be able to use the knowledge of educational psychology to explain actual teaching activities and designed educational teaching activities.

Educational psychology is a science that studies the basic laws of the interaction between learning and teaching through scientific methods. The content of educational psychology courses is organized around the process of interaction between learning and teaching, including learning psychology, teaching psychology, student psychology and teacher psychology. Four major parts. After taking this course, students should be able to understand and master the relevant theories of educational psychology, and should be able to consciously apply what they have learned to international Chinese education or other related teaching practices.

This course examines the rapidly expanding discipline of neuroscience as relevant to psychologists. Topics include neural changes during learning, cortical control of executive functions and language, control of movement and skilled actions as well as the biological bases of common mental disorders.

This course examines theories of emotions and how they differ in their focus on different aspects of emotions. It also covers how to measure emotions using scientific methods and the values and functions of emotions 

This course provides an opportunity for students to gain experience in a research laboratory in the School of Psychology. Students will participate in the day to day running of a research laboratory, which may involve attending lab meetings, assisting with conducting research, and conducting literature searches.