Psychology

This course provides a cultural perspective on human development. Specifically, the course emphasizes the usefulness of a (cross-)cultural approach to understand parenting and psychological functioning, to assess culturally diverse children and families, and to implement culturally sensitive interventions. The course discusses the role of culture in human development and in socialization processes, as well as identifying the risk and protective factors involved in the adaptation of migrant families. The course addresses topics including theoretical approaches to culture and human development; cross-cultural and cultural psychology; individualism and collectivism; parenting, cultural models, and socialization practices; cognitive and socio-emotional development across cultures; immigration and acculturation processes; and assessment and interventions in multicultural settings. The course requires basic knowledge of developmental psychology concepts as a prerequisite.

This course discusses disorders or alterations that may appear throughout development-- from childhood to adolescence--, the instruments used to evaluate the symptomatology, and methods for designing disorder-specific interventions.

Psychological disorders are common and very diverse across the lifespan. In this course, the most common disorders in childhood and adulthood are discussed. Topics include theoretical models applied to psychopathology (biological, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and systemic); the efficacy of recommended treatments; significance of experimental psychopathology to good clinical psychology research; controversies and issues, such as stigma, diagnosis, and cultural issues; and research methods in clinical psychology.

This course examines the way in which we concentrate on one source of information and ignore the other sources of information in a given environment. The course begins with an introduction of the attentional processes and the common approaches that are used to study attention, followed by a presentation of visual and auditory attention; inhibition phenomena, and multiple-task performance.