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| PSYC0903-1 | Psychology | ||
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| Duration : | 30h Th | ||
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| Holder(s) : | Jean‑Paul Broonen | ||
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| Course contents : | Chapter 1 - Levels of analysis of behaviours and mental processes: neurobiologic, behaviourist, psychodynamic, cognitive, humanist, psychosocial, and cultural. Chapter 2 - Methods of research in psychology. Chapter 3 - Basic psychological activities and processes A. Perceptual processes (applications to publicity). B. Learning: Classical conditioning; operant conditioning (economic choices and operant conditioning) ; learning in a cognitivist view; social learning. C. Communication, language and intellectual processes (in particular the heuristics of judgement, the cognitive bias of over-estimation of unlikelihood, and the tendency to reduce to the minimum the risks of failure in the decision-making). D. Memory (techniques of memory facilitation in studies included). E. Emotions. F. Motivation: organic motivations; theory of optimal activation and functioning motivation ; psychosocial motivations; sociocognitive approach of motivation; humanist approach; psychodynamic approch; motivation at work; conflicts between motivations (especially in companies). Chapter 4 - Levels of analysis of behaviours intra-individual (personality) vs interindividual; intragroupal vs intergroupal; social units (organizations and communities: elements of psychosociological and intercultural analysis especially in the field of management). | ||
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| Course objective : | To ensure a better understanding of man in his social, cultural, and economic environment. To learn some factors of an acute control of this environment. | ||
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| Written notes : | Syllabus. | ||
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| Assessment : | Written examination (MCQ). Self-assessment in January and at the end of the year. | ||
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| Contacts : | JP.Broonen@ulg.ac.be
04/366.23.88 | ||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 18/05/2007
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