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    Introduction to Psychology is a subject directed to first-year students with aiI common core of social sciences. It is included in the basic units and thus occupies great importance in the student’s formative path. This unit aims to give the student a general idea of the concepts of psychology, its origins, research methods in it and its branches, and to give him an idea About some of the topics studied by psychology.

                 The course includes seven lectures through which the student learns about the concept and subject of psychology and how it has developed historically. It is also exposed to its most important theoretical and applied branches and the most important methods on which this science depends in studying human behavior. The most important schools of psychology are also introduced and some topics of psychology are presented. The soul, which falls within mental abilities such as intelligence, attention, perception, memory, and learning          

     

    Semestre :1

     

    Unit name: Basic education unit

     

    Course name: Introduction to Psychology

     

    Crédits: 5

     

    Coefficient : 2


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  • How to contact the professor


    Professor: Dr. Agaguenia Maha

     

    Academic rank: Senior Lecturer

     

    Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

     

    Department of Social Sciences

    email: m.agaguenia@univ-soukahras.dz

     

    Contact times and place: Professors’ Hall on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 08:00 to 16:30


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  • Objectives


    1) Identifying the history of the emergence of psychology and its independence from other sciences.

    2) Identifying the most important branches of psychology and its research methods.

    3) Identify the major theories of psychology.

    4) Identify the basic concepts and principles in psychology.


  • Prior knowledge required

                                                                           

                                                                     

    1)Elementary principles in philosophy and their relationship to the subject of psychology.

    2) Principles of scientific thinking and scientific research methodology.


  • Acquired abilities


    1) Identify the most important principles, theories and methods of psychology.

    2) Mastering the basic concepts of psychology.

    3) Forming a future point of view on the applications of psychology.

  • Table Of Contents

                                                                   

     

    1- A historical overview of the emergence and development of psychology: (- Introduction to psychology - Branches of psychology)

    2- Research methods in psychology 1: (- descriptive method - comparative method)

    3- Research methods in psychology 2: (- experimental method - clinical method)

    4- Theories and schools of psychology: (- Definition of theory - Definition of school - The difference between them)

    5- Classical psychoanalytic theory

    6- The theory of modern psychoanalysis

    7- Behavioral conditioning theory

    8- Procedural behavioral theory

    9- Aaron Beck’s cognitive theory

    10- Albert Ellis’ cognitive theory

    11- Self theory

    12- Humanistic trend

    13- Intelligence: its concept, characteristics, levels and methods of measuring it

    14- Attention: its definition, types, factors affecting it and its characteristics

    15- The memory: its definition, functions and sections


  • History of Psychology

  • Definition of Psychology and its branches

  • Research Methods in Psychology

  • Theories and Schools of Psychology

  • "Classical" and "Modern" Psychoanalytic theory "

  • Behavioral Theory "Classical Conditioning" and "Operant Conditioning"

  • Cognitive Theory " Aaron Beck" and "Albert Ellis"

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  • Self theory

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  • Humanistic Trend

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  • Intelligence

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  • Attention

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  • The Memory

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  • List of references

                                                               


                                                             

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    Ader, R., Felten, D. L., & Cohen, N. (2001). Psychoneuroimmunology, Vols 1 & 2 (3rd ed.). San Diego, CA US: Academic Press.

    Adler, E., Hoon, M. A., Mueller, K. L., Chandrashekar, J., Ryba, N. J. P., & Zuker, C. S. (2000). A novel family of mammalian taste receptors. Cell, 100, 693-702.

    Adolph, K. E., Vereijken, B., & Shrout, P. E. (2003). What changes in infant walking and why. Child Development, 74(2), 475-497.

    Adolphs, R., & Tranel, D. (2003). Amygdala damage impairs emotion recognitionfrom scenes only when they contain facial expressions. Neuropsychologia, 41(10), 1281-1289.

    Baumrind, D., Larzelere, R. E., & Cowan, P. A. (2002). Ordinary physical punishment: Is it harmful? Comment on Gershoff (2002). Psychological Bulletin, 128(4), 580-589.

    Baylis, G. C., & Driver, J. (2001). Shape-encoding in IT cells generalizes over contrast and mirror reversal but not figure-ground reversal. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 937-942.

    Beach, S. R. H., Davey, A., & Fincham, F. D. (1999). The time has come to talk of many things: A commentary on Kurdek (1998) and the emerging field of marital processes in depression. Journal of Family Psychology, 13(4), 663-668.

    Beach, S. R. H., Fincham, F. D., & Katz, J. (1998). Marital therapy in the treatment of depression: Toward a third generation of therapy and research. Clinical Psychology Review, 18(6), 635-661.



  • Evaluation Method


    Evaluation method: written examination (60%) + continuous monitoring(40%)

     

    Lecture: A written test is given for an hour and a half at the end of the semester

       Directed actions: continuous monitoring



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