MBiP – Introduction to psychology 2300-MBiPPP-WP-W

The issue of the lecture covers the following specific questions:
Overview of Psychology
[psychology as a science; basic concepts: environment, situations, behavior, activity; behavior regulation and analysis; human acts and its neural mechanisms]
Psychoanalysis
[conscious and unconscious parts of the mind; Freud’s concept of the personality: ‘id’, ‘ego’, and ‘superego’; sexual drive and its role; theory of psychosexual development; ego defense]
Behaviorism
[general principles; stimulus – response psychology; consequences of an act and their role; classical conditioning; instrumental conditioning; behavior modification; behavioral therapy; strengths and criticisms of behaviorism]
Cognitive processes
[sensation; sensory thresholds; sensory adaptation; perception; perception principles; thinking; problem solving; attention; memory; models of memory]
Learning
[learning theory; principles of learning; changing by experience; trial – and – error learning; observational learning; verbal learning; different kinds of transfer; interference]
Emotions
[the nature of emotions; neurophysiology of emotions; emotional strain; emotional expression; emotions and behavior]
Motivation
[motive and motivation; needs hierarchy; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; motivation and behavior; Yerkes – Dodson law]
Personality
[psychoanalitic approach; learning approaches to personality; trait theories; regulative theory of personality]
Individual Differences
[genetic and environmental sources of individual differences; nature – nurture controversy; behavior genetic approach; measurement of individual difference]
Temperament
[the concept of temperament; biological basis of temperament; temperament and personality; contemporary theories of temperament – short review; the role of temperament]
Intelligence
[general, social and emotional intelligence; practical intelligence; Cattell’s theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence; Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence; measurement of intelligence; IQ and its meaning]
Stress
[major causes, effects, and control; basic nature of stress; stress and stressors; chronic stress and acute stress; biological foundations of stress; Selye theory of stress; psychological stress; Lazarus – Folkman theory of stress; personality and stress; temperamental risk factor]