ECTS
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Course details
Course code: BIS10012f11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Major: Bioinformatics
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Krystyna Skurjat
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: A student knows the basic rules of social convinincing and influence. A student understands the rules of resolving interpersonal conflicts. A student understands accordance of human emotional developement. A student is able to shape the abilities of assertive behaviour.
Competences: A student is capable of using techniques of social influence in order to make another person change their behaviour and make them accept such changes as necessary; is able to effectively handle social bonds and defend effectively against various forms of manipulation, as well as convince others of one’s own aptness of choice and decisions.
Prerequisites: The humanities within the secondary school curriculum.
Course content: Practical uses of social psychology results, reason and aim stimulation, affective system: feelings, social cognizance, persuasion: what does susceptibility for persuasion depend on, social influence: afiliation and friendship, amicability and domination, love and romantic relationships, bias, stereotypes, conditions for making right decisions, modern automatism.
Recommended literature: Argyle M., Psychology of human relationship, PWN, Warsaw 2001 Aronson E., A man a social being, PWN, Warsaw 1995 Cialdini R., Making an impact on people. Theory and practice, Gdańsk 2002 Cialdini M., Kenrick T., S. Neuberg S., Social psychology, Gdańsk 2002
Assessment methods: Compulsory written or orall exam Level of knowledge required to complete: 60%
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