ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue

Course details
Course code: BŻS10027f11
Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Major: Food Safety
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; Krystyna Skurjat@up.wroc.pl
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: educational results: 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: 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: Introductory requirements: The humanities within the secondary school curriculum.

Course content: Educational substance: 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: Literature: Argyle M., Psychology of human relationship, PWN, Warsaw 2001, 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: Assessement methods: Compulsory written or orall exam, level of knowledge required to complete: 60%.

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