ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: BHS10011f12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 1
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, discrimination, conditions for making right decisions, modern automatism.
Recommended literature: Argyle M., Psychology of human relationship, PWN, Warsaw 2001 Aronson E., A man z a social being, PWN, Warsaw 1995 Cialdini R., Making an impact on people. Theory and practice, Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne, Gdańsk 2002 Cialdini M., Kenrick T., S. Neuberg S., Social psychology, Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne, Gdańsk 2002
Assessment methods: Compulsory written or orall pass Level of knowledge required to complete: 60%
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