FACULTY
OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
PSYCHOLOGY
The term “psychology” is a component that originates from the Greek psyche = spirit, soul, life, mind, breath and logos = speech, study, reasoning. So, literally, psychology means the study of the spirit or soul.
The meaning of the term remained unchanged until the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries, when a new meaning was added to it in the sense of “the science of consciousness.” Modern psychology is a natural and social science that deals with brain processes and their expression in behavior. Psychology seeks through systematic empirical research to gain knowledge of the causes and behaviors of humans (and animals), and of how humans experience the world in which they live.
Psychic processes include thoughts, feelings, and motivations. Historically, psychology was the discipline of philosophy, from which it separated itself in 1879 with the establishment of the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig. It was not until 1980 that psychology became recognized as a natural science.
1st YEAR
SEMESTER I
- Psychology I
- Basic anatomy and physiology of the CNS
- Statistics in Psychology I
- Sociology
- English language
- Information science
SEMESTER II
- Psychology II
- Biological Psychology
- Methodology of psychological research I
- Statistics in Psychology II
- Fundamentals of genetics
2nd YEAR
SEMESTER I
- Developmental Psychology
- Methodology of psychological research II
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psychology of learning
- Fundamentals of Neuropsychology
SEMESTER II
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Social Psychology I
- Measurements in Psychology
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Introduction to Psychotherapy and Counseling
3rd YEAR
SEMESTER I
- Clinical psychology
- Psychology of talent and creativity
- Educational Psychology
- Psychopathology of Childhood and Youth
- Theory of tests
SEMESTER II
- Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
- Psychology of mental health
- Emotional and social intelligence
- Psychology of memory
- Psychology of children with disabilities
4th YEAR
SEMESTER I
- Psychology of work
- Psychodiagnostics
- Psychology of communication
- Personality Psychology
- Construction and interpretation of psychological tests
SEMESTER IIR
- Psychotherapeutic directions
- Professional orientation and selection
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Methodology of teaching Psychology
- Final exam
1st YEAR
SEMESTER I
- Psychodiagnostics I
- Ethics in Psychology
- Applied Social Psychology II
- Psychology of human resource management
SEMESTER II
- Psychological counseling
- Elective course
- Methods of supervision
- Research methodology of psychologists in the community
- Final thesis
1st YEAR
- Methodology of scientific research
- Organizational culture and behavior
- Quantitative methods
- Elective course:
- Cognitive processes in mental disorders
- Meta-cognition
- Measurement theories
- Elective course:
- Neuropsychology of dementia
- Positive psychology
- Protective and risk factors of development of children and youth
- Preparation and defence of the seminar paper
2nd YEAR
- Psychology of judgment and decision-making
- Elective course:
- Evaluation of effectiveness of psychological intervention and treatment management
- Factors of risky health behaviors
- Study research-preparation, development and publication of a scientific work
- Business ethics in psychology
- Elective course:
- Personality, stress and health
- Evolution of emotion, personality and inter-individual differences
- Research work-preparation, development and publication of a scientific work
3rd YEAR
- Study research-theoretical basis of the dissertation
- Development of the dissertation
- Defence of the dissertation
