PSYchology

Section 1. Introduction to psychology.

Topic 1. General characteristics of psychology as a science.

  • Question 1. From the history of pre-scientific psychology. Psychology and philosophy. Consciousness as the first subject of psychology. (Lecture 1).
  • Question 2. Comparative characteristics of scientific and worldly psychology. Specificity of scientific and psychological knowledge.

Topic 2. Formation of the subject of psychology.

  • Question 1. Problems of analysis of consciousness in philosophy. Descartes.
  • Question 2. Classical psychology of consciousness: facts and concepts. The structure of consciousness and its properties. The development of ideas about consciousness. Gestalt psychology. Possibilities and limitations of the introspection method.
  • Question 3. The problem of objectivity in psychology. The subject and tasks of the psychology of behavior.
  • Question 4. The problem of the unconscious in psychoanalysis.
  • Question 5. Category of activity in psychology. Unity of consciousness and activity.

Topic 3. General idea of ​​personality and its development.

  • Question 1. The concept of the subject, personality, individuality, individual. (Lecture 8)
  • Question 2. General idea of ​​personality development. Personality in ontogeny.

Topic 4. The emergence and development of the psyche.

  • Question 1. Criteria of mental. Hypothesis about the emergence and development of sensitivity (A.N. Leontiev, A.V. Zaporozhets). Psyche as an orienting-research activity (P.Ya.Galperin).
  • Question 2. Stages of development of the psyche and behavior of animals.
  • Question 3. Comparison of the psyche of animals and humans. The main features of labor activity and their physiological prerequisites. The emergence of actions and the need for consciousness.

Topic 5. Sociocultural regulation of activity.

  • Question 1. Brief information from sociology. Social positions, norms, expectations. Social roles and their assignment.
  • Question 2. Socialization of the individual as the appropriation of cultural experience, the concept of a higher mental function (L.S. Vygotsky).

Topic 6. The structure of individual human activity.

  • Question 1. The concept of need and motive. Functions of the motive. The structure of the need-motivational sphere. The specificity of human needs.
  • Question 2. The concept of action. Action and activity: problems of the emergence of new motives.
  • Question 3. Actions and operations. Types of operations. Movement levels.

Topic 7. Man as a subject of knowledge.

  • Question 1. Cognition and psychological specifics of its study. Cognition and consciousness. Knowledge and motivation.
  • Question 2. Basic definitions of cognitive processes.
  • Question 3. The concept of the image of the world and its role in the study of knowledge.

Section 2. Man as a subject of activity or personality psychology.

Topic 8. Basic approaches to the study of personality.

  • Question 1. What are the units of study of individuality (personality)?
  • Question 2. What is the origin of these properties and behaviors?
  • Question 3. What are the ways psychologists work with these people?

Topic 9. Individual characteristics of a person: abilities, temperament, character.

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