Diferencial Psychology
2
2014-2015
01008922
Psychology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Biological bases of behavior, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology
Teaching Methods
It will be used videos, group comments and discussions of texts or other material and teacher lectures.
Learning Outcomes
This curricular unit aims firstly to guide students to the understanding and nature of individual differences, whether relating to individuals, groups, or even the same individual (intra-individual differences).
Students will gain analytic competencies for the understanding of psychological phenomena from a differential psychology viewpoint.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Theoretical and methodological foundations
. The psychological traits
. Study of the psychological processes
. Biological bases of individual differences
. The study of the origins of individual differences
. Individual differences in intelligence and related theories and concepts
. Individual differences in personality and related theories and concepts
. Human groups
. Pathological individual differences: origin, vulnerability, integration, and treatments
. Individual diferences in suggestionability.
Head Lecturer(s)
Carlos Manuel Lopes Pires
Assessment Methods
Final
Exam: 100.0%
Continuous
Individual written test: 50.0%
Group work: 50.0%
Bibliography
Pueyo, A. A. (1999). Manual de Psicologia Diferencial. McGraw-Hill Interamericana.
Nettle, D. (2009). Personality: What makes you the way you are. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
Maudsley, H. (2009). Organic to Human: Psychological and Sociological. BiblioBazaar.
Lamiell, J. T. (2003). Beyond Individual and Group Differences: Human Individuality, Scientific Psychology, and William Stern's Critical Personalism. SAGE Publications Ltd.
Tyler, L. E. (1965). Psychology of Human Differences. Prentice Hall.
Aiken, L. R. (1999). Human Differences. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
Richards, R. (2007). Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Perspectives. American Psychological Association.