Diferencial Psychology

Recommended Prerequisites

Biological bases of behavior, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology

Teaching Methods

We use videos, group discussions of texts with commentary or other material and exposition by the teacher.

Learning Outcomes

This curriculum 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).

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

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 (synthesis)

. Individual differences in personality and their theories and concepts (summary)

. human groups

. Pathological individual differences: origin, vulnerability, integration, and treatments

. Individual differences in creativity.

Head Lecturer(s)

Cristina Maria Coimbra Vieira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Parker, Ian (2015). Handbook of Critical Psychology. Routledge, 711 Third Avenue, New York.

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.Hergenhahn, B. & Henley, T. (2014) An Introduction to the History of Psychology. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning