Advanced Seminars in Psychology

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures; seminar with invited specialists, group work, critical analysis, discussion and students'presentation of texts and practical problems; practical activities.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the curricular unit, students should be able to:

- understand, discuss and use theoretical approaches from different areas in psychology in the critical analysis of current societal problems;

- master new ideas emerging in psychology and integrate knowledge from different areas in the discipline for analysing and understanding new problems that individuals and societies are facing currently;

- based on a deep psychology knowledge, use these knowledge as tools for the evaluation of practical situations and for the promotion of research projects contributing for the solution of the problems at stake.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Module 1. Experimental psychology and cognition

Module 2. Approaches from cognitive and affective neuroscience

Module 3. Developmental psychology

Module 4. Social psychology

Module 5. Good health: psychosocial and intercultural dimensions

Module 6. Climate solutions: psychological and psychosocial dimensions

Module 7. Psychosocial dimensions for promoting inclusive education and decent work

Module 8. Psychology of migration and cultural diversity

Head Lecturer(s)

Jorge Manuel Castelo Branco de Albuquerque Almeida

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Problem resolving report: Three group work (3-4 students) consisting of a group presentation, followed by discussion, on problems and issues of three modules (different from the one on which the individual work was focused): 30.0%
Research work: Trabalho individual escrito (máximo: 3000 palavras) sobre um dos módulos: 70.0%

Bibliography

 Blustein, D. et al. (2016). Decent work: A psychological perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 40. Article 407

Feldman, R. (2017). Development across the life-span. Pearson

Haslam, C. et al. (2018). The new psychology of health. Routledge.

Hogg, M. & Vaughan, G. (2018). Social psychology. Pearson.

Ialongo, N., et al. (2019). A randomized controlled trial of the combination of two school-based universal preventive interventions. Developmental Psychology, 55(6), 1313–1325.

Moghaddam, F. & Hendricks, M. (Eds.) (in press, 2022). Contemporary immigration:

Psychological perspectives to address challenges and inform solutions. APA.

Pilacinski, A., De Haan, S., Donato, R., & Almeida, J. (2021). Tool heads prime saccades. Scientific reports, 11(1), 11954.

Walbrin, J., & Almeida, J. (2021). High-level representations in human occipito-temporal cortex are indexed by distal connectivity. The Journal of Neuroscience: the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 41(21), 4678–4685