Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
14 credits
120.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Mikolajczak Moïra (coordinator); Samson Dana; Szmalec Arnaud; Vermeulen Nicolas; Vermeulen Nicolas (compensates Samson Dana);
Language
French
Main themes
The course starts with a general introduction to pychology and to its various fields of research and application (health, work, education etc). The following topic are then covered: levels of consciousness (including sleep and levels of alertness), cognitive processes (attention, perception, learning, memory, language, thinking and reasining), affective processes (motivation, stress and emotion), interpersonal and social relations, psychological disorders and the various treatments of psychological disorders. For each topic, the course will provide the knowledge base on which the rest of the psychology, speech therapy and educational sciences programs can build on. Teachers will illustrate theories and processes with examples showing how they shed light on dailly life issues and/or societal challenges and how they can be used to improve psychological interventions.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
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At the end of the course, the student will master the key concepts and theories in Psychology, and most particularly the major cognitive, affective and social processes, that explain human behavior. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Bibliography
- Mikolajczak, M., Szmalec, A., Vermeulen, N., Rimé, B & Lochi, A. Slides du cours de psychologie générale, disponibles au fur et à mesure sur la plateforme Moodle (cours LPSP1001). Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
- Notes de cours personnelles des étudiants
Teaching materials
- Mikolajczak, M., Szmalec, A., Vermeulen, N., Rimé, B & Lochi, A. Slides du cours de psychologie générale, disponibles au fur et à mesure sur la plateforme Moodle (cours LPSP1001). Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
- Notes de cours personnelles des étudiants
Faculty or entity
EPSY
