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Students will learn the basics of doing experimental research in psychology, including the ethics of working with human subjects, researching ideas in the scholarly literature, and designing and interpreting research findings. The principles learned here apply in many domains where research is employed to describe and understand persons and social reality. MA1020 is recommended as a prerequisite.

This LAB is a co-requisite for PY 2020. It will take place every second week. RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY LAB A and B are therefore scheduled at the same in the same room.

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of abnormal and clinical psychology, including the history and classification systems employed in understanding different forms of psychological disorders. It will cover the etiology, symptoms, and treatments of major psychological disorders, including anxiety, trauma, dissociative, mood, somatoform, eating, schizophrenia, personality and substance-related disorders. The course proposes to explore the intricate interplay of biological, psychological and social factors in the development, maintenance and treatment of psychopathology in the individual.

Human beings are cultural beings. We cannot understand human nature without understanding its cultural fabric. We cannot understand ourselves and our being in the world without understanding this world as a cultural world, in fact, as consisting of multiple cultural worlds in which we live at the same time. In this course, we inquire why the cultural dimension is crucial for human psychology. To this purpose, we explore a number of cultural worlds, Western and non-Western. We also investigate various psychological functions such as thinking and consciousness, remembering and memory, and self-construction and identity. And we look at different cultural sign and symbol systems such as language, art, literature, and film. In this way, the course also offers the opportunity to think about our own cultural existence and the way we view ourselves and others.