PS01 psychology goals
The student:
- understands what kind of science psychology is and that psychological knowledge is based on empirical research
- can describe the basic principles of scientific thinking from the perspective of psychology
- can explain the character and differences in conscious and unconscious action in relation to learning
- can differentiate between biological, psychic, social and cultural factors influencing human behaviour and learning and ability to assess and develop one’s own learning and studying based on the acquired psychological knowledge
- familiarizes oneself with a well-being related phenomenon or topic

Essential contents of the course Active and learning human

PS01 contents
Learning and studying from psychological perspective
- psychic approach: basics of cognitive processing, motives, emotions, conditioning, basics of short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM), schemas, learning strategies, metacognition, goal-orientation and experiences related to self-efficacy
- biological approach: basics of neuropsychology and evolutionary psychology, brain plasticity and the effects of sleep on learning
- social and cultural perspective: basics of socialization and situational factors in learning, examples related to the social nature of learning and cultural differences and similarities in learning
- conscious and unconscious activity in learning
Psychology as a science and psychological research
- scientific knowledge and everyday knowledge
- the process of scientific research
- the meaning of sampling and population in the research process and the basics of evaluation of psychological research
- the ethical guidelines of psychological research
- examples of qualitative and quantitative psychological research