Psychology I

Code:

MD2308

Acronym:

P I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Clinical Psychology

Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=3556
Responsible unit:	Mestrado Integrado
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Dental Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMD	67	PLANO OFICIAL 2007/2008 BOLONHA	2	-	3	45	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Aims:
To introduce the Psychology as a scientific domain, presenting its main models and approaches in an interdisciplinary perspective, building briges with Dental Medicine;
To present a wide approach of the human being as a bio-psycho-social being which evolves throughout the whole life-span;
To present the general competences for communicating and interacting with others.

Skills; the student will be able to:
- recognize and apply the main concepts related with Psychology;
- identify the several dimensions and processes related with human functioning;
- recognize and describe the several stages of the human development process;
- recognize and use the several models and the main competences for comunicating and interacting with others.

Program

Unit 1 – Psychology as a science
1.1. Definition, object and method of Psychology
1.2. Link between Psychology and Dental Medicine
1.3. Principals of a Applied Developmental Science

Unit 2 – The human being as a bio-psycho-social being
2.1. Psychological structures, funtions and dinamics
2.1.1. Around perception, memory and learning
2.1.2. Around intelligence, emotin and personality
2.1.3. Around motivation and motivational processes
2.2. Self-beliefs: self-esteem, self-image, self-concept
2.3. Ecological and systemic perspective of the human functioning

Unit 3 – Human development
3.1. Key-concepts
3.2. Dimensions
3.2. Ontogenic perspective

Unit 4 – Communications and interaction skills
4.1. Models
4.2. Main interaction skills
4.3. Communication for specific aims and situations

Mandatory literature

Gleitman Henri; Psicologia. ISBN: 978-972-31-1059-3
Dworkin, Samuel F.; Behavioral science and dental practice. ISBN: 0-8016-1484-8
Ridruejo Alonso, P.; Psicología médica. ISBN: 84-486-0143-2
Mostofsky David I.; Behavioral dentistry. ISBN: 978-0-8138-1273-7
Silverman Jonathan; Skills for communicating with patients. ISBN: 978-1-85775-640-1
DeVito Joseph A.; The^interpersonal communication book. ISBN: 978-0-205-62570-3

Complementary Bibliography

Brennan James F.; History and systems of psychology. ISBN: 978-0-13-048119-X
Custódio Rodrigues; Manual de Psicologia I - O que é e tem sido a Psicologia, Contraponto, 1992

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures
- Program contents presentation and discusion

Pratical Classes
- Practical activities (rôle-playing, debates, group dynamics…)

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	47,50
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Criteria:
- 75% minimum of class attendance;
- produce and deliver the requested pratical works;
- attending the final exam;
- 9,0 values minimum (on a 0 to 20 points scale) in each assesment element (i.e.: "continuous, processual" and "descontinuous, terminal").

Calculation formula of final grade

45% Continuous, processual - Participation and work in group;
45% Descontinuous, terminal - Final exam;
10% Class attendance