Social Psychology

Code:

P301

Acronym:

PS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	194	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course has three main aims:

 

to show the power of influence that people have on others  attitudes, feelings and behaviour

 

to introduce and evaluate some of the most important theories about Social Pscychology

 

Discuss how  investigation can be applied on important social questions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning outcomes and competences

 - own knowledge and comprehension abilities  at the level of interpersonnal relationship

- apply knowledge and comprehension abilities in the portuguese contex

- Corroborate  the capacity to solve pscyco-social problems.

- to encourage  communicative competences about comunication information.

- Develop competences that allow learning throughout life

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

No

Program

I. Domain of Social Pscychology

1. What is the Social Pscychology?2.Historical sketch of the  Social Pscychology?

3. The Social Pscychology as a science

4.Theories about  Social  Pscychogy

5.Contemporary  Social  Psychology

6. International  perspectives

II. Control beliefs and attributions

1. Introduction

2. The illusion of control

3. Locus of control

3.1. Popularity and definition

3.2. Behavioural differences

3.3. Cross-cultural research

3.4. Desire of control

4. Reactions to the loss of control

4.1. theory of reactance

4.2. Discouragement learned

4.3. Self-induced addiction

5. Assignements

5.1. aWhat is an ssignement

5.2. Theories

5.3. Applications of the theory of attribution

5.4. Assignements errors

5.5. Assignements and integroup relations

5.6. Assignements and cultural differences

6. Standards of internality

6.1. definition of norm of internality

6.2. the norm of internality in Portuguese society

7. Applications - assignement style

III. Attitudes

1. Introduction

2. Historical synopsis

3. What are the attitudes

3.1.Models of attitudes

3.2. Features

3.3. Psychological functions of attitudes

4. Attitudes and related notions

4.1. Beliefs

4.2. Reviews

4.3. Values

4.4. Ideology

5. Formation of attitudes

5.1. Learning fountains

5.2. Classical conditioning

5.3. Operating conditioning

5.4. social learning

5.5. learning by direct experience

5.6. Observation of the own behaviour

6. Measures of attitudes

6.1. Contents analysis of communications

6.2. Sccale of assessment with an item

6.3. Social distance scale

6.4. Thurstone scale

6.5. Likert scale

6.6. Guttman scale

6.7. Semantic differentiator

6.8. Indirect measures

7. Attitudes and behaviour

7.1. The dilemma of the attitude-bahaviour consistency

7.2. Methodological Conditions of attitude-behaviour prediction

7.3. Theoretical models of behaviour prediction

IV. Social representations

1. Introduction

2. origins

3. Concept

4. representation and social communication

5. Psychosociological analysis of social representation

5.1. the social product representation

5.2 The representation process

6. Research

7. Variations on social representations

7.1. Education and social representations

7.2. Experimental study of social representations: central nucleus theory

7.3. Social representations of emigration

 

V. Prejudice and descrimination

1. Definitions: prejudice, descrimination and minority groups

2. Prejudice categories

3. The mutable face of prejudice

4. Explicit and implicit  evaluation of the prejudice

5. Descrimination  and genesis of prejudice

6. Prejudice and descrimination consequences

 7. Prejudice and descrimination decrease

8. Purposes: strategies to change  negative attitudes

Mandatory literature

Félix Neto; Psicologia Social, volume I, Universidade Aberta, 1998
Félix Neto; Psicologia Social, volume II, Universidade Aberta, 2000
Acevedo, B., e Aron, A; Does a long-term relationship kill romantic love?
Marcel Gauchet; Un Monde désenchanté ?, Editions de l'Atelier, 2004
marcel Gauchet; Un Monde désenchanté ?, Editions de l'Atelier, 2004

Complementary Bibliography

Aronson, E., & Pratkanis, A.; Social Psychology, New York University Press, 1993
Félix Neto; Estudos de Psicologia Intercultural, 3ª ed., Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2008
Félix Neto; Psicologia Intercultural, Universidade Aberta, 2002

Teaching methods and learning activities

 

During classes synthesis , demonstrations, vídeos, experimental applications, group activities will be presented.  There will be formative evaluation, as well. Neverthless, the most important is that students  participate actively in the learning process.

 

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

 

Students have to attend 75% of classes ( although, there is no way to control students presence.)

 

Calculation formula of final grade

There will be a final exam. The marks are from 0 to 20. To pass the exam students have to achieve at least 10.

Students who obtain approval on the knowledge test (distributed component) are released from the obligation to carry out examination in normal time

 

Examinations or Special Assignments

unforseen

Internship work/project

no

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The calculation of the final result  is the same for  all students ( regular, workers…)

 

Classification improvement

Students can carry out improvement once classification for curricular unit, one of the two final exams times immediately subsequent one in which obtained approval and in the curricular unit has provided for examination