1. Getting to know scientific aspects of psychology

• • Methods and areas of research
  • Applications of psychology

 

2. Understanding psychological phenomena of perception

• • Aspects of sensual, spatial and  perception of time
  • Subjective systems of perception and their social effects
  • The influence of media on perception

 

3. Reflecting cognitive processes

• • models of memory and learning strategies, theoretical applications
  • Intelligence, creativity and problem solving strategies
  • Language and thinking

 

4. Discussing motivation

• • conflict solving, coping with frustration
  • origin and forms of aggression and violence

 

5. Gaining insight into models of personality

• • psychoanalytic approaches and their history
  • aspects of diagnostics

1. Getting to know and describing philosophical questions

1. • Approaches towards philosophizing
   • The relationship between philosophy and science
   • Ideology and its criticism
   • Basics of philosophical argumentation and definition

 

2. Understanding and analyzing the problem of perceiving reality

1. • Approaches towards reality and different ways of interpretation
   • Truth theories

 

3. Dealing with human nature

• • The questions of the meaning and goals of human life
  • Conceptions of man

4. Getting to know basic ethical concepts and analyzing ethical questions

• • Basic questions of ethics
  • The problem of values and the reasons of norms
  • Freedom and responsibility
  • Topical ethical case studies