Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2502443 Psychology | FB | 1 | 2 |
There is no established prerequisite specifically for this course, but it is highly recommendable to be simultaneously studying the rest of the scheduled courses in the second semester of the first year of the Degree in Psychology: Foundations of Psychobiology II, Methods, Designs and Techniques of Research, the Social Dimension of the Person.
This course is part of the subject "Psychology" which is included in the first year of the Degree. It also forms part of a set of courses aimed at acquiring skills related to the basic psychological processes that form the basis of human behaviour:
- Psychological Processes: attention and perception (first year, first semester)
- Psychological Processes: learning and conditioning (second year, first semester)
- Psychological Processes: memory (second year, second semester)
- Psychological Processes: thought and language (third year, second semester)
The general aim of this course is for the student to be able to identify and delimit motivational and affective processes, acquiring conceptual analysis tools that will help him/her to make an interpretation of human behaviour evidence-based. Special emphasis will be placed on the usefulness of the concepts, phenomena, models and theories discussed in the course as transversal analysis tools for any of the areas of intervention of psychology.
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Block A: Psychology of Motivation
Theme 1: Conceptual bases for the analysis of motivational processes. Definition of motivation, evaluation, historical perspective
Theme 2: Motivational Concepts I: instinct, drive, arousal, incentives
Theme 3: Motivational systems: primary (homeostatic and non-homeostatic) and social
Theme 4: Motivational concepts II: expectancies, attributions, goals, cognitive theories of motivation
Theme 5: Intrinsic Motivation: Definition, Assessment, Theories, Intervention Procedures
Block B: Psychology of Emotion and Affective Processes
Theme 6: Conceptual bases for the analysis of affective processes: definition, components, type of affective phenomena, classification of affective processes.
Theme 7: Expression and function of emotions: basic emotions and rules of expression, social-communicative function, adaptive function.
Theme 8: Theories of emotions: from James and Lange to LeDoux and Damasio
Theme 9: Behaviour, learning and emotion: conditioned fear, learned helplessness, vicarious emotional activation, vicarious emotional learning
Theme 10: Cognition and Emotion: Affective processing, affective modulation of cognitive processes (attention, perception, memory, reasoning, language).
Theme 11: Latest contributions: emotional intelligence, empathy, positive psychology, resilience.
The teaching methodology of the course is aimed at fostering autonomy and critical attitude. The aim is for the student to formulate relevant reflections on motivational and affective processes, and to propose strategies aimed at responding to these reflections (carrying out empirical guided activities - Laboratory Experiments). It is convenient for the student to be proactive searching for information related to the current state of research in psychology of motivation and affective processes, and to share this information, contributing to a collaborative learning space. Those contents that by their nature allow it, are approached from a gender perspective. Likewise, egalitarian participation will be promoted throughout the course.
The guided teaching of this subject is structured in a cycle of conferences supported by multimedia materials, which are done in large groups, and in seminars and laboratory practices, which are done in small groups. In the laboratory practices, the student carries out a series of experiments, in which he obtains data that he must interpret in relation to the concepts and theories that have been dealt with in the conferences and seminars. On the other hand, the seminars will be orientated basically to the following formative activities:
Some of the directed and autonomous activities will incorporate gamification activities.
N.B. The proposed teaching and assessment methodologies may experience some modifications as a result of the restrictions on face-to-face learning imposed by the health authorities. The teaching staff will use the Moodle classroom or the usual communication channel to specify whether the different directed and assessment activities are to be carried out on site or online, as instructed by the Faculty
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Laboratory practices | 8 | 0.32 | 2, 7, 9 |
Masterclasses with ITCs support | 36 | 1.44 | 7 |
Seminars | 8 | 0.32 | 1, 3, 7 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorial | 7.5 | 0.3 | 2, 7 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Documents' search in reviews, books and Internet | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 7 |
Studying | 31.5 | 1.26 | 7 |
Texts' reading | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 3, 7 |
Virtual practices | 2 | 0.08 | 4, 6, 7, 9 |
Writing of collective learning evidences | 20 | 0.8 | 3, 2 |
The evaluation of the subject contains evidence of individual learning, and is done according to the evaluation guidelines of the Faculty of Psychology.
Exams:
There will be two exams, one for each of the thematic blocks A (motivation) and B (emotion), with a value of 30% of the grade, respectively. These tests will be aimed at demonstrating the student's ability to apply the concepts and theories worked on in the analysis of human behavior in terms of psychological processes object of study of the subject.
Practices and cases reports:
Practices reports and motivation cases: They consist of the interpretation of results and the discussion of the two practices about motivation, as well as the analysis of motivation cases. Together they will have a value of 20% of the grade.
Practices reports and emotion cases: They consist of the interpretation of results and the discussion of the two practices about emotion, as well as the analysis of emotion cases. Together they will have a value of 20% of the grade.
Definition of assessed student: It is considered assessed when the student has delivered 2 or more of the 4 learning evidences.
Definition of subject passed: A student has passed the course when he/she has obtained an overall grade of 5 points and an average grade of the individual evidences (exams) of 4. In case of not reaching these requirements the maximum grade that can be obtained in the continuous evaluation will be 4.9 points (in a sclae 0-10).
Recovery: A final recovery is established which the student can access if he/she has not reached the criteria for passing the course and has been evaluated in 3 or more of the 4 learning evidences. Only one of the two exams (EV1 or EV3) can be recovered. For the purposes of calculating the finalfinal grade,the highest grade obtained by the student will be taken into consideration, between the evidenceand their respective make-up test.
Synthesis test: No unique final synthesis test for students who enrole for the second time or more is anticipated.
Evidence Code | Name | Weigth | Format | Authorship | Via | Week |
EV1 | Motivation's exam | 30% | Written | Individual | Face-to-face | First assessment period |
EV2 | Practices and cases reports (motivation) | 20% | Written | Individual | Online | 9 |
EV3 | Emotion's exam | 30% | Written | Individual | Face-to-face | Second assessment period |
EV4 | Practices and cases reports (emotion) | 20% | Written | Individual | Online | 19 |
COPY OR PLAGIARISM: According to Art 116, point 10 UAB Regulations, in the event that the student makes any irregularity (copy, plagiarism, ...) that may lead to a significant variation in the grade of an act of evaluation, this act of evaluation will be qualified with 0. In the event of several irregularities in the learning evidence, the final grade will be 0. In the case of written evidence (EV2 and EV4), use will be made of the Urkund program, implemented in the virtual classroom, to verify possible plagiarism.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Evidence EV1: Motivation's exam | 30% | 1 | 0.04 | 2, 8, 5 |
Evidence EV2: Practices and case reports (motivation) | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 7, 9 |
Evidence EV3: Emotion's exam | 30% | 1 | 0.04 | 6, 7 |
Evidence EV4: Practices and cases reports (emotion) | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 4, 9 |
Academic manuals and other documentary sources (in bold the two fonamental manuals):