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
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Laboratory practices | 8 | 0.32 | 3, 10, 13 |
Masterclasses with ITCs support | 36 | 1.44 | 10 |
Seminars | 8 | 0.32 | 1, 4, 10 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorial | 7.5 | 0.3 | 3, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Documents' search in reviews, books and Internet | 15 | 0.6 | 4, 10 |
Studying | 31.5 | 1.26 | 10 |
Texts' reading | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 4, 10 |
Virtual practices | 2 | 0.08 | 7, 9, 10, 13 |
Writing of collective learning evidences | 20 | 0.8 | 4, 3 |
The assessment of the subject contains evidence of individual learning, and is done in accordance with the assessment guidelines of the Faculty of Psychology.
Practices and cases reports:
Partial synthesis tests:
Definition of evaluable student: It is considered evaluated when the student has delivered 2 or more of the 4 evidences of learning.
Definition of subject surpassed: A student has surpassed the subject when he / she has obtained an overall grade of 5 points.
Resit: A continuous resit of the EV1 and EV3 evidences is foreseen, and a final resit to which the student can access if he has not reached the criteria of passing the subject and has been evaluated in 3 or more of the 4 evidences of learning. In this final recovery one of the two synthesis tests (EV2 or EV4) can be performed, but not both at the same time. For the purposes of calculating the final final grade, the highest grade obtained by the student will be taken into account, between the evidence and their respectiverecovery test.
Synthesis test: Students with 2ª or later enrollment are not expected to be assessed by a single non-recoverable synthesis test.
Evidence Code | Name | Weigth | Format | Authorship | Via | Week |
EV1 | Practices and case reports (motivation) | 20% | Written | Individual | Virtual asynchronous | 7 |
EV2 | Syntesis test (psychology of motivation) | 30% | Written | Individual | Virtual synchronous | (First assessment period) |
EV3 | Practices and case reports (emotion) | 20% | Written | Individual | Virtual asynchronous | 17 |
EV4 | Synthesis test (psychology of emotion) | 30% | Written | Individual | Virtual synchronous | (Second assessment period) |
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: Practices and case reports (motivation) | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 4, 10, 13 |
Evidence EV2: Synthesis test (psychology of motivation) | 30% | 1 | 0.04 | 2, 3, 6, 11, 8, 12, 5 |
Evidence EV3: Practices and cases reports (emotion) | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 4, 7, 13 |
Evidence EV4: Synthesis test (psychology of emotion) | 30% | 1 | 0.04 | 2, 6, 7, 9, 8, 10, 12, 5 |
Academic manuals and other documentary sources (in bold the two fonamental manuals):
Access to the software required to perform the laboratory practices will be provided in the teaching laboratory.
Access to the software required by the seminars and the evidence of learning will be provided through the virtual classroom, during the planned implementation period.