General Psychology (VPUPK_143)

1. Describes psychology as a science and its main goals.
2. Lists main directions of psychology.
3. Describes the concepts of different psychology schools and their main differences.
4. Recognises human psychological qualities and states, mental processes.
5. Names the main research methods in psychology.
6. Defines what the psyche is and what types of mental manifestations are.
7. Describes the main tasks of general psychology.
8. Describes the structure of the nervous system, the structure of the human brain and the biochemical processes.
9. Describes the role of heredity and the environment in the development of the individual.
10. Defines such concepts as "consciousness, attention, perception, senses, memory, language, thinking and intellect".
11. Characterises emotional processes, factors influencing emotions and the relation of emotions with cognitive processes.
12. Describes the concept of motivation.
13. Describes the processes of thinking, relationship between thinking and memory, operations, formation of concepts, thinking and language.
14. Describes the development of the individual in childhood, adolescence and adult age.
15. Defines the concept of temperament.
16. Describes the behaviour of the individual in the social environment.
17. Describes the concept of a group, group types, structure and development stages.