| Teaching Staff
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Prof. Dr. Eda KARACAN |
| Language of Instruction |
İngilizce (English) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
No prerequisites |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
The main objective of the course is to improve the students' reading, understanding and comprehension abilities of the psychological issues in english. |
| Course Content |
The course can contain study of reading and analyzing various topics in psychology. Specifically, social cognition (the general characteristics of the way people acquire, process and relate to information about themselves and their perceived and real social environment); social behaviour (aggression, attraction, cooperation/altruism and social dilemmas); stress and coping related reading topics are covered in this course. The course also includes related other topics; such as identity; stereotypes/biases; attitudes and attitude change; gender and self. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
The students who attended the course and were successful at the end of semester will acquire the followings;
1- To comprehend the description of core concepts of psychology,
2- To understand the articles in applied or academic domains of psychology,
3- To interpret the knowledge about the original studies in psychology
4- Critically to analyze reading materials in psychological articles |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Introduction of the course; the course programme and objectives |
| 2. Week |
Reading Material in Psychology 1 |
| 3. Week |
Reading Material in Psychology 2 |
| 4. Week |
Reading Material in Psychology 3 |
| 5. Week |
Reading Material in Psychology 4 |
| 6. Week |
Reading Material in Psychology 5 |
| 7. Week |
Reading, comprehension and analyzing a research article |
| 8. Week |
Film analyzing |
| 9. Week |
Reading Material in Psychology 6 |
| 10. Week |
Reading Material in Psychology 7 |
| 11. Week |
Critical thinking about the reading of material in psychology I |
| 12. Week |
Critical thinking about the reading of material in psychology II |
| 13. Week |
Critical thinking about the reading of material in psychology III |
| 14. Week |
Critical thinking about the reading of material in psychology IV |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
20 |
| Quizes (%) |
20 |
| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
20 |
| Practice (%) |
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| Labs (%) |
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| Projects/Field Work (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
40 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
Gray, P. (2013). Why Zimbardo's prison experiment isn't in my textbook. Psychology Today, 19.
Wargo, E. (2006). Bad Apples or Bad Barrels? Zimbardo on ‘The Lucifer Effect’. APS Observer, 19(8).
Franzoi, S. L., & Chang, Z. (2002). The body esteem of Hmong and Caucasian young adults. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26(1), 89-91.
Steele, J., James, J. B., & Barnett, R. C. (2002). Learning in a Man’s world: Examining the perceptions of undergraduate women in Male‐Dominated academic areas. Psychology of women quarterly, 26(1), 46-50.
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| Work Placement(s) |
There is no internship for this course. |
| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 | PQ12 | PQ13 | LO1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | LO2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | LO3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | LO4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |