Cursos / 1º Ciclo / / Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences :: Psychology
PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA - 2016/2017
1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Sara Cruz
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Sara Cruz
Class type and School hours
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas
Teaching Language
Portuguese
Main Aims/Objectives
To understand the foundations of the psychological assessment both as a scientif discipline and as a process;
To realise the applications of the psychological assessment and its relations to the several domains of the psychological science;
To understand and to develop the basic skills needed in a psychological assessment process;
To realise the specificities and communalities of the psychological assessment process applied to different psychological processes;
Specific Aims/Objectives
To relate the nature of the psychological processes to the psychological assessment;
To understand the historical evolution of the psychological assessment;
To know the main paradigms of psychological assessment;
To understand the phases of a typical psychological assessment process;
To realise the existance of ethic issues on a psychological assessment process and the need of to guarantee that the rights of the patient are fully respected;
Skills to be acquired
Observation and description of different psychological processes;
Relating the psychological process, the objective and the context of the psychological assessment with the psychological assessment processes and techniques;
Ballancing the nomothetic character of the assessment instruments and the idiossincatic meaning of the data obtained from the assessment instruments;
Crittically reflecting on the advantages and disadvantadges of using a given method and a given instrument;
Teaching Procedures
The teaching mehodologies will combine a expositive methodology with a participative methology.
Programme
Part I - Introduction to Psychological Assessement
I.1. Psychological assessment and psychological processes: "what" to assess?
I.2. Historical evolution of psychological assessment;
I.3. Approaches and models of psychological assessment;
Part II – Psychological Assessment Procedures;
II.1. The reason(s) of the psychological assessment;
II.2. The goal(s) of the psychological assessment;
II.3. The context(s) of the psychological assessment;
II.4. The selection of the assessment methods and instruments;
II.5. The interpretation of the data on the psychological assessment process ;
II.6. The comunication of the results of the psychological assessment;
II.7. Ethic issues in the psychological assessment process;
Part III – Protocols of psychological assessment;
III.1. The assessment interviews;
III.2. The observation protocols;
III.3. The assessment tests (projective tests, self-report tests, hetero-report tests, bateries, check-lists)
Parte IV – Domains of psychological assessment
IV.1. Assessment of inteligence – concepts, theories, techniques and instruments;
IV.2. Assessment of personality - concepts, theories, techniques and instruments;
IV.3. Assessment of different fuctionning domains (e.g. symptoms, interests, self-concept, etc.); - concepts, theories, thechniques and instruments;
Evaluation Type
Two writing exames along the semester ;
A writing work to be developped by the students during the the semester;
Teaching Resources
Books, scientific articles, cases;
Sustainability Objectives
Keywords
Psychological assessment;
Psychological testing;
Main Bibliography
Author | Eysenck, M., & Keane, M. T |
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Title | Cognitive Psychology: a student´s handbook |
Edition | 6ª |
Place | London |
Editor | Psychology Press |
Year | 2010 |
Author | Sternberg, R.J., Sternberg, K. |
Title | Cognitive Psychology. |
Place | Belmont, CA |
Editor | Cengage Learning. |
Year | 2012 |
Author | Baddeley, A.D., Eysenck, M. W., Anderson, M.C. |
Title | Memory. |
Place | New York |
Editor | Psychology Press |
Year | 2009 |
Complementary Bibliography
Author | Goldstein, E.B. |
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Title | Sensación y percepción |
Author | Pinto, A.C. |
Title | Psicologia experimental: Temas e experiências |