Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences :: Psychology

PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA - 2018/2019

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Sílvia Ribeiro
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Sílvia Ribeiro

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

Complementary Bibliography