Animal Psychology

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Course ID:	2500-EN-F-238
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.4 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0313) Psychology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Animal Psychology
Name in Polish:	Animal Psychology
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Psychology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Academic basket (in Polish) Elective courses (in Polish) electives for 2,3 and 4th year Biological Bases of Behavior basket
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	elective courses
Short description:	Animal psychology is getting more and more interest, from various points of view. In the course of our meetings, we will travel across various approaches, theories and research papers, in order to figure out the contemporary views, controversies and proven facts, about the development, and evolution of various forms of animal minds.
Full description:	Animal psychology is getting more and more interest, from various points of view. It is debated by philosophers, psychologists, and more recently by evolutionary biologists. From the Darwinian point of view, animal minds are products of long lasting evolutionary process. In the course of our meetings, we will travel across various approaches, theories and research papers, in order to figure out the contemporary views, controversies and proven facts, about the development, and evolution of various forms of animal minds. We will start from the instinctive mechanism, thru learning processes towards cognitive approach.
Bibliography:	Kappeler, P. (2010). Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms. Springer. (available free in pdf format)
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Assessment is based on a short paper and a written exam at the end of the course. The exam makes up 50% of the final grade and the paper the other 50%. The exam consists of two open questions on the readings from the list marked as important with an "*". The answers are supposed not to exceed 150 words.

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