(in Polish) Fakultety ogólnoakademickie (course group defined by Faculty of Psychology)

Winter semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

The course is a selection of issues from criminology, victimology and penology, introducing psychologists to the specificity of work in juridical system. The main emphasis, in addition to familiarizing students with basic theoretical issues, will be placed on reflection on the work of a psychologist with people who commit crimes, punishing and the execution of criminal penalties. Classes will have a discussion character, based primarily on the active participation of students.

Winter semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

Adolescence is the important long period in human life. This is the transition from childhood to adulthood, which brings both chances and threats (including intra- and interpersonal conflicts). The main aim of this course is to broaden your knowledge of normative adolescence.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

Human functioning is entirely immersed in time. Temporality is such an obvious feature of our nature that it usually remains beyond the scope of consciousness. But yet our way of perceiving reality mostly stems from the adaptation to being-in-time. Temporal psychology is deals with various aspects of psychological time: from time perception, through mental time travel, to temporal aspects of the Self. In the course we discuss major theories and results associated with broadly understood psychology of time. We will also review manifestations of psychological time “hidden” in the central concepts of emotions and motivation, personality, developmental psychology and psychopathology. We will also discuss measurement techniques used in time psychology research, as well as possible applications of temporal theories.

The workshop "Psychology of time" conducted by dr hab. M. Sobol-Kwapińska, provides applied extension to the present course.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Classes - 30 hours

(in Polish) Celem zajęć jest analiza, dyskusja i empiryczna weryfikacja formułowanych przez psychologów ewolucyjnych hipotez dotyczących zachowań altruistycznych człowieka.

Winter semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

The lecture will present a new perspective in psychology that concentrates on the dynamics and change of social and psychological processes. This approach is treating psychological phenomena as processes that can be studied by empirical methods and computer simulations.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

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Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

During the course new theories and empirical findigs related to intelligence will be discussed.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

Contemporary philosophical counselling, refers to ancient psychagogy (guiding one's own soul and making it present). It is a philosophical discipline that uses philosophical thinking and conversation to solve individual problems. >>Life calls man to think<<. Philosophizing can give direction to life, but it cannot replace life. The practicing philosopher learns to know himself in order to later help others to explore, explain, express and understand the philosophical aspects of individual belief systems or worldviews. A practically oriented seminar with workshop elements, conversations, disputes and spiritual exercises of ancient philosophers.

It is not necessary to attend Part I. of the class (although it is welcome).

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

This course present the dual-mode models of mind architecture in cognitive and emotional domains. The entire course will consist of two blocks (a) theoretical in the form of mini-lectures with a presentation combined with group discussions and (b) a practical one designed to look at researches conducted in dual mind approach described in the first part. In the second block, the task of participants will be to prepare in small teams research projects focused on a specific research problem taken from one of the mainstream dual-mode theory of mind.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

In antiquity, love was described as a form of madness, a powerful irrational force that overpowers a person's will (a state into which a person falls and which can bring him either bliss or perdition). Has anything changed since antiquity in our perception of love? While examining Western philosophical reflection on human sexuality, we will answer, among other questions, whether it is possible and necessary to cultivate the "art of love". In our search we will take up such topics as: friendship, love, sexual optimism and pessimism, polyamory, perversion, homosexuality, BDSM, masturbation, the harms of voluntary sex and many others. While searching for the essence of love, we will develop a valuable - and useful in the profession of a psychologist - skill of philosophising, i.e. intellectual flexibility, clarity of thinking and critical rational attitude. Seminar with workshop elements (active methods, work in pairs and groups).

Winter semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

The aim of this class is to present narcissism in a psychological perspective. During the seminar, we will discuss both historical concepts of narcissism (rooted in the psychoanalysis) as well as modern research from personality psychology. Students will learn various models of narcissism, its structure and measurement methods. Moreover, the correlates and conssequences of narcissism for everyday life will be presented.

Winter semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

Winter semester 2024/25

• Seminar - 30 hours

The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the current state of knowledge in the field of social neuroscience. It is quite new branch of research which seeks to identify neurological substitutes constituting a basis for specific human characteristics, such as thinking in terms of ethics, self-consciousness, developing social relations. During the course, students will be acquainted with the newest research concerning cognitive and clinic neuropsychology, as well as psychology of development, and experimental psychology pertaining to basis of social interaction. During the later phase of the course, theory of mind, its normal and pathological development will be presented and discussed. Moreover, students will be familiarised with brain areas responsible for data processing related to social cognition

Winter semester 2023/24

• Classes - 30 hours

Winter semester 2024/25

• Classes - 30 hours

Taking other people's perspective has been defined as the individual "tendency to spontaneously adopt psychological point of view of others" or as the situationally induced "process of imagining the world from another’s vantage point or imagining oneself in another’s shoes". The course has been designed to explore the nature of perspective taking and its impact on an individual's cognitive and social functioning.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

The lecture is inteded for persons interested in clinical psychology.The aim of the lectures is to present mental processes that determine development and maintenance of eating disorders.

Winter semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

This course gives an overview of basic concepts of human behavior genetics, and methods of examination of genetic and environmental determinants of individual differences in personality. The topics in this course include heritability and environmental influences on human behavior, and elementary methods of analysis: twin, adoption, and molecular genetic methods. Typical findings from behavior genetic research will be considered.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

The lecture will show the achievements of contemporary psychophysiology - a discipline dealing with the relations between psychological and physiological processes. The course will discuss the basic methods of psychophysiological measurement, in particular - methods of measuring the activity of the brain, skeletal muscles, circulatory system, pupil width, eye movements and electrical activity of the skin. Representative results of psychophysiological research and the most important theoretical concepts for the interpretation of these results will also be presented.

Winter semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

Summer semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

The course will have a format of a lecture with elements of multimedia presentations and small group discussions. In his lectures the instructor will refer to his long experience of working with culturally diversified communities, as well as to his long experience in teaching psychology. Students must devote at least 78 hours of work (participation in lectures 30 hours, required readings 13 hours, weekly written assignments 13 hours, final written assignment summarizing the course 10 hours, preparation for final exam 10 hours, final exam 2 hours).To almost each lecture there a required reading available on the internet is assigned. Based on each position of the readings, and on the content of the relevantlecture, students are expected to write a short (one page long) assignment, that must be submitted at the beginning of the next lecture. The course ends with the final written exam, and the final written assignment.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

The seminar is devoted to the presentation and discussion of main problems concerning human olfactory functions. Olfactory memory will be characterized in more details in relation to normal and pathological situations. Practical aspects of the usage of scents in everyday life will also be the subject of interest.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

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Winter semester 2023/24

• Lecture - 30 hours

The aim of the lecture is to indicate specific nature of psychology in reflecting upon the phenomenon of altruism as well as to present various theoretical approaches and the relevant results of research on altruism and pro-social behaviour.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

The ability of self-regulation plays an important role in everyday life. The aim of this course is the development of the students’ knowledge and ability to self-regulation by extending the knowledge and using the techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Winter semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

The course presents the main groups of psychoactive substances. During the course the student will be provided with the historical background, chemical structure, way of synthesis, way of application, active, toxic and fatal doses, way of action and metabolism, physiological action and influence on human organs and systems, psychological/neuropsychological and psychiatric consequences of use, influence on sexual activity, addictive potential and consequences of long-term use of selected psychoactive substances.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Classes - 30 hours

Classes are addressed to students who want to learn how to deal better with tension and stress. Students will learn where they accumulate tensions in their body and how they can be prevented or eliminated. Students will learn relaxation and breathing techniques, they will have the opportunity to try meditation and visualizations. They will learn to recognize their limiting beliefs and how to change them into supportive thoughts.

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

Each second our brain receive tones of information, most of them are processed beyond our attention and consciousness. All those information has an influence on our thought and behavior.

This course explains psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying those processes. 

During classes students will learn how implicit information influence emotional and cognitive processes in social context. 

Summer semester 2023/24

• Seminar - 30 hours

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