PSYK3200 Social Psychology Course description

This course will examine relational skills and group processes both from a social psychological and behaviour analysis perspective. Counselling skills in practical training will be emphasised. The course will cover behaviour phenomena that are the focus of social psychologists.

Admission to the programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of

• key perspectives in social psychology
• specific fields of research and experiments in social psychology
• counselling theories

Skills

The student is capable of

• discussing behaviour analytic perspectives on behaviour phenomena in social psychology
• describing motivation theory on the basis of a social psychology and a behaviour analytic perspective
• explaining the terms verbal society, rule compliance and instruction control
• describing the counselling process and its stages, and demonstrating counselling skills
• describing different counselling techniques and effective communication
• describing factors that can promote cooperation, trigger conflicts and solve conflicts
• describing and demonstrating how to give positive and corrective feedback in a counselling process

Competence

The student is capable of

• utilising research from both social psychology and behaviour analysis in the analysis of social behaviour
• discussing counselling from a behaviour analytic perspective
• efficiently leading meetings and groups

Work and teaching methods used in the course are lectures, seminars, group work, practical exercises and demonstrations (workshops), and self-study. The students’ learning outcomes will be documented through the home exam.

• Participation at the seminars (80%)
• Participation in compulsory teaching activities (80%)
• Participation in a workshop on counselling skills (80%)
• Participation in a demonstration of a counselling meeting that includes relevant counselling skills, and once as an opponent (100%)

The required coursework must be approved before the students can take the home exam.

Individual written home exam over four days, maximum 3,500 words, including front page and any notes (not including reference list).

All

A-F

One internal and one external examiner