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PSY-2579: Social Psychology Work Load
10 credits (ECTS) | Objectives
Social psychology deals with the individual''s relationship to others and investigates how social and cultural factors form each individual. Lectures will focus on various social evaluation processes that are the basis for cognition, emotion, and behavior. Central themes in the teaching will be attitudes and attitude change, attribution, automatic thought processes, social influence, social judgment, and conditions that influence the self-image.
| Contents
Topics:
(1) Attribution: How people explain causal relationships.
(2) Self-evaluation: How people learn about themselves, including motivation influences upon self-evaluations.
(3) Self-justification: Theories that explain how people rationalize their own decisions and actions.
(4) Attitudes: basic topics related to the attitude construct, attitude structure, attitude-behavior relations, and persuasive communication.
(5) Stereotypes: theories on the structure, development, effects and change of stereotypes and prejudice.
| Form of teaching
Lectures: 20 hours
| Compulsory teaching
Essay | Assessment
5-page essay: Pass/fail. In-class examination (3 hours): Essay and short answer questions. Graded A-F.
| Examination semester
Spring | Date(s) of written examination
30.03.2005
The exam date is preliminary and may be subject to change. Definitive exam date will be announced on the notice boards at the faculties in the beginning of May for the spring semester and in the beginning of November for the autumn semester. | Contact person/lecturer
Svein Are Tjeldnes | Language of instruction
English | Course overlap
PSY-2571 -1 5 sp | Timetables
http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?department=ALLE&module=PSY-2579-1 |
Teaching spring 2005
Første gang: Onsdag 12.01.05, kl.10.15-12
Responsible teacher:Prof. Bas Verplanken |
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