Social Psychology

Name: Social Psychology
Code: PSI02423L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Psychology

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

(1) Promote the understanding of social interaction, human relations and social reality,
(2) Development of capacity for social analysis of the stories according to the concepts of social psychology,
(3) promote social.

Contents

1. Historical context and methodological issues
2. Interpersonal relationships
2.1. Interpersonal atraction
2.2. Agression and Prosocial behavior
3. Social knowledge
3.1. Forming impressions of groups
3.2. Causal attribution
4. Processes of social Influence
4.1. Norms, conformity, obedience and inovation
4.2. Attitudes and Behaviors
5. Social Identity

Teaching Methods

Expository methods and active methods, case studies. To evaluaton possibilities: by continuous evaluation that includes: (1) individual and group analysis of movies, stories and social investigations and
(2) tests. Or evaluation by a final exam.