Bachelor in Psychology
Miguel Torga Institute of Higher Education (ISMT)
Key Information
Campus location
Coimbra, Portugal
Languages
Portuguese
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
6 semesters
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
As this program is taught entirely in Portuguese, candidates must be able to speak and write Portuguese or be willing to learn the language.
Currently, the roles and duties of the professionals of Psychology imply that they possess knowledge in various fields of Psychology and related fields, since only this way they can perform its activity based on a holistic and integrative perspective of human behavior. In this sense, the 1st cycle in Psychology aims to provide students with basic knowledge and skills levels theoretical-conceptual and research in the various fields of Psychology and related fields.
This cycle of studies includes the following scientific areas:
- Social Sciences
- Biology
- Methodologies Applied Psychology
- Psychology
As a whole, these areas are intended to develop the following skills:
- To comprehend the phenomenon in social and human sciences.
- Contextualize the bases of human behavior.
- To gain knowledge of the biological fundaments of behavior.
- Identify and delimitate the main stages of the methodological process.
- To know how to use correctly the statistical techniques.
- Identify and integrate the sensory, perceptional, motivational and affective processes of attention.
- To recognize and apply in the educational and clinical contexts the learning and memory theories and models.
- Assimilate the concepts and mechanisms inherent to the processing of information.
- Deepen knowledge the models of human development throughout one’s life cycle.
- To know, comprehend and apply the methods of evaluation and observation in diverse contexts of intervention.
- Recognize and apply the main procedures of psychometric evaluation.
- Identify the psychosocial determinants of health and disease.
- Apprehend models and techniques in organizational psychology.
Finally, it should also be mentioned among the objectives of the 1st cycle, to stimulate student participation in the construction of their training, they can choose different courses related to more specific areas of psychological knowledge (Optional Curricular Units).
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