Warsaw, Poland

Psychology

Psychologia

Integrated Master's degree

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⇑Psychology at SWPS

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: social

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: english.swps.pl

⇑Why study Psychology at SWPS University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie SWPS

Why study it:

Programme: theory, practice and a EuroPsy-based curriculum
After graduation: professional directions

Psychology at SWPS University is an undergraduate degree lasting three years, delivered in English in the Polish capital on weekdays. It is built for curious people who want evidence-based tools for understanding why individuals behave the way they do.

Programme: theory, practice and a EuroPsy-based curriculum

The degree sets out to connect scientific theory with everyday professional practice. Early on you meet the foundations: how we think, how we feel, and what makes each personality unique. Biological Foundations of Human Behavior and Introduction to Psychometrics sit next to social psychology, which asks how culture shapes experience. Later you see psychology applied in clinical health, psychopathology, education and modern workplaces. Statistics and methodology prepare you to do research yourself, and group projects return in every year of study. The curriculum follows the EuroPsy standard created by the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations, and you study in a multicultural community in Warsaw, a city known for its green spaces and safety.

After graduation: professional directions

Where the degree can lead

Researchpsychologist researcher or developmental psychologist, studying change across the lifespan
Technologyhuman-computer interaction psychologist, shaping accessible digital systems
Organisationsbusiness or occupational psychologist, or market research psychologist
Well-beingpsychotherapist, sports psychologist, or health and wellness psychologist

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.

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Western psychologists accuse religion of repressing the vital energy of man and rendering his life quite miserable as a result of the sense of guilt which especially obsesses the religious people and makes them imagine that all their actions are sinful and can only be expiated through abstention from enjoying the pleasures of life. Those psychologists add that Europe lived in the darkness of ignorance as long as it adhered to its religion but once it freed itself from the fetters of religion, its emotions were liberated and accordingly it achieved wonders in the field of production.

Muhammad Qutb, Islam and Sexual Repression, chapter 4

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For it still seemed to me “that it is not we who sin, but some other nature sinned in us.” And it gratified my pride to be beyond blame, and when I did anything wrong not to have to confess that I had done wrong. … I loved to excuse my soul and to accuse something else inside me (I knew not what) but which was not I. But, assuredly, it was I, and it was my impiety that had divided me against myself. That sin then was all the more incurable because I did not deem myself a sinner.

Augustine, Confessions, A. Outler, trans. (Dover: 2002), p. 77

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We cannot describe how the mind is made without having good ways to describe complicated processes. Before computers, no languages were good for that. Piaget tried algebra and Freud tried diagrams; other psychologists used Markov Chains and matrices, but none came to much. Behaviorists, quite properly, had ceased to speak at all. Linguists flocked to formal syntax, and made progress for a time but reached a limit: transformational grammar shows the contents of the registers (so to speak), but has no way to describe what controls them. This makes it hard to say how surface speech relates to underlying designation and intent–a baby-and-bath-water situation. I prefer ideas from AI research because there we tend to seek procedural description first, which seems more appropriate for mental matters.

Marvin Minsky, in "Music, Mind, and Meaning" (1981)

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