Sopot, Poland

Psychology

Psychologia

Bachelor's

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⇑Psychology at SWPS Sopot

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: social

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

Description:
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University website: english.swps.pl

⇑Why study Psychology at SWPS University in Sopot?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie SWPS w Sopocie

Why study it:

Programme: psychology across contexts
After graduation: where psychology leads

The Faculty of Psychology in Sopot of SWPS University offers a three-year, full-time Bachelor's in Psychology taught entirely in English, with classes running Monday to Friday. The programme offers insight into how emotions, thoughts and behaviour interact in diverse contexts, and it relies on current scientific methods, so you get to know the tools psychologists use today.

Programme: psychology across contexts

The programme starts from the building blocks of the science. Biological Foundations of Human Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Personality Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and Psychology of Emotion and Motivation give you the core picture, while Introduction to Social Psychology shows how people influence one another and how culture colours what they experience. From there you move on to Psychopathology and to the psychology of individual differences, which explains why people respond to the same situation so differently.

Methodology, statistics and psychometrics round this out, so you can both read and carry out research. You also take at least one project-based course every year, working on a problem or a group study.

After graduation: where psychology leads

Psychological knowledge is needed wherever people face challenges linked to the mind and behaviour. Typical paths include:

psychotherapist, helping people manage mental health difficulties through therapy
business or occupational psychologist, working on employee well-being and performance in organisations
market research psychologist, studying consumer behaviour and decision-making
health and wellness psychologist, looking at how lifestyle and emotions affect health
sports psychologist, supporting focus, confidence and stress management in athletes

Did you know? Sopot is a charming seaside resort on the Baltic Sea, known for its vibrant atmosphere and wide sandy beaches.

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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Psychology

The popular medical formulation of morality that goes back to Ariston of Chios, "virtue is the health of the soul," would have to be changed to become useful, at least to read: "your virtue is the health of your soul." For there is no health as such, and all attempts to define a thing that way have been wretched failures. Even the determination of what is healthy for your body depends on your goal, your horizon, your energies, your impulses, your errors, and above all on the ideals and phantasms of your soul. Thus there are innumerable healths of the body; and the more we allow the unique and incomparable to raise its head again, and the more we abjure the dogma of the "equality of men," the more must the concept of a normal health, along with a normal diet and the normal course of an illness, be abandoned by medical men. Only then would the time have come to reflect on the health and illness of the soul, and to find the peculiar virtue of each man in the health of his soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche‎‎, The Gay Science, § 120 “Health of the Soul”

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Psychology

Psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

Simone Weil, “The responsibility of writers,” On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God, R. Rees, trans. (1968), p. 168

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Psychology

Psychology appeared to be a jungle of confusing, conflicting, and arbitrary concepts. These pre-scientific theories doubtless contained insights which still surpass in refinement those depended upon by psychiatrists or psychologists today. But who knows, among the many brilliant ideas offered, which are the true ones? Some will claim that the statements of one theorist are correct, but others will favour the views of another. Then there is no objective way of sorting out the truth except through scientific research.

Raymond Cattell (1965). The Scientific Analysis of Personality, Baltimore, MD: Penguin, p. 14.

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