Sopot, Poland

Psychology

Bachelor's

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⇑Psychology at SWPS Sopot

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: social

Kind of studies: full-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 has a long past, but only a short history.

Herman Ebbinghaus, cited in: Edwin Boring (1929) A History of Experimental Psychology p. ix

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Psychology

[Modern psychology] appears as the sickly offspring of average common sense when it is taken as what it professes to be—a science of the inner life. The entire achievements of the so-called science in this respect is outweighed by a single page of Goethe’s or of Jean Paul’s psychology; and it is impossible to evade the bitter truth which Novalis already has summed up, when he says that so-called psychology is one of those idols which have usurped the place in the sanctuary where true images of the gods should stand.

Ludwig Klages, The Science of Character, W. Johnston, trans., p. 16

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Psychology

The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.
"But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …"
"But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it."

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, chapter 17

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