ECTS - - Department of Psychology Undergraduate Curriculum (before 2016-2017)

PSY101 - Introduction to Psychology I (4 + 0) 10.5

Psychology, research, neuroscience, sensation, perception, learning, memory, cognition, and language.

PSY102 - Introduction to Psychology II (4 + 0) 10.5

Intelligence, motivation, emotions, gender, personality, psychological disorders, treatment of psychological disorders, development, health and social psychology.

PSY201 - Introduction to Social Psychology (3 + 0) 7

The interrelationships of the functioning of social systems, the behavior and attitudes of individuals, current theories and research.

PSY202 - Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships (3 + 0) 6

Group influence, stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination, aggression, prosocial behavior (helping others), interpersonal attraction, intimate relationships.

PSY203 - Developmental Psychology (3 + 0) 6

An introduction to the field of developmental psychology; prenatal development; physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development in the periods of infancy, toddlerhood, early childhood and middle childhood.

PSY204 - Psychology of Adolescence and Aging (3 + 0) 7

Physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development in the periods of adolescence, early, middle and late adulthood; death and bereavement.

PSY213 - Research Methods in Psychology I (3 + 2) 7

The concepts of psychological research, relationship between theory and research, formulating and testing hypotheses, ethics in research, a variety of correlational methods used in psychological research.

PSY214 - Research Methods in Psychology II (3 + 2) 7

The principles of good experimentation, between-group and within-group experiments, how to deal with the problems associated with these kinds of experiments, design and interpretation of factorial experiments.

PSY221 - Introductory Statistics for Psychology I (3 + 2) 7

Definitions of statistical concepts, sampling, summarizing data and graphing, measures of central tendency, dispersion, and position, counting rules and probability, discrete probability distributions, normal distribution, sampling distribution, and confidence intervals.

PSY222 - Introductory Statistics of Psychology II (3 + 2) 7

Inferential statistics, hypothesis testing process, statistical decision making, univariate and bivariate parametric tests, analysis of variance, correlation, and selected nonparametric tests.

PSY301 - Introduction to Psychopathology (3 + 0) 8

Theories of psychopathology and psychotherapy, clinical assessment procedures, psychopathologies such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, trauma related disorders, personality disorders, eating disordes, substance use disorders, sexual disorders etc.

PSY303 - Experimental Design (2 + 2) 5

Experimental design , completely randomized design, randomized block designs, completely randomized factorial design with two treatments, completely randomized factorial design with three or more treatments and randomized block factorial design

PSY304 - Psychological Testing (3 + 0) 6

Test construction and standardization, reliability, validity, norms, group and individual tests, testing special populations, different types of tests (e.g., projective, intelligence, aptitude, personality, industrial

PSY305 - Sensation and Perception I (3 + 0) 8

Sensation and Perception I

PSY306 - Sensation and Perception II (3 + 0) 8

Seeing a three-dimensional world, action and perception of events, spatial vision and form perception, object perception.

PSY308 - Psychology of Learning (3 + 0) 8

Pavlovian conditioning, operant conditioning, aversive conditioning, partial reinforcement and classical-operant interactions.

PSY313 - Introduction to Organizational Psychology (3 + 0) 5

Organizational theory and behavior, decision making, work attitudes and motivation, work design, group dynamics, leadership, and organizational culture, reward systems, motivation and satisfaction

PSY315 - Physiological Basis of Behavior (3 + 0) 7

Nerve cells and nerve impulses, synapses, anatomy of nervous system, emotional behaviors, biology of learning and memory, cognitive functions, wakefulness and sleep, psychological disorders.

PSY318 - Statistical Applications in Psychology (2 + 2) 5

SPSS main menus, working with data, creating variables, and conducting various analyses such as t-test, univariate analysis, correlation, regression, chi-square and reliability analyses.

PSY401 - Psychology of Personality (3 + 0) 7

Testability, refutability, idiographic/nomothetic dimensions, psychoanalysis, analytic psychology, ego psychology, object relations theory, humanistic psychology, existential psychology, interpersonal theory, evolutionary psychology.

PSY402 - Clinical Psychology (3 + 0) 7

Overview of the current issues in clinical psychology, research, assessment methods and psychotherapy approaches, the historical background, major theoretical models, and areas of specialization.

- Departmental Elective (B) (3 + 2) 8

PSY309 - Organizational Psychology (3 + 0) 5

Attraction and socialization, job satisfaction and commitment, productive and counterproductive behavior in organizations, theories of motivation, introduction to group behavior and group effectiveness.

PSY311 - Cognitive Psychology I (4 + 0) 8

Sensory memory, attention and pattern recognition, short-term memory, long-term memory.

PSY312 - Cognitive Psychology II (3 + 0) 5

Working memory, autobiographical memory, implicit memory, memory illusions, and metacognition.

PSY314 - Judgement and Decision Making (3 + 0) 5

Judgments, decisions and rationality, judgmental distortions, heuristics, decision making under risk and uncertainty.

PSY316 - Leadership: Theory and Practice (3 + 0) 5

Leadership, theories and approaches of leadership, transformational leadership, team leadership, women and leadership, political leadership.

PSY319 - Developmental Psychopathology (3 + 0) 5

Developmental psychopatholog from infancy through adolescence, intellectual disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, conduct disorder, anxiety and mood disorders.

PSY320 - Assessment of Intelligence (3 + 2) 8

Administration, scoring, interpretation and reporting of tests, WISC-R, BG, AGTE.

PSY321 - Job Analysis and Performance Appraisal (4 + 0) 8

The nature of job, the application of job analysis methods and approaches, the current job analysis methods and approaches, environmental and organizational influences, purposes of performance appraisals, obtaining information about performance, performance standarts, processes in evaluating judgement, error and accuracy measures.

PSY322 - Intergroup Relations (4 + 0) 8

Equity theory, realistic conflict theory, intergroup contact theory, relative deprivation theory, social identity theory, right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance theory, system justification theory, terror management theory, minority influence, and stereotypes content model.

PSY323 - Selected Topics in Cognitive Psychology (3 + 0) 5

Thinking, decision making, judgment, problem solving, cognition, emotion and memory, thinking and language.

PSY324 - Stress Management (3 + 0) 5

Stress literature, stress management techniques of REBT, application techniques.

PSY325 - Basics of Clinical Interviewing (3 + 0) 5

Central concepts and core processes of therapy and interview settings, interview skills, active listening, questioning, reflective statements, empathy, ethical principles.

PSY326 - Psychology of Gender (4 + 0) 8

Understanding gender, gender research, explanations of gender and gender construction, gender roles, gender?s representations and language, violent outcomes of gender and feminism.

PSY327 - Culture and Social Behavior (3 + 0) 5

Definitions of culture; cross-cultural research methods; how culture shapes social perception, social cognition, interpersonal relationships, motivational and self-related processes, social behavior in a variety of social settings.

PSY328 - Political Psychology (3 + 0) 5

Personality, leadership, voting, role of media, ethnic conflict, nationalism, terror, international security and conflict.

PSY331 - Attitudes and Attitude Change (3 + 0) 5

Definition, characteristics and functions of attitudes; attitude measurement; attitude formation; attitude change; openness and resistance to persuasion; attitude-behavior relations.

PSY332 - Attitude Measurement (3 + 2) 8

Direct and indirect assessment techniques, different types of attitude scales, development of item pools, development of attitude scales, assessing the reliability and the validity of attitude scales, conducting item analyses and using exploratory factor analyses in the development and validation of attitude scales.

PSY403 - Applied Statistics for Psychology (3 + 2) 8

Getting to know SPSS main menus, creating data and working with data, conducting various analyses such as t-test, variation analysis, correlation, regression, scaling procedures and non-parametric procedures.

PSY404 - Practicum in Psychology (2 + 4) 8

Students will work in a practicum setting for 140 hours.

PSY405 - Contemporary Approaches To Psychotherapy (4 + 0) 8

Students learn the basics of one of the contemporary psychotherapy approaches. As well as theoretical framework, students will be familiarized with application techniques through role-play and case studies.

PSY406 - Faculty Guided Research I (3 + 2) 8

Students` individual research of their own design under the direction of a member of the faculty; collection and analysis of data.

PSY407 - Faculty Guided Research II (3 + 2) 8

Following PSY 406, writing of the research report.

PSY408 - Selected Topics in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (3 + 0) 5

Organizational commitment, commitment targets, job satisfaction, organizational justice, organizational communication and abusive supervision.

PSY409 - Needs Assessment and Training in Organizations (3 + 0) 5

Introduction to empleyee training and development, strategic training, needs assesment, training evaluation, employee development, careers and career management

PSY410 - Selected Topics in Developmental Psychology (3 + 0) 5

Theoretical and practical issues regarding development in prenatal, infancy, early childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age periods within the field of applied developmental psychology.

PSY411 - Selected Topics in Social Psychology (3 + 2) 8

A detailed exploration of selected specific theoretical and applied topic in social psychology.

PSY412 - Cyberpsychology (3 + 0) 5

Effects of internet and social media use on individuals' mental health and interpersonal relationships, antecedents and consequences of cyberloafing behaviors among employees and students, cyberbullying, online gaming, internet use and psychopathology.

PSY413 - Human Motivation (3 + 0) 5

Definition, aspects, and theories of motivation, cognition, and emotion.

PSY415 - Psychology of the Self (3 + 0) 5

The nature of the self, sources of and cognitive processes involved in self-knowledge, self-development, self-regulation of behavior, self-presentation, self-esteem, and cultural variations in self-related phenomena

PSY416 - Qualitative Research Methods (3 + 2) 8

Designing qualitative research, ethical issues, development of and data-analytical procedures in interviews, ethnographic research, unobtrusive measurement, case studies, and content analysis as an analytical technique.

PSY417 - Assessment of Personality (3 + 0) 5

Assessment ethics; assessment devices used in clinical practice; administration, scoring and interpreting MMPI; projective techniques; Beier Sentence Completion Test and report writing.

PSY418 - Crisis Intervention (3 + 2) 8

Theories, strategies, and skills in clinical crisis intervention; models for assessing and responding to crises; theoretical and ethical implications; psychological traumas such as post traumatic stress disorder; disaster psychology; natural disasters and violence.

PSY419 - Health Psychology (3 + 2) 8

The effects of behavioral, psychological and social factors on health and illness, descriptions and psychosocial interventions of stress, pain and chronic illnesses, and health behaviors such as smoking and exercising

PSY420 - Selected Topics in Clinical Psychology (3 + 2) 8

Schizophrenia including field study with families of schizophrenic patients, research on cognition-emotion, field applications of health psychology and community based mental health.

PSY421 - Introduction to Psychopharmacology (3 + 0) 5

The characteristics of psychoactive drugs, their working principles in the nervous system, and their effects on the brain and on the behavior, an overview of psychopharmacological medications, their basic taxonomy, indications, contraindications, and side-effects.