Study Guide with lecture notes for Psychology Bachelor 2 at the University of Groningen

Lecture: Introduction and suicide

Introduction

CP is a new course with the following goals: to have knowledge on psychopathology/disorders; to know how science and practice of CP interact; and to be able to make a theoretical argument out of scientific literature.

There are 8 non-obligatory lectures (which will be streamed) and 8 obligatory workgroups (you may miss 1 workgroup with a good reason and do some compensatory work), in which you are expected to give a presentation (about 30 minutes total) and write a paper (shorter than 2500 words, see instructions on.........Read more

Lecture 1

Kees Keizer and Nina Hansen are this year's lecturer and they describe the course Social Environment and Behavior as an opportunity for the students to learn how social theories are applied to real-life problems. In contrast to most of the other familiar professors their work is focused outside the university and they are usually hired by parties outside to the science domain. For example, Kees has worked on projects with hospitals to stop the smoking in adjacent areas. Whereas, Nina is interested in cultural change and how it is affected by modernization, transforming economies, etc. Her work includes evaluating the introduction of different aids that are successful in.........Read more