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Department of Psychology Course Contents
BIY201 PHYSIOLOGY (3-0-3)
Atoms, ions, and molecules, cells and tissues, cellular metabolism, membrane dynamics, communication,
integration, and homeostasis, endocrine system, the nervous system, the central nervous system, sensory
physiology, peripheral nervous system (the autonomic and somatic motor divisions), muscles, control of body
movement, fluid and electrolyte balance, endocrine control of metabolism and growth, the immune system.
FEL102 PHYLOSOPHY (3-0-3)
What is philosophy, main approaches in philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, esthetic
SOS103 SOCIOLOGY (3-0-3)
An introduction to basic principles, concepts and theories of sociology; analysis of social structure and cultural
patterns, methodology of research in social sciences. The course seeks to make sociology come alive as a vital
and exciting field, to relate principles to real - world circumstances, and to attune students to the dynamic
processes of our rapidly changing contemporary society (SOS 101 and SOS101 E are open only to Psi-Sos
students, the other Faculties and Departments’ students will code the course SOC 151)
PSI103 / PSI104 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY I-II (3-0-3)
The origins of modern psychology, research method of psychology, biological foundations of behavior, sensation
and perception, emotions, basic principles of learning, memory, thinking, language and intelligence,
developmental psychology, personality, pychological disorders, social psychology, sex and gender.
PSY151 / PSY152 STATISTICS IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES I - II (3-0-3)
Descriptive statistics, probability, statistical decision, population, sample and statistical inference, ratios, percent,
frequency distribution, measures of central tendency and variability (summation notation, arithmetic mean,
median, mode, standart deviation), meanings and sources of probabilities, statistical decision analysis, normal
distribution and other continuous probability distributions, sampling methods and sampling distributions,
estimation, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression and correlation, analysis of variance (T-test, one way and
two way ANOVA, MANOVA)
PSI201 / PSI202 RESEARCH METHODS I-II (2-2-3)
The scientific method and theory, aims and criterias of science, observation, measures, variables, sampling
techniques, descriptive methods, observational methods, correlational research, survey research design,
experiment, experimental control, experimental research design, independent-groups design, repeated measures
design, complex design, quasi-experimental design, single-case research design.
PSI212 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
A brief history of cognitive psychology, the computer model and information processing, sensory register and
pattern recognition, attention and consciousness, short-term/working memory, long-term memory, encoding and
retrieval process, semantic/episodik memory, theories of semantic memory, categorization and concepts,
comprehension and knowledge, problem solving and reasoning, language.
PSI213 LEARNING PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Models for learning process, fundamental principles of conditioning and learning, Pavlovian conditioning, operant
or instrumental conditioning, reinforcers and reinforcement, patterns of reinforcement and extinction, aviodance
learning and punisment, generalization and discrimination, the acquisition of discriminative capacity, concept
learning, cognition, verbal learning, theories of forgetting.
PSI221 / PSI222 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY I-II (3-0-3)
Long past of social psychology, modern social psychology, ethology, social nature of social development,
methodology in social psychology, construction of the social world, social cognition, attribution theory and social
explanations, structure, measurement and functions of attitudes, strategies of attitude change, communication
and social interaction, interpersonal communication, social relationships, prosocial behavior, aggressive behavior,
conflict and conflict resolution, social groups, group performance, social influence in small groups, intergroup
relations, applied social psychology.
PSI231 / PSI232 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY I-II (3-0-3)
Life-span development perspective, methods and research in life-span development, theories of development,
biological beginnings, prenatal development and birth, physical, cognitive and socioemotional development in
infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, late
adulthood, death and dying.
PSI252 STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Working with the menus of SPPS, define the variables and data, entering data, descriptive statistics, determining
the measures of distribution, hypothesis testing, nonparametric tests, drawing graphs, drawing tables according to
the data and results, reading and interpreting the outputs and tables and factor analysis.
PSI303 / PSI304 FIELD STUDIES I-II (2-2-3)
Learning basic issues of child development and monitoring child development processes in day-care centers.
PSI306 INDEPENDENT STUDY (2-2-3)
The aim of this course is to provide th student with necessary knowledge and skills to cıonduct an independent
research study – from proposal to reporting phase. In this course students will learn about preparing research
questions, literature study, presentation of research proposal, data collection and analysis, and reporting the
research.
PSI310 MOTIVATIONS AND EMOTIONS (3-0-3)
Discussing the basic mechanisms of basic mammalian motives and emotions in evolutionary, developmental,
learning, physiological, and social context. Detailed study of autonom nervous system,endocrinal system,
hypothalamus, limbic system; basic motivation and emotion theories, basic mechanisms of hunger, thirst, sexual
and psychosocial motives.
PSI311 / PSI312 SELECTED TOPICS IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY I-II (3-0-3)
Principles and nature of psychology; the biological basis of behavior; sensation and perception; human memory;
genetics and behavior.
PSI313 PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Biological roots of physiological psychology, methods and strategies of research, evolution of the human species
and large brains, structure and functions of cells of the nervous system, communication within a neuron,
communication between neurons, structure and basic features of the nervous system, development of the central
nervous system, the forebrain, the midbrain, the hindbrain, the spinal cord, the peripheral nervous system, control
of movement, sleep and biological rhythms, sexual behavior, emotions, ingestive behavior by the brain, learning
and memory, brain mechanisms of speech production and comprehension, neurological disorders.
PSI321 INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (3-0-3)
First relationships, relationships and health, relationship science, the development of relationship science, the
concept of relationship, varieties of relationship, relationship initiation and development, birth of a
relationship, relationship growth and maintenance, relationship processes, cognitive processes, affective
processes, dispositional influences, mating relationships, love, mate selection and sex, satisfaction and stability,
intervention and dissolution.
PSI322 COMMUNICATION (3-0-3)
Forms and functions of conversation, developmental and social psychology theories of communication, messages
in communication, behavior modification by means of communication.
PSI323/ PSI324 THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO INTERACTIONS IN FAMILY I-II (3-0-3)
The aim of this course is to provide a broad overview of and an interdisciplinary perspective on families in a
changing world. Students explore a variety of family related roles, identities and relations including couple
relations, parental roles, childhood and adolescence. This course also provides an overview of domestic
violence, divorce, psychological difficulties in families and family/couple based interventions. Additionally,
research and theories on families in Turkey are reviewed.
PSI325 / PSI326 GENDER I-II (3-0-3)
Theories of sexual identity, roles, stereotypes, social sexuality and media, social sexuality in everday life.
PSI329 / PSI330 CROSS CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Intrercultural psychology is the study of behavioral differences in various parts of the world and the interaction
between culture and behavior. Intercultural psychology is gaining more importance in every field of psychology, as
the need to do comparisons between cultures increases. The aim of this course is to provide students with the
knowledge of intercultural theories and research and to handle current psychological theories in a critical
perspective based on cultural differences.
PSI331 SELECTED TOPICS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Making a difference in the lives of infants, children, and adolescents, methods of inquiry in child development,
physical development, cognitive development according to Piaget and Vygotsky, cognitive processes,
intelligence, language development, development of reading and writing, personal and emotional development,
social understanding and moral development, development of motivation and self-regulation, families,
interpersonal relationships.
PSI332 APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2-2-3)
Researcing in literature of specific topics of developmental psychology which intrested in, preparing a research
proposal, collecting data, writing the research paper about this topic, and presenting it.
PSI343 / PSI344 PERSONALITY THEORIES I-II (3-0-3)
Definition of personality, methods of studying personality, Freud and classic psychoanalysis, Jung and analytical
psychology, Adler and individual pyschology, Horney and social psychoanalysis, Sullivan and interpersonal
approach, Erikson and psychosocial stages of development, Allport and humanistic trait theory, Cattell and
psychometric trait theory, Bandura and social learning, Skinner and radical behaviorism, Rogers and personcentred theory, Maslow and self-actualization, Kelly and constructive alternativizm, May and existential analytic
theory.
PSI346 PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (3-0-3)
What is abnormal behavior, history of psychopathology, stigma and mental illness, evaluation of contemporary
thought, current paradigm in psychopathology, research methods on psychopathology, diagnosis and
assessment, overviewing the DSM-IV-TR, description, epidemiology, etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders,
somatoform disorders, dissosiative disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, schizophrenia, personality
disorders, sexual and gender identity disorders.
PSI354 TESTING AND ASSESSMENT (2-2-3)
The aim of this course is to introduce the basic principles of psychological assesment. Providing knowledge of
measuring, measurement types, measuring psychological characteristics, methods of developing measurement
materials, basic principles of psychological measurement, psychometrical features, standardization, validity,
reliability, norm value studies, basic statistics such as correlation, regression, factor analysis related to
psychological measuring and assessment.
PSI355 / PSI356 EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY I-II (3-0-3)
The mechanism of evolution; the sexual selection and evolution of mate selection of humankind, the cognitive
development and evolution; the social development and evolution; the evolutionary basis of social behavior;
evolution and language; evolution and emotions; evolution and culture.
PSI356 INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Definitions and history of industrial/organizational psychology, research methods in industrial/organizational
psychology, job analysis, employee selection, evaluating employee performance, employee training and
development, motivation, job satisfaction and positive employee attitudes and behaviors, worker stress and
negative employee attitudes and behaviors, communication in the work place, group processes in work
organizations, leadership, ınfluence, power, and politics, organizational structure, culture, and development,
human factors and occupational health psychology.
PSI401 / PSI402 FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY I-II (3-0-3)
The problems related with the interactions between law and psychology, the contributions of psychology in
evaluating the delinquents, how psychology can help to delinquents, families and society.
PSI405 ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Providing psychology students who will work in various positions in psychology application, the knowledge of
ethical dilemmas, ethical violations, and possibl solutions, teaching ethical guides used in Turkey, and giving
examples of different work areas therefore creating a self-controlling mechanism in psychology students is the
main aim of the course.
PSI406 HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Philosophy, science and psychology, mind-body problem, philosophy after Aristotle, spirituality and individualism,
the mechanistic world picture, skepticism, positivism, emprisism, matterialism, determinism, progress in
physiology and basis of physiological psychology, the threshold of psychology, founding psychology, Wilhelm
Wundt and voluntarism, Edward B. Titchener and structuralism, Charles Darwin and psychology of adaptation,
functionalism, Williams James, Gestalt psychology, clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, behaviorism,
cognitive psychology.
PSI410 HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
The field of health psychology, the psychophysiological basis of health and illness, the social and cultural basis of
health and illness, psychological contributors to and treatments of illness, stress and illness, personality and
disease, quality of life and the self-healing personality, adaptation to chronic illness, dying, death, and grief,
disease prevention and the health care system, tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drug abuse, nutrition, exercise, and
prophylaxis, patient cooperation (adherence), communication between patients and practitioners, health care
professionals and hospitals, medical ethics.
PSI414 SELECTED TOPICS IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Discussing the contemporary topics in experimental psychology such as perception, attention, memory and
learning as a branch of cognitive psychology; evaluating the contribution of the new approaches to the field,
methodologically and theoretically; carrying out an application about one of the topics in cognitive psychology in
the real world set-up.
PSI415 / PSI416 NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS I-II (3-0-3)
Introducing the neuropsychology and its branches, the basis technique and approaches of it, the
neuropsychological assessment field and the stages of the neuropsychological test standardization; teaching
some of the neuropsychological tests’ application and scoring; explaining the cognitive processes that
neuropsychological tests measure and identifying the related to the brain areas.
PSI421 RESEARCH IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (2-2-3)
Researcing in literature of specific topics of social psychology which intrested in, preparing a research proposal,
collecting data, writing the research paper about this topic, and presenting it.
PSI422 SELECTED TOPICS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
The aim of this course is to provide the student with the latest social psychological approaches and research
results in the field.
PSI426 TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Who traffic psychologists are; and how they work, how they contribute in eliciting the well-being and security of
people in the traffic, the importance of traffic psychologists in arranging the traffic system, the different
applications in other countries, European applications to drivers who are drunk, waht is gathered from the
psychotechnical evaluation, driver developmant programs in order to gain the drivers who caused accidents.
PSI431 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT (3-0-3)
Infant perception, infant cognition, representation and concepts, reasoning and problem solving, social cognition,
memory, language, questions and problems.
PSI432 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (3-0-3)
The study of social development, biological foundations of social development, constructing the first relationships,
development sense of self and other, families, parents and socialization, from other control to self-control,
extrafamilial influences, social experience and aftermath.
PSI433 / PSI434 ATYPICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY I-II (3-0-3)
The developmental psychopathology perspective, influences and risks in the developmental process, its
classification, assessment, and treatment, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, conduct problems, attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder, language and learning disorders, mental retardation, autism and schizophrenia, disorders
of basic physical functions, psychological factors affecting medical condition.
PSI435 / PSI436 INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES I - II (2-2-3)
External factors and atmosphere of interview, internal factors and atmosphere of interview, opening the first
interview, initiation, development and closing, attitudes and behavior in interview, recording the interview,
questioning and varieties of question, communication, responses and leads in interview, interviewee-centered,
interviewer-centered and autority leads and responses.
PSI437 SELECTED TOPICS IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (3-0-3)
The course covers symtoms, prevalance, course, etiology, and treatment of some selected mental disorders.
PSI440 SELECTED TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Stress and health, stress management, suicide, violence within family, rape survivors and rapist, AIDS, substance
abuse, social violence, otism, community mental health, culture and mental health, legal and ethic issues.
PSI441 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Definitions and history of clinical psychology, approaches to clinical psychology, assessment in clinical
psychology, interviewing and observation in clinical psychology, testing in clinical psychology, methods of
psychotherapy, clinical interventions, alternative modes of clinical intervention, research on clinical intervention,
clinical child psychology, health psychology, clinical neuropsychology, forensic psychology, professional issues in
clinical psychology.
PSI443 / PSI444 PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS I - II (3-0-3)
Defining and measuring psychological attributes: ability, interests, and personality, basic concepts in
measurement and statistics, scales, transformations, and norms, reliability: the consistency of test scores, using
and interpreting information about test reliability, validity of measurement: content and construct-oriented
validation strategies, validity for decisions: criterion-related validity, item analysis, the process of test
development, ability testing, individual tests, group tests, issues in ability testing, interest testing, personality
testing, psychological measurement in industry, diagnostic testing: clinical applications.
PSI445 TRAUMA PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Definition of trauma, charecteristics of varieties of trauma, stages of trauma, trauma as a reaction, post traumatic
stress reactions and disorders, early intervantions to trauma, social and psychological intervantions, prophylaxis
on trauma.
PSI447 / PSI448 PSYCHOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES I-II (3-0-3)
Contexts of effective treatment, Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis, Alfred Adler and Individual Psychology, Carl
Jung and Jungian Analytical Psychology, Ego Psychologists, Object Relations Theorists, Self Psychologists, and
Others, Brief Psychodynamic Therap, Emotion-Focused Treatment Systems, Carl Rogers and Person-Centered
Counseling, Existential Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Aaron Beck and Cognitive Therapy, Albert Ellis and Rational
Behavior Therapy, Behavior Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Reality Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief
Therap, Overview of Integrated and Eclectic Treatment Systems.
PSI451 SELECTED TOPICS IN INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Indepth studies in subjects like leadership, performance management, motivation and other selected topics.
PSI452 TESTING AND ASSESSMENT IN INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY (3-0-3)
Understanding the measurement principles in psychological testing and applying these principles to industry
related measurement tools like ability tests, and personality inventories, and other measurement technics used in
personnel selection and promotion.
PSI453 / PSI454 COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY I-II (3-0-3)
How to determine the psychological problems of students, defining the precautions to secure effective
athmosphere of education, prepare the students for councilling the others they meet in the schools and working
life.