| Course Name | Philosophical Basis of Psychology |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| PSY 411 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
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| Course Objectives | To provide students with the basic philosophical knowledge which is the base of the science of psychology and help them to be more critical thinker concerning the topics of psychology. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The course consists of the knowledge about the basic disscussions on the fields of philosophy such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science, which are, at the same time, important to the science of psychology. |
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| Core Courses | X |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Syllabus&Introduction | Hergenhahn, B.R. (2014) An Introduction to the History of Psychology 7th Edition. Chapter 1, pp.1-21 |
| 2 | Conceptual Framework | On the Nature and Problems of Philosophy Reading: Bertrand Russell, “The Value of Philosophy”, within The Problems of Philosophy, (pp. 89-94). |
| 3 | Foundations of Psychology in Ancient Philosophy - Plato: Soul and Society | Selections from Plato, The Republic, Phaedo. |
| 4 | Foundations of Psychology in Ancient Philosophy - Aristotle: Faculties of the Soul | Selections from Aristotle, On the Soul. |
| 5 | Foundations of Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy - Cartesian Dualism of Mind and Body | Selections from René Descartes, Meditations. |
| 6 | Foundations of Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy - Spinoza’s Psychology of Emotions | Selections from Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics. |
| 7 | Review for the Midterm exam | |
| 8 | Midterm exam | |
| 9 | Philosophical Psychology in Late Modern Philosophy - Kant: Practical Reason | Selections from Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals. |
| 10 | Philosophical Psychology in Late Modern Philosophy - Schopenhauer: Will, Free Will and Determinism | Selections from Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Freedom of the Will and The World as Will and Representation. |
| 11 | Philosophical Psychology in Late Modern Philosophy - Marx: The Psychology of Alienation and Commodity Fetishism | Selections from Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and Capital Volume 1. |
| 12 | Philosophical Psychology in Late Modern Philosophy - Nietzsche: Will to Power and the New Psychology - I | Selections from Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. |
| 13 | Philosophical Psychology in Late Modern Philosophy - Nietzsche: Will to Power and the New Psychology - I | Selections from Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. |
| 14 | Review for the Final exam | |
| 15 | Overview of the course | |
| 16 | Final exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Hergenhahn, B. R. (2014). An introduction to the history of psychology (7th ed.). Cengage Learning ISBN: 9781133958093 |
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| Midterm | 1 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 60 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 2 | 26 |
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| Midterms | 1 | 46 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 60 | |
| Total | 180 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To have knowledge of basic concepts, theories, approaches (behavioral, biological, cognitive, evolutionary, social, developmental, statistical, humanistic, psychodynamic, and socio-cultural), and current applications specific to the field of psychology by using current course materials and instruments. | X | ||||
| 2 | To have basic knowledge and skills about the applications in the different subfields of psychology. | X | ||||
| 3 | To have basic knowledge about the testing and measurement instruments used in different subfields of psychology and basic level skill that does not require expertise in carrying out applications in different subfields of psychology. | |||||
| 4 | To make use of other disciplines that may contribute to psychology and have basic knowledge about the contribution of psychology to these disciplines. | |||||
| 5 | To have cumulative knowledge about the position of psychology as a scientific discipline in Turkey, the conducted research, applications and problems encountered from past to present in the field of psychology. | X | ||||
| 6 | To have the competence to conduct a research individually and/or as a team using the knowledge acquired in the field of psychology, interpret the findings obtained by using scientific problem solving and critical thinking approaches. | |||||
| 7 | To have the ability to construct a research hypothesis, create a research design, collect data, analyze it, report it in a scientific writing format, and interpret it by using basic knowledge related to testing and measurement, research methods, and statistics acquired in the field of psychology. | |||||
| 8 | To have the competence to share the theoretical and applied knowledge acquired in the field of psychology with the experts and lay people by using the required information and communication technologies in scientific studies and events that benefit the society. | |||||
| 9 | To have knowledge of the relevant professional and ethical values in the domains of psychology and respect individual differences and human rights in research and practices related to psychology. | |||||
| 10 | To constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following both national and international publications in the field of psychology, the developments in testing and measurement instruments and software programs used in the discipline. | |||||
| 11 | To establish written and verbal communication with experts and lay people by using both Turkish and English. | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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