PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, HEALTH INFORMATION & EDUCATION
 
Lectured in 2de jaar Laboratorium- en voedingstechnologie optie voedings- en dieetkunde
Theory [A] 50.0
Exercises [B] 0.0
Training and projects [C] 0.0
Studytime [D] 125
Studypoints [E] 5
Lecturer David VAN BUNDER
Co-lecturers  
Reference GGLVTV02A00393
 
Key words
Psychology, sociology, communication, health information & e

Objectives
Psychology
- It's the intention of this course, to give the students the knowledge of basis, concerning the science of psychology, and to make the students familiar with the most important parts of the discipline.
- Explore the full range of psychology from theoretical bias.
- To balance the content of psychology with an emphasis on the doing of psychology, through a blend of conceptual discussion and description of research studies. Examine the scientific attitudes and mental processes.
GVO- communication:
- The students must have insight on the models of communication - The students must have insight on the methodology to give a short lecture on a topic, typically on their discipline.
- The students owe to know the objective as hygienic measures of the discipline 'health education'
- The students must know how individuals can combat the illnesses that are due to undesirable individual conditions (for example smoke-behaviour)
- The students must know how to indicate how individuals can warn the illnesses that are due to the unhealthy human conditions.
Introduction Sociology:
- People often use others to evaluate their own characteristics, through social comparison
- The presence of other people can, through social facilitation, improve one's performance at some task or impair it, through social interference
- Norms are learned, socially based rules that prescribe what people should or should not do in various situations.
- The students should know at the end of the course that schemas about entire groups are called stereotypes.
- At the end of the course knowing that attribution theory suggests that people use several sources of social information to decide whether their own and other people's behaviour are due to internal or external causes.

Prerequisites
no foreknowledge required

Topics
Psychology:
- Perception
- Learning
- Motivation
- Emotion
- The individual in the social world
GVO - communication:
- Models of communication
- Directives and methodology to give a lecture
- Factors that determining unhealthy behaviour
- Factors that influence unhealthy behaviour
- Evaluating unhealthy procedures
Introduction Sociology:
- Introduction in sociologic science
- Social norms
- Attitudes, persuasion and attitude change
- Group stereotypes and prejudice
ingroup
outgroup
- Attribution theory

Teaching Methods
lectures and video-demonstrations x

Materials used
Teacher's course

Study guidance


Assessment
Written examination

Study costs


Lecturer(s)
Willy DEPECKER

Language
Dutch