Course outline

SYLLABUS

Discipline: Self-knowledge

Number of credits:2

Term: 3

	Time of class and room	Contact information
Contact hours	TSIS (office hours)	Tel:	e-mail
Svetlana Lukashova, Senior Lecturer			338-57-88	[e-mail]

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course on Self-knowledge, which is one of the compulsory social disciplines in the higher educational curricula in the Republic of Kazakhstan, offers students knowledge on the subject, methodology and methods of this discipline, theories and concepts of Psychology

In the Self-knowledge Psychology Course students will gain awareness of their own personality and mental states.

COURSE AIMS

The course provides a foundation for improving quality of life through more positive perception of yourself. The course aims are as follows:

ü to provide a general characteristic of self-knowledge, to acquaint with the value of self-knowledge in the various religions and psychology to describe the scope and field of self-knowledge in a variety of sources.

ü to define self-knowledge as a structural component of human consciousness and provide a description of self-knowledge as a process with its aims, motives, methods, and results.

ü to present and discuss five levels of self-awareness as they chronologically unfold from the moment of birth to approximately 4–5.

ü to describe three parts of personality and explain their different goals and interaction.

ü to explain how the ego copes with threats and defends against the dangers through the use of different defense mechanisms.

ü to change our self-concept, which can be characterized as a challenge and struggle.

ü to define self-esteem, which is a general evaluation of self-concept, and explain how our sense of who we are (self-concept) leads us to evaluate events and objects in the world.

ü to define social identity, which is the self that is shown to other people, and present its nature, development, deficit, and crisis.

ü to define the big three motives, which are represented by the need of achievement, the need of power, and the need of intimacy

ü to define self-actualization need and present the characteristics of self-actualizers.

ü It is very important to know how to promote self-actualization in self and others.

ü to define self-regulation theories and review the role of motivation in the context of the strength,or limited-resource,model of self-control

ü to present some world famous theories that propose a biological explanation for why some people are extraverted or introverted; more sensitive to reward and punishment or sensation seeking.

ü to define three processes-selection, evocation, and manipulations,which are the three key ways in which personality interacts with the social environment.

READINGS AND COURSE MATERIALS

Main

1. V.G.Maralov;. Principles of self-knowledge and self-development. Academa, Moscow, 2003

2. Randy J. Larsen, David M. Buss; Personality psychology: domains of knowledge about human nature.The McGraw-Hill Higher Education, New York, 2008

3. Philippe Rochat; Consciousness and Cognition. Department of Psychology, Emory University,USA 2003

4. Dr.C.George Boeree; Personality theories. Psychology Department,Shippensburg University, 2006

COURSE OUTLINE

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