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Psychology of Personality

Course code

PSP6011.LT

old course code

PSP6011

Course title in Estonian

Isiksusepsühholoogia

Course title in English

Psychology of Personality

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2025/2026 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The aim is to acquire a system of principles, methods, concepts and basic ideas of personality psychology and explanatory schemes of the paradigm specific to personality psychology.

Brief description of the course

In line with a well-established tradition in psychology, two major themes of individual differences are examined - personality characteristics and mental abilities. The basic approaches in personality psychology are: psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioural and classification paradigms, while in the psychology of mental abilities are introduced two approaches: psychophysical and cognitive. The course examines, in a manner typical of an introductory course, all the main concepts describing personality traits and mental abilities, and the system of these concepts.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to orient themselves in the concepts used to describe personality traits;
- is able to orientate himself/herself in the different approaches to mental ability;
- is able to analyse in an argumentative way the fields of personality and mental ability.

Teacher

Aleksander Pulver

The course is a prerequisite

Clinical Psychology (PSP6020.LT)
Clinical Psychology (PSP7121.LT)
Psychodiagnostics (PSP6056.LT)

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