Admission Details
The programme is two years in duration, with annual tuition fees of AMD 800,000. Admission is based on an oral examination and an interview (see the examination syllabus below). Preference will be given to applicants who hold a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, demonstrate strong academic performance (high GPA), and have professional or volunteer experience and/or completed training in the fields of mental health and/or social care.
ADMISSION EXAMINATION SYLLABUS
Psychology as a science: stages of development and contemporary developments
Fundamental and applied fields of psychology: psychology as an interdisciplinary science
Classification of scientific methods in psychology
The concept of the psyche: natural-scientific foundations, levels, and functions
Mental processes and states
Perceptual processes and their characteristics
Cognitive processes and their characteristics
Differential psychology: subject matter and key issues
Temperament as an individual characteristic
Personality traits: major theories and models of trait psychology
Personality accentuation and its typology
Emotions and emotional states: functions and modalities of emotions
Stress: characteristics, functions, and mechanisms
Interpretations of the concept of “personality” in psychological theories
Interrelationship between the concepts of individual, personality, and individuality
The motivational and needs-based sphere of personality: types of motives
Factors in personality formation within activity theory (A. Leontiev)
The problem of personality development in L. Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory
Principles and development of behaviorism: social learning theory and social cognitive theory (B. Skinner, A. Bandura)
Core principles of psychoanalysis and models of the mental apparatus (S. Freud)
Fundamental principles of C. Jung’s analytical psychology
Fundamental principles of A. Adler’s individual psychology
Development of psychoanalysis: major schools and principles of neo-Freudianism (Horney, Fromm, A. Freud, E. Erikson, et al.)
Principles of self-actualization theory: the concept of “metamotivation” (A. Maslow)
Fundamental principles of C. Rogers’ theory
The concept of age and the problem of age periodization: criteria and approaches
Developmental crises as factors in personality development
Characteristics of early childhood
Psychological characteristics of the preschool period
Psychological characteristics of adolescence
Issues of personality development in adulthood (early, middle, and late adulthood)
Subject matter and objectives of psychophysiology
Subject matter and objectives of clinical psychology
Criteria for mental health
Psychological counselling and psychotherapy as professional practice
Subject matter and objectives of social psychology
Factors and stages of personality socialization: the problem of personal identity
Bibliography
Core Literature
Goodwin, J. (2004). Research in Psychology: Methods and Planning. St. Petersburg: Piter.
Maklakov, A. G. (2006). General Psychology. St. Petersburg: Piter.
Stolyarenko, L. D. (2003). Fundamentals of Psychology: A Textbook. Rostov-on-Don: Phoenix.
Hjelle, L., & Ziegler, D. (1997). Theories of Personality. St. Petersburg: Piter.
Davey, G. C. (Ed.). (2018). Psychology. John Wiley & Sons.
Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2016). Personality and Individual Differences. John Wiley & Sons.
Additional Literature
Avanesyan, H. M. (2010). Experimental Psychology: A Study Manual. Edit Print, Yerevan.
Andreeva, G. M. (1998). Social Psychology: A Textbook for Higher Education Institutions. Moscow: Aspekt Press.
Asmolov, A. G. (1990). Psychology of Personality: A Textbook. Moscow: Moscow State University Press.
Vilyunas, V. (2008). Psychology of Emotions. St. Petersburg: Piter.
Godfroy, S. (1996). What Is Psychology? Vols. 1–2. Moscow: Mir.
Druzhinin, N. D. (1998). Experimental Psychology. St. Petersburg: Piter.
Dorfman, L. Ya. (2005). Methodological Foundations of Empirical Psychology. Moscow: Smysl.
Zhdan, A. N. (1990). History of Psychology: From Antiquity to the Present Day. Moscow: Moscow State University Press.
Izard, K. E. (2002). Psychology of Emotions. St. Petersburg: Piter.
Kochyunas, R. (1999). Fundamentals of Psychological Counselling. Moscow.
Craig, G. (2000). Developmental Psychology. St. Petersburg: Piter.
Mendelevich, V. D. (2002). Clinical and Medical Psychology. Moscow.
Nartova-Bochaver, S. K. (2001). Differential Psychology. Moscow.
Obukhova, L. F. (2007). Developmental Psychology. Moscow.
Psychology of Personality: Reader in Two Volumes. Ed. D. Ya. Raygorodsky (2002). Samara: Bakhrar-M.
Davey, G. C. (Ed.). (2011). Applied Psychology. John Wiley & Sons.
Rogers, W. S. (2011). Social Psychology. McGraw-Hill Education (UK).
Contacts
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