Admission Requirements
Admission to the Management Psychology educational programme is based on an oral examination. The mode of study is full-time, and the programme duration is 1.5 years. The annual tuition fee is AMD 800,000. The qualification awarded is Master of Psychology, with a specialization in Management Psychology.
Programme Director: Hrant Avanesyan, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Chair of General Psychology.
Programme Objectives
The programme aims to prepare researchers and professionals with theoretical and practice-oriented knowledge in the fields of management, organizational, applied, and social psychology. Graduates will be able to analyze and systematize psychological issues related to public and private-sector management; anticipate, assess, analyze, regulate, and address psychological problems arising within organizations; manage human resources; introduce the results of research advances, professional knowledge, and expertise into organizational environments; and organize and facilitate organizational management through psychological counselling.
Advantages
The knowledge and competencies acquired through the programme enable graduates to provide psychological services within organizations, deliver training programmes, analyze existing issues in the field, and assess the resources required to address them.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the programme may pursue employment in public and private institutions, including banks in the Republic of Armenia, HR departments in the IT sector, advertising agencies, international organizations implementing educational and social programmes, television, and relevant units of commercial, entrepreneurial, and manufacturing organizations, in positions such as:
Psychological Counsellor;
Psychologist in Public Relations;
Human Resources Management Specialist;
Coordinator of Educational and Research Programmes;
Coordinator of Social and Psychological Programmes;
Marketing Psychologist;
Psychologist in an Educational Centre;
Training Programme Coordinator.
Graduates may continue their studies in the PhD programme of the Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology at Yerevan State University.
Entrance Examination Syllabus
The object and subject matter of psychology; the scope of psychological problems
Major fields of psychology: fundamental and applied psychology; the development and formation of psychological disciplines
Paradigms of psychological science; the relationship between fundamental and applied research
Historical conceptions of the soul and psyche; contemporary understandings of the psyche
Historical periodization of the development of psychology
Theories of the soul: 5th–16th centuries
The development of Armenian psychological thought in the 19th and 20th centuries
Methodology of psychology and the principal methods of psychological research
Issues in experimental psychology; experimentation in psychological research
Psychodiagnostics as an applied field of psychology; methods of psychodiagnostics
Ethics, standards, and requirements of professional psychological practice
Psychology as the science of consciousness: structural (W. Wundt) and functional (W. James) approaches
The emergence of reflexology and its role in the development of modern psychology (Sechenov, Bekhterev, Pavlov)
The development and principal propositions of behaviorism (Watson, Thorndike) and neobehaviorism (Tolman)
Prerequisites for the development of psychoanalysis; interpretations of the unconscious and methods for studying the unconscious
The holistic approach in psychology and the emergence of Gestalt psychology; fundamental principles of Gestalt psychology (Koffka, Külpe, Wertheimer)
The development of the humanistic approach in psychology; its principal propositions (K. Goldstein, C. Rogers, A. Maslow)
The structure of the psyche: mental processes, mental states, and mental properties
Consciousness as the highest level of mental reflection; the principal functions of consciousness; the relationship between conscious and unconscious mental processes
Psychophysiology as an interdisciplinary field; the relationship between physiological and mental processes
Sensations as immediate cognitive processes; the physiological basis, principal properties, classification, and types of sensations
Perception as a cognitive process; principal theories, types, and characteristics of perception
Memory as a synthetic cognitive process; principal theories, functions, and classification of memory
The role of attention in mental activity; types and principal characteristics of attention
Thinking as a higher-order cognitive process
Language and speech activity; functions and types of speech; physiological mechanisms of speech
Mechanisms, techniques, and types of imagination; the role of imagination in creative activity
Characteristics and principal functions of emotions
Characteristics of stress; psychological and physiological manifestations of stress
The will in the structure of the psyche; structure of voluntary action
Temperament as an individual characteristic; characteristics of psychodynamic properties
Different interpretations of character; character as a system of relationships; character as an individual life style
The subject matter and developmental stages of personality psychology
Fundamental issues and principles of personality psychology
Activity as the basis of personality formation (A. Leontiev); the importance of the motivational sphere; the role of the system of personal meanings in personality formation
Foundations and principles of periodization of personality development
The epigenetic concept of personality development; the epigenetic principle of development (E. Erikson)
The role of crises in personality development; personality and developmental crises
Mental health and personality maturity; subjective well-being as an emerging field of personality research
The problem of sociocultural typology of personality
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Contacts
Programme Director: Hrant Avanesyan, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor
(+374 60) 710 637, 76-37
