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Getting familiar with the terminology of depth psychology, behavioral psychology, and humanistic psychology. Discussion of the merits and limits of these accounts.

We will primarily discuss

- criteria of methodological accounts to empirical psychology;

- the theory of human nature in (classical and modern) psychoanalysis, behavioral psychology, and humanistic psychology;

- internal and external factors that determine human experience and behavior;

- what influences our motivation etc.

Lecture inputs and discussion.

Written exam.
(Oral exams only exceptional and individually justified cases.)

Goller Hans: Psychologie: Emotion, Motivation, Verhalten. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1995

Gray Peter: Psychology (5. Aufl.). Worth Publishers 2007. (Insbesondere Kap. 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 15 und 17)

Herzog, Walter: Wissenschaftstheoretische Grundlagen der Psychologie. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / Springer 2012. (Insbesondere Kap. 1 und 7)

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