Graduate Institute Of Psychology( Phd Program )
Educational Objectives
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology program: To train the students to study each mental abilities of mankind, for instance, senssing, percieving, alerting, learning, remembering, language, thinking, problem-solving, creating, and decision-making by the science experiment, and also comprehend the present condition and development of contemporary psychology in each fields mentioned above.
- Personality and Social Psychology program:The objectives of the courses includes three main directions. First of all, it's necessary to comprehend the relevant psychological theory and the tendency of its study; moreover, attempt to be more familiar with the knowledge of social science and know well about the research method as well; then, discipline oneself to become more conscious of the phenomenon of life, society, and culture. The final aim is to nurture the researchers who are provided with the cultural sensitivity, and capable of researching independently into the personality and social psychology by aiming at the phenomenon of social behavior and combining psychological theory and research methods.
- Developmental Psychology program: The program helps students comprehend the progress of mental development and the change mechanism when an individual grows from an embryo to the aged, and also presents to students every research method, including of the hidden meaning, for exploring the developmental issues. The issues Developmental psychology program involves almost cover entire categories of mental behavior, for instance, physiology, sensation, perception, action, cognition, language, emotion, social cognition, and parent-child, sibling, peer relation, etc. Besides well understanding every issue, we also emphasize the integrated development of every mental activity.
- Psychobiology program: The program inquires into the biological basis of mental activity, and trains students to integrate psychological and biological research methods and theories. It also inquires about the normal and abnormal mechanisms of cognition and social behavior from animal to mankind via the gradations of molecule, cell, system, and behavior, etc. Moreover, we think of comprehending the development and evolution of individual, race, or cultural difference in mental phenomenon to expand our inqury.
- Industrial/Organizational program: The design of curriculum is for assisting the students, who's interested in studying Industrial/Organizational program, in arranging their studying plans as early as possible and accomplishing their learning process in order. To prepare for entering the job market, we also give the essential guidance of professional knowledge in Industrial/Organizational program to those who's willing to obtain employment. The students who's interested in studying our program have to comprehend relevant psychological theory and research tendency, know well about the research methods, get familiar with relevant courses of social science, and also generally understnad the fuction of trade & industrial organization management.
- Psychometrics program: Psycholometrics program aims at developing quantitative model to promote researchers' analysis of human behavior and mental process, and we hope to nurture students' ability in problem analyzing, research designing, and data processing. This program could be divided generally into five types: test theory, factor analysis, structural equation models, scaling methods, other statistical methods, and mathematical model and research methods which are related to measurement.
- Clinical Psychology program: The objectives of the courses are to make students able to base on the dual role model of "scientist-practical workers" to apply the knowledge of every field in psychology in their practical work and research of clinical psychology, including of psychological assessment, psychotheropy, and the study of mental and pathological knowledge and theory, the training of pratical work's capability, moreover the discipline of research capability in three types. The program is subdivided into four sub-fields:the adult psychiatry clinical psychology, child psychiatry clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and clinical health psychology. The master program emphasizes on nurturing students' fundmental ability of pratical works for the convenience of carrying out one-academic-year clinical practice, being qualified to professional license of national examination after accomplishing the training and passing the master thesis examination.
Core Capabilities
- Learning the knowledge of the specialized field
- Designing, executing and criticizing research
- Writing research plan and report
- The ability of the execution of the specialty
- Developing a new method or a new phenomenon and proceeding a serial research
- Comparing and criticizing different doctrines or theories and then originating a new concept or a new theory
- Understanding the research contribution to psychological knowledge and application and piercing the trend of academic development
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