1. Introduction to the study of psychology: the subject of psychology and its position within related disciplines.
2. Major psychological approaches: psychoanalysis and related approaches, behaviourism, Gestalt psychology, humanistic approaches, cognitive psychology, systemic approaches, and integrative approaches.
3. Cognitive processes: perception, attention, imagery, and imagination.
4. Cognitive processes: memory, learning, thinking, and language.
5. Emotions: definition; emotions as a bodily process, design and emotions.
6. Emotions: types of emotions; the role of emotions in decision-making.
7. Intelligence: approaches to intelligence, types of intelligence, measurement of intelligence, intelligence and creativity.
8. Personality: definition, personality structure and temperament in biopsychosocial contexts, personality development.
9. Personality typologies in major psychological approaches, defence mechanisms and their functions.
10. Motivation and volition: definition of concepts, types of motivation, the role of motivation in human behaviour.
11. Communication: verbal, non-verbal, and paraverbal components, communication models, interpersonal relationships.
12. Small groups: group roles, group dynamics, group communication.
13. Stressful situations, theories of stress, mental hygiene and its principles.