PSY 206 – Emotion and Motivation

PSY 206 – Emotion and Motivation; Weekly hours: 2+1, ECTS: 5
This course aims to deepen student’s knowledge about the emotional and motivational process as well factors that influence their appearance, modification, and change. The course contains the following topics: introduction, emotions as dimensions of emotional experience, dynamics of emotional experience and emotional maturity, theories of emotion, emotional influence on the cognitive process, motivation – basic concepts about motive and motivation, the hierarchy of motives, motives and its satisfaction, mechanisms of defense, disorders.