This course is arranged to teach the basic knowledge of preparing presentations (both oral and poster), reading, writing, and expressing skills that students need during their Psychology education. Throughout the course, they will select a research topic, conduct a research, write a research paper by using APA style including title page, abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, and references. They will also present their research paper with an oral as well as a poster presentation session. Within this course, students will use office programs (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, or Publisher) effectively and will collaborate with other group members to be able to present their works.

The course has been designed to inform students about the nature, aims and usage of psychological tests, historical development of psychometrics, ethical issues in psychometrics, basic statistical concepts related to psychometrics, interpretation of norms and test scores, validity and reliability types in classical test theory.

This course examines the phenomena about attitudes within the scope of psychology literature.

Traditional psychology is a rich and vital field, but it has no overarching theory of what we call “mind design”. Also most of traditional psychology’s reliable findings are more sensible and more informative when they are interpreted in an evolutionary framework. Evolutionary psychology is a different way of thinking about the entire field of psychology.

In this course contemporary approaches and research of social psychology are introduced.

This course has been designed to discuss the interaction between individual differences and situational factors especially in terms of interpersonal, emotional, cognitive, motivational, and self-related dispositions.

This course focuses on psychical, cognitive, social, and emotional development and the developmental problems of adolescents in the contexts of family, school, peer, and culture.

Given the increasing diversity among families in contemporary society, this course focuses on contemporary families, current topics associated with contemporary families, family diversity, social issues faced by these families, marriage, and current topics associated with marriage.

This course is designed to inform students about various psychological tests used in different fields of psychology and to provide them an experience by a test construction process.

The etiology and treatment of childhood and adolescence psychopathologies would be explored based on different approaches.

In this course the influence of culture on several areas of psychology, especially on the field of clinical psychology, would be introduced. The influence of the experiences of disadvantaged groups on mental health would be discussed throughout the semester.

The main aim of this course is to provide students with a knowledge of the psychological processes that direct counseling in addition to the theories that contributes to the profession.

The course consists of the knowledge about the basic disscussions on the fields of philosophy such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science, which are, at the same time, important to the science of psychology.

This course introduces the major theories of psychotherapy. The different approaches of psychotherapy will be compared and contrasted in the effort to provide students a critical framework.

In this course, historical development of clinical neuropsychological testing and assessment would be explored. During the semester neuropsychological functions such as memory, attention, executive functions, language functions, and different tests developed to evaluate neuropsychopathology will be explained by considering their psychometric properties.

This course consists of the core topics in the field of human sexuality including sexual anatomy and physiology, sexual arousal and response, gender roles, attraction, love, intimate relationships, sexual communication, sexual orientation, conception, birth control, prenatal development, childbirth, sexual behavior across the life span, sexual dysfunction and sex therapy, sexually transmitted diseases, atypical variations in sexual behavior, sexual coercion, and commercial sex.

The purpose of this course is to provide knowledge about sociocultural climate in Europe when Sigmund Freud had started to develop his theory of psychopathology, types of problems led him to modify his initial theory, reasons of psychoanalysts coming after him modified Freud’s classical theory and how did his understanding of human nature and psychopathology changed within the psychoanalytical approach.

This course focuses on issues related to the concept of gender within the framework of social psychology and its consequences for males and females in different contexts such as workplace and romantic relationships.

This course covers the development of perceptual abilities, attention, memory, intelligence, language, problem solving and reasoning, social cognition, and thinking about social phenomena that take place from birth through childhood.

This course includes three essential topics of neuropsychology which are the relationship between the cognitive function and brain structure, characteristic of cognitive impairment in neuropsychiatric disorders and administration of neuropsychological tests and assessment of the results.

In this course traffic psychology topics, such as driver behaviors, psycho-technical evaluation, risk-taking, and driver rehabilitation, are introduced both in theoretical and applied ways.

This course focuses on the basic concepts, theories, and methods of older adulthood, physical, cognitive, socio-emotional changes in older adulthood, and the aging process.

What drives you to want to learn about psychology? Why did you choose your career? Why do some employees work more than others? What are the drives behind employees’ motivation? Do they work more because they will earn money, or because they just have an internal drive to work harder? Why do some employees have more energy than others? Are engaged workers more productive than the others? These are the basic questions that will be focused in this course.

This course focuses on the transferring basic knowledge about the psychological tests commonly used in different subfields of psychology and ethical principles regarding their use.

This course covers the basic concepts of trauma psychology, the reactions that people who are exposed to traumatic events may experience, and the normal and abnormal dimensions of these reactions. It also introduces intervention methods for people experiencing traumatic stress, psychological first aid, and psycho-social support practices after disasters.

The purpose of this course is to provide knowledge about observation and interview processes in order to gain an understanding of the nature of the problems leading to seeking help, obtaining information about the possible diagnosis of the client, and deciding or guiding the treatment appropriate for the client. The aim of the course is to improve the students' ability to make effective listening and observation, to establish a relationship, to make a diagnosis-specific evaluation, and to take personal histories.

The course consists of demonstration of counseling skills through psychodrama group experience. The students will try to gain skills through psychodrama technique and receive feedback depending on their active participation in the group.

This course provides students an advanced understanding of the physiological basis of behavior. Topics of discussion will include the structure and function of the nervous system at a molecular, cellular, and systems neuroscience level.

This course is designed to provide an understanding of the relationship between psychology and law by showing how research and theory in the field of psychology inform the legal process. Titles include; crime and guilt, violence, social risk factors, crime victims, corrective mechanisms, functioning of courts, taking testimony from child witnesses and ethics. Students will be introduced to the application of relevant theory and research to real life events and practice, and they will be enabled to practice.

The course consists of views on language and thought from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to health behaviors, disease perception and adaptation, the relationship of stress with illnesses, adaptation to chronic, progressive and fatal diseases, and research methods used in the field of health psychology, which are the main study subjects of health psychology.

This course consists of topics on basic concepts of substance and non-substance-related addictions, different types of drug and their effects, risk factors, psychological and social factors and health consequences.

This course includes the development of an original research problem, make literature review, formulation of the hypotheses, selection and/or development of data collection instruments and their writing in a research proposal format.

This course includes the development of an original research problem, make literature review, formulation of the hypotheses, selection and/or development of data collection instruments and preparing a manuscript in APA format.