Description of Study Subject Programme Human rights and law of labour

Description of Study Subject Programme Human rights and law of labour

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   Human rights: sources, system, development;
   
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   Human rights protection system in Latvia;
   
3. 
   Freedom of speech, Personal data protection, confidential information;
   
4. 
   The possibilities of the Human rights protection in the world, Europe, Latvia;
   
5. 
   Equality principle. Gender equality. Private life;
   
6. 
   Children rights and its specifics;
   
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   Labour law: sources, system;
   
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   Duties and rights in Labour law;
   
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   The legal regulation in professional work;
   
10. 
    Psychology and law,.
    

Latvijas Republikas Satversme

Autortiesību likums

Bērnu tiesību aizsardzības likums

Darba likums

Darba aizsardzības likums

Cilvēktiesības pasaulē un Latvijā / Dr. I. Ziemeles red. – Rīga: SIA “JUMI”, 2000.

Kučs A. Vārda brīvības robežas: goda un cieņas aizskaršana, naida kurināšana. – Rīga: Sabiedriskās politikas centrs PROVIDUS, 2004.

Ulmane V. Darba tiesības. Darba aizsardzība. – Rīga: BAT, 2004.
- additional literature

Blūzma V., Buka A., Deksnis E. B., Jarinovska K., Jundzis T., Levits E. Eiropas tiesības. – Rīga: Juridiskā koledža, 2004.

Buka A. Eiropas Savienības Dzimumu līdztiesības tiesības un to īstenošana Latvijā // Eiropas Savienības tiesību īstenošana Latvijā. – Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 2003.

Kapardis A. Psyhology and Law. – Cambridge: 2003.

Neimanis A. Dzimumu līdztiesības principa integrēšana praksē. – Rīga: ANO Attīstības programmemas pārstāvniecība Latvijā, 2003.

International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy and Practice. – Boston: 1991.

Даниленко Г. Международная защита прав человека. – Москва: Юристъ, 2002.

Права человека / отв. ред. Е. Лукашева. – Москва: Норма, 2008.

Description of Study Subject Programme Introduction in Social anthropology

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  Lecture - Anthropology as a science, its sub-branches. Connection to other branches of science. Holistic, relative and comparative approach. Social anthropology as a branch of anthropology, the main problems and directions of the study.
  
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  Kinships systems and marriage. What is kinship, various ways of understanding relatedness. Unilinear systems, kinship systems in Latvia. Understanding family, various forms of family, single-sex families. New rerpoductive technologies and implications for understanding kinship
  
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  Lecture – Sex and Gender. Construction of sex and gender in various societies. Sexuality, its expressions. Homosexuality, heterosexuality: choice or destiny?
  
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  Seminar – Sexuality and family in Latvia
  
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  Lecture – Economic anthropology. Various principles of production (hunters and gatherers, horticulturalists, peasants, implications of production systems.
  
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  Lecture – Gift exchange and sharing Gift as peace or agression Informal economy
  
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  Seminar - analysis of Rainis' "Speleju Dancoju" from the point of view of gift exchange theories
  
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  Lecture - Linguistic anthropology, language and culture, sociolinguistics, linquistic experiments with apes
  
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  Lecture - Magic, religion and ritual, sacred and prophane, vairous belief systems, cargo cults Wichcraft and sorcery.
  
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  Seminar: verbal assault, magic, sorcery in the everyday life of people in Latvia.
  

Bourdieu, Pierre (1990), ‘Symbolic Capital’ in Logic of Practice. Book I, Chapter 7. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp. 112-121.

Cornwall, Andrea. (1993). Gendered Identities and Gender Ambiguity Among Travestis in Salvador, Brazil. In Cornwall, Andrea and Lindisfarne, Nancy. (eds). Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies. London and New York: Routledge

Counihan, Carole M. (1999). ‘Food, Sex, and Reproduction. Penetration of Gender Boundaries’ in The Anthropology of Food and Body. Gender, Meaning, and Power. New York and London: Routledge.

Endikott, Kirk (1988) ‘Property, power and conflict among the Batek of Malaysia’ in Tim Ingold, David Riches, and James Woodburn (eds.) Hunters and Gatherers 2: Property, Power and Ideology. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers. (internetā: http://www.peacefulsocieties.org/archive.html meklēt pēc autora vārda)

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. ‘Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events’ in William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt Reader in Comparative Religion. An anthropological approach. Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins Publishers. pp. 362-366

Ladlaw, James (2000) ‘A Free Gift Makes No Friends’. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 6, No. 4. (Dec., 2000), pp. 617-634.

Leach, Edmund R. ‘Anthropological Aspects of Language: Animal categories and verbal abuse’ in William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt Reader in Comparative Religion. An anthropological approach. Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins Publishers. pp 153-166

E. Līčs/ Antropoloģijas dažādība/ Kentaurs XXI, 27, 2002, 13-38 lpp.

A. Lūse/ Pētīt kultūru vai mācīties to?/ Kentaurs XXI, 27, 2002, 4-10 lpp.

M. Kay Martin and Barbara Voorhies (1975) Supernumerary Sexes. Chapter 4 in Female of the Species, pp. 84-107

Malinowski, Bronislav (1922/1961), ‘The Essentials of the Kula’, in Argonauts of Western Pacific, Chapter III, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 81-104 (Gudeman, Economic Anthropology)

Tambiah, S. J. ‘The Form and Meaning of Magical Acts: A Point of View’ in William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt Reader in Comparative Religion. An anthropological approach. Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins Publishers. Pp 352-362

Tova Höjdestrand (2003). Hunters and gatherers in the urban jungle: ways of coping among homeless Russians. I: Arnstberg, Karl-Olov & Thomas Borén (eds) Everyday Economy in Russia, Poland and Latvia. Södertörn Academic Studies, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International

Description of Study Subject Programme Rights and ethics of medicine and biomedicine

The aim and sources of biolaw. Place of bioethics in the modern health care system.

Introduction to the main topics of biolaw – organizational law of health care, patients rights, rights and duties of health care professionals, research in health care sector. Main issues of modern bioethics. Protection of human rights in the health care – system of patient’s rights. Professional responsibilities and duties of arts therapist.

Current issues of medical law in Europe. Current issues of bioethics in Europe.

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  commendatory literature
  

Mason JK., McCall Smith RA, Laurie GT, Law and medical ethics, London, LexisNexis, 2003.

Council of Europe, Convention of Biomedicine, additional protocols to convention and explanatory memorandum.

WHO, Declaration on patient’s rights

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  additional literature
  

Sīle V. Medicīnas ētikas pamatprincipi [Principles of medical ethics], Riga, Zinatne, 1999.

Description of Study Subject Programme The Management of Quality

Title and category of study subject programme- The Management of Quality, mandatory

Structural unit involved in academic work - Department of sociology and psychology

Manager of study subject program – Mg.iur., Mg.art. doc. Ivans Jānis Mihailovs
Audience (faculty, study programme, year of study) – Faculty of Communication, Professional higher education study programme for Bachelor’s degree in psychology „Psychology”, 4st year Bachelor’s degree students
Volume of study programme in credit points – 2CP
Aim of study subject – to master work organisation and menegament, to manage processes of standartisation, to go into processes of formation of standarts
Task of study programme

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  To master Legal regulation
  
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  To master of standards praxes.
  
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  To analise standards which influences praxes
  

Content of study subject

1. 
   Labour legislation
   
2. 
   Professional Standard of Health Care workers
   
3. 
   ISO standards.
   

Knowledge assessment –

Active participation in seminars – 20%, regular individual work with theoretical literature – 20%, presentation of individual works-20%, written examination -40%.

List of literature:

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  commendatory literature
  

1. 
   Ārstniecības likums, 1997, 7-8,
   
2. 
   J. Kalējs, M. Ābele „Lietvedības pamati”, KIF Biznesa komplekss Rīga, 1998.
   
3. 
   LeMON 9.grāmata „Profesionālie un morāles jautājumi”, WHO, 1996.
   
4. 
   Ministru kabineta noteikumi
   
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   Praude V., Beļčikovs J. „Menedžments”, Vaidelote, 1996.
   

Description of Study Subject Programme General psychology

Title and category of study subject programme – General psychology, mandatory

Structural unit involved in academic work - Department of Sociology and Psychology

Manager of study subject program – Mg.psych. Maija Zakriževska
Audience (faculty, study programme, year of study) – Faculty of Communication, Professional higher education study programme for Bachelor’s degree in psychology „Psychology”, 1st year Bachlor’s degree students
Volume of study programme in credit points – 4CP
Aim of study subject – to make general view about psychological science, its historical developing, about main psychological directs and field, about research methods; to make understanding about human psyche, about cognitive processes, about psychological aspects of speech and language, about feelings, emotions, motivation, temperaments and characters.
Task of study programme –

To make understanding about psychology as science

To make understanding about human psyche

To develop professional skills.

To develop skills of critical thinking

To introduce theirself. To improve skills of student learning.

To make skills to say their thinking in word
Content of study subject –

Psychological science and its main tasks. Short history of psychology as science. Main direction in psychology field today. Investigation’s methods in psychology. Psyche, its concept and mean. Nervous system and its role in regulation of human behaviour. Processes of cognition. Sensation, deprivation of sensory. Sensory perceptive system. Notion of attention, types and features. Learning. Memory, its types and basic processes, their relation to thinking. Thinking, its types. Language and speech.Motivation and its type. Imagination and creativeness. Consciousness.

Emotion and feelings. Emotional connect with cognitive processes. Individual typological peculiarities of a personality – temperament and character. Personality and deviance and adictivity
Knowledge assessment –Active participation in seminars – 20%, regular individual work with theoretical literature – 20%, presentation of individual works, written examination -40%
List of literature:

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  commendatory literature
  

1. Charles G. Morris, Albert A. MaistoPsychology: An Introduction (12th Edition), 2006.

2. 
   Borns L.E., Ruso N.F. Psiholoģija. Izturēšanās un tās konteksts. RaKa, 2001.
   

Godfruā Ž. Chto takoe psihologija. Ch. 1,2. Moskva, 1992.(Krievu val.)

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  additional literature
  

1. 
   Richard D. Gross. Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour. Hodder Arnold Publication, 2005
   
2. 
   Izard K.E. Psihologija emocij. Sankt-Peterburg: Piter, 1999. (Krievu val.)
   
3. 
   Iljin E.P. Motivacija i motivi. Sankt-Peterburg: Piter, 2000. (Krievu val.)
   
4. 
   Lurija A. P. Lekcijas vispārīgā psiholoģijā. Snkt. Pēterburga, 2004.
   
5. 
   Maklakova, A. G. (2000). Obschaja psiholoģija. S-Pb.: Piter. (Krievu val.)
   
6. 
   Nemov R.S. Psihologija. T. 1, Moskva, 2000. (Krievu val.)
   
7. 
   Viljunas V.K., Gipennrejter Ju.B. (pod red.) Psihologija emocij. Teksti. Moskva, 1984. (Krievu val.)
   
8. 
   Wortman C.B., Loftus E.F. Marshall M.E.. Psychology. New York, Publishers, 1995
   

- Press review:

Rewiew of general psychology. Journal of applied psychology.

Learning and memory

Description of Study Subject Programme History of psychology

Title and category of study subject programme – History of psychology, mandatory

Structural unit involved in academic work - Department of Sociology and Psychology
Manager of study subject program – Mg. psych. Inguna Ozola

Audience (faculty, study programme, year of study) – Faculty of Communication, Professional higher education study programme for Bachelor’s degree in psychology „Psychology”, 1st year Bachelor’s degree students
Volume of study programme in credit points – 2CP
Aim of study subject – Form a view on the psychology idea development in the course of history, learn psychology as science formation and development main aspects in the historical point of view.
Task of study programme –

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  To form deeper understanding about system of modern psychology
  
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  To make stress academical research within each system
  
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  To compare system making stress uncommon and different features in interpretation of subjects of psychological research with in different system
  

Content of study subject –

The importance of the past ideas today. Antique thinker ideas in the context of psychological history. Philosophy impact on psychology formation process. Prehistory of modern psychology. Natural sciences impact on psychology formation process. First studies. Psychological history division into periods, its principles. Psychological schools and their trends:

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  Psychoanalysis;
  
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  Behaviorism;
  
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  Cognitive Psychology;
  
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  Gestalt Psychology;
  
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  Humanistic Psychology;
  
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  Existentialism;
  
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  Ecobehaviorial approach;
  

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  Dialectic Psychology.
  

Knowledge assessment – Active participation in seminars – 20%, regular individual work with theoretical literature – 20%, presentation of individual works-20%, written examination -40%.
List of literature:

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  commendatory literature
  

1. 
   Schultz D. P. (2003). A History of Modern Psychology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
   
2. 
   Smith, N. (2001)Current Systems in Pshychology. History, Theory, Research, and Applications. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth (arī krievu val.)
   Shultc, D.P. (2002). Istorija sovremennoi psihologii. Jevrazija S-Peterburg
   
3. 
   Lihi, T.(2003). Istorija psihologii. Moskva:Piter
   
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   History of Psychology
   

- additional literature

Lihi, T.(2003). Istorija psihologii. Moskva:Piter

Hrestomatija po istorii psihologii. (1980). Moskva:Piter.

Hrestomatija po psihologii. (1986). Tallinn:Tartu Universitet.
Keler, V., & Koffka, K.(1998). Geshtaltpsihologija. Moskva:Naučnaja kņiga.
Lihi, T.(2003). Istorija psihologii. Moskva:Piter.
Torndaik, E., & Chotson, D.(1998). Biheiviorizm. Moskva:Naučnaja kņiga.

International Journal of Psychology

Psychological Science

Journal of Perspectives on Psychological Science

Rewiew of General Psychology

Description of Study Subject Programme Experimental psychology

Title and category of study subject programme – Experimental psychology, mandatory
Structural unit involved in academic work - Department of Sociology and Psychology
Manager of study subject program – Mg.psych. Inguna Ozola
Audience (faculty, study programme, year of study) – Faculty of Communication, Professional higher education study programme for Bachelor’s degree in psychology „Psychology”,2nd year Bachelor’s degree students.
Volume of study programme in credit points – 2CP
Aim of study subject – to develop students’ skills and abilities to plan, do experiments as well as write reports on the accomplished work.
Task of study programme –

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  To master knowledge and practise in planning and carrying out experiments;
  
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  To learn to present their work logical and attractive;
  
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  To develop abilities for critical thinking.
  

Content of study subject –

Experimental research designs. Inner validity dangers of experiments and possibilities to reduce them. Formulating hypothesis of the experiment. Planning research. Fluent operationalisation. Procedure development of the experiment. Data collection and processing. Testing hypothesis. Result interpretation. Interpretation principles, ethics criteria. Writing study report. Forming and presentation of the study report, using latest information technologies.

Knowledge assessment –

Active participation in seminars – 20%, regular individual work with theoretical literature – 20%, presentation of individual works 20%, written examination -40%.

List of literature:

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  commendatory literature
  

1. 
   Elmes P. (1992). Research methods in Psychology. NY: West Publishing Company.
   
2. 
   Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association ()1998.4th ed. Washington: American Psychological Assotiation.
   
3. 
   Solso, R.L., Johnson, H.H., & Beal, M.K. (1998). Experimental psychology: A case approach. Sixth edit. NY: Longman. (tilkojums krievu valodā- Solso, R.L., Džonsons, H.H. Bil, M.K. (2002), Eksperimentaļnaja psihologija:praktičeskij kurs. Sanktpeterburg:Praim-Jevroznak.)
   
4. 
   Vadum, A.C. & Rankin, N.O. (1998). Psychological research: Methods for discovery and validation. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
   

additional literature

1. 
   Raščevska M., Kristapsone S. (2000.). Statistika psiholoģijas pētījumos.
   
2. 
   Rīga, SIA Izglītības apgāds.
   
3. 
   Meltzoff, Julian (1998). Critical ThinkingAbout Research: Psychology and Related Fields, 243 p. Meklēt http://www.apa.org/books/ordering.html
   
4. 
   Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
   
5. 
   Psychological Methods
   
6. 
   Psychological Assessment
   
7. 
   Psychological Review
   

Description of Study Subject Programme Research in Psychology

Title and category of study subject programme- Research in Psychology

Structural unit involved in academic work - Department of sociology and psychology.

Manager of study subject program - Mg. psych. Inguna Ozola
Audience (faculty, study programme, year of study) – Faculty of Communication, Professional higher education study programme for Bachelor’s degree in psychology „Psychology”, 2nd year Bachelor’s degree students.
Volume of study programme in credit points – 2 CP
Aim of study subject –

Familiarize students with psychological research methodology, develop skills on carrying out the research project, give an insight how to organize research, analyze its results, interpret and publish it. Give an opportunity to improve critical and analytical thinking abilities as well as understand holistic approach in organizing and performing research. The course has been planned as a forerun of course and bachelor paper.

Task of study programme –

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  To learn to choose relevant empirical research methods;
  
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  To know how to collect empirical data correctly, how to process them statistically, analyze, interpret and make conclusions;
  
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  To learn to present their work logical and attractive;
  
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  To develop abilities for critical thinking.
  

Content of study subject –

Research strategies and designs. Issue of ethics in science and psychological research. Psychological research types, experiment, quasiexperiment. The general scheme of the e research project.

Knowledge assessment – Active participation in seminars – 20%, regular individual work with theoretical literature – 20%, presentation of individual works 20%, written examination -40%.
List of literature:

commendatory literature

1. Meltzoff, Julian (1998). Critical ThinkingAbout Research: Psychology and Related Fields, 243 p. Meklēt http://www.apa.org/books/ordering.html

2.Elmes P. (1992). Research methods in Psychology. NY: West Publishing Company.

3. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 4th ed. Washington: American Psychological Assotiation, 1998.

4. Test Interpretation and Diversity: Achieving Equite in Assessment (1998)// Edited by Jonathan H.Sandloval, Craig L.Frysby, Kurt.F.Geisinger, 436p.

additional literature

1. Solso, R.L., Johnson, H.H., & Beal., M.K. (2001.). Eksperimentalnaja psihologija. M.: Ulma-Press. (Krievu valodā).

2.Raščevska M., Kristapsone S. (2000.). Statistika psiholoģijas pētījumos.

Rīga, SIA Izglītības apgāds.

3.Noel W. Smith. Current Systems in Psychology (2001.) Wadsworth, a division of Thomson Learning. (tulkojums krievu valodā 2003.) Maskava: Ulma Press.

4. Reading and Understanding MORE Multivariative Statistics, (2000). //Edidet by Laurence G. Grimm, PhD & Paul R. Yarnoldt, PhD. August 430 p. Meklēt http://www.apa.org/books/ordering.html

Psychological Abstract

Psychological Methods

Psychological Assessment

Psychological Review

Description of Study Subject Programme Psychometrics

Title and category of study subject programme Psychometrics

Structural unit involved in academic work - Department of Sociology and Psychology

Manager of study subject program –Mg. psych. Marija Vāciete
Audience (faculty, study programme, year of study) – Faculty of Communication, Professional higher education study programme for Bacalaur’s degree in psychology „Psychology”, 2st year Bacalaur’s degree students
Volume of study programme in credit points – 2 CP
Aim of study subject – to make students understunding about declaration of test making, using and condition; make students acquainted with possible measurements in psychology and how to combine qualitative and quantitative approach in a research and ensure the veracity of research methods.
Task of study programme –

introduce students with utilization of measurement scale in psychology; show the possibility of quantitative representation of research data; introduce students with development and adaptation of tests and questionnaires; introduce students with verification of tests and questionnaires; develop ability of critical thinking

Content of study subject –

Psychological methodics and its modification. Historical development of psychological research. Kinds of Test. Functions of psychometrics,. Tests’s theory. Differentiation of statistical texts and their utilization. Test’s development – question analysis, measurement scale. Types of security examination, including Cronbaha. Validity types of differentiation and understanding of its examination. Standartization of tests. Process of questionnaire and text adaptation. Etic’s principes. Other research methods – questionary, interview, observation, documents analysis. Intelect tests. Personality test. Projective test and its construation. Research for research adaptation.

Knowledge assessment – Active participation in seminars – 20%, regular individual work with theoretical literature – 20%, presentation of individual works, written examination -40%).
List of literature:

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  commendatory literature
  

1. 
   Anastasi, A. Urbina,S. (1999). Psychological testing . Prentice Hall. (tulkojums - Anastazi A., Urbina S. (2000) Psihologičeskoe testirovaņije. Piter.)
   
2. 
   Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 4th ed. Washington: American Psychological Assotiation, 1998.
   
3. 
   Klain P. (1994) Spravočnoe rukovodstvo po konstruirovaņiju testov. Kiev.
   

Kline P. (2001) New Psychometrics

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  additional literature
  

1. 
   Raščevska M. (2005.).Testu konstruēšana un adaptācija. Rīga, Raka.
   
2. 
   International Journal of Testing
   
3. 
   Educational & Psychological Measurement
   
4. 
   Psychological Assessment
   
5. 
   Journal of Personality Assessment
   
6. 
   Psychological Review
   

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