The Department of Psychology and the Institute of Psychology of Sun Yat-sen University were established in August 1927, which belonged to the Department of Literature and History, and later changed to the Department of Science in April 1929. The first dean was Academician Jing Wang Xi, a famous psychologist and physiologist.
Second, the institute.
1930 or so, with the departure of Professor Wang Jingxi, the Department of Psychology was merged into the Research Department of Educational Psychology, with Xu Fengxi as the director and Cai and Gao Juefu as the directors. During this period, the psychology research department established a psychology laboratory to conduct research on children's psychology, learning psychology and intelligence tests, and recruited psychology graduate students.
3. Some famous psychologists who worked in Sun Yat-sen University.
Wang Jingxi: Physiological psychologist and academician of Academia Sinica (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, USA).
Cai: Comparative psychologist (to be investigated)
Ivy: Educational Psychologist (Ph.D., University of Washington, USA)
Zhuang Zexuan: Educational Psychologist (to be investigated)
Zhu Zhixian: child psychologist (researcher, University of Tokyo)
Guo Yicen: Theoretical Psychologist (Ph.D., University of Tubingen)
Gao Juefu: Psychology historian and translator (Master, HKU).
Wu Jianglin: Social Psychologist (Ph.D., Schiller University, USA)
Ruan: Educational psychologist (studying in Japan)
Li Boshu: Developmental Psychologist
Chen Xiaochan: Educational Psychologist
Fourth, the department of restorative psychology.
After the national colleges and departments were adjusted from 65438 to 0952, the psychology department of Sun Yat-sen University was merged into other disciplines or schools. Since then, the relevant departments of the university, such as philosophy department, sociology department, education college, management college, business college and medical college, have continued to carry out psychological research and accumulated quite a lot of research results and books. 2001June 15, the Department of Psychology was resumed, and Professor Yang, a social psychologist, Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Chicago, USA, was the head of the Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong. Department of Psychology is Coles House built in the South Campus of Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen University 1927.
The Department of Psychology began to recruit students at all levels in the autumn of 200 1. Among them, full-time undergraduates: applied psychology (50 students were enrolled nationwide in 2004); Postgraduates: Master of Applied Psychology and Master of Basic Psychology (20 students enrolled in 2008), Doctor of Basic Psychology (5-7 students enrolled in 2008). The psychology department has 16 full-time teachers and some part-time teachers.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) goal and development direction
1 target
Adopting the principle of "paying equal attention to teaching, research and serving the society", it will develop into an all-round research-oriented psychology department that is in line with international standards and serves the society within five years. In short, "based on the principle of high academic level and freedom of academic criticism, we should develop psychology rooted in China people, pursue excellent scientific research, train outstanding students, and do a good job in popularizing psychology, so as to make the Department of Psychology a high-level and international research and teaching base." The specific objectives are as follows:
1) Develop basic psychology as a key discipline, and consolidate and develop research strength based on cognitive psychology and social psychology; At the same time, we will develop the application of clinical, educational and industrial organizational psychology.
2) Get the support of national (natural science or social science) research fund, and cooperate with international and domestic scholars to apply for various funds;
3) publishing papers in authoritative academic journals at home and abroad;
4) Establish communication networks with international and domestic psychologists and participate in activities;
5) Make use of human and material resources on campus to carry out interdisciplinary research, especially cooperation with neuroscience, medicine, logic and other fields.
2 Teaching and research team
At present, the Department of Psychology has full-time teachers 16 (all of them have obtained doctoral degrees, and the school plans to introduce 10 talents), 9 part-time professors and other professional teachers in the school (the Department of Psychology will introduce 5-6 full-time teachers in the next two years). In the next five years, the Department of Psychology will develop basic psychology and applied psychology based on scientific research, and cultivate a dynamic research and teaching team.
The Department of Psychology will focus on introducing a group of well-trained young doctors who have just graduated and several young and middle-aged scholars with outstanding achievements, and provide generous treatment and research environment (see the recruitment notice of this department for details).
3 development direction
1) Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
The basic laws of human cognition are studied by means of imaging and behavior, including attention, memory, language, thinking and learning. The research emphasizes the combination of application and studies cognitive obstacles and learning problems.
2) Personality/Social Psychology
To study China people's thinking patterns and related attitudes, egos, interpersonal communication, consumption and advertising psychology. Research paradigms include behavioral experiments, electrophysiological experiments, questionnaires, interviews and case studies.
3) Health psychology and mental health
Based on the research in the above two fields, combined with clinical practice, the research and practice of psychological induction and auxiliary treatment of diseases are carried out.
4) Industrial/Organizational Psychology
It is in line with the economic and social characteristics of Guangdong to apply the research results of personality/social psychology to industries and other fields.
5) Educational psychology
Apply the research results of cognitive psychology and personality/social psychology to education and other fields.
Teaching intransitive verbs
The Department of Psychology adopts a teaching model that is in line with international standards in teaching, focusing on the following five aspects of reform:
First, some courses are taught by overseas teachers, and all undergraduate and postgraduate courses are taught in English textbooks or all in English.
The second is to implement the undergraduate tutorial system. From the first year, every student will be provided with a study tutor, and some students who enter the third year will have a research tutor.
The third is to implement the credit system for scientific research achievements and encourage students to carry out various scientific research and innovation activities.
Fourth, emphasize the cultivation of practical operation ability. Most courses in this major include about one class hour of experiment or practice every week, and a term paper is required.
Fifth, encourage students to take elective courses across departments. In addition to psychology itself, the psychology department also pays special attention to students' training in English, statistics, physiology, computer programming and application; Students are also encouraged to take courses in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, such as philosophy, sociology, management, anthropology, linguistics, biology, computer science, mathematics and physics.
Seven. laboratory
This is one of the key construction projects of our department. The psychology experimental center of Zhuhai campus (teaching experimental building area B) has been put into use. The construction plan of psychology experiment center in Guangzhou South Campus (underground of Gao Lishi House) is about to start. The psychological experiment center includes experimental psychology laboratory (behavioral experiment system-various reaction time experiments can be carried out by computer self-programming), brain functional imaging laboratory, eye tracker laboratory, multi-channel physiological recording system laboratory, behavior laboratory and children's behavior observation room. All laboratories serve the teaching and research of basic and applied courses and are open to teachers and students all day.
According to the development trend, the experimental psychology laboratory will mainly undertake the teaching experiments of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology for students, and collect data for various behavioral experiments. The experiment will be realized mainly by related computer software. In addition to being familiar with the principles and operations of various important experiments, students are also required to design experiments and analyze data with psychological software.
The laboratory is equipped with the most popular psychological experimental system and commonly used psychological statistical software, such as E-Prime, Presentation and Inquisit, and the experimental psychological system developed by Peking University is installed. At the same time, the laboratory has installed a network server, and students and teachers can freely download and browse all kinds of information (including all kinds of psychological full-text electronic journals and abstract databases purchased by the school library and psychology department). At present, the experimental psychology laboratory has 23 computers available for network use, which basically meets the requirements.
The 128 channel event-related potential -ERP system, eye tracker (eyelink II) and 16 physiological recording system (BIOPAC MP 150) were installed in the brain functional imaging laboratory, eye tracker laboratory and multi-channel physiological recording system laboratory. The behavior laboratory and children's behavior observation room are designed by combining teaching with practice, and are multifunctional observation and consultation rooms (which have been put into use at present).
In addition, the psychological experiment center also purchased a variety of psychological measurement tools, including mental scales of intelligence, personality, neuropsychology and mental health.
In addition to the equipment of the above departments, the Brain Functional Imaging Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University (Siemens 3.0T high-speed real-time imaging functional magnetic resonance instrument installed in 2006) was established in cooperation with the Department of Neurology, Developmental Pediatrics and Radiology of Medical College and affiliated hospitals to carry out teaching and research in the fields of brain functional imaging, language learning and mental health.
Eight, books and materials
This is one of the key construction projects of our department. Over the past year, the books and materials of psychology in our school have also been greatly expanded. In addition to the existing materials of the school, the Department of Psychology of Peking University and the Department of Psychology of Hong Kong University donated 50 Chinese and 100 English psychology books to our school respectively, and Professor Yang personally donated tens of thousands of Chinese and English psychology books. In addition, our department has received various donations from other individuals (see the announcement of our department for the list). In order to keep up with the development of psychology department and psychology discipline in Sun Yat-sen University, the school library has successively purchased a large number of new psychology books and updated 195 psychology English magazines. More importantly, the library and the Department of Psychology have successively purchased full-text electronic publications and abstract databases from several publishing houses or societies, and built the most comprehensive psychological digital library and reference center in China, which greatly facilitated the literature retrieval.
These databases include: PsycINFO, psycARTICLES (including the full texts of 49 journals affiliated to the American Psychological Association after 1988), Academic Press (including many psychological journals including cognitive psychology), and Academic Research Library (ARL, Including Annals of Psychology), Blackwell (including many psychological publications including all publications of American Psychological Association -APS), EBSCOHost, Kluver, Elsevier Science (including many psychological journals related to brain research and cognitive research, such as Cognition, Brain and Language), e-psychology, John Wiley, Nature (including Nature) and All.
Through these databases, Sun Yat-sen University can retrieve more than 300 full-text journals of psychology or related disciplines (covering all famous psychology journals), and several abstract databases can retrieve abstracts of major documents from 65438 to 0872. In addition, the full texts of most psychological journals in China can be accessed through online databases such as China Academic Journals Network and Superstar Library in the school library.
It can be said that the real psychological digital library is taking shape in Sun Yat-sen University.
Nine, scientific research
200 1 Up to now, the teachers of psychology department have presided over 4 national natural science funds (Gao Dingguo, Carolyn Chan, Rao Hengyi, respectively), 2 national social science funds (Gao Dingguo, Li Huanhuan, respectively), Fok Ying-tung 1 young teachers project (Gao Dingguo), 2 projects (Huang Miner, Zhou) and key projects of the Ministry of Education. As a main member, he participated in 2 national natural funds of other departments, 4 international cooperation projects (Yang, Carolyn Chan, Cai Huajian), 985 school projects, Tongshan Youth Fund projects and other 13 projects.
Since its establishment, the Department of Psychology has paid special attention to publishing English papers and papers from domestic high-level magazines. At present, all teachers have published more than 30 papers in SCI and SSCI magazines. Cognitive psychology/cognitive neuroscience and social psychology in the Department of Psychology have been recognized by academic circles, and several other fields have also developed rapidly. It is precisely because of these achievements that the Department of Psychology applied for the doctoral program of basic psychology and the key discipline of basic psychology in Guangdong Province in a relatively short period of time.
X. Department of Psychology Office Building
The office building of the Department of Psychology is located at No.313 northeast of Guangzhou South Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, formerly known as Coles Hotel. Coles building is a residence donated by Dr. J. Ackerman Coles from America and Dr. Andrew H. Woods from Lingnan University. Gao Lishi House was built at 1927, namely staughton &; The architectural design of stoughton is a building that combines the artistic features of the East and the West (green glazed tile with fireplace, red brick with western-style doors and windows, commonly known as "Little Red Building"), and it is a cultural relic protection building in Guangdong Province. In June, 20001year, the school decided that Coles House was the office laboratory building of the Department of Psychology, with a practical area of about 600 square meters. The Coles' houses have been built for more than 80 years, and some of them have been damaged and rebuilt. With the support of schools and other foundations, the Department of Psychology has basically restored the original appearance of Coles House.