711-0501/28 – Psychology I. (PSYCH-1)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
| Subject guarantor | Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2014/2015 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FS | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of this subject is to enrich students with essential knowledge of general psychology. Students will be introduced to the basic psychological schools and research methods, they will become familiarised with the core topics of perception, memory, learning, thinking, emotion, motivation, psychology of personality and they will get acquainted with the problematics of resilience and mental health disorders. They will acquire basic terminology of psychology and gain the ability to understand the expression of human emotions. Integral part of this course will also be practical demonstration of psychological methodology, such as a questionnaire or a test. After attending this course, students will be able to understand and value the importance of human psyche, mental health and personality.
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Summary
TAUGHT ONLY IN CZECH To explore the full range of psychology, from cell to
society. To foster scientific attitudes and help our students learn to think
critically by examining the ways thet psychologists have solved, or failed to
solve fascinating puzzles of behavior and processes.We have incorporated
frequent references to pract.application of psychol. research to practice.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
problem analysis and discusion on pre preprepaird thesis
E-learning
Other requirements
prezentation based on psychological litarature
test
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. the world of psychology, subfields of psychology
2. biological determination of human behavior, temperament
3. behaviorism, conditioning, influence on thr theory of personality
4. Freud, psychodynamic theory of personality, contemporary assesment
5. Jung, Adler, ego defence mechanisms
6. Personality developement, Erikson, Piaget
7. motivational theory
8. cognitive aproach - thought, language, imagination
9. intelligence, IQ sciores, emotional intelligence
10. sensation and perception, illusions and errors of social perception
11. memory, learning, improving memory, effective learning
12. emotion, afective disorders
13. abnormal psychology and addiction
14. stress and coping
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