Course detail

Psychology

FAST-GZ51Acad. year: 2012/2013

Psychological science object and system, psychological phenomenon classification – cognitive, emotive, conative processes and states, body and other expressive characteristics and abilities, temperament, character, structural qualities of personality, normality and pathology of personality, motivation, personality stimulation, forming and its development

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Jan Krása, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The Student will be acquainted with basic psychological concepts, models, and theories to be able to independently study a professional literature and be able to formulate hypotheses within psychology and also to verify them.
The explanation will be conducted so as the student be able to utilize the knowledge in a praxis.
Student will understand the process of learning from a psychological perspective, and will be able to regulate the learning process so that it is optimal.
Orientation in developmental and social psychology and in communication.
Ability to apply gained information to personal and to professional life.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge from general psychology and sociology, elementary terms in psychology and personality psychology. Acquaintance with sociological research and its practical use.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The information will be passed on in the form of lectures, accompanied by rich photographic material. Lectures, basic information, and a lot of information beyond the recited topics are in LMS Moodle.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Every student should pass the written exam.

Course curriculum

1. Role of psychology in personal life.
2. Psychology classification.
3. Personality, common questions and personality structure.
4. Personality types, personality features.
5. Temperament, character.
6. Research methods in psychology.
7. Development psychology.
8. Personality formation and stress.
9. Learning, its importance and types.
10. Common learning types.
11. Education and self-education.
12. Social communication.
13. Orientation in world and society.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Subject orientation; ability to apply gained information to personal and to professional life.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ATKINSON, R. L.; ATKINSON, R. C.;SMITH, E.E.: Psychologie. Portál, 2003.

Recommended reading

FIELDEN, J. S.: Principles of Business Communication. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-GK Bachelor's

    branch G , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme B-K-C-GK Bachelor's

    branch G , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Jan Krása, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Role of psychology in personal life.
2. Classification of Psychology.
3. Psychology of perception on human and subhuman level.
4. Neuroanatomy.
5. Cognitive proceses.
6. Inteligence and ways how to measure it.
7. Emotions. Temperament. Motivation.
8. Differences between men and women.
9. Learning, its importance and types.
10. Common learning types.
11. Theories of personality - psychoanalysis of S. Freud.
12. Psychosocial development of personality.
13. Social communication.