Course detail
Psychology
FAST-GZ51Acad. year: 2023/2024
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
2
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)
Entry knowledge
Basic knowledge from general psychology and sociology, elementary terms in psychology and personality psychology. Acquaintance with sociological research and its practical use.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Orientation in developmental and social psychology and in communication; ability to apply gained information to personal and to professional life.
Student will be able to orientate in elementary psychological topics, student will be able to aplicate gained knowlege and abilities in life.
Student will be able to orientate in elementary psychological topics, student will be able to aplicate gained knowlege and abilities in life.
Study aids
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
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
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.