BZOV011p General and Developmental Psychology - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Jahnová (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Vlasta Břicháčková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Wed 10:30–12:10 343
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are:General psychology: understaning and explaining the basic terminology:adequate use of information about mental processes,states and qualities of an individual: grasping basic psychological methods: Developmental psychology: understanding nad grisping the theoretical-methodological concepts of the developmental psychology. Deeper understanding and grasping of the important methods, notions, and theories.
Syllabus
  • Psychology as a science a person, psychological scientific disciplines: Basic methods in psychology Basic terminology-psyche, consciousness, the unconscious, experiencing, behaviour, mental processes mental states and processes Thinking and speech Memory Attention Emotions and feelings Volitional action. Developmental psychology: basic notions-phylogenesis, anthropogenesis, developmental stage, developmental crisis, agents of mental development, critical sensitive periods. Developmental theories-psychodynamic, psychosexual, psychosocial levels of development, cognitive theory of development, theory of atachment, subjective well-being. Characteristics of the period from the point of view of cognitive, emotional and social development-prenatal, vewborn, suckling, foddler, preschool and early school age, adolescence-early, late, adulthood, agiing and old age.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ŠVANCARA,Josef. Emoce, moticvace,volní procesy. 1.vyd.Brno:Masarykova univerzita,2003.142 s. Psychologie. ISNB 80-86633-11-X
  • LANGMAIER, Josef a Dana Krejčířová. Vývojová psychologie.2.aktualiz. vyd..Praha:Grada,2006. 368 s. ISBN 80-247-1284-9
  • PLHÁKOVÁ, Alena. Učebnice obecné psychologie. Vyd. 1.Praha: Academia,2004.472 s. ISBN 80-200-1387-3.
    not specified
  • VˇAGNEROVÁ,Marie. Vývojová psychologie.Vyd.1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakl. Karolinum, 2005. 467 s. ISBN 8024609568.
Teaching methods
Type of teaching-lecture
Assessment methods
Requirements for the finishing of exam, form of finishing: credit-80 per cent participation on the teaching. Active participation is expected, pairwork, teamwork. Students will be informed about the requirements for getting the credit in written form a seminar paper on a certain topic will be set (5 given topics and 1 topic and 1 topic of oneś own) according to the requirements given. The content of the paper may be personal reflections and experiences supported by citation and examples from leterature. A clear grasp of the topic, expression of an apinion of oneś own, and ability to be work with sources (literature) will be evaluated. Content and professional quality of the will be evaluated by the teacher who will decide whether the seminar paper fulfills the requirements and exhausts the given topic.Exam has a form of a written test, the result of the test is evaluated in points, within the range from 0 to 25 points, min. number of points for passing is 20. Total evaluation in the subject is combined from the evaluation of the seminar paper and the perfomance at a written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, autumn 2018, autumn 2019, autumn 2020, autumn 2021, autumn 2022, autumn 2023.
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