PSB_667 Practicum of experimental psychology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Petr Fiľo, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 17:30–19:05 U29
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PSA_005 Cognitive Psychology
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the seminar is to inform students about the wide range of psychological experiments, their methodology, consistency with the theoretical base, practical application, etc.
Credit: active participation in seminars (80% attendance required), separate demonstrations of selected experiments and theoretical background knowledge.
Syllabus
  • 1. Characteristics and objectives of the experimental psychology
  • 2. Introduction to the History of Experimental Psychology
  • 3. Psychophysics and its measurement methods
  • 4. Experiments (samples of experiments) in the field of perception, attention, memory and learning, association, thinking, motivation, emotions, feelings, etc.
  • 5. Program ERTS and Biofeedback 2000 x-pert
Literature
  • CUMMINS, Denise D. Záhady experimentální psychologie : co psychologové zjistili o myšlení, citech a chování člověka : The other side of psychology (Orig.). Translated by Petr Neugebauer. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 1998, 237 s. : i. ISBN 80-7178-186-X. info
  • HOSKOVEC, Jiří. Tajemství experimentální psychologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1992, 166 s. ISBN 8020003592. info
  • KURUC, Július. Cvičenia zo všeobecnej psychológie. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, 1971, 198 s. info
  • MEILI, Richard, Johannes C. BRENGELMANN and Hubert ROHRACHER. Učebnice experimentální psychologie. Translated by Olga Kolaříková. Vyd. 2. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1969, 370 s. URL info
  • WOODWORTH, Robert Sessions and Harold SCHLOSBERG. Experimentálna psychológia. Translated by Miroslav T. Bažány. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 1960, 1023 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures, tutorial, individual or group projects
Assessment methods
individual, respectively. group project (performance of experiment and knowledge of related theory)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: semestrový kurz.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014, Spring 2016.
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