FF:PSX_004 Social psychology - Course Information

PSX_004 Social psychology

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Iva Burešová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Jaroslava Dosedlová, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Markéta Kukaňová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. David Kuneš, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Iveta Ondroušková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Veronika Tlapáková (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Pavel Humpolíček, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Psychology (programme FF, M-PS) (4)

Course objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to define social psychology as the area of psychology which deals with the study of social behaviour and the mental experience of individuals in social context. Students will have a general knowledge of themes social cognition, causal attribution, socialization, identity and the self-system. They will understand the historical and social contexts of theoretical approaches formation and they will be able them to critically evaluate.

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction into social psychology
• Subject of study SP, SP in the context of related disciplines. History of SP. Basic trends in SP of 20th century, current influential paradigms. Research methods in SP, possibilities of application in SP.
• 2.Social cognition
• a) self-relationship as a product of social interaction - cognitive, affective and behavioral components of self-system
• b)social perception and categorization. Associationist and constructivist models of social cognition. Scheme of processes of social perception. First impression versus complex review. Creating of impressions of other people, connection between perception and motivation. Distortions and mistakes in social perception. Concept of social stereotype (auto and hetero-stereotype), social representations (Moscovici). Connection between perception and attribution processes.
• c) interpretation of social reality - theory of attribution Theory of attribution (Heider, Fiske, Taylor, Jones, Davis, Kelley). Theory of causal schemes, basic principles of attribution. Mistakes in attribution processes (fundamental attribution failure), attribution of success and failure. Theory of optimism (Seligman, Carver, Scheier, Peterson, Cantor, Norem).
• 3. Socialization and identity of personality
• a)Socialization of personality.
• Basic characteristics of socialization process, three exhibition levels of socialization: organism vs. environment, subject vs. object and personality vs. group. Imitation and identification as basic forms of social learning, importance of primary groups. Importance of early social experience and satisfaction of basal psychosocial needs for latter development.
• b) personal and social identity - basic determination, evolutional view of their development. Theories of identity (Erikson, Marcia, Stryker, Tajfel, Giles, Garfinkel, Goffman, Harré, Weinreich).

Literature

recommended literature
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

not specified
• Journal of Social Psychology
• European Journal of Social Psychology

Teaching methods

Individual tutoring

Assessment methods

The course is closed by a written test (exam).

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Výuka probíhá formou konzultací s příslušným vyučujícím.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět je určen pouze zahraničním studentům psychologie.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
  
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