PS_BA003 General Psychology I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Helena Klimusová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tatiana Malatincová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Dalibor Vobořil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Helena Klimusová, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jarmila Valchářová
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 8:00–9:40 D22
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
Course objectives
General psychology integrates basic theoretical concepts. These are above all: attention, perception, memory, mental representation and language. Knowledge about these phenomenons are necessary for any other courses in psychology.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students should understand, analyze nad explain key theoretical approaches to cognitive processes. They should be able put the information about distinctive theoretical approaches to cognitive phenomena to use in various psychological applications.
Syllabus
  • 1) Introduction – the emergence and antecedents of cognitive psychology; cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience
  • 2) Sensation and perception
  • 3) Attention and consciousness
  • 4) Memory
  • 5) Mental representation
  • 6) Language
  • 7) Reasoning and problem solving
  • 8) Intelligence
  • 9) Judgment and decision making
Literature
    required literature
  • EYSENCK, Michael W. and Mark T. KEANE. Kognitivní psychologie. Translated by Miroslav Filip. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2008, 748 s. ISBN 9788020015594. info
  • STERNBERG, Robert J. Kognitivní psychologie. Translated by František Koukolík. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2002, 636 s. ISBN 80-7178-376-5. info
  • EYSENCK, Michael W. and Mark T. KEANE. Cognitive psychology : a student's handbook. Seventh edition. London: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, xviii, 838. ISBN 9781848724167. info
    recommended literature
  • The Oxford handbook of cognitive psychology. Edited by Daniel Reisberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xx, 1076. ISBN 9780195376746. info
  • STERNBERG, R. J., & STERNBERG, K. (2016). Cognitive Psychology (7th ed.). Cengage Learning.
  • Groome, D. (Ed.). (2014). An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and disorders (3rd ed.). Psychology Press.
  • ANDERSON, J. R. (2014). Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications (8th ed.). Worth Publishers.
    not specified
  • Groome, D., & Eysenck, M. (2016). An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2nd Ed. Psychology Press.
  • Baddeley, A., Eysenck, M. W., & Anderson, M. C. (2015). Memory (2nd ed.). Psychology Press.
  • HARRIS, John. Sensation and perception. 1st pub. Los Angeles: Sage, 2014, xx, 496. ISBN 9780857020642. info
  • EYSENCK, Michael W. A handbook of cognitive psychology. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1984. ISBN 0-86377-016-9. info
  • SOLSO, Robert L. Cognitive psychology. 5th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998, xx, 601 s. ISBN 0-205-27418-8. info
  • GAVIN, Helen. The essence of cognitive psychology. 1st pub. London: Prentice-Hall Europe, 1998, xi, 215 s. ISBN 0-13-796459-5. info
  • Bermúdez, J. L. (2014). Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  • FRIEDENBERG, Jay and Gordon SILVERMAN. Cognitive science : an introduction to the study of mind. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006, xxiii, 531. ISBN 1412925681. info
  • PINKER, Steven. How the mind works. 1st pub. as a Norton pbk. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999, xviii, 661. ISBN 9780393334777. info
  • KAHNEMAN, Daniel. Thinking, fast and slow. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, 499 s. ISBN 9780374533557. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and classroom discussions
Assessment methods
Colloquium - students must 1) score at least 70% in a multiple-choice test 2) to prepare a presentation of an empirical study (will be assigned in the first two weeks of semester) to obtain a passing mark.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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