PSY256 Human communication: difficulties, breakdowns, fauls and defences.

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Ivo Plaňava (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ivo Plaňava
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:30 U23
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 28 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/28, only registered: 0/28
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Course objectives
The subject pertains to the category of educative and training experiential programmes. The course includes a presentation of selected knowledge and participation in „psycho-exercises“: role-playing, psycho-dramatic exercises, analysing of video-programmes; both in interaction „face-to-face“ and from mass-media sphere.
In the beginning of course students work on an essay where they name and describe those communication problems and difficulties they consider to be frequent and important including their own comunication difficulties and questions.
Students have a posibility to get survey and deeper understanding to the forms and sources of communication problems and to test variations of adequate respondings in a friendly enviroment.
Syllabus
  • KoReA: Communication – Relationship Axiom, its subjects and consequences.
  • Communication myths, prejudices, „half-truths“.
  • Interpersonal communication and ethics.
  • Trans-cultural misunderstandings.
  • Emotional and cognitive causes of comumunicative difficulties and disorders.
  • Difficulties, tricks and defences (false generations, „foggining“, slanders, etc.).
  • Tricks and manipulations in „face-to-face“interactions.
  • Double-binds.
  • Brain washing.
Literature
  • ALLPORT, Gordon Willard. O povaze předsudků. Translated by Eduard Geissler. V českém jazyce vyd. 1. Praha: Prostor, 2004, 574 s. ISBN 8072601253. info
  • Nenechte sebou manipulovat! : jak rozpoznat manipulaci a prosadit svou vůli. Edited by Andreas Edmüller - Thomas Wilhelm. Praha: Grada, 2003, 108 s. ISBN 8024704102. info
  • PLAŇAVA, Ivo. Průvodce mezilidskou komunikací: přístupy-dovednosti-poruchy (Guide to Interpersonal communication: Approaches-Skills-Disturbances.). Praha: Grada, 2005, 146 pp. Psyché. ISBN 80-247-0858-2. info
  • RUSHKOFF, Douglas. Manipulativní nátlak :proč tak snadno uposlechneme druhé? Vyd. 1. Hradec Králové: Konfrontace, 2002, 265 s. ISBN 80-86088-07-3. info
  • Taylorová, K. (2004): Brain washing. Manipulace s myšlením. Praha, Nakl. Lidové noviny
  • VYBÍRAL, Zbyněk. Lži, polopravdy a pravda v lidské komunikaci (Lies, truth, and halftruth in human communication). 1st ed. Praha: Portál, 2003, 176 pp. Studium. ISBN 80-7178-812-0. info
Assessment methods
Intended for bcl students of psychology (from third semester).
Maximum: 26 students.
Once a week two hours; workshops; exercises; seminars.
Conclusion: credit
Preparing essay (see annotation).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught last offered.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009.
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