PS_BA003 General Psychology I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
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
Fri 8:00–9:40 B2.23
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
Students will be able to apply knowledge from basic areas of general psychology to other applied and specialized fields of psychology and cognitive science.
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 neuroscience 2) attention, consciousness 3) perception 4) memory 5) mental representation 6) language 7) reasoning, problem solving, decision making 8) intelligence
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
Lecturess, class discussions about student's prepared thesis
Assessment methods
Colloquium - at least 70 % of points in written multiple-choice test.
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 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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