Course Details
Psychology
Academic Year 2025/26
BZB007 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-GK Winter Semester 3rd year
Psychological science object and system, psychological phenomenon classification – cognitive, emotive, conative processes and states, body and other expressive characteristics and abilities, temperament, character, structural qualities of personality, normality and pathology of personality, motivation, personality stimulation, forming and its development
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Entry Knowledge
Basic knowledge from general psychology and sociology, elementary terms in psychology and personality psychology. Acquaintance with sociological research and its practical use.
Aims
Orientation in developmental and social psychology and in communication; ability to apply gained information to personal and to professional life.
Student will be able to orientate in elementary psychological topics, student will be able to aplicate gained knowlege and abilities in life.
Student will be able to orientate in elementary psychological topics, student will be able to aplicate gained knowlege and abilities in life.
Basic Literature
A. Baddeley, M. W. Eysenck, & M. C. Anderson, Memory (3rd ed.). Taylor & Francis Group. (en)
M. W. Eysenck, & M. T. Keane, Cognitive psychology: A student’s handbook (8th ed.). Taylor & Francis Group. (en)
Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Fredrickson, B., Loftus, G. R., & Lutz, C. (2014). Introduction to psychology. Cengage Learning. (en)
M. W. Eysenck, & M. T. Keane, Cognitive psychology: A student’s handbook (8th ed.). Taylor & Francis Group. (en)
Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Fredrickson, B., Loftus, G. R., & Lutz, C. (2014). Introduction to psychology. Cengage Learning. (en)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Role of psychology in personal life.
- 2. Classification of Psychology.
- 3. Psychology of perception on human and subhuman level.
- 4. Neuroanatomy.
- 5. Cognitive proceses.
- 6. Inteligence and ways how to measure it.
- 7. Emotions. Temperament. Motivation.
- 8. Differences between men and women.
- 9. Learning, its importance and types.
- 10. Common learning types.
- 11. Theories of personality – psychoanalysis of S. Freud.
- 12. Psychosocial development of personality.
- 13. Social communication.