Course detail

Basics of Psychology 1 - winter

FaVU-ZPS1Acad. year: 2020/2021

The human individual and reality; mutual interaction. Psychical processes and their processing of reality. General psychology - introduction. Topics: perception, imagination, thinking, creativity, motivation, attention, memory, emotions.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Richard Fajnor

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Credit. 50% attendance, paper.
Classified credit: written test plus oral exam.

Prerequisites

The knowledge of the humanities at secondary-school level.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations .

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Classified credit. Written test and oral exam.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction - elementary problematics of psychology and the subject of psychological sciences.
Terminology: psychics, stimulation, behavior, feeling, organism and its structure, general psychology, ontogenetic psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, psychology of art, patopsychology...

2. General psychology - perception
terminology: the perception process/the senses

3. General psychology - imagination, memory

terminology: dreams - latent and manifest content/hallucinations/types of memory - afterimage, short/long-term memory, engram, forgetting process

General psychology - learning, thinking

Terminology: conditionality - negative/positive enhancement/learning products - skills, experience, knowledge, social reaction/social learning/cognitive and humanistic theories of learning/thinking operations, abstraction processes, comparisons, analysis, synthesys, concretization, deduction, induction - mind forms / notion, judgment, statement, theory, hypothesis, lwa/language, logics, semanctics and interpretation, semantic triangle

5. General psychology - intelligence, creativity, attention
Terminology: IQ/convergent and divergent problem solution/creativity - fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, sensitivity, redefinition, creative personality/attention / arousal

6. general psychology - motivation, emotion
terminology: instinct, drive, need, stance/will/frustration, stress, deprivation/level and aspiraion/basic emotions/reactions, states - moods, relationship - passion/afect/phobias/higher emotions

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will acquire basic psychological terminology and will be able to describe psychical function of a human individual. They will learn the general teories regarding psychological aspects of the determination of the human individual. Students will also learn about various psycho-hygienic techniques, energetization and activation practices of psycho-somatic manipulation.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance is mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Helus Z.: Úvod do psychologie. Grada, 2018, 312 str., ISBN: 978-80-247-4675-3 (CS)
Kulka J.: Psychologie umění. Praha, Grada, 2008, 440 str., ISBN: 978-80-247-2329-7
Nakonečný M.: Lexikon psychologie. Praha, Vodnář 2013, 660 str., ISBN: 978-80-7439-056-2

Type of course unit

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Richard Fajnor

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Richard Fajnor