PSY707 Social psychology I

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Lukas Blinka, PhD. (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. David Šmahel, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.
Timetable
Fri 9. 10. 16:30–17:45 exP21, Fri 6. 11. 16:30–17:45 exP21, Fri 4. 12. 16:30–17:45 exP21
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
This course introduces basic concepts of social psychology, especially in the area of social cognition. More concretely, following themes are included: definition of social psychology, historical review, basic methodological principles, social perception, social cognition, attributional theory, self, and social identity.
Syllabus
  • This course introduces basic concepts of social psychology, especially in the area of social cognition. More concretely, following themes are included: definition of social psychology, historical review, basic methodological principles, social perception, social cognition, attributional theory, self, and social identity.
  • 1. Myths and reality of everyday social psychology (SP). Definition of SP, SP and other social sciences. Applied SP.
  • 2. History of SP, two early views of SP (W. McDougall, E. A. Ross). Sociál behaviorism, symbolic interactionism (G. H. Mead). Individually oriented SP ( F. H. Allport), an influence of culturally orineted psychoanalysis (K. Horney, H. S. Sullivan, E. Fromm). SP and social anthropology (M. Mead, B. K. Malinowski). Theory of field (K. Lewin), theory of cognitive dissonance (L. Festinger), theory of social perception (F. Heider).
  • 3. Major contemporary theoretical paradigms of SP, crisis of SP (K. J. Gergen). Social cognitive paradigm (A. Bandura, T. E. Higgins), role-rule paradigm (E. Gofmann, S. Stryker), theory of social representation (S. Moscovici, I. Marková). Evolutionary SP (D. Buss), social developmental psychology (K. Durkin). Social constructivism (K. J. Gergen), critical SP.
  • 4. Methods of SP. Observational methods, experimental methods, special methods of SP (attitude scales, semantic differential, sociometry). Ethical issues of research in SP.
  • 5. The construction of social world. Social perception and social cognition. Concepts, schemata, categories, principles of social cognition. Social cognition and memory (primacy effect, recency effect, prime effect). Stereotypes, social representations.
  • 6. Interpretation of social wolrd, attribution of causality. Internal-external attributions, covariation model, the fundamental attributional error, the actor/observer differencies, self-serving attributions.
  • 7. Self. I, me, self. Cognitive aspect of self(self-concept, self-schema), emotional aspects of self (self-evaluations, self-esteem, self-worth), behavioral aspects of self (self-presentation). Theory of self-perception (D. J. Bem), self-discrepancy theory (T. E. Higgins).
  • 8. Social development of personality and social identity (H. Tajfel, C. Turner).
Literature
  • VÝROST, Jozef and Ivan SLAMĚNÍK. Sociálna psychológia. info
  • ARONSON, Elliot and Robin M. AKERT. Social psychology. Edited by Timothy D. Wilson. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005, xxxvii, 65. ISBN 0131327933. info
Assessment methods
This course is based on lectures, reading of literature, aan active active participation on seminars. Student will receive a final letter grade (A-F) for semester based on the following components: seminar paper, test of terminology, and finel written exam (test).
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Teacher's information
http://is.muni.cz/el/1423/podzim2008/PSY707/
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
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