FSS:PSY707 Social psychology I - Course Information
PSY707 Social psychology I
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2015
- 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)
Mgr. Kamila Dufková (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies - 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
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-KS)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-KSK)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-MSK)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-PL)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-PLK)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-PS)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-PSK)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-SO)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-SOK)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-SP)
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-SPK)
- 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
- 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/
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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