LF:BPPS011p General Psychology - lecture - Course Information
BPPS011p General Psychology - lecture
Faculty of MedicineAutumn 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Hana Jahnová (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Vlasta Břicháčková (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable
- Wed 10:30–12:10 343
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Midwife (programme LF, B-PA) (2)
- Course objectives
- The main objectives of the course are:
Social psychology:
understaning and explaining the basic terminology;
adequate use of information about mental processes, states and qualities of an individual;
grasping basic psychological methods; Developmental psychology: understanding nad grasping the theoretical-methodological concepts of the developmental psychology in the relation to the profession od midwife. Deeper understanding and grasping of the important methods, notions, and theories tha tare especially related to the period of early childhood. Deeper understanding of the early childhood specifics on the basis of the acquired knowledge. - Syllabus
- Psychology as a science about a person, psychological scientific disciplines;
- Basic methods in psychology;
- Basic terminology - psyche, consciousness, the unconscious, experiencing, behaviour, mental processes, mental states and processes;
- Thinking and speech;
- Memory;
- Attention;
- Emotions and feelings;
- Volitional action. Developmental psychology: basic notions - phylogenesis, anthropogenesis, developmental stage, developmental crisis, agents of mental development, critical sensitive periods. Developmental theories - úpsychodynamic, psychosexual, psychosocial levels of development, cognitive theory of development, theory of atachment, subjective well-being. Characteristics of the period from the point of view of cognitive, emotional and social development - prenatal, newborn, suckling, foddler, pre-school and early school age, adolescence - early, late, adulthood, agiing and old age. D
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- Type of teaching - lecture.
- Assessment methods
- Requirements for the finishing of exam, form of finishing: credit - 80 per cent participation on the teaching, presentation of the personality of the student herself (basic anamnestic data, family, professional career and aims, hobbies) Active participation is expected, pairwork, teamwork. Students will be informed about the requirements for getting the credit in written form, a seminar paper on a certain topic will be set (5 given topics and 1 topic of one's own) according to the requirements given. The content of the paper may be personal reflections and experiences supported by citation and examples from literature. A clear grasp of the topic, expression of an opinion of one's own, and ability to be work with sources (literature) will be evaluated. Content and professional quality of the topic will be evaluated by the teacher who will decide whether the seminar paper fulfills the requirements and exhausts the given topic. Exam has a form of a written test, the result of the test is evaluated in points, within the range from 0 to 25 points, minimum number of points for passing is 20. Total evaluation of the student in the subject is combined from the evaluation of the seminar paper and the perfomance at a written test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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