PdF:SZ1026a Social Psychology Seminar - Course Information
SZ1026a Social Psychology Seminar
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Michaela Bucková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jaroslav Řezáč, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tereza Škubalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Jaroslav Řezáč, CSc.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Jaroslav Řezáč, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education - 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
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (eng.) (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- Topics of social psychology thematically connected and extend the lecture content of social psychology. Students will learn to work with literature, are able to understand the specified issue, learn independently and creatively process the given topic, and will practice discussed practical issues.
- Syllabus
- Individual themes are continuously up-dated according to present-day knowledge of socially-psychological and sociological disciplines. 1. Social psychology – subject SP; position of social psychology in the system of psychological disciplines; benefit for teachers; possibilities of application in teacher’s or educator’s practice; 2. Humanization of the person – personality socialising – psychological characteristic of the socialising process of an individual; processes of personalisation, professionalisation, socialisation and cultural improvement; criteria of socialising effectiveness. Adaptation and mal-adaptation. Meeting of a child with social environment in early childhood. Mal-adaptive manifestations in pupils. 3. Social learning as a psychological mechanism of socialisation; social strengthening, imitation, identification; conditions of social learning effectiveness. Social learning in the context of socialisation of a pupil (age 6 – 11). 4. Psychology of interpersonal relations, fundamental features of interactions; synergy types; some possibilities of psychological analysis of interpersonal relations. Healthy relations and conditions of creating them. 5. Assertivity. Kinds of self-assertion. Social behaviour strategy. 6.-7.Communication – communication contents; sorts and styles of communication. 8. Perception and attribution – sensitivity; situational perception; formation of another man picture, perception sources and another man judging; mistakes in perception, attribution, self-perception and self-evaluation. 9. Social properties and personality features – ability to co-operate – ability to socialize – tolerance – social creativity – meaning and attitudes – relation-attitude properties of personality. Social “Me”, self-conception, self-realisation, self-evaluation. 10. Psychological characteristic of a social group with focusing at a small social group, mark, attributes of the social group – structure and dynamics of a small social group; standards, goals of the group and manners how to reach them; team; team roles. Group life of children aged 6-11. 11. Problematic, demanding and conflicting social situations. Possibilities of coping with social load, strategy of coping with load / demanding life situations. 12. Possibilities of application of activating and training techniques in teacher_s work . 13. Present knowledge and questions of social psychology.
- Literature
- 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
- HAYESOVÁ, Nicky. Aplikovaná psychologie. Translated by Dagmar Brejlová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2003, 220 s. ISBN 80-7178-807-4. info
- MYERS, David G. Social psychology. 6th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill College, 1999, xiii, 737. ISBN 0072902175. info
- Teaching methods
- Practical practice theoretical knowledge through socio-psychological group games, panel discussions, essay and seminar work.
- Assessment methods
- Credit is awarded for active participation in the seminar (leadership panel discussions, seminar work in the range of 5 pages using the recommended literatures - according to the requirements of leading seminars).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week. - Teacher's information
- http://www.ped.muni.cz/wpsy/SP_SYLAB/sylab_SP.htm
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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