FF:PS_BA025 Psychodiagn foundations - Course Information

PS_BA025 Psychodiagnostic foundations

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Mojmír Svoboda, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Hana Přikrylová Kučerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Karel Černý (assistant)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Irena Komendová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Tue 9:10–10:45 B2.13

Prerequisites

The course follows up the course of Methodology.

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 FF, B-PS)

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to present a systematic overview of psychological assessment methods and briefly mention the principles of their construction and psychometric properties. The aim is to provide students with instruments to explore and reveal human mind.

Syllabus

• Issues and topics: • Methodological principles of psychological assessment of adults, • Brief overview of history of development and use of methods, ethical principles of using the methods, • Clinical methods (observation, interview, case history), • Test methods, the principle and classification, • Mental ability tests (simple) , • Tests of specific abilities, tests of art abilities, didactic tests, • Tests of memory and creativity, • Unidimensional questionnaires and inventories, • Multidimensional questionnaires and inventories, • Rating scales, the principle, overview, classification, • Subjective rating scales, • Objective rating scales, • Computer-assisted psychological assessment, • Writing a report.

Literature

required literature
• SVOBODA, Mojmír, Pavel HUMPOLÍČEK and Václav ŠNOREK. Psychodiagnostika dospělých (Psychological assessment of adults). Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2013, 487 pp. ISBN 978-80-262-0363-6. URL info
• SVOBODA, Mojmír, Vladimír ŘEHAN, Zdeněk VTÍPIL, Helena KLIMUSOVÁ, Pavel HUMPOLÍČEK, Tomáš URBÁNEK and Tomáš KOHOUTEK. Aplikovaná psychodiagnostika v České republice (Applied psychological assessment in the Czech Republic). První vydání. Brno: MSD, s.r.o. Brno, 2004, 234 pp. ISBN 80-86633-12-8. info

recommended literature
• Stančák, A. (1996). Klinická psychodiagnostika dospelých. Nové Zámky: Psychoprof.
• SVOBODA, Mojmír, O. KONDÁŠ and A. STANČÁK. Psychodiagnostika dospelých (Psychodiagnostics of Adults). Martin: Osveta, 1992. ISBN 80-217-0357-1. info

Teaching methods

Lectures is based on interactivity with exploitation of multimedial and demonstration of concrete psychodiagnostic methods.

Assessment methods

Teaching proceeds two teaching hours once a week. This course is completed with an oral exam.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
  
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