SZk1023a Developmental Psychology

Faculty of Education
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Michaela Bucková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tereza Škubalová, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Otto Čačka
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Tereza Škubalová, Ph.D.
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
Course objectives
The aim of the developmental psychology is directed to the understanding of the main principals and regularity in the process of mental development focusing on cognitive, motor, emotional, moral and personal progress. The course focuses on the dynamic changes in each of the individual developmental stages, the influence and impact of partial factors and the difficulties in adaptability,upbringing and education. At the end of this course, the students should be able to:; understand and tell to an individual developmental stages of the child; interpret the knowledge about the changes in development of the individual psychic functions; use the information about the changes in mental development in a special approach to children education;
Syllabus
  • 1. The concept and the factors of mental development and their principles
  • 2. Factors of developmental changes, short description of developmental stages
  • 3. Characterization of mental changes in yearly childhood.
  • 4. Changes in psychic development in pre-school period children, school maturity
  • 5. Mental processes and changes in childhood and pre-puberty.
  • 6. Difficulties in adaptability, various disorders and symptoms of neuroses in childhood and pre-puberty.
  • 7. A general description of the individual stage, the process of growing up. The quality of the mental changes in adolescents period
  • 8. The likely mental disorders and illnesses in adolescents
  • 9. Developmental changes in adulthood, the characterization
Literature
  • HARRIS, Margaret and George BUTTERWORTH. Developmental psychology : a student's handbook. New York: Psychology Press, 2002, ix, 372. ISBN 1841691925. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
lecture, written exam
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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