PdF:ZS1BK_APB2 Applied Psychology 2 Sem - Course Information

ZS1BK_APB2 Applied Psychology 2 Seminar

Extent and Intensity

0/0/1. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Otto Čačka (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Otto Čačka
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Otto Čačka

Prerequisites (in Czech)

ZS1BK_PsDv Developmenrtal Psychology Lec

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

• Primary School Teacher Training (programme PdF, M-ZS5)

Course objectives

At the end of the course student should be abble operate experimental verification of knowledge gained in lectures on the psychology of mental development of sub-mental qualities and processes of children at different developmental stages and examining the principle of development of these functions through a comparison of the results obtained. Students should abble also sketch psychological methods, and learn their application for future educational psychological diagnosis.

Syllabus

• 1. - Basic methodological concepts and principles. - Rights of the Child and the general principles of psychodiagnostics. - Special features of educational psychodiagnostics at children and adolescents. 2. - Detection of attention characteristics level in childhood. - Developmental changes verification of differential thresholds at children. – Accession of the basic perception stages at children. 3. - Developmental changes verification of mechanical and logical memory preferences. - Development advancement of partial memory type performance. - The characteristics of selected dysfunctions. 4. - Development of concepts understanding (vocabulary) and the ability of their defition. - Recording of thought operations accession (analysis, generalization and abstraction). – Differences at developmental changes accession of thought operations between boys and girls. 5. – Representation of imagination character changes through the childhood. - Procedure of children drawings expresivity extinguishing. - Development of interest in the visual arts. 6. - Stability degree verification of the basal emotionality at children. – Use of "feelings talk" and "projection" in educational diagnostics. - Developmental changes detection of play activity. 7. - Motivation as a factor of attention tiredness. - Transformation of time perception at children. - Achieved qualities of will processes at children (level of ambition, the decision-making process, characters of will act, anticipating and planning). 8. - Social relationships development in the classroom (dependence on the group and maturity of identity). - Detection of accession and quality of friendly relations. - Developmental changes of emotional communication character (dynamics, subtlety and complexity). 9. - Accession verification of self-reflection developmental stages. - Empathy development and the judgment level of the others. 10. - Dynamics of change of selected units of “I” at adolescents. - Occurrence, focus and quality of introspection at adolescents. - Identifying the factors of the achieved level of self-management criteria. 11. - Examination of factors and changes of interest orientation. - The relationship of interests and professional orientation. - Characteristic changes of creativity. 12. - Verification of cognitive styles stability at adolescents. - Changes in reasoning autonomy and decisions independence. - Changes of the ratio of convergence and divergence thinking at problems solving (thought strategy). 13. – Ratio detection of imagination and rationality in the consciousness of children and adolescents. – Detection of relation of imaginative activities and level of social emotion. - Comparison of perception pervasiveness at children and adolescents (punch line understanding of images, stories, film, metaphors, symbols, etc.). 14. - Characteristic developmental changes of character types. – Relation of pro-social orientation and character of the project life-style. - Focus and structure of value consciousness of adolescents. 15 – Detection of the factors and consequences of fear and anxiety. - Developmental changes of the factors and manifestations of aggression. - Changes of tensions ventilation character at children and adolescents.

Literature

• HŘÍBKOVÁ, Lenka. Nadání a nadaní : pedagogicko-psychologické přístupy, modely, výzkumy a jejich vztah ke školské praxi. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, 2005, 209 s. ISBN 807290213X. info
• SVOBODA, Mojmír. Psychologická diagnostika dospělých (Psychodiagnostic of adults). 3rd ed. Praha: Portál, 2005, 306 pp. 3. vydání. ISBN 80-7367-050-X. info
• DAN, Jiří. Inteligence a školní výkon ve vývoji a vzájemných souvislostech. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2002, 226 pp. ISBN 80-210-2948-X. info
• ČAČKA, Otto. Psychologie duševního vývoje dětí a dospívajících s faktory optimalizace (Psychology of Mental Development of Children and Adolescent with Optimisation Factors). první. Brno: DOPLNĚK, 2000, 377 pp. ISBN 80-7239-060-0. info
• KOHOUTEK, Rudolf. Historie pedagogicko-psychologického poradenství. Brno: CERM akademické nakladatelství, 1999, 24 s. ISBN 8072041150. info
• ČAČKA, Otto. Psychologie dítěte (Psychology of a child). 3rd ed. Tišnov: SURSUM, 1997, 108 pp. ISBN 80-85799-03-0. info
• DITTRICH, Pavel. Pedagogicko-psychologická diagnostika. Vyd. 2., upr. Jinočany: H & H, 1993, 121 s. ISBN 80-85467-06-2. info

Teaching methods

class discussion, homeworks (10 p.)

Assessment methods

credit, seminar works (10 s)

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 hodiny.

Teacher's information

http://www.cackon.net/docent

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