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Course: Psychology of Personality

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Course title Psychology of Personality
Course code KSA/PSOSB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Špatenková Naděžda, PhDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Skopal Ondřej, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Definition of the subject of psychology. 2. Personality, constructing personality, personal psychology. 3. Basic descriptive categories of human psychics. 4. Sources of personal development - internal and external factors. 5. Personal disorders, changes in personality. 6. Temperament. 7. Emotions. 8. Abilities. 9. Motivation. 10. Character. 11. "Selfhood". 12. Defence mechanisms.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
In the discipline personality is understood as a hypothetic construct - a heuristic model of observable manifestations of an individual created in order to explain the stability and variability of human experience and behaviour as well as to discover incidentalness and regularities of experience and behaviour. The course will introduce the students into fundamental categories related to personality as the highest level of organization, energetization and management of human psyche.
- student knows the basic clinical methods of personality research, can name some critical points of their usage; - student can name basic descriptive categories of human psychics; - student defines the functions of individual parts of personality; - student can explain the nature and function of individual parts of personality. - student can use the knowledge of the human personality functioning in the process of learning about him/her and the others; - student can use the gained knowledge in the process of self-regulation. - student can distinguish on the elementary level the psychosocial sources and limits of particular personality and respect its autonomy.
Prerequisites
KSA/ZPSY

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Oral exam, Written exam

To gain the credit, it is necessary to work out the correspondence task. To get to the exam it is necessary to gain the credit. The exam has a written test form followed by an oral test.
Recommended literature
  • speciálně vytvořený základní studijní text pro kombinované studium oboru Sociální práce: - Kliment, Pavel. Psychologie osobnosti. Olomouc: UP, 2001. odborná literatura: Adler, A. Umění rozumět. Praha, 1993. Atkinsonová, R.L., Atkinson, R.C., Smith, E.E., Bem, D.J., Nolen-Hoeksema, S. Psychologie. Praha, 1995. Balcar, K. Úvod do studia psychologie osobnosti. Chrudim: MACH, 1991. Čačka, O. Psychologie vrstev duševního dění osobnosti a jejich autodiagnostika. Brno, 1997. Drapela, V. J. Přehled teorií osobnosti. Praha: Portál, 1997. Frankl, V.I. Vůle ke smyslu. Brno: Cesta, 1994. Freud, S. Vybrané spisy I. Praha, 1991. Freud, S. Vybrané spisy II. - III. Praha, 1993. Fromm, E. Strach ze svobody. Praha, 1993. Holland, J.G., Skinner, B.F. Analýza chování. Praha, 1968. Homola, M., Trpišovská, D. Psychologie osobnosti (Stručný výkladový slovník). Olomouc, 1992. Jung, C.G. Anylytická psychologie, její teorie a praxe. Praha, 1992. Merlin, V.S. Náčrt teórie temperamentu. Bratislava, 1984. Morávek, S. Úvod do psychodiagnostiky dospělých. Olomouc, 1991. Nakonečný, M. Lexikon psychologie. Praha, 1995. Nakonečný, M. Motivace lidského chování. Praha, 1996. Nakonečný, M. Psychologie osobnosti. Praha: Akademia, 1995. Piaget, J. Psychologie inteligence. Praha, 1995. Rogers, C. R. Způsob bytí. Praha: Portál, 1998. Říčan, P. Psychologie osobnosti. Praha, 1975. Smékal, V. Psychologie osobnosti. Praha, 1989. Smolík, P. Duševní a behaviorální poruchy. Průvodce klasifikací. Nástin nozologie. Diagnostika. Praha, 1996. Šimek, J. Lidské pudy a emoce. Praha, 1995. Úlehla, I. Umění pomáhat. Písek: Renesance, 1996. Zvolský, P. a kol. Obecná psychiatrie. Praha, 1994. .
  • Balcar, K. Úvod do studia psychologie osobnosti. Chrudim: MACH, 1991..
  • Homola, M., Trpišovská, D. (1992). Psychologie osobnosti (Stručný výkladový slovník). Olomouc: VUP.
  • Kliment, Pavel. Psychologie osobnosti. Olomouc: UP, 2001..
  • Nakonečný, M. Psychologie osobnosti. Praha: Akademia, 1995..
  • Smékal, V. Pozvání do psychologie osobnosti. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2004..


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 30.04.2025 23:58. Data created for academic year 2024/2025