Course: Psychology of Personality

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Course title Psychology of Personality
Course code KSA/PSOSP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
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)
  • Banárová Katarína, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
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 subject of personality psychology will be divided into the following topics: 1) The subject of personality psychology; approaches to personality study 2) Psychological personality diagnostics and its methods 3) Personality development, periodization of individual development 4) Models of personality, personality composition, dynamics of personality 5) Motives, motivation 6) Temperament 7) Character, morality 8) Self-concept 9) Emotions and personality 10) Cognitive function of personality 11) Conflict, frustration, anxiety 12) Defense mechanisms 12) Personality disorders

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Group work
  • Homework for Teaching - 25 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 100 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course will introduce the students into fundamental categories related to personality as the highest level of organization, energetization and management of human psyche.
Acquired knowledge: the student knows basic clinical methods of personality cognition, is able to name critical places of their use; student is able to name basic descriptive categories of human psyche; the student defines the functions of individual components of personality. Acquired skills: the student is able to use the knowledge of the laws of the functioning of the human psyche in the process of learning about himself and others the student is able to apply the acquired knowledge in the process of self-regulation. Eligibility acquired: the student is able to recognize the elementary level of psychosocial resources and limits of a particular personality and respect its autonomy.
Prerequisites
Completion of courses is assumed: Basics of psychology

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

Written exam
Recommended literature
  • Cakirpaloglu, P. Úvod do psychologie osobnosti. Praha: Grada. 2012..
  • Kliment, P. Psychologie osobnosti pro sociální pracovníky. Olomouc: VUP. 2013.
  • Nakonečný, M. Psychologie osobnosti. Praha: Academia. 2009.
  • Říčan, P. Psychologie osobnosti. Praha: Grada. 2010.
  • Smékal, V. Pozvání do psychologie osobnosti. Brno: Barrister & Principal. 2004.


Study plans that include the course
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