Course: Social Psychology

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Course title Social Psychology
Course code KSA/SOCP
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.
Course content
1. Definition of the social psychology subject. At first the reasons for the rise of social psychology will be discussed and also the first attempts to define the subject of social psychology, as to be the organizing factor of the social psychology system. The subject of the discipline used to be understood in a broad sense, because it included the studies of behaviour of all socially living animal species. In its later development there is the anthropocentric social psychology defined on one hand and on the other there is ethology. 2. Methods of social psychology. General overview and characteristics of the main methods will be examined; the methods serve to collect, analyse and interpret social psychological knowledge. The lecture will focus on these methods: observation, questioning (questionnaire and interview), socio-metric, experiment, and product analysis. 3. Social perception of objects. The perception of the perceptive characteristic is not an objective reflection of the internal and external reality, it is individually conditioned. This makes the perception of each person unique which has its influence into perception of individual objects. We will discuss the following topics - perceptive accent, the motivation influence on the perception process, perceptive defence and the social groups influence on the individual perception. 4. Personal cognition. Perceiving others is also a unique process in regard of the observer. The result as a picture of the perceived person has the character of an impression which is a deduced construction from the observed. The process of evaluation can have the features of intuition, when the observer uses the information function of emotions; or the features of inference, when creating the final picture depends more in the individual´s cognition. There are association, constructivist and conjunctive models which try to explain the inference that comes from the cognition. The lecture will conclude with explaining the possible determinants of personal cognition. 5. Interpersonal cognition. Real process of forming an impression is determined by the real features of interpersonal interaction, in which the impression is formed. Interacting people not only perceive others, but they also are perceived and they are more or less aware of that. Feed-back processes determine the following procedure of social cognition. The lecture will focus on interpersonal cognition within the power relationships, within the dependence relationships, within the aversion and hostility relationships, and in the mutual sympathy relationships. 6. Attribution processes. Attribution research deals with the question, how people in their everyday lives prescribe the causality to their own behaviour, to the others behaviour, and also to the behaviour of non-personal event in the social field. Within attribution processes the individual seeks to explain the causes of what is happening. If the causes of behaviour are seen to be the parts of their psychic characteristic, then we speak about personal attribution; if the parts of the situation, then we speak about situation attribution. To set one of the attributions has its influence into the processes of responsibility attribution. 7. Attribution theories. 8. Attitudes. 9. Personality from the point of view of social psychology. 10. Features of interpersonal behaviour. 11. Individual within a small social group. 12. Group influence

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
The attention is paid to the external agents creating the personality, namely on the social ones. Social psychology intends to determine the influence of social environment on the individual's development, the impact of this influence on their actual behavour and experience and the individual's influence on their social environment.
student knows individual processes of impression forming; student can define the processes of attributing responsibility; student can reproduce the main topics of social psychology. student can actively attend the social interaction; student can support the positive features of social interaction. student is capable to identify rising social conflicts in the milieu.
Prerequisites
KSA/ZPSY, KSA/PSOSB

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Oral exam, Written exam

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. Sociální psychologie. Olomouc: UP, 2002. odborná literatura: Atkinsonová, R.L., Atkinson, R.C., Smith, E.E., Bem, D.J., Nolen-Hoeksema, S. Psychologie. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995. Černoušková, V. Sociální psychologie (Užití sociometrie v pedagogické praxi). Olomouc: UP, 1987. Grác, J. Persuázia. Ovplyvňovanie človeka človekom. 2. vyd. Martin: Osveta, 1988. Hayesová, N. Základy sociální psychologie. Praha: Portál, 1998. Janoušek, J. a kol. Sociální psychologie. Praha, 1988. Janoušek, J. Metody sociální psychologie. Praha, 1986. Krech, D., Crutchfield, S.R., Ballachey, E.L. Človek v spoločnosti. Bratislava, 1968. Křivohlavý, J. Jak si navzájem lépe porozumíme. Praha, 1988. Metodológia a metódy sociálnej psychológie. Bratislava, 1990. Nakonečný, M. Lexikon psychologie. Praha, 1995. Nakonečný, M. Sociální psychologie. Praha: Academia, 1999. Papica, J. Vybrané kapitoly ze sociální psychologie I., II. Olomouc: UP, 1979. Výrost, J., Slaměník, I., ed. Aplikovaná sociální psychologie I. Praha: Grada, 1998. Výrost, Jozef, Slaměník, Ivan. Sociální psychologie. Praha: ISV, 1997. Watzlawick, P., Bavelasová, J.B., Jackson, D.D. Pragmatika lidské komunikace. Hradec Králové: Konfrontace, 1999. .
  • Hayesová, N. Základy sociální psychologie. Praha: Portál, 1998..
  • Hewstone, M., Stroebe, W.:. Sociální psychologie. Praha: Portál 2006..
  • Kliment, Pavel. Sociální psychologie. Olomouc: UP, 2002..
  • Nakonečný, M. Lexikon psychologie. Praha, 1995..
  • Nakonečný, M. Sociální psychologie. Praha: Academia, 1999..


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