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Lecturer(s)
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Špatenková Naděžda, PhDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Skopal Ondřej, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Klimentová Eva, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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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. The theory of correspondence inferences, theory of covariance, and individual attribution tendencies will be introduced. 7. Attitudes. 8. Interaction processes. 9. Verbal and nonverbal communication. 10. Socialization, kinds of social learning. 11. Features of interpersonal behaviour. 12. Individual within a small social group.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
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Learning outcomes
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The social psychology studies continue the theme of psychology of the personality. This time, however, the attention of the studies of the human mind is paid to outer factors that influence the creation of personality, such as social factors with which an individual enters an interaction on the level of meaning. An individual, however, is not understood as a formed being only; the social environment is seen not only as a factor forming the human mind but also as a basic field of activity of an individual. The relation between the individual and his social environment is a reciprocal one.
- 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.
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Prerequisites
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KSA/ANSPM, KSA/ POPM, KSA/UPPM, KSA/ORGCH
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam, Written exam
To gain the credit it is necessary to fulfil the correspondence task. To gain the credit is a necessary condition to attend the exam. The exam has a written test form followed by an oral test.
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Recommended literature
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Hayesová, N.:. Základy sociální psychologie. Praha 1998..
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Kliment, P.:. Úvod do sociální psychologie. Olomouc 1998..
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Křivohlavý, J.:. Jak si navzájemn lépe porozumíme. Praha 1988..
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Nakonečný, M.:. Sociální psychologie. Praha 1999..
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Výrost, J., Slaměník, I.:. Sociální psychologie. Sociálna psychológia. Praha 1997..
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