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Lecturer(s)
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Lenghart Daniel, Mgr.
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Machů Klára, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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- Defining the goals and subject of psychology, basic concepts of cognitive psychology. - Subject of study of psychology from the point of view of its main directions. Division of psychological fields. - Consciousness and its functions. - Attention, its types and functions. - Sleeping and dreaming, stages of sleep, theories of dreaming. - Sensory processes. - Perception. - Learning, its types and functions. - Memory system, long-term memory. - Forgetting, childhood amnesia, constructive memory. - Imagination, propositions and mental imagery (S. Kosslyn).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Projection (static, dynamic)
- Homework for Teaching
- 10 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 8 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 10 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 32 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 40 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Students will be acquainted with following themes: Basic concepts of cognitive psychology, consciousness and its functions, cognitive processes.
Basic orientation in the field of cognitive psychology in its contemporary problems and research themes.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge about cognitive processes classification and functions.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Written exam, Seminar Work
The student finds 2 articles devoted to one of the topics of cognitive psychology (see course content) and writes a text about each article, about half a standard page, in which he summarizes the main findings of the given article. Students are required to pass the final exam. See the link below for exam topics. Topics 1 - 19 (inclusive) are tested. https://psych.upol.cz/files/FF/katedry/pch/studentum/Studium/Bc/okruhy_SZZK_Obecna_psychologie_2023.pdf
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Recommended literature
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Eysenck, M. W., Keane, M. T. (2008). Kognitivní psychologie. Praha.
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Nolen-Hoeksema, S. a kol. (2012). Psychologie Atkinsonové a Hilgarda. Praha.
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Plháková A. (2013). Spánek a snění. Praha.
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Plháková Alena. (2009). Učebnice obecné psychologie.
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Sternberg, R. (2002). Kognitivní psychologie. Praha.
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Šikl R. (2012). Zrakové vnímání. Praha.
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