General and Cognitive Psychology 1 - APS100082
Title: Obecná a kognitivní psychologie 1
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:written
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: 60 / 60 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=16484
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jiří Lukavský, Ph.D.
Mgr. Cyril Kaplan, Ph.D.
Mgr. Maroš Filip, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Maroš Filip, Ph.D.
Mgr. Cyril Kaplan, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. Jiří Lukavský, Ph.D.
Is pre-requisite for: APS100083
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Annotation -
This course introduces students to the major theories and related research that seek to understand the nature of basic mental phenomena such as sensing, perception, attention, learning, memory, problem solving, and decision making. The course also includes more general, methodologically oriented topics related to the way mental phenomena are known and the nature of psychological laws.

The aim of the course is to present general psychology as a "backbone" discipline in the system of psychological sciences (basic and applied) and to provide a philosophically and methodologically grounded theoretical basis for the understanding of psychological phenomena, processes, states and properties; psychological laws and the main knowledge about them.

Acquired knowledge: the student can explain the basic approaches to gaining knowledge about mental phenomena and the nature of the discovered psychological laws; he/she can describe and explain the essence of selected theories and related research that seek to understand the nature of basic mental phenomena.

Acquired skills: the student is able to identify and characterize the key differences between the individual theories of selected mental phenomena; is able to use the description of the research design and the data/observations obtained to infer what the research conducted implies for the understanding of the mental phenomenon in question and is able to assess the basic limits of the knowledge obtained about mental phenomena that arise from the chosen method of their investigation. <br>

Course content:

- subject of general psychology;
- psychological laws and determinations of the psyche;
- introduction to cognitive psychology;
- sensing and psychophysics;
- perception;
- attention;
- memory;
- learning;
- thinking - concepts, reasoning;
- thinking - problem solving
Last update: Lukavský Jiří, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (13.09.2024)
Course completion requirements -

Exam: participation in 2 written tests written at the middle and end of the semester and a minimum of 50% success in the weighted sum of results. The first test on November 27, 2024 during class, the second test during exam term.
Credit: (1) At least 75% participation in seminar experiments, (2) replication of one of the experiments on offer and presentation of results at the seminar. Active participation in seminars (e.g. continuous reading of the prescribed literature, participation in discussions, etc.).

In the case of an individual study plan or modifications arising from specific educational needs, please contact the course coordinator in a timely manner.

Last update: Lukavský Jiří, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (13.12.2024)
Literature -

Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Fredrickson, B. L., Loftus, G. R., & Wagenaar, W.A. (2012). Psychologie Atkinsonové a Hilgarda. Praha: Portál. 

Eysenck, M. W., & Keane, M. (2008). Kognitivní psychologie. Praha: Academia. 

Koukolík, F. (2011). Lidský mozek. Funkční systémy. Norma a poruchy. Praha: Galén. 

Kulišťák, P. (2011). Neuropsychologie. Praha: Portál. 

Plháková, A. (2015). Učebnice obecné psychologie. Praha: Academia. 

Stanovich, K. E. (2012). How to think straight about psychology. New York: Pearson. 

Sternberg, R. J. (2009). Kognitivní psychologie. Praha: Portál. 

Last update: Lukavský Jiří, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (26.09.2024)