Personality Psychology 1 - APS100089
Title: Psychologie osobnosti 1
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (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:  
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. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D.
PhDr. Jiří Michalec, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Mikoška, Ph.D., Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Jiří Michalec, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Mikoška, Ph.D., Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D.
Is pre-requisite for: APS100090
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Annotation -
The winter semester deals with the scientific description of personality, starting from the general knowledge concerning different approaches to the description of personality (constitutional, type, trait, factor, situationist and interactionist approaches) and personality-related phenomena (labeling, (in)consistency and modification of behavior, attributions, etc.) and moving on to individual (co)parts of personality such as temperament, character, abilities, motivation and self. In the context of defining the boundaries of psychological optimality and normality, attention will also be paid to personality disorders.
Acquired knowledge: the student can describe how the chosen approach to personality description and feedback can influence the personality and how changing the angle of description or retelling one's own story can have a positive effect; can list the different areas (co-)creating the uniqueness of one's personality, such as temperament and character traits, abilities and motivation.
Skills acquired: The student is able to describe others and himself in more detail psychologically, from a basic psychological history, through a psychometric profile within predefined dimensions, to a qualitative or narrative psychological portrait; he is sensitive to the various factors influencing the structure and dynamics of personality, from innate to social and situational factors; can conduct a psychological, personality-focused interview; can take a personality psychological history; can produce psychometric personality characteristics; can produce an idiographic psychological portrait; can give (and receive) feedback.
Course content: basic paradigms of personality theories, introduction to the issues of personality structure and dynamics. Biological determinants of personality, contemporary ideas and the relationship between personality characteristics and biological correlates. Social and trait theories of personality, basic ideas of personality structure and dynamics in trait theories. Abilities. Defining abilities. The nature of abilities. The relationship between innate and acquired. Abilities, aptitudes and talents. Issues of intelligence and creativity. Cognitive styles. Conditions and determinants of the development of abilities. Motivational systems and personality tendencies. Motivational systems. Basic theories of motivation. Personality development and development. The role of internal and external factors in personality development. The nature and character of the process of socialization and individuation of personality. The relationship of the general and the unique in the conditions, preconditions and process of characteristic development and personality development. Personality in challenging conditions and situations. Concept and classification of psychological stresses. Criteria and factors of integrated development and disintegration of personality in situational contexts. Cognition of personality. Basic methodological problems in the study and cognition of personality. Current possibilities and trends in personality disability. Interactional approaches to the discovery of critical personality traits, their nature and developmental tendencies.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (06.11.2023)
Course completion requirements -

In the winter semester, students are required to create their own psychological portrait and a psychological portrait of a classmate to complement the literary psychological portrait and their own commentary on what the student found interesting from a psychological point of view. It is possible to take some psychological tests on a voluntary basis.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (13.10.2023)
Literature -

Ryckman, R. M. (2004). Theories of personality (8th ed.). Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.

Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Ayduk, O. (2007). Introduction to personality: Toward an integrative science of the person (8th Edition). NY: Wiley

Deaux, Kay, and Mark Snyder (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Oxford Library of Psychology (2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Sept. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398991.001.0001,

Last update: Nikolai Tomáš, doc. Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (15.12.2023)