Personality Psychology II - APS100054

• Title: Psychologie osobnosti II
• Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• 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.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Jiří Michalec, Ph.D.; Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Mikoška, Ph.D., Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : APS100053
• Is pre-requisite for: APS100019

Annotation

Last update: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D. (09.10.2023)

The semester focuses on the scientific description of personality – general knowledge of various approaches to personality description (constitutional, type, feature, factor, situationist, and interactionist approaches); description of personality-related phenomena (labelling, (in) consistency and modification of behaviour, attribution, and so on); individual personality components such as temperament, character, abilities, motivation, and self. Within the confines of psychological optimality and normality, personality disorders will be discussed.

Aim of the course

Last update: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D. (09.10.2023)

In the semester, students will learn to describe other people and themselves in more detail psychologically - starting with a basic psychological anamnesis and progressing through a psychometric profile within predetermined dimensions, to a qualitative or narrative psychological portrait. Students will learn how the chosen approach to personality description and feedback can affect the personality, as well as how changing the angle of the description or retelling one's own story can have a positive effect. Various aspects that contribute to the uniqueness of one's own personality, such as temperament and character traits, abilities, and motivation, will be discussed in depth. Students will gain a better understanding of the factors that influence the structure and dynamics of personality, ranging from innate to social and situational.

Key competencies: Conducting a personality-focused psychological interview Taking a personality psychological anamnesis Making psychometric personality characteristics Creating a psychological idiographic portrait Providing (and receiving) feedback Use of basic personality psychology terms and concepts in self-reflection, education, and intervention.

Literature

Last update: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D. (13.12.2023)

Akhtar, S. (1992). Broken Structures, Jason Aronson Inc.
McWilliams, N. (2015). Psychoanalytická diagnóza. Praha, Portál.
Millon, T. (2004). Personality Disorders in Modern Life. Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Teaching methods

Last update: Milena Šebková (03.03.2022)

Lecture/seminar

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Milena Šebková (03.03.2022)

Reading the source literature on individual theories is expected throughout the summer semester. At the end of the semester, the student must submit a list of books on personality psychology that he or she has read before or during the academic year.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D. (06.02.2023)

Basic paradigms of personality theories, introduction to the issue 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 about the structure and dynamics of nature in trait theories.

Abilities. Defining capabilities. The essence of Abilities. The relationship between innate and acquired. Aptitude, aptitude, and talent.

Issues of intelligence and creativity. Cognitive style. Conditions and determinants of developing abilities.

Motivational systems and personality tendencies. Motivational systems. The basic theory of motivation.

Development and personality development. The role of internal and external factors in personality development. The essence and nature of the process of socialization and individualization of personality. The relationship between the general and the unique in the conditions, assumptions, and process of character and personality development.

Personality in challenging conditions and situations. Concept and classification of psychological burdens. Criteria and factors of integrated personality development and disintegration in situational contexts.

Personality recognition. Fundamental methodological problems of studying and recognizing personality. Current options and trends in personality disorders. Interactive approaches to uncovering critical personality traits, their essence, nature, and developmental tendencies.