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PCH / VOOPB
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Course description
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Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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PCH
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VOOPB
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Academic Year
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2025/2026
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Academic Year
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2025/2026
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Title
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Special Issues of General Psychology
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
4
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Přednáška
2
[Hours/Week]
Exercise
1
[Hours/Week]
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Course credit prior to examination
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Yes
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Course credit prior to examination
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Yes
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Internship duration
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0
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| No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
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every year
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Evaluation scale for credit before examination |
S|N |
| Specification periodicity |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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| Fundamental course |
No
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| Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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| Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
| Evaluation scale for credit before examination |
S|N |
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Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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PCH/BVOOP
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
Graphic PNG
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Course objectives:
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Presentation of information about contemporary development in the field of thinking, motivation, and emotions.
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Requirements on student
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Students are required complete their assignments and to pass a final exam test.
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Content
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- Thinking, its functions, kinds and forms. Concepts: The basic units of thinking.
Natural concepts.
- Algorithmic and heuristic operations. Problem solving, decision making. Expertise
and creativity.
- Language and thought. Basic linguistic concepts, signs, symbols and meanings.
Linguistic relativity hypothesis
- Motivation. Basic survival motives: Hunger, thirst, sexual and parental motives.
Drives and instincts
- Stimulus motivation: Seeking novel stimulation, optimal arousal theory (the Yerkes-Dodson law)
- Broad motivation theories: Freud?s instinct theory, need theories (H. Murray, A. Maslow)
- Social motives: Achievement and affiliation motivation, need for power
- Emotions: Physiology, expression and feeling
- Theories of emotion: James-Lange, Cannon-Bard and Schachter-Singer theory. Cognitive and
evolutionary theories
- Function of emotions, introduction to psychoanalytic theories of affect
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Plháková Alena. Učebnice obecné psychologie. Praha, 2004. ISBN 80-200-1086-6.
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Recommended:
Nakonečný, M. Lidské emoce. Praha, 2000.
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Recommended:
Blažek, V., Trnka, R (Eds.). Lidský obličej. Praha, 2008.
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Recommended:
Nakonečný, M. Motivace lidského chování. Praha, 1996.
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Recommended:
Atkinson, R. et al. Psychologie. Praha, 2002.
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Recommended:
Stuchlíková, I. Základy psychologie emocí. Praha, 2002.
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On-line library catalogues
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Homework for Teaching
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10
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Preparation for the Course Credit
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20
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Preparation for the Exam
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40
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Attendace
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30
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Total
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100
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| Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
| Introduction to general psychology |
| Competences acquired |
| Basic orientation in the field of psychology, specifically in the contemporary theoretical consideration and research on the relationship between thinking and speeking, motivation and emotions. |
| Teaching methods |
- Lecture
- Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
- Projection (static, dynamic)
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| Assessment methods |
- Oral exam
- Written exam
- Seminar Work
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