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Psychology and Sociology I
FAST-0Z1Acad. year: 2020/2021
object of psychology, object of sociology, personality, character, temperament, abilities, creativity, socialization, verbal communication, nonverbal communication, social perception, conformity, social role and position, self-knowledge, self-regulation.
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2. Psychology and its place in personal life. Psychological words. Memory, speach and thinking.
3. Methods of psychological research. Dialog, questionnaire, anamnesis. Education and self-education. Forming of a personality in the life-environment.
4. A personality, general questions and structure. Temperament and character. Types of personalities. Inteligention and intelect.
5. Development and forming of a personality. Development periods of a personality according of age. Biological and sociological determination of a personality.
6. Studying, its importance and types. General mechanisms of studying. Problems with studying in praxis and in life. Curve of studying. Studying styles.
7. Stress and methods of its managing. Psychical hygiene. Adaptual mechanisms.
8. Basic paradigms of sociological thinking. Sociological terminology.
Society, organization, groups, culture, social status.
9. Basic sociological theories. The theory of consensus and the theory of conflict. Application to society and future job.
10. Social structure, social control, body socialization. Communication. Problem of living in society.
11. Choice of job as a sociologal problem in life. Exploitation and interpretation of social situations in professional and personal life of human being. Classic, modern and mass society. Globalization and generalization of market. Economic aspects.
12. Social ecology and engineering. Sociobiology. Human environmental studies. Ecology, sociology and personality.
13. Sociology of healthness and disease. Quality of life and its manage. Person and illness. Managing of stress.
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Basic literature
KOHOUTEK, Rudolf a Jaroslav ŠTĚPANÍK. Základy psychologie pro techniky. Brno: VUT FAST (skriptum). 1994. 80-85867-42-7. (CS)
KOHOUTEK, Rudolf. Základy psychologie osobnosti. Brno: CERM. 2000. ISBN 80-7204-156-8. (CS)
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