Syllabus
* General psychology I:
The course pluralistically covers the structure of psychological science and aims to synthesize the knowledge based on various approaches and paradigms. In the first part the subject of general psychology is defined, the methods, goals and relations to other disciplines are introduced. The main part of the course covers the main topics of general psychology, emphasizing the cognitive psychology. The topics include: perception, attention, memory, imagination and fantasy, consciousness and unconsciousness, thinking, language and semantics. Beside the cognitive psychology topics the general psychology according to information paradigm is also introduced. The theory-focused lectures are accompanied with seminars, where experiments, methods and illustrations are presented.
Annotation
mind, consciousness, unconsciousness, experience, behavior, action, personality, subjective reality, mental phenomenon, determination of mental phenomena, mental and psychological laws, characterization of knowledge, processual and content analysis, processual, systemic and structural approach, psychical processes, cognitive processes, content of cognitive processes: sensation, psychophysics, stimuli thresholds, reaction time, perceptual processes, imagination, fancy, memory, learning, thinking as problem solving, processes of thought, operation of thought, comprehension processes, intelligence, gift, ability, talent, concept-formation processes, inference processes, deductive reasoning, speech, language, thinking and speech, thinking and language, creativity, formal cognitive processes: attention, emotional processes, will, voluntary action, voluntary processes, motivation, interaction of psychical processes, models of interaction of psychical processes.
Cognitive psychology paradigm of cognitive psychologie, information-processing paradigm, symbol, symbolic processes, sign, meaning, modularity, mental rotation, mental representation, mental model, mental maps, semantic network, network models; cognitive science, connectionism, connectionistic model, subsemantic network.