History of Psychology - APS100046E

• Title: History of Psychology
• Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: oral
• Hours per week, examination: 2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:15 / unknown (15); summer:unknown / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: PhDr. Daniel Heller
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Daniel Heller
• Class: Exchange - 14.4 Psychology and Behav. Sciences
• Incompatibility : APS100046
• Is incompatible with: APS100046

Annotation

Last update: Radka Hradcová (24.11.2023)

Presenting the development of psychological thinking since the ancient history to the present, introducing the history of psychology as a part of philosophy until the establishment of psychology as an independent science in the 19th century. Focusing on the time span of psychology as an independent science (the preconditions for establishment of scientific psychology, the founders of psychology as an independent science, psychological schools at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and during the 20th century, the particular psychological disciplines in the 20th century, including the contribution of the Czechoslovak and Czech psychology).

Aim of the course

Last update: Radka Hradcová (24.11.2023)

The goal of the subject is to present to the students the development of psychological thinking since the ancient history to the present, to introduce the history of psychology as a part of philosophy until the establishment of psychology as an independent science in the 19^th century (ancient cultures, antique thinking, the middle ages, renaissance, modern history). The subject further focuses on the time span of psychology as an independent science (acquaints students with the preconditions for establishment of scientific psychology, presents the founders of psychology as an independent science, psychological schools at the turn of the 19^th and 20^th centuries and during the 20^th century, the particular psychological disciplines in the 20^th century, including the contribution of the Czechoslovak and Czech psychology).

Gained knowledge: Students will acquire and master the orientation in problems of history of psychology and the development of psychological thinking. He is able to enumerate and to explain the basic problems in the history of psychology and psychological thinking. He will manage to categorize, explain, and to describe with understanding the particular topics and periods in the history of psychological thinking.

Gained skills: Students will be able not only to orient themselves in the problems of history of psychology and to understand the principal issues of the history of psychological thinking but he will be also able to identify, classify, categorize, explain, and to interpret the views of the most significant and relevant representatives of psychological thinking through the history of the subject of psychology. They will be able to analyze, categorize and characterize the specific approaches; they will learn to appreciate them and to compare them critically. They will be able to assess, evaluate, and to give reasons for definite critical arguments, which can be presented in discussions.

Syllabus

Last update: Radka Hradcová (24.11.2023)

The overview of the development of psychological thinking since the ancient history to the present.

The history of psychology as a part of philosophy until the establishment of psychology as an independent science in the 19^th century (ancient cultures, antique thinking, the middle ages, renaissance, modern history).

Psychology as an independent science (the preconditions for establishment of scientific psychology, the founders of psychology as an independent science, psychological schools at the turn of the 19^th and 20^th centuries and during the 20^th century, the development of particular psychological disciplines in the 20^th century, including the contribution of the Czechoslovak and Czech psychology)

1. ancient psychology

2  mediaeval psychology

3. renaissance psychology

4. modern history psychology

5. psychology as an independent science

6. founders of psychology

7. schools of psychology in the 19th century in Europe and America

8. schools of psychology in the 20th century in Europe and America

9. asocianism

10.structuralism and functionalism
11. behaviorism

12. psychoanalysis

13. gestalt school of psychology

14. cognitive psychology
15. humanistic psychology
16.further movements in psychology of the 20th century (transpersonal psychology, postmodern psychology)

17. Czechoslovak and Czech psychology

Entry requirements

Last update: Radka Hradcová (24.11.2023)

only for ERASMUS students