Individual differences in personality ERASMUS>INDDIF
Aims of the course:
1. to familiarize students with selected theories of temperament, personality traits and abilities, and selected ones methods of measuring them.
2. in terms of skills: has the ability to diagnose individual differences (specific temperament / personality / ability) selected research tool; can choose a tool, conduct a test, calculate results and interpret their significance in the light of theoretical knowledge and data from the interview with the examined person.
3. in terms of competence: demonstrates readiness to undertake individual and team research activities in the field diagnosis of individual differences; is involved in cooperation and is able to demonstrate commitment to such research psychological; shows awareness of the principles of professional ethics in the diagnostic process.
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
W cyklu 2020/2021-L: | W cyklu 2020/2021-Z: |
Efekty kształcenia
1. Introduction to the issues of Psychology of individual differences: basic definitions and categories used in the psychology of individual differences, the subject of research, the main factors determining individual differences: heredity and environment.
2. Abilities and intelligence - the concept of intelligence; different approaches to intelligence: structural, biological and cognitive; measurement of intelligence and its adaptive role in everyday life, research on the relationship between intelligence and various factors (education, poverty, pathologies, work efficiency).
3. Temperament - the concept of temperament, types of temperament theories, historical context: ancient typologies, temperament typologies: constitutional - Kretschmer, Sheldon, typology of the nervous system according to Pavlov and Neoplavists; selected temperament theories (Cloninger, Rothbart and Derryberry, Buss and Plomin, Gray, Zuckerman, Thomas and Chess, Strelau, Elijah), environmental and biological conditions, stability - variability, methods of measuring temperament.
4. Selected personality traits concepts (Cattell's factor theory; Five-factor Personality Model; Biological Eyenck PEN Theory; temperament and personality, PEN measurement, the importance of individual PEN differences in cognitive functioning (working memory, attention mechanisms).
5. Cognitive styles: the concept of cognitive style, examples and discussion of selected styles: dependence vs independence from the field, sense of control, impulsiveness - reflectiveness, intuitiveness - rationality of thinking, types of mind according to Nosal.
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