Anthropological psychology of adult development WF-PS-N-RC2
1. Developmental psychology and life-spna psychology
2. Development and change in adulthood
4. Major theories and concepts of development in the course of life, with particular emphasis on adulthood (Buehler, Havighurst, Levinson, Erikson et al.).
5. Developmental crises
6. The development of an adult in a personalistic / existential-phenomenological perspective
7. Cognitive development in adulthood
8. Psychological concepts of wisdom
9. Moral development in the course of life (Piaget, Kohlberg)
10. Development and status of identity
11. The development of the personality of an adult. Personal and moral maturity
12. Characteristics of early adulthood
13. Adult growth. Crisis of the mid-life breakthrough
14. Late adulthood - aging and old age
15. The end of worldly life. Death. Death. Mourning
(in Polish) E-Learning
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Learning outcomes
Effects of knowledge
- distinguishes developmental changes from non-developmental ones
- knows the basic theories of human development in the course of life
- characterizes individual developmental periods in adulthood and developmental crises
- characterizes adult development in particular spheres: cognitive, emotional personality, moral
Effects of skill
- distinguishes developmental changes from non-developmental ones
- analyzes the behavior of an adult in terms of the developmental period in which he is
- compares the individual stages of adulthood in terms of development in particular spheres.
Assessment criteria
Written exam: single choice test (30 questions). Grade threshold: 60% correct answers. Time to answer for questions: 30 minutes.
Possibility to raise the rating when outstanding attendance (no more than two lectures abandoned). This does not apply to the following ratings: 2 (ndst) and 5 (bdb).
Bibliography
In addition to the lectures, compulsory exam literature:
1) Trempała, J. (red.)(2011). Psychologia rozwoju człowieka. Warszawa: PWN, rozdziały: 11, 12, 13, 17,19.
2) Lipska, A., Zagórska, W. (2011). „Stająca się dorosłość” w ujęciu Jeffreya J. Arnetta jako rozbudowana faza liminalna rytuału przejścia. Psychologia Rozwojowa, 1, 9-21. DOI: 10.4467/20843879PR.11.001.0174
3) Zagórska, W. (2007). Integracja postformalna poznania i emocji jako warunek dojrzałości osobowej. W: E. Dryll i M. Czerwińska-Jasiewicz (red.), Rozważania o rozwoju i wychowaniu (s. 17-30). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Psychologii PAN.
4) Zagórska, W., Lipska, A. (2015). Rytuały rodzinne. Koncepcje, badania, funkcje psychologiczne. Psychologia Rozwojowa, (20)2, 11-25. DOI: 10.4467/20843879PR.15.007.3479
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