Engineering Psychology

Lecturer:

Jakub Jura (gar.)

Tutor:

Jakub Jura (gar.)

Synopsis:

In this course, students will be introduced with selected engineering psychology and cognitive science, and will, in mutual creative discussion, integrate it in a meaningful whole. In addition familiarize students with interesting topics of modern science and techniques (such as deterministic chaos, emergentism, holonic and multi-agent systems and very young science discipline of Cognitive Science), will also create space for thinking about scientific and technical issues

across disciplines and also their interpretation of the intercepts mutual integration. Last but not least, the subject will spread technical considerations for people. Completes the course will be introduction to modern theories of science and their critical evaluation.

This subject can be studied in a light version - E376009, without final examination.

Requirements:

Active participation on seminars, semestral work elaboration

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Introduction to engineering psychology

2.General psychology - Cognition I (Sensation, perception, memory)

3.General psychology - Cognition II (Imagination, thinking, attention, problem solving)

4.General psychology - Emotions

(Polygraph, vigility control)

5.Operator Control I

(Demand-Resource Theory)

6.Operator Control II

(Basic Reacting Time)

7.Transportation Psychology

(Reacting Time under cognition and emotion overload, Analysis of drivers mimic)

8.Methodology of Research in EPS

9.Introduction to cognitive science

10.Psychology in A I

(Psychology of personality - intelligence, PCP, psychosemantics)

11.Bionics

(Onthological shift, biocybernetics)

12.Creativity and innovation

13.Visualization of Information

14.Laboratory experiment in psychology

Syllabus of tutorials:

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Study materials:

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Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: