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Academic dishonesty and its relationship to work ethics
Horák, Lukáš ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Krámský, David (referee)
The thesis is concerned with possible relationship between the rate and kinds of academic dishonesty and work ethics. In the first segment of the theoretical section of the thesis, the extent of present research concerned with the reciprocal relationship of breaking of the rules in the context of school and work and the possibility of predicting aspects of work ethics on the basis of having knowledge about the rate of academic dishonesty of a given individual, is summarized. The second theoretical segment is a descripitiona and discussion of research of factors which affect both dishonesty in the school context and aspects of work ethics. On the basis of identification of these factors are in the empirical section analysed data, which were acquired through surveying of university level and high school students. Significant difference betwen the rates of dishonesty in high school and university level context, which is contradictory to some of the previous research literature.Relationship of the students to their grades and to some extent, gender, were shown to be significant influence on rate of academic dishonesty. The analysis of the direczt relationship between academic dishonesty and work ethics has yielded mixed results, suggesting, that the relationship si more complex than previously suspected
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Ecological validity of cognitive training research
Bláhová, Lucie ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Viktorová, Ida (referee)
This Master thesis is focused on ecological validity of a cognitive training in university students. Forty-five students participated in three months research during which 30 of them took regular personalized cognitive training using CogniFit programme on their computers. The study examines the impact of the cogntitive training on everyday cognitive functioning of students. The scientific methods used for the ecological validity research were the following self-reporting questionnaires: Cognititive Failure Questionnaire, Everyday Memory Questionnaire and Dysexecutive Questinnaire. Students also filled in Schwartz Outcome Scale - 10 and Self-image questionnaire for detailed exploration of more variables. For the research, we applied test-retest design and used control group of fifteen students for results comparison. Analysis of the gathered data proved little evidence of ecological validity of cognitive training, which can be attributed to considerable cognitive stress at students. An unexpected outcome of the study which proved to be very significant is relation between executive functions and well-being of a student. This relation was confirmed repeatedly. Possible improvements of methodology and also problem with randomization of students is discussed. Proposal for the further development of...
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Ecological validity research of Attention test
Bláhová, Lucie ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Rendl, Miroslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the issue of attention research, mainly from the neuropsychological point of view. It is an empirical study divided into two parts: The first theoretical part introduces the history of attention research, defines attention and presents the current theories of attention: Broadbent's Filter model, The Feature-Integration theory from Anne Treisman, David LaBerge's theory and Michael Posner's concept of attention. The second part of the work, the empirical part, is based on the discussed concept of attention, mainly from neuropsychologist Michael Posner. The purpose of the research study is to explore the ecological validity of Michael Posner's attention test - Attention network test (ANT). The following questionnaires were chosen as the methods for measuring the real-life attention: CFQ (Cognitive failure questionnaire), EMQ (Everyday memory questionnaire) and DEX (Dysexecutive questionnaire). The results of the study did not confirm the significant statistical correlation between results in Attention Network Test and scores in self-reported questionnaires, but the bachelor thesis' contribution's to ecological validity research can still be seen. KEYWORDS: Attention, Attention research, Ecological validity, ANT, Cognitive failure
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Influence of Psychogonical Factors on Skin Diseases
Eklová, Zuzana ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Procházková, Jana (referee)
The the thesis is focused on the issue of psychic factors influencing a distribution and extent of skin diseases. The bachelor work consists of three main parts: In the first - theorotical one is the psychosomatic issue taken to parts throught a general point of view and through a perspecitve of skin diseases. Following part is a story of my own experience with ekzema and its healing proccess. The most extensive part presents a qualitative research exploring a presence of three phenomenons that appear in letters as possible factors effecting a distribution and extent of skin diseases. These phenomenons are: diffcult life events, negative strategies of stress management and neurotic components of personality. Results of the research show a possibility of influence of psychic factors on the extent of skin diseases, but they also show us how individual and non-uniform this influence is.
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The ecological validity of cognitive training on-line. Pilot study with the program Cognifit in patients with mood disorders.
Cimermanová, Dominika ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Kulišťák, Petr (referee)
In this thesis we tried to define the ecological validity of the cognitive functions training of the clients with mood disorders. The specimen was formed up with 36 patients whose primary diagnosis was depression, depressive phase or bipolar affective disorder (F31, F32 and F33 according to MKN-10), currently in remission. The research lasted 12 months. The training program selected for this study was CogniFit Personal Coach (www.cognifit.com), a home-based, computerized, individualized cognitive training program. Based on the results of an initial evaluation phase, the program builds a personalized training program. The training program varies from one individual to the other in the selection of tasks, the frequency with which each training task is used, and in the level of difficulty determined by the results of the baseline evaluation of cognitive functions. As the individual trains and achieves higher scores, the tasks become harder. The present study sought to examine the impact of the cognitive training regimen on everyday cognitive functioning of patients with mood disorders during remission. The scientific method applied was the set of questionnaires aimed at the definition of the ecological validity of the cognitive functions training: Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX), Cognitive Failures...
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Everyday cognitive functions in patiens with Borderline Personality Disorder
Krupníková, Hana ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis focuses on cognitive function in everyday life with an emotionally unstable personality disorder, border type. The theoretical part deals with the cognitive functions that have a selective approach in terms of importance within the research project. Chapters on borderline personality disorder contain an overview of the historical development of diagnosis, the diagnosis and further elaborate on diagnostic models of Kernberg and Millon. Both studies link the topics that deal with cognitive functions in individuals with this disorder. In the empirical part, which describes the research project, approaching test methods used. We try to verify the relationship between diagnosed emotionally unstable personality disorder (IPDE questionnaire) and cognitive functions in everyday life using ANT and questionnaires MFQ, CFFQ and MIA in the research and control group. The relationship of cognitive functions and subjective measured depressive symptoms is studied using the BDI-II and MADRS. Key words: Borderline Personality Disorder, cognitive functions, memory, attetntion, depression, cognitive deficit
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Subjectively perceived symptomatology of depression at czech adult population-usage of Beck depression inventory
Vraná, Klára ; Preiss, Marek (referee) ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee)
A certain level of depressive symptoms also occurs at healthy individuals and their groups still not tell the nature of depressive illness. This thesis deals with the most detailed mapping of subjectively perceived symptoms of depression in a non-clinical part of the Czech adult population using the latest version of the Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II. Selfassesment/referal questionnaire BDI-II offers several options for exploring of depressive symptoms which in this work are all used and analyzed in a view of the sex and age of the respondents. Research set consists of persons aged 20 to 84 years and is further divided into 5 subgroups that represent developmental stages from young adulthood to the right age-elderness bounded according Příhoda (1971). The aim here is not only to determine the overall level of depressive symptoms at examined people but also the intensity, type and characteristic representation of the symptoms of depression according to BDI-II in the research file, including a comparison of the differences between men and women and age subgroups of the above mentioned aspects together. The work does not attempt to explain observed phenomena, because the presence or development of certain symptoms of depression or mental discomfort experiences in the population isinfluenced by many factors....
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Johann Hiebel, the painter of frescoes
Fronek, Jiří ; Horyna, Martin (advisor) ; Preiss, Marek (referee) ; Mádl, Martin (referee)
The painter Johann Hiebel (1679/1681 - 1755), who came from Schwaben (South Germany), was one of the many foreign artists who became residents in Bohemia and significantly influenced the Bohemian baroque art. He arrived in Prague at the end of the year 1707 and his arrival was very seasonable. He has acquired a reputation as a painter of frescoes educated by the famous painter Andrea Pozzo. In a short period of time he started working on projects organized by the most important investors in Bohemia, especially by the Societas Jesu of the Bohemian province, where he realized his most significant frescoes in their churches, chaples and libraries, employing his best abilities. Johann Hiebel established the long-term, close relations with the Jesuits and gained fame by realizing his first important and successful contract in the St.Climent's church in Prague (1714-1715). Consequently he made for them other works in fresco that are counted as his masterpieces - the frescoes in one of the order's churches SJ in Klatovy in 1716, then again in the Klementinum in Prague (Oratorium Congregationis Latinae Maioris 1723 and the Bibliotheca Maior 1724), and finally in Świdnica (Schweidnitz) in the Silesia - the chapel Beatissimea Virgins in Sole of the parish church JS (1726). Other focal point of Hiebel's creation...
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Measuring personality psychopathology with Cloninger's model
Preiss, Marek ; Weiss, Petr (advisor) ; Švarc, Jiří (referee) ; Raisova, Miloslava (referee)
The goal of this study was to validate the Cloninger's seven-factor personality model in relation to detailed examination of patients with depressive episode or recurrent depressive disorder with a structured interview, which we translated and obtained practical experience as the first ones in the Czech Republic. We put the results of the structured interview for personality disorders (International Personality Disorder Examination; IPDE) in relation with the Cloninger's personality theory operationalized with the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). We found that personality psychopathology measured with a dimensional score of the structured interview IPDE negatively correlates with Self-directedness levels, a character dimension of TCI. This result supports Cloninger's idea of relation between personality psychopathology and a level of Self-directedness. We then found a similar relation for the dimension Cooperativeness, but without statistical significance. Specific profiles of TCI for the individual personality psychopathology types according to IPDE are little evident from the clinical view, and as such insufficient for individual clinical diagnostics; high levels of the temperament dimension Harm Avoidance tend to remain within three measurements in time and is considerably higher than levels of...
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