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Shaping of Students' Attitudes in Geographical Education - The Issue of Ips Typographus Outbreaks
Faflák, Jiří ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hanus, Martin (referee)
Shaping of students' attitudes in geographical education - the issue of Ips typographus outbreaks Abstract The diploma thesis deals with shaping the students' attitudes by utilising various texts during the geography classes. This experiment is shown on particular problem of Spruce Bark Beetle in the National Park of Šumava. There are two main streams towards this issue of Spruce Bark Beetle-one of them promotes the idea of incorporating the human intervention, while reducing the disaster, the other follows the opposite attitude towards the outbreak of the Spruce Bark Beetle, and that is not to intervene at all and to leave the destructed vegetation to regenerate. The backbone of the thesis is represented by a survey that aims at finding attitudes towards the problem mentioned above. Moreover, the survey also questions the way the attitudes change depending on critical reading of distinctive texts. Two main questions are posed in this research. The results are graphically depicted and commented upon in the thesis. The research shows the extent to which it is possible to influence the students' opinion utilising quality study texts. Key words: Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips typographus), National park Šumava, Spruce Bark Beetle outbreak, geographical education, critical thinking, active reading, shaping of attitudes
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The psychological aspects of change of attitudes - persuasion
Fajtlová, Zuzana ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Hnilica, Karel (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is focused on social psychological topic of attitude change through persuasion. It brings certain theoretical background of the topic with its key points and processes. Mainly it is the definition of persuasion, what are the subjects of persuasion, the main conditions, influences, goals and other variables, that step into the process. It is also trying to capture the most important mechanisms, that play role in the process of persuasion. In the whole text the practical implications are mentioned. In the applied part the attention is focused on the field of forensic psychology - mainly the criminal interviewing practice. The plan of empirical study also focuses on persuasion and its role and impact in criminal investigation. Keywords: attitude change, persuasion, false confessions, interrogation
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The Use of Emotions Fear in Social Marketing
Šenková, Simona ; Karlíček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Hrkal, Marek (referee)
The bachelor thesis "The Use of Emotions Fear in Social Marketing" is concerned with finding an appropriate degree of fear in social campaigns, which try to change attitudes and behavior. The theoretical part defines basic terminology of marketing communication, social psychology, and compares the feasibility study of the topic. In the practical part was conducted own research, which compared responses of participants of experiment on different intensities of fear. The results were compared not only between different intensities used fear, but were analyzed as well attitudes of women and men. The last part interprets the achieved outputs and suggests further practice in this area.
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The influence of experiential methods to change attitudes of participans
VOJÁČEK, Antonín
This thesis represents possibilities, impacts and liabilities which arise from participants? influencing of experience courses by techniques of experience pedagogy. In the first part of the thesis basic concepts of experience pedagogy are determined. Concepts are principle of experienced pedagogy, its goals, techniques and instruments used to reach the goals. My thesis is dealing with the principle of willingness, comfort zone, Kolb?s learning cycle, the state of Flow, reflection and challenges. In the second part the term position and consequently items which serve to changes throughout the usage of techniques of experience pedagogy are defined.
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