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Working pace development through the ROPRATEM programme
HUMLEROVÁ, Veronika
The diploma thesis deals with the current topic of students' processing speed. The theoretical part is divided into four chapters, which contain a theoretical basis for the issues addressed. The practical part deals with a pilot research mapping the effectiveness of the ROPRATEM program and its aim is to verify the effectiveness of the ROPRATEM program in children with slow working pace and perceptual motor problems. Another part of the research is mapping the motivation of parents why they chose the ROPRATEM program, through semi-structured interviews. The research survey shows that after three months of training through the ROPRATEM program, all monitored children improved their work pace in the context of their abilities. Parents choose the program according to the recommendations from the institutions they trust (pedagogical-psychological counseling, school, respectively teacher).
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User Experience with the ROPRATEM program
DLOUHÁ, Kristína
This diploma thesis deals with the ROPRATEM program (the program for the development of work pace) and the experience of its users, specifically special pedagogues. Its aim was to clarify what progress pupils are making after the completion of th ROPRATEM program. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part contains three chapters - the first one focuses on partial functions, their deficits and their possible impact on human aktivity. The issue of executive functions and slow work pace is described in the second chapter, In the third and last chapter, the ROPRATEM program and other programs aimed at developing a similar spectrum of functions are presented. In the empirical part, the research objective of the thesis and research questions are defined. Next, the chosen research method (semi-structured interviews) and the procedure of the research investigation are described. In the particular sub-chapters, the obtained data are analyzed - they are thematically divided according to the spheres on which the conducted interviews were focused. At the end of the empirical part, the results of the research investigation are evaluated within the stated research objective and research questions. The results of the research show that after the completion of the ROPRATEM program pupils' work pace accelerates, their ability to self-control and their willingness to make control improve. Children's reading competences, visual perception, visual discrimination and visual memory also improve. Pupils are also better oriented in their duties, concentrate better, are more disciplined and more independent. Furthermore, it is possible register a more careful and faultless elaboration of assigned tasks, improvements in spatial orientation, intermodal abilities and seriality. Better fluency and uniformity in thinking and working out tasks are also monitored. Another positive impact is the deeping of the relationship between parents and their child.
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Evaluation of executive functions in patients with acquired brain damage: translation and clinical use of the "Executive Function Performance Test"
Pepřová, Tereza ; Krivošíková, Mária (advisor) ; Tichá, Zuzana (referee)
Title: Evaluation of executive functions in patients with acquired brain damage: translation and clinical use of the "Executive Function Performance Test" Abstract: Patients with acquired brain damage that have affected the frontal lobes usually develop a deficit in executive function (Kulišťák, 2017). Within self-care activities, they are limited for example in initiation, organization, sequencing, emotional control, memory, or self-evaluation. Occupational therapists can use a range of standardized tests to describe the extent of the deficit and select an appropriate rehabilitation. Executive Function Performance Test, which I used in my Bachelor's thesis, is one test from this category. The aim of the Bachelor thesis was the clinical evaluation of executive functions in patients with acquired brain damage using the Executive Function Performance Test. The minor goal was the one-way translation of the Executive Function Performance Test to the Czech language and the subsequent adaptation of the tasks for Czech patients. Furthermore, the Bachelor thesis contains a description of screening tests, clinical tests, and other standardized tests that are evaluating executive function. As well as a description of the executive functions in healthy adults. The practical part of the thesis contains a description of...
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The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Executive Functioning
Novák, Ondřej ; Stehlík, Luděk (advisor) ; Uhlář, Pavel (referee)
This thesis provides brief overview of key surveys and theories dealing with the influence emotions have on selected executive functions (decision making and judgment). It discusses the issue using the theoretical framework of cognitive-experiential Self-theory (CEST), and emphasizes current knowledge and experimental approaches. It describes various approaches to understanding of emotions and their influence, such as the theories of emotional valence and affect, embodied emotions or motivational role of emotions. The thesis includes a quality research design aimed on emotional goals of specific basic emotions (fear, anger, sadness and joy). The results will provide a theoretical framework for the "feeling-is- for-doing" approach focused on the motivational component of emotions, allowing to examine it empirically.
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Test solution of Rey-Osterrieth figure by twelve years old children
Šplíchalová, Markéta ; Soukupová, Tereza (advisor) ; Goldmann, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis looks at the Rey-Osterrieth figure, its form, administration and its evaluation methods. The thesis describes the administration and test evaluation methods in single Czech manual made by M. Košč and J. Novák and also other used ways of scoring. The thesis attempt to present J.E. Meyers and K. R. Meyers scoring method that is also used by some Czech psychologists. The thesis deals with psychometric attributes of the test as well with emphasis on current available testing standards. One part of the thesis describes the development of some psychological functions by 12 years old children especially in relationship to abilities which are detected by Rey-Osterrieth figure. In practical part of the thesis is presented the main research which deals with procedure of making the test by twelve year old. The tests were evaluated by both mentioned methods with interpretation and analysis of its results. The thesis also looks at new preliminary standards for this age group. The test was also compared with individual results made by Číselný čtverec test.
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Executive functions of individuals with boderline personality disorder
Malíková, Vladimíra ; Soukupová, Tereza (advisor) ; Smetáčková, Irena (referee)
The primary topic of this work is to describe the executive functions profile of people diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Neuropsychological methods of measurement are used such as the Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Test and also the self-made scale for self-judgement, which investigates the daily activities of people diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The aim of this work is to describe the main terms of Borderline Personality Disorder and the executive functions system, as viewed by current Czech and foreign literature, and also current international research. Within Borderline Personality Disorder we are interested in the diagnostic criterion of DSM-IV and ICD-10. We are also interested in its etiology. There are huge efforts to show the destructive consequences this diagnosis can have for the individual in their daily life activities. The term 'executive functions system' is here explained through the difficult definitions which vary from author to author. This work strives to explain the origin of the executive functions system, where the functions are placed and what their function is. It also focuses on the relation between executive functions system and Borderline Personality Disorder. The results of the Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Test are compared with the...
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Training and transfer effects of executive functions to regulation of emotions
Vlachynská, Kateřina ; Kulišťák, Petr (advisor) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis is focused on the effects of computerized executive functions training on emotion regulation and affective functioning. The theoretical part summarizes cognition-emotion integration and is based on cognitive neuroscience models suggesting that there are bidirectional links between cortical executive functions centers and cortical centers that regulate emotions. Based on process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998) it's supposed that it is possible to make interventions of emotion dysregulation also through cognitive, antecedent-focused strategies. These assumptions are linked with computerized executive functions training. Such training might have positive consequences for emotion regulation and emotion functioning, as it generate frontal activation (Klinberg et al., 2005). The study measures the potential effect of executive functions training on regulation of negative emotions. The main intervention is a personalized, computer-based cognitive training program BrainTwister. This program is widely used for clinical and diagnostics praxis and rehabilitation. To ascertain the everyday ecological validity of the cognitive training intervention and the emotion regulatory and affective consequences, emotion regulatory experiment (IAPS) together with mood and emotion regulation...
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The Ecological Validity of the Tests of Executive Functioning in Patients with Schizofrenia
Drozdová, Kristýna ; Kulišťák, Petr (advisor) ; Krámská, Lenka (referee) ; Bahbouh, Radvan (referee)
Aim: The current study investigated a pattern of associations between executive functions and everyday functioning in a sample of schizophrenia patients with the aim to specify the ecological validity. The ecological validity as a specific form of external validity refers to the extent of the relation of the test outcome measures and patients' behaviour in everyday situations. Sample and methods: A sample of 77 patients (22 women and 55 men) with the diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, who met study inclusion criteria, was assessed with several executive function tests: Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Trail Making Test B (TMT B), Phonemic Verbal Fluency Test and Semantic Verbal Fluency Test (VF), Similarities from Wechsler Adult Inteligence Scale (WAIS III), Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test in Boston Qualitative Scoring System (BQSS), and with rating scales for patients' behavior in everyday situations - Personal and Social Performance Scale (PSPs), newly developed clinical scale (CliSca), Interview for Assessment of Insight (SAI) and patients' self rating in Social Functioning Scale (SFS). Relationships between demografic measures and test outcomes were examined. Results: Verbal fluency tests did correlate significantly with the newly developed clinical scale that seems...
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Vietnamese-Czech bilingual adolescents on EEG - bilingual effect on cognitive advantage
ŠIMKOVÁ, Kateřina Marie
A recently progressive topic of psychology are aspects of humans psyché. It is raised in the most complicated matter human could ever explore. In the brain. This bachelor thesis briefly concludes cerebral mechanisms of neuroplasticity and its influence on humans life. Concretely the theoretical part is specialized on a cognitive advantage of bilingualism. The mentioned advantage was studied in empirical part by electroencephalographic measurement in Vietnamese-Czech bilinguals during letter detection task. We expected bilinguals to outperform control group of monolinguals in behavioral part. Due to a different neural organization within linguistic plasticity, we also expected different amplitudes in event-related potentials in the bilingual group in linguistic areas of the brain. Results confirm mentioned neural differences, although behavioral advantage hypothesis is falsified.
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