Teaching code

4S007528

Teacher

Roberto Burro

Coordinatore

Roberto Burro

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PSI/01 - GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

Period

Sem. 1B dal Nov 14, 2022 al Dec 23, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

Learning objectives

The course aims to promote:
1) knowledge and understanding of the psychological theories that explain the attitudes and behaviors of the individual and groups;
2) the ability to know and apply theories related to the functioning of the individual, groups and organizations to the reading and analysis of learning phenomena and personal and social change;
3) autonomy of judgment concerning the study of observed behavior and internal cognitive processes;
4) the appropriate communication skills in the institutional, public, social and corporate fields of psychological concepts.

Specific objectives:
The course will provide an overview of the basic concepts that characterize Psychology as Experimental Discipline. The topics that will be covered will be: sensory and perceptual processes, learning and memory, motivation, language learning, development theories, social psychology and personality. Through a brief recapitulation of the salient moments of the history of Psychology, some main theories will be analyzed such as Behaviorism, Gestalt Theory and Cognitivism.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No prior knowledge required

Program

1) Scientific psychology: origin and development
- Birth of current psychology
- Currents of Psychology
- Physiological psychology
- Introspectionism
- The Psychology of form
- Dynamic psychology
- Behaviorism
- Scientific assumptions of Psychology
2) Perception and its "laws"
- Perception and sensation
- The sensory bases
- Sensory mechanisms
- The Gestalt laws of perception
- Visual illusions
3) Higher mental functions
- Intelligence
- The thought
- The language
4) Memory and learning
- Memory processes
- Method of studying memory
- Associations
- Constructivism
- Cognitivism and information processing
- Development of the mind
- Learning
- Responsive conditioning
- Operative conditioning
- Cognitive conceptual learning
5) Emotion and motivation
- Drive theory
- Freudian theory of drives
- Ethological theory
- Activation theory
- Secondary cognitive reasons
- Emotions
- The mechanisms of emotion
- Development of emotions
6) States of conscience
- The nature of consciousness
- Brain and consciousness
- Attention and activation
- Daily biological rhythms
- Sleep and dream
- Hypnosis and induced alterations of consciousness
7) Development phases
- What is meant by development
- Development up to 2 years: early childhood
- From 2 to 6 years: second childhood
- Childhood
- Adolescence
- Adulthood and old age
8) Personality and individual
- The theories of traits
- Medical-biological theories
- The psychoanalytic theory
- Behavioral theories and personality

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Frontal teaching. Video recordings of the lectures will be made available in the Panopto box in the elearning/moodle section of the course.

Learning assessment procedures

The examination taken during an official call will consist of a written test with thirty multiple-choice questions to be taken in 30 minutes (3 answer alternatives of which only one is correct).

Evaluation criteria

For the purposes of the final grade expressed in thirtieths, a correct answer has a value of 1 point, an incorrect answer has a value of 0 points, an answer not given has a value of 0 points).

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

For the purposes of the final grade expressed in thirtieths, a correct answer has a value of 1 point, an incorrect answer has a value of 0 points, an answer not given has a value of 0 points).

Exam language

Italiano