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.