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Laurea in Scienze dell'educazione - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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CURRICULUM TIPO:
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S003484

Coordinator

Roberto Burro

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PSI/01 - GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

Period

Sem. IIB dal Apr 24, 2017 al Jun 10, 2017.

Learning outcomes

Human has always interested you are always interested in the operation of his own thought. Thinking allows us to act, to overcome difficulties and problems. Act properly, overcoming difficulties and problems in a given context is to think correctly in that context. To think correctly is helpful to know how the thought.
After presenting an updated discussion of the areas of investigation of the psychology of thinking, problem solving and meta-cognition, the ongoing analysis of the functioning of thought in uncertain / difficult conditions, in everyday life and in the use of professional skills.
It will be also discussed the relationship between thought and thinking "embedded technologies" that we find around us (from the appliance to the smartphone-computers).

Program

The deduction in the educational context
- Inferences valid and invalid
- Mental logic
- The theory of mental models
- A comparison of mental logic and the theory of mental models

The decision in the educational context
- Moving from a regulatory approach to the descriptive rischione decisions
- A descriptive model of risky choices: the prospect theory
- The frame-effect: how to change the risk appetite
- The decision-making strategies
- The effects of the task representation

Problem solving and creativity in the educational context
- Theoretical approaches to problem solving
- Research Paradigms
- Creativity and scientific discovery

concept formation and categorization processes in the educational context
- The classical theory
- Critical aspects of the classical theory
- The prototype theory
- Criticism of the prototype theory
- The role of naive theories and knowledge of the world
- The functional model of Barsalou

The probabilistic reasoning in the educational context
- The law of large numbers
- The conditional probability
- The fallacy of basic probability
- The over-estimation of their answers
- The Fallacy of the intersection

Judgment and explanation in the educational context
- Perception and causal attribution
- Findings of contingency and causal induction
- Duties, emotions and motivations
- Explanations and thought

The expertise in the educational context
- The research on expertise
- The characteristics of competent performance
- Acquiring expertise

The daily thought in the educational context
- Cognitive psychology of everyday life
- The cognitive activity distributed

Examination Methods

EXAM TEXT:

Title: Psicologia del pensiero
Authors: Vittorio Girotto e Paolo Legrenzi
Editor: il Mulino


EVALUATION METHOD:

Multiple choice test

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