Teaching code

4S000289

Teacher

Roberto Burro

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PSI/01 - GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

Period

1 SEMESTRE PROFESSIONI SANITARIE dal Oct 1, 2021 al Dec 23, 2021.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

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Learning outcomes

The course will allow the student to obtain the necessary preparation for the study and use of the Psychology of learning understood as an experimental discipline. Cognitive processes such as learning, memory, perception, attention, thought, motivation, emotion and communication will be contextualized in the general methodological framework of cognitive sciences, allowing the student to find all the elements of comparison and integration with methodologies, theories and models, both from a historical perspective that applicative in the world of contemporary research.

Program

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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

Bibliography

Examination Methods

The exam taken during an official call will consist of a 30 minutes multiple choice question (30) (3 answers alternatives, only one of which is correct.) For the final judgment expressed in thirtieths, a correct answer has value equal to 1 point, an incorrect answer has a value equal to 0 points, an answer not given has a value equal to 0 points).

NB:
As a result of the health emergency due to Covid-19, the usual examination modalities might be modified, in accordance with the University indications. Updates will be posted on the course moodle e-learning page.