Teaching code

4S011775

Teacher

Marco Salvati

Coordinator

Marco Salvati

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Interpersonal Relationships in Organizations of the course Bachelor's degree in Psychological Sciences for Training and Professional Development

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PSI/05 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Period

Sem. 1B dal Nov 13, 2023 al Dec 22, 2023.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

GENERAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES. *To know and understand the theories related to the mechanisms of psychological functioning of people at work and in the organizations, for example motivation, satisfaction, or wellbeing. *To apply the psychological theories to the functioning of individuals, groups, and organisation in order to observe and analyse behaviours, and in particular phenomena concerning learning and personal and social changes. *To apply knowledge about psychological measurement instruments to the assessment of individuals, to the evaluation of learning needs, for training and development of individuals along the whole life course, of groups, of organisation, and communities. SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES. *To know how communicative styles impact interpersonal perceptions, expectations and behavior in the organizational social domain. *To know and understand explicit and implicit norms and of the way variables of individual difference may exacerbate interpersonal relationships in formal/institutional or informal social contexts. *To know and understand the relationship between empathic attitude and assertiveness in co-construction in organizational contexts. *To know and understand team-working processes related to leader/follower relationship.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Basic knowledge of Social Psychology

Program

The course intends to provide knowledge and skills to analyze the origins, characteristics, processes, and consequences of prejudice in its direct and indirect forms. An integrated perspective will be adopted in which different interpretations (cognitive, emotional, motivational, cultural) will be examined.
1: DEFINE PREJUDICE
- The nature of prejudice: definitions and historical evolution;
- Contemporary prejudice;
- Measuring prejudice
2: GENESIS OF PREJUDICE
- Prejudice and individual differences
- The cognitive basis of prejudice: categorization and stereotypes;
- The motivational bases of prejudice
- Emotions and prejudice
3: THE PROFILES OF PREJUDICE
- Ethnic prejudice
- Gender prejudice
- Sexual prejudice
4: CORRELATED AND EFFECTS OF PREJUDICE
- Dehumanization
- Injustice and social inequalities
- Suffering from stereotypes
5: REDUCING PREJUDICE
- Intergroup Contact
- Sociocognitive Strategies for Reducing Prejudice

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The delivery of the course will take place exclusively in presence, using both frontal teaching and classroom exercises. All male and female students must register on the Moodle platform of the course, which will be the main communication channel of the course and where all the resources used in class can be found.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam will take place in written form and will include both multiple choice questions and open-ended questions (max 32 points).
During the delivery of the course, for those who wish, it will be possible to participate in individual and/or collaborative activities (optional) which, following a positive evaluation, will give up to a maximum of 3 points as recognition, which will be added to the vote of the written test , only in case of achievement of the sufficiency (18/32nds). Further information and specifications on both the activities and the exam will be communicated both in class and on the Moodle page of the course.

Evaluation criteria

• Closed questions do NOT include penalties for incorrect answers.
• The points of the optional activities will be added to the final score only in case of the achievement of the sufficiency in the written test, or a vote equal to or higher than 18;
• In case of failing the exam or renouncing the mark obtained, the extra points obtained will NOT be lost, but will be kept until the last exam session of the a.y. 2023/2024;
• At the discretion of the professor, it will be possible to request an oral integration to the student.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final exam will consist of a written test with:
• 17 closed questions (1 point for each correct answer);
• 5 short open questions graded from 0 to 3 points;
Participation in the individual activity will make it possible to acquire n. 1 extra point, which will be added to the score obtained in the written test;
Participation in the collaborative activity will make it possible to acquire up to no. 2 extra points, which will be added to the score obtained in the written test.

Exam language

Italiano