PSYCHOLOGY (FR)
cod. 22778

Academic year 2007/08
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Psicologia generale (M-PSI/01)
Field
Discipline generali per la formazione del medico
Type of training activity
Basic
0 hours
of face-to-face activities
1.5 credits
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Learning objectives

 AIM OF THIS COURSE IS TO GIVE STUDENTS A BASIC PREPARATION ON MAIN TRENDS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND ON MAIN COGNITIVE PROCESSES UNDERLYING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR.

Prerequisites

<br />Teachers:<br />SSD M-PSI/01 : Prof.Lucia Riggio (Coordinator)

Course unit content

ORIGINS AND METHODS OF THE PSYCHOLOGY - SCHOOLS IN PSYCHOLOGY - THRESHOLDS AND PSYCHOPHYSICS - PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION - PERCEPTUAL RECOGNITION - SELECTIVE AD SPATIAL ATTENTION - AUTOMATIC AND VOLUNTARY PROCESSES - CLASSICAL AND OPERANT CONDITIONING - SENSORY MEMORY - SHORT-TERM AND WORKING MEMORY - LONG-TERM MEMORY - AMNESIA - LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION - HUMAN LANGUAGE - DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THE NOTION OF INTELLIGENCE - TESTING INTELLIGENCE - THE STRUCTURE OF INTELLIGENCE - EMOTIONS - EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS - THEORIES ON EMOTIONS

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />L. MECACCI, PSICOLOGIA GENENALE, GIUNTI, FIRENZE, 2001<br />P. LEGRENZI, MANUALE DI PSICOLOGIA GENERALE, IL MULINO, BOLOGNA, 1994, ONLY THE CHAPTER BY C. UMILTA' 'ATTENZIONE E COSCIENZA'

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