02207 - General Psychology

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Moduli: Monica Martoni (Modulo 1) Maria Paola Zamagni (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

Students will have specific knowledge of main cognitive functions (i.e. attention, memory, learning, thinking, language) and emotional processes involved in human information processing and behavior.

Course contents

II) Attention, Consciousness and Sleep

Selective attention and sustained attention.Executive functions.

Attentional deficits.

Wake-sleep cycle and circadian rythms.

Sleep disorders.

II) Memory

Memory systems and Processes.

The organization of information in memory.

Forgetting and Memory deficits.

III) Learning

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

The role of Sleep on Learning and Memory processes

IV) Emotion and Motivation

Functional Meaning

Theories of Emotion.

Relationship between emotion and motivational systems

V) Conflict

Types of conflict Effects of conflict on behaviour Cognitive dissonance and psychic homeostasis

VI) Frustration

Causes of frustration Responses to frustration Anxiety, stress and coping strategies

VII) Psychology of communication in Health-Related context

Communication processes: verbal, non-verbale, paraverbal

Types of communication: authoritative, paternalistic, defensive, empathic, persuasive styles

Communication techniques: advantages and constrains

Medical Humanities and Narrative-based Medicine

Readings/Bibliography

Holt N, Bremner A & Sutherland E (2019). Psicologia generale. Capire la mente osservando il comportamento. Milano: McGraw-Hill.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written test

The test will be written, with 31 multiple choice questions: 20 questions concerning General Psychology and 11 questions concerning Pedagogy.

Total time for the examination: 30 minutes.

Teaching tools

The handouts of lectures slides will be provided by the teacher on the IOL platform (https://iol.unibo.it/)

Office hours

See the website of Monica Martoni

See the website of Maria Paola Zamagni