Academic Year 2019/2020
- Docente: Monica Martoni
- Credits: 3
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- 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