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01230 - General Psychology I

Academic Year 2019/2020

                
                        Docente:
                        Fiorella Giusberti
                    
                        Credits:
                        8
                    
                        SSD:
                        M-PSI/01
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Cesena
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Psychological sciences and techniques (cod. 8774)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The course intends to offer an analytic and adjourned panorama of the actual knowledge in the field of general psychology and cognitive processes. Fundamental concepts will be introduced for being able to correctly appraise the history and the development of the fundamental concepts of cognitive sciences. Furthermore the students will study, during the course, basic methological aspects related to the study of the human behaviour.

Course contents

The aim of the course is to study the mind and the human behaviour. The principal themes of the course will be the history, the methods of the scientific psychology, perception, memory, thinking, decision making, knowledge representation and learning.

The course will take place during the first semester (from October to December 2019) at the Cesena Campus of the School of Psychology and Education (address: piazza A. Moro, 90)

Readings/Bibliography

Holt N., Bremner A., Sutherland E., Vliek M. Smith R., Passer M., Smith R., Psicologia generale, capire la mente osservando il comportamento. McGraw Hill 2019, Capitoli 1, 2, 7, 8, 10

D'Urso V., Giusberti F. Esperimenti di Psicologia. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2000.

Bonini N., Del Missier F., Rumiati R. Psicologia del giudizio e della decisione, Mulino, 2008. Capitoli 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Teaching methods

traditional didactics

Assessment methods

Instruments such as calculation aids or vocabularies are not permitted assessment of learning takes place only through the final exam that tests the acquisition of knowledge and skills expected by a written test lasting 45 minutes without the help of notes or books.
The written test consists of 60 multiple choice questions. For each correct answer the score is 0.50. Both a wrong answer and a question not answered are worth 0 points. Scores are rounded up. If you provide a correct answer to all 60 questions, the final score is 30 marks cum laude

The test is passed if the score obtained is at least 18 points.

Instruments such as calculation aids or vocabularies are not permitted.

Enrollment in the tests will always take place through the Alma Esami application.

Teaching tools

Power Point presentations

audio-video presentations

Office hours

See the website of Fiorella Giusberti