- Docente: Fiorella Giusberti
- Credits: 8
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Sciences of Behaviour and Social Relations (cod. 0988)
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.
Readings/Bibliography
Carlson N.R. Psicologia. Scienza del comportamento. Piccin,
Padova, 2008 (capitoli 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 pg. 374-385)
D'Urso V., Giusberti F., Esperimenti di psicologia, Zanichelli, 2000
Benjafield J. G. Psicologia dei processi cognitivi, Mulino, 1999
(tre capitoli: Soluzione di problemi, Ragionamento, Giudizio e
decisione)
Teaching methods
Traditional didactics
Assessment methods
written test
Office hours
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