01230 - General Psychology I

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • 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 appraisethe history and the development of the fundamental conceptsof 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

Coon, D., Mitterer, J.O. Psicologia Generale. Novara: UTET, 2011. Capitoli 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

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

Mecacci L. (a cura di) manuale di Psicologia Generale, Giunti 2001, Capitolo 1

During the course it will be provided further guidance on the subjects treated

Teaching methods

Traditional didactics

Assessment methods

written test

Office hours

See the website of Fiorella Giusberti