93502 - Cognitive Styles and Wellbeing

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, the students will know the main theoretical models of cognitive styles in a chronopsychological framework with a focus on ethnicity differences. Moreover, the students will learn the potential pathways linking cognitive styles to wellbeing.

Course contents

The course will deal with the following two subject matters.

 

1. Sleep

1.1. Historical introduction

1.2. Methods of assessment

1.3 Models of sleep regulation

1.4. Sleep disorders

1.5. Sleep and wellbeing

 

2. Chronobiology, chronopsychology, and cognitive styles

2.1. Historical introduction

2.2. Methods of assessment

2.3. Chronobiology. Understanding the organization of the sleep/wake cycle circadian rhythm within the theoretical framework of the two-process model of sleep regulation

2.4. Chronopsychology and cognitive processes

2.5. Individual differences in circadian rhythms

2.6. Cognitive styles within a chronopsychological framework

Readings/Bibliography

1. Lavie, P. (1996). The Enchanted World of Sleep. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

 

2. Roenneberg, T. (2012). Internal Time. Chronotypes, Social Jetlag, and Why You’re So Tired. Cambridge, Massachusetts – London, England: Harvard University Press.

 

3. Kozhevnikov, M. (2007). Cognitive styles in the context of modern psychology: Toward an integrated framework of cognitive style. Psychological Bulletin, 133(3), 464–481. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.133.3.464

Teaching methods

Traditional lectures, practical activities, and seminars by experts. As regards practical activities, students will work in small-size groups on a topic assigned by teacher and will present their work in classroom through a PowerPoint presentation. Such presentation will not receive any score.

Students will have the opportunity to wear actigraphy devices.

Assessment methods

- The learning will be assessed through an oral examination. Two questions will be asked, aimed to verify the learning outcomes.

- One question for each subject matter, as outlined within the section Course contents, will be asked.

- Each answer will receive a score between 0 and 15 based on the criteria of: a) completeness; b) explanatory clarity; c) ability of critical re-elaboration of learned material; d) ability to establish connections between the different course contents.

- The final grade will be the result of the sum of the scores assigned to each answer. The minimum performance to overcome the oral examination is to get a score of at least 9/15 for each answer. The final grade 30/30 will be assigned in case of full satisfaction of criteria at previous point in all replies.

- During oral examination tools as calculators and dictionaries are not allowed.

- The registration to the oral examination should take place through the university application AlmaEsami, observing the expected deadlines.

Teaching tools

PC, projector, PowerPoint presentations.

Office hours

See the website of Lorenzo Tonetti