- Docente: Monica Martoni
- Credits: 3
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)
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from Oct 30, 2023 to Jan 11, 2024
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
I) Perception
Constructive perception
II) Attention, Consciousness and Sleep
Selective attention and sustained attention.
Wake-sleep cycle and circadian rythms.
III) Learning
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
IV) Memory
Memory systems and Processes.
The organization of information in memory.
Forgetting and Memory deficits.
V) Emotion and Motivation
Theories of Emotion.
Relationship between emotion and motivational systems
VI) Stress and coping
The stress response, physiological and psychological reactions to stress
Coping strategies
The cost of caring.
Readings/Bibliography
Nolen-Hoeksema S. Hilgard E. R. Atkinson R. L. & Atkinson R. C. (2014). Atkinson & hilgard's introduction to psychology (16th ed.). Cengage Learning EMEA.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
31 true/false questions, to be completed in 24 minutes. For each correct answer the point will be +1 and 0 for no answer/ wrong answer. The maximum score obtainable by providing all correct answers is 30 cum laude; the test is considered passed with a minimum score of 18/30 (18 correct answers).
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