02207 - General Psychology

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5905)

Learning outcomes

-Evolution of the Central Nervous System and Mental Processes

-Methods for the Study of Cognitive Processes.


-Perception (main process features and deficits)

-Attention (main process features and deficits)

-Memory (structures, main process features and deficits)

-Learning (classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning, sleep and learning)

-Emotions and Motivational Systems (brief mention)


-Perception of Faces and Decisions in Health Care.


-The role of cognitive and emotional-motivational processes on clinical outcomes (the role of psychosocial context around the patient and therapy, top-down modulation of pain, Placebo and Nocebo mechanism)

Readings/Bibliography

•D. Schacter, D. Gilbert, M. Nock, D. Wegner

Psicologia Generale

Seconda edizione italiana a cura di L. Piccardi

Ed. Zanichelli 2021 Bologna

•E. Ladavas, A. Berti

Neuropsicologia

Il Mulino 2020 Bologna

•F. Benedetti

L'effetto placebo. Breve viaggio tra mente e corpo

Ed. Carrocci 2021 Roma

•Le slides utilizzate a lezione saranno disponibili su https://iol.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Katia Mattarozzi