02207 - General Psychology

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

Selective attention and sustained attention. 

III) Learning

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

IV) Memory

Memory systems and Processes.

The organization of information in memory.

Forgetting and Memory deficits.

V) Decision-making

VI) Emotion and Motivation

Theories of Emotion.

Relationship between emotion and motivational systems

VII) Stress and coping

The stress response, physiological and psychological reactions to stress

Coping strategies

 

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.  There are no penalties for wrong or blank answers.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