02207 - General Psychology

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will comprehensively know the sensory, perceptive, cognitive, emotional and motivational processes and their integration in the mental representations that contribute to the development and organization of the behaviors developed and exhibited by the individual in the continuous process of adaptation and permanence in the environment.

 

The course takes part in the University's educational innovation project

Course contents

Introduction to general psychology - historical background

Methods

Sensation

Perception and action

Basic perceptual processes

Recognition

Space and action

Attention and consciousness

Memory and learning

Memory systems

Motor learning

Thought and intelligence

Judgment, reasoning and decision making

Human intelligence

Personality

Readings/Bibliography

The material to be examined will be based on the course slides deposited on the website https://virtuale.unibo.it



For those wishing to integrate with a text (not mandatory):

Girotti, Zorzi (edited by), Manual of General Psychology, Il Mulino.

Teaching methods

Lectures with audio-visual instruments.

The teaching methodology involves using virtual and Teams alongside the Qualtrics and Jatos platforms to carry out in-depth laboratory experiences on the topics previously introduced at the theoretical level in class. In this way, the students will be involved in group work, where the dependent and independent variables of the experimental design will be identified, the analyzed data will be introduced, and a joint interpretative discussion of the results will be carried out. Furthermore, they will have the opportunity to know and test firsthand the analysis and tools presented in class (e.g., Test for measuring cognitive abilities).

Assessment methods

The final exam will consist of a multiple choice test on all the topics of the course.

The written test consists of 30 multiple response questions, to be completed in 20 minutes. The score will be so assigned: +1 point for each correct answer, 0 points for each question not answered.

The test will be passed with a score equivalent to half the maximum achievable.

Office hours

See the website of Alessia Tessari