99208 - Psicologia generale e della Comunicazione in Ambito Sanitario

Learning outcomes

 

 

Course contents

• Cognitive Psychology and the Human Information Processing model
• Evolution of the Central Nervous System and Mental Processes
• Perception (main features of the process and deficits)
• 
  Attention (main process characteristics and deficits)
• Memory (structures, main process characteristics and deficits)
• Learning (classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning)
• Emotions and motivational systems (brief mention)

• The role of the psycho-social context around the patient and therapy on clinical outcomes, top-down modulation of pain, placebo and nocebo mechanisms)

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

Teaching methods

The course includes lectures and some practical exercises carried out in the classroom in order to better understand the functioning of some cognitive processes.

Assessment methods

The learning of the contents of the course  will be assessed through:

- a multiple-choice test consisting of 15 questions with 4 answer options (two wrong options, one partially correct but incomplete option, one correct and more complete option to which a score of 2 is given; no penalty for choosing the wrong answer); maximum score 30

Teaching tools

Teaching slides will be available on line at Unibo e-learning website https://iol.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Katia Mattarozzi