- Docente: Paolo Maria Russo
- Credits: 2
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biomedical Laboratory techniques (cod. 8484)
Learning outcomes
The student should possess the basic knowledge on general psychology and in particular regarding: the emotions and motivational states and their influence on behavior, individual differences in cognitive and non cognitive traits of personality, stress at work and burnout, coping styles.
Course contents
OBJECTS AND METHODS OF PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL:
Paradigms and
experimental study of
cognitive, behavioral, psychophysiological (EEG and ERPs, neuroimaging
techniques) measures. LEARNING AND MEMORY: classical
conditioning and operant conditioning . Sensory registers, short-term memory, long-term memory. The organization of information in memory. Episodic and semantic
memory, declarative and procedural
memories. Strategies
for storage. Neuropsychological bases of memory and amnesia. EMOTION AND MOTIVATION: Physiological
basis of emotion.
Subcomponents of
emotional responses. Primary emotions (basic) and
secondary. Characteristics of basic
emotions. Expression
and emotion
recognition. Primary
and secondary motives (affiliation,
achievement, etc..),
With particular attention to the motivation to
work. INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY ': Different approaches
to the study of
personality. Taxonomic
models of basic personality traits. The personality
inventories. The
assessment of cognitive abilities. Contemporary theories of
intelligence. IQ and
specific abilities. The intelligence
tests.
STRESS AND COPING: Stressors: definition and characteristics.
Acute and chronic stress.
Physiological reactions to stress. Psychological
reactions to stress. Coping strategies. Burn-out syndrome. Stress
and work motivation.
Stress and
conflict in the
workplace.
Readings/Bibliography
Textbook: Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner (2010). General
Psychology. Zanichelli.
In addition, students will use the handouts provided by the teacher (which
correspond to the
slides of the
lectures) that
summarize the information in the
textbook and provide some supplementary information that can be evaluated in the exam.
Teaching methods
Lectures and illustration of psychological testing materials.
Assessment methods
Teaching tools
Powerpoint slides, softwares to illustrate the experimental tasks, exercises in psychological testing.
Office hours
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