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Teacher Michela Mazzetti
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Credits 3
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SSD M-PSI/01
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Teaching Mode Traditional lectures
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Language Italian
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Campus of Bologna
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Degree Programme First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8473)
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Course Timetable from Feb 07, 2022 to Apr 01, 2022
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

Academic Year 2021/2022
Learning outcomes
Students will have specific knowledge of main cognitive functions (i.e. attention, memory, learning, thinking, language) and emotional processes involved in humaninformation processing andbehavior.
Course contents
LEARNING AND MEMORY: 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.
INTELLIGENCE: Contemporary theories of intelligence.
The assessment of cognitive abilities. The
intelligence tests. IQ and specific abilities. Mental
retardation and dementia.
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION: Verbal and non verbal languages.
Acquisition of verbal language. Brain damage and aphasia. Non
verbal communication.
ATTENTION: Attentional systems: arousal and sustained
attention; selective attention; executive functions.
Neuropsychology of attention: neglect and frontal syndrome.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND SLEEP: Wake-sleep alternation and
circadian rythms; REM and NREM sleep; mental activity during sleep;
functions of sleep and dreaming; memory consolidation during sleep.
Sleep disorders. Narcolepsy.
EMOTION:Biological basis of emotion. Theory of emotion. Subcomponents of emotional responses. Emotional expression and health.
STRESS : The stress response. Acute and chronic stress; physiological and psychological reactions to stress; coping strategies.
Readings/Bibliography
In addition to handouts of lectures slides, the following
references are recommended in preparing for the examination:
1. Feldman R.S. (2017, III ed), PSICOLOGIA
GENERALE. McGraw-Hill.
Chapters:
6 MEMORIA;
8 INTELLIGENZA;
9 LINGUAGGIO E COMUNICAZIONE (pp. 275-286);
4 STATI DI COSCIENZA: L'ALTERNANZA SONNO-VEGLIA, IL SONNO E I
DISTURBI DEL SONNO (pp. 120-130).
11 EMOZIONI
13 IL BENESSERE PSICOLOGICO
2. Ladavas E. e Berti A. (2009), NEUROPSICOLOGIA, Il
Mulino
Estratti dai capitoli:
7 DISTURBI DELLA MBT, AMNESIA ANTEROGRADA E AMNESIA
RETROGADA (pp. 246-260 e pp. 261-264);
8 LA DEMENZA DI ALZHEIMER (pp. 286-301);
5 LE AFASIE (pp. 159-163);
3 L'ATTENZIONE E I DISTURBI DELL'ATTENZIONE
SELETTIVA SPAZIALE (pp. 90-98 e pp. 109-112);
9 LA SINDROME FRONTALE (pp.
303-314).
4 LE EMOZIONI
Teaching methods
Lectures. Classical psychology experiments will be simulated and
typical patients behavior will be illustrated by video.
At the end of each lesson or topic, the specific references of
recommended reading will be recalled.
Assessment methods
In the final test, the knowledge both of General Psychology
and of Pedagogy will be concomitantly assessed, by means an oral
examination.
Relative toGeneral Psichology,the following
outcomes will be assessed: 1.knowledge of main
cognitive functions (i.e. attention, memory, learning, thinking,
language) and emotional processes at the base of
humaninformation processing andbehavior; 2. knowledge
of behavioral, cognitive and emotional modifications of patients
with the main neurological disorders examined by lectures and
recommended reading.
Teaching tools
Lectures, simulation of classical experiments in psychology and
video presentation of typical patients
behavior.
The handouts of lectures slides will be provided by the teacher on VIRTUALE (Virtual Learning Environment).
Office hours
See the website of Michela Mazzetti