Course Unit Page
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Teacher Alessia Tessari
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Credits 6
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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 Exercise and Sport Sciences (cod. 8512)
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Course Timetable from Sep 29, 2021 to Dec 23, 2021
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
Academic Year 2021/2022
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.
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
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 45 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
Alumni