12513 - Cognitive Psychology

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Roberto Nicoletti
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: M-PSI/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 9216)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student has a proper methodology for the transfer of knowledge in the application area and could be able to understand the theoretical, methodological and epistemiological issues of the different models with which, today, the human cognitive activity is studied.

Course contents

The course is divided into two parts, the first of which (6CFU) is introductory to the second part (6 CFU) that will follow the first.

The first part
of the course will be oriented towards the general aspects of Cognitive Psychology. The aim is to give students a general idea about the historical aspects of the most important psychological schools and about the main cognitive processes studied by Psychology.

In the second part, the research paradigms that lead contemporary research will be illustrated. In particular, the most relevant theories that explain the basic cognitive processes,and the ergonomics application of the general principles of the Cognitive Psychology.

Readings/Bibliography

For the first part:
Psicologia. Nicoletti, Rumiati, Lotto. Bologna, Il Mulino. Edizione 2017

For the second part:

L'usabilità. Modelli e Progettazione. Vandi, Nicoletti. Roma, Carocci. Edizione 2011.

Teaching methods

Lessons during which the students will be encouraged to ask questions and further explanations.

Assessment methods

The final exam will be a multiple-choice test, aims at verifying:

1. the competence of the acquired contents

2. the level of assimilation and critical-conceptual elaboration of the proposed contents

3. the ability to orientate between the main lines of interpretation

Before verbalizing the result of the exam, the student is invited to collaborate in a laboratory research

 

Foreign students are asked to contact the professor to arrange the assessment methods.

Teaching tools

Power Point presentations.

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Nicoletti