02207 - General Psychology

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)

Learning outcomes

After completing this course the studentknowsthe principles of human behaviororganization andthe main psychological functions (perception, emotion, motivation, memory, learning, thinking, language); he/she understandsthe link between biological structures andbehavioral functions.

Course contents

I) Attention, Consciousness and Sleep

Selective attention and sustained attention.Executive functions.

Attentional deficits.

Daily rhythms of the sleep-wake cycle

II) Memory

Memory systems and Processes.

The organization of information in memory.

Forgetting and Memory deficits.

IV) Learning

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

V) Emotion and Motivation

Functional Meaning

Theories of Emotion.

Relationship between emotion and motivational systems

Readings/Bibliography

Holt N, Bremner A & Sutherland E (2019). Psicologia generale. Capire la mente osservando il comportamento. Milano: McGraw-Hill.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The test will be written, with 31 multiple choice questions.

Total time for the examination: 30 minutes.

Teaching tools

The handouts of lectures slides will be provided by the teacher on the IOL platform (https://iol.unibo.it/)

Office hours

See the website of Monica Martoni