Academic Year 2019/2020
- Docente: Monica Martoni
- Credits: 2
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- 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