- Docente: Marco Costa
- Credits: 8
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Elisa Gambetti (Modulo 1) Marco Costa (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Psychological sciences and techniques (cod. 8774)
Learning outcomes
The course is focused on general psychology and cognitive processes. Main topics will be history of psychology, research methodology, perception, memory, learning, reasoning and decision making,
Course contents
The aim of the course is to study the mind and the human behaviour. The principal themes of the course will be the history, the methods of the scientific psychology, perception, memory, thinking, decision making, knowledge representation and learning.
The course will take place during the first semester (from October to December 2016) at the Cesena Campus of the School of Psychology and Education (address: piazza A. Moro, 90)
Readings/Bibliography
Coon, D., Mitterer, J.O. Psicologia Generale. Novara: UTET, 2011. Capitoli 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
D'Urso V., Giusberti F. Esperimenti di Psicologia. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2000.
Mecacci L. Roma-Bari: Manuale di storia della psicologia. Laterza 2008. Capitoli 6, 7, 8, 9.
Bonini N., Del Missier F., Rumiati R. Psicologia del giudizio e della decisione, Mulino, 2008. Capitoli 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Teaching methods
Traditional lessons
Assessment methods
The exam is a written multiple-choice test lasting 45 minutes.
The test is composed by 60 multiple choice questions. For each correct answer the score is 0.50. Both a wrong answer and a question not answered will be evaluated 0 points. A right answer to all the 60 questions will result in 30 cum laude. Minimun score is 18.
Office hours
See the website of Marco Costa
See the website of Elisa Gambetti