- Docente: Vincenzo Natale
- Credits: 2
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)
Learning outcomes
This course is a broad introduction to the field of psychology. Students explore the key figures, , and research findings that have shaped some of the major areas of contemporary psychology.
Course contents
The course surveys areas such as perception, attention and executive functions, learning and memory, motivation and emotion. This course also examines the research methods across these areas to study the origins and variations in human behavior.
PERCEPTION: Relationship between perceptive process and reality; Bottom-up and top-down mechanisms; Attentional systems; Selective attention; Localization; Recognition; Perceptual constancy; Perceptual Illusions;
MEMORY: Memory Systems; Memory processes; Working Memory; Memory and Emotion; Deficits of Memory.
LEARNING: Habituation; Classical Conditioning; Operant Conditioning Other Learning Processes.
EMOTION AND MOTIVATION: Emotion and Perception. Theories of emotion. Emotional responses. Emotional expression; Motivations;
Readings/Bibliography
R.C.Atkinson e E.R.Hilgard
Introduzione alla Psicologia.
Piccin, Padova 2011
(Capitoli 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11)Teaching methods
Traditional lectures and laboratory
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.
Teaching tools
Power point
Office hours
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