ID:
40081
Dettaglio:
SSD: General Psychology
Duration: 72
CFU: 12
Located in:
BERGAMO
Url:
PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES - 40-R/PERCORSO COMUNE Year: 1
Year:
2025
At the end of the course, the students will have acquired knowledge about the history of scientific psychology and the basic aspects psychological functioning and behavior. Furthermore, they will be able to critically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the theoretical and empirical paradigms that will be presented during classes. In order to obtain the 24 credits necessary to access to teachers of secondary school contexts (the FIT program), passing this exam will result in 6 credits.
None
Teaching will take place exclusively through lectures
The exam consists of a written test lasting 2 hours. The test is divided into two parts. The first part consists of 15 forced-choice questions which will permit to verify if the student has learnt the theoretical foundations and basic concepts of general psychology. On the other hand, the second part includes three open-ended questions, which aim to assess the student’s ability to critically reflect on key topics of general psychology that will be examined during the course. The final mark is the sum of the scores obtained in the two parts of the test. In this regard, it will be assigned one point for each correct answer to the questions included in the first part of the exam and up to 5 points for each answer relating to the second part. Students who will provide in depth and comprehensive answers to the questions included in the second part of the test may aspire to the maximum mark (30 cum laude). The marks will be communicated to the institutional email of each student through the University information system. As for the students that will access to teachers of secondary school contexts (FIT program, 6 credits course), the exam will last two hour but it will include 10 forced-choice questions and two open-ended questions.
The course will present an overview of the main issues connected to the study of mind and behavior. In particular, the first part of the course will analyze the historical roots of the General Psychology, describing the birth and evolution of the most important theoretical paradigms and illustrating how they differently defined the objects and methods of scientific psychology. Then, the main research areas of the discipline will be examined: sensation and perception; learning; memory; thinking, reasoning, and problem solving; language; motivation; emotion; personality. Particular attention will be also paid to the analysis of cognitive and emotional aspects which characterize the teaching-learning process. Finally, the monographic part of the course will concentrate on the contemporary developments of psychology of perception and attention, paying special attention to the visual illusions as a noninvasive tools to study the brain processing.
The students not attending classes must adhere to the program described above. For any request, they can contact the professor either personally or by e-mail.