GENERAL PSYCOLOGY WITH LABORATORY

The course aims to provide the conceptual and methodological notions of psychological sciences and cognitive neurosciences, with particular attention to the most recent scientific research.

At the end of the course the student will have acquired the following objectives:

1) Knowledge and understanding;

demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the history and development of psychology and of human cognitive and psychological processes, as well as some cutting-edge topics in neuroscience with the support of recent textbooks;

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding;

be able to apply and understand psychological and neuroscientific knowledge to demonstrate a professional approach to work, and possess adequate skills both to devise and support scientific arguments and to solve methodological problems.

3) Autonomy of judgment;

the student will be able to collect and interpret experimental data useful for determining autonomous judgments, including reflection on scientific or ethical issues connected to them.

4) Communication skills;

adequately communicate scientific information, ideas and methodological solutions to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors;

5) Learning skills;

develop the skills and abilities to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

The course is structured as indicated:

A) From the origins of psychology to today (3 CFU);

B) Sensory, perceptive, cognitive, emotional and motivational cognitive processes (5 CFU);

C) Laboratory of artificial intelligence, neural networks and social robotics (1 CFU).

 

Module A (3 CFU):

The origins of psychology,

Structuralism and functionalism,

Reflexology and the historical-cultural school,

Gestalt psychology,

Behaviorism,

Freud and psychoanalysis,

Piaget and the Geneva school,

The cognitivist movement,

The psychology between cognitive science and biology,

The second decade of the century and the computer-network system.

 

Module B (5 CFU):

The methods of psychology,

Neuroscience and behavior,

Sensation and perception,

Conscience,

The memory,

Learning,

Emotion and motivation,

Language and thought,

Intelligence,

Development,

The personality,

Stress and health.

 

Module C (1 CFU):

Do artificial Neural Networks reproduce life?,

Reproducing life between phylogeny and ontogenesis,

Applications of robotics to the treatment of developmental disorders,

Improving the lives of the elderly through artificial agents,

The problem of the "acceptability" of the artificial.

Module A:

P. Legrenzi (edited by), Storia della psicologia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019, 6 Edition, (pp. 9 to 218).

 

Module B:

D. Schacter, D. Gilbert, M. Nock, D. Wegner. Psicologia Generale, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2018, (pp. 29 to 461).

 

Module C:

S. Di Nuovo e A. Cangelosi (edited by), Vita naturale, vita artificiale. Tecniche di simulazione e applicazioni educative e cliniche, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2015, (pp. 13 to 30 and pp. 77 to 116).

 

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.