GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year - Curriculum Educatore sociale e di comunita'Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-PSI/01 - GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Learning Objectives
The primary objective is to promote the knowledge of the main topics of General Psychology through a scientific, educational and informative cut in order to present to the student the integration of the different biological, psychological and environmental factors that make up the Psychological themes. The goal is to allow students to improve the ability to learn and analyse the main thematic areas
Detailed Course Content
The following topics will be analysed: nature of psychology, behavioral genetics, perception, attention and consciousness, learning and the role of experience, memory, thought and reasoning, language, emotions, motivations, intelligence.
Textbook Information
Micheal Passer, Nigel Holt, Andy Bremner, Ed Sutherland, Michael Vliek, Ronald Smith, Italian Edition by Tessa Marzi and Andrea Peru (2015). General Psychology - The science of the mind and of thought, Mc Graw Hill Education, Milan. The chapters to be studied are: Chap 1 (pag. 1-25); Chap 3 (pag. 95-119); Chap. 4 (pag. 121-162); Chap. 6 (pag. 191-225); Chap. 7 (pag. 225-283); Chap. 8 (pag. 283-335); Chap. 9 (pag. 337-394); Chap. 10 (pag. 395-417); Chap. 11 (pag. 419-447); Chap. 12 (pag. 449-487); Chap. 13 (pag. 489-526); Chap. 14 (pag. 527-566).