02207 - General Psychology

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Exercise and Sport Sciences (cod. 8512)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will comprehensively know the sensory, perceptive, cognitive, emotional and motivational processes and their integration in the mental representations that contribute to the development and organization of the behaviors developed and exhibited by the individual in the continuous process of adaptation and permanence in the environment.

Course contents

Introduction to general psychology - historical background

Methods

Sensation

Perception and action

Basic perceptual processes

Recognition

Space and action

Attention and consciousness

Memory and learning

Memory systems

Motor learning

Thought and intelligence

Judgment, reasoning and decision making

Human intelligence

Personality

Readings/Bibliography

The material to be examined will be based on the course slides deposited on the AMSCampus website



For those wishing to integrate with a text (not mandatory):

Girotti, Zorzi (edited by), Manual of General Psychology, Il Mulino.

Teaching methods

48-hours course

Assessment methods

The final exam will consist of a multiple choice test on all the topics of the course.

Office hours

See the website of Alessia Tessari