- Docente: Francesca Prati
- Credits: 1
- SSD: M-PSI/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dental Hygiene (cod. 8481)
Course contents
The course includes the following topics:
- SOCIAL COGNITION: The role of cognitive and social factors to understand the link between social cognition and social behaviour
- SOCIAL STEREOTYPE: Theoretical models on social stereotypes, intergroup prejudices and discrimination and main strategies to reduce intergroup bias especially used in the healthcare area
- PERSUASION: The main theories and tools used to persuade others and their application in the relationship between healthcare worker and patient
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching materials that will be used in class will be essential and sufficient to prepare for the exam.
Teaching methods
The course will be taught trough frontal lessons but also videoclips will be used to illustrate the most important experiments of social psychology.
Team work will be organized to focus on the main topics and understand how social-psychological process explain real and daily life phenomena.
Comments and discussions will be strongly encouraged also in order facilitate the links among topics.
The frequency to the lessons will not be measured but it is strongly recommended.
Assessment methods
The exam of this course consists of an essay (min 500 max 700 words) on a specific topic among those illustrated in class.
The essay must include the following parts:
1) scientific notions on the topic (definitions, main research, experiments and authors)
2) Application of this topic (examples from real life)
3) Relevance and practical implications about this topic for a professional in healthcare area
4) Conclusions (personal thoughts and critics)
Teaching tools
Teaching materials will be made available in the platform Virtuale.
Office hours
See the website of Francesca Prati