GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
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The course unit aims at providing theoretical and methodological tools useful for understanding how research in cognitive psychology is carried out and its main results.
The main purpose is to provide students with the necessary skills to analyse critically the various phenomena shown by cognitive psychology studies and the explanations of such phenomena. Students will be stimulated to go in-depth into each topic discussed in this unit.
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Paolo Legrenzi, Fondamenti di psicologia generale, Mulino Bologna
Cianciolo Sternberg, Breve storia dell’intelligenza, Mulino
Main issues of cognitive psychology will be presented in face-to-face lessons which will make use of PowerPoint presentations. For each topic, prominent theories will be discussed, together with the results of the experiments that have been conducted to evaluate such theories. Students may be asked to participate in one or more experiments. At the end of both the data collection and analysis phases, aims and results of such experiments will be explained to students.