GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

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

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.

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).