GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY WITH LABORATORY

The course aims at providing the conceptual and method notions that are constitutive of the psychological sciences and cognitive neurosciences, with particular attention to the most recent scientific research. Particular attention will be given to sensory, perceptual, cognitive, emotional and motivational processes. At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the main research debates on the mind and brain and to reason in critical terms about the results of the research and the theories proposed for their interpretation.

Frontal teaching and laboratory activities on neural networks and artificial intelligence.

The origins of psychology,

Structuralism and functionalism,

Reflexology and the historical-cultural school,

Gestalt psychology,

Behaviorism,

Freud and psychoanalysis,

Piaget and the Geneva school,

The cognitivist movement,

The psychology between cognitive science and biology,

The second decade of the century and the computer-network system,

Psychological and biological foundations,

Sensation, perception and attention,

Learning and memory,

Language and communication,

Thought and intelligence,

Emotions and motivations.

Supplementary: The humor.

- Storia della psicologia - VI Edizione, a cura di P. Legrenzi, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018, p. 210.

- Psicologia generale. M.W. Eysenck, Napoli: Idelson-Gnocchi, 2006, p. 430.

- Psicologia dell’umorismo. Dionigi A., Gremigni P. Roma: Carocci, 2010, p. 125.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.