Unit COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
- Course
- Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
- Study-unit Code
- 40252609
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Valerio Santangelo
- Teachers
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- Valerio Santangelo
- Hours
- 54 ore - Valerio Santangelo
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline scientifiche demoetnoantropologiche, pedagogiche, psicologiche e economiche
- Academic discipline
- M-PSI/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The aim of the course is to provide the student with theoretical/conceptual tools to understand the most recent developments in the field of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Reference texts
- Mandatory text for all students:
- Purves, D., Cabeza, R., Huettel, S.A., LaBar, K.S., Platt, M.L., Woldorff, M.G. (2013). Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience. Sinauer Associated, Inc. - Educational objectives
- By the end of the course the student has to know the most recent developments in the study of cognitive processes and related neural correlates, being able to report this information in a clear and organized fashion.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of general psychology; bases of cerebral anatomy and physiology; basic knowledge of statistics.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lectures.
- Learning verification modality
- In order to promote the student’s comprehension, expository and synthetic capabilities in relation to the different topics of the course, a written examination including both multiple choice and open-ended questions will be employed. Specifically, the exam will include 25 multiple choice questions (1 correct response out of 4; 1 point for the correct response; 0 points for incorrect responses) and an open-ended question. The scoring for the open-ended question can range between 0 and 6 points. It will be assessed not only the quantity of information reported but, most importantly, the student’s capacity to provide a clear and well-organized response. The final grade will result from the sum of the score obtained at the multiple choice test (25/30) and at the open-ended question (6/30). To access the open-ended question the score at the multiple choice test must be equal or above to 15/25 (i.e., 15 correct responses out of 25 quizzes). The duration of the examination is 40 minutes (25 minutes for the multiple choice test, plus 15 minutes for the open-ended question).
Deadline for registration: 48 hours before the exam. Students must registers online at the link https://unipg.esse3.cineca.it/Home.do - Extended program
- The aim of the course is to provide the student with theoretical/conceptual tools to understand the most recent developments in the fields of Cognitive Psychology, focusing on the study of cognitive processes and their neural basis. In particular, we will focus on the following topics:
- Perception of visual and auditory stimuli.
- Motor systems and motor control, computation and cognition into the motor system.
- Consciousness; Attention and its effects on the stimulus elaboration, attentional control and attentional systems.
- Explicit and implicit declarative memory, working memory.
- Emotions and their influences on the other cognitive functions; Social cognition.
- Executive control; Decision making; Reasoning and problem solving.
- Symbolic representation: spoken and written language; neural basis of language.
- Evolution and development of brain and cognition.