PSYCHOLOGY AND GENERAL PEDAGOGY
cod. 14473

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - First semester
Professor responsible for the course unit
MARCHESI Carlo
integrated course unit
3 credits
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course unit
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Course unit structured in the following modules:

Learning objectives

<br />General Psychology <br /><br /> <br />AIM OF THIS COURSE IS TI GIVE STUDENTS A BASIC PREPARATION ON MAIN METHODS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND ON MAIN COGNITIVE PROCESSES UNDERLYING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR.<br /> <br />Clinical Psychology<br /> <br />Provide students with the knowledge to assist subjects affected by psychomotor disorders and subjects with eating disorders and anxiety disorders. <br /> <br />Pedagogy <br /><br />Understand the educational iussues in the professional behaviour <br />Know roles and competences in working group <br />Information retrieval for case analysis <br />Discuss opinions about job with colleagues<br /> <br /><br /> 

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Course unit content

<br />General Psychology<br />SCIENTIFIC AND COMMON SENSE PSYCHOLOGY -ORIGINS AND METHODS OF THE PSYCHOLOGY - THRESHOLDS AND PSYCHOPHYSICS - PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION - PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND MOVEMENT- SELECTIVE AND SPATIAL ATTENTION - AUTOMATIC AND VOLUNTARY PROCESSES - LEARNING PARADIGMS -CLASSICAL AND OPERANT CONDITIONING - SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM MEMORY - MOTIVATION - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MOTIVATIONS - THEORIES ON MOTIVATION - EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EMOTIONS - THEORIES ON EMOTIONS<br /> <br />Clinical Psychology <br /> <br />The followin topics should be presented and discussed during the lessons: <br />Impairment of psychomotor development: mental retardation, attention deficit /hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, separation anxiety disorder; <br />eating disorders: anerexia and bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder; <br />anxiety disorders: panic disorder, phobic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder.<br />Pedagogy<br /><br /><br />Understand the educational iusses in the professional behaviour <br />Know roles and competences in working groups <br />Pedagogy and human sciences <br />Movement and learning <br />Sports and education <br />Communication as tool and challange for education  

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />General Psychology  <br />L. ANOLLI, P. LEGRENZI, PSICOLOGIA GENERALE, IL MULINO, BOLOGNA, 2001 <br />P. LEGRENZI, MANUALE DI PSICOLOGIA GENERALE, IL MULINO, BOLOGNA, 1994, ONLY THE CHAPTER BY C. UMILTA' 'ATTENZIONE E COSCIENZA' <br /> <br />Clinical Psychology<br />At the end of the course, all the material used during the lessons and the material regarding the topics presented in the course should be available to the students  <br /> <br />Pedagogy<br />Reading available asking for the Professor

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