The course has the following objectives:
- Knowledge and understanding:
make students acquire general basic knowledge on scientific psychology and cognitive processes. The aim of the course is also to develop students' ability in critical analysis and understanding in order to allow them a subsequent independent use of textbooks and more advanced scientific articles. The proposed topics are aimed to provide targeted bases for their future specific professional work domain, for a more general personal growth and to serve as a starting point for further insights into the discipline or others related to it;
- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
provide students with a path that enables them to apply the knowledge and understanding skills acquired during the course also in future work contexts;
- Autonomy of judgment:
ensure that students develop the ability to independently find, discern and use objective information and scientific data that can help them formulate answers to clearly defined problems, both concrete and abstract, and that they develop a certain degree of autonomous reflection on social, scientific and ethical issues connected to them;
- Communication skills:
empower students to be able to communicate about discipline-related understanding, skills and activities with their peers, superiors and clients / patients;
- Learning ability:
indicate to students learning methods and strategies that support them in undertaking more advanced studies of the subject with a certain degree of autonomy.

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The course aims to provide the basic tools to deal with the wide panorama of studies and research in General Psychology. Students will be offered a study path on the main topics of General Psychology, with a particular focus on the typical functioning of the cognitive processes, such as, for instance, perception, attention and memory, and their role in the context of health professions.

Students will be given the slides presented in class as well as additional notes and materials prepared by the professor. We recommend the support of a general psychology manual, such as, for example:
- Bassi M., Delle Fave A. (2019). Psicologia generale per le professioni medico-sanitarie. Utet, Torino

The course aims to provide an overall picture of general psychology and will focus largely on cognitive processes, including aspects related to motivation and communication. These processes will be described using examples from the health professions, taking into account the educational objectives of the course and the profile of graduates of the same course.
The specific topics covered in the course include:
- the history and methods of psychology
- perception
- attention
- memory
- learning
- decision making and reasoning
- motivation
- communication

Main teaching methods:
- Frontal lessons (20 hours)
Accessory methods:
- Practical examples with group discussion
- Short group experimental exercises
- Critical viewing of original films / experiment reconstructions
- Analysis of video demonstrations

The slides presented in class and the materials selected by the professor will be available at the end of the course to support exam preparation. All materials will be available on the Microsoft Teams platform in the course team.

The evaluation includes a written exam by means of a multiple-choice test (8 questions x 1,5 points) and short open questions (3 questions x 2 points and 4 questions x 3 points). There are no penalties for wrong answers in the multiple choice test.
To pass the exam, and therefore to obtain a grade of at least 18/30, students must demonstrate that they have acquired a sufficient basic knowledge and that they are able to correctly use the specific discipline terminology.
To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude, students must instead demonstrate that they have acquired an excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course.

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs)