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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
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Objectives
Contents This course will focus on a brief overview of basic cognitive functions such as learning, perception, attention, memory , emotion.
Extended Syllabus The definition of cognition: the origins of cognitive psychology;
The classical and moder theories of leraning;
Attention: definition, attention as an sensorial input filter, automatic and controlled processes;
Perception: Pattern recognition and problems of perception, Gestalt principles, top-down elaboration, face recognition
Memory: short-term memory;serial position effects, definition and structure of working memory, phenomena linked to WM; Long-term Memory: definition and characteristics, encoding specificity, autobiographical memory;
Main theories of emotion and the interaction between cognition and emotion.
Recommended Bibliography
Teaching Methods Frontal lessons and discussion of research papers.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The exam is written with multiple choice questions. Exam time is approx. 20 min. Students can choose to complete the exam with an oral integration.