FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY

The course presents the link between the theoretical and the methodological levels in psychology and investigates the main areas of general psychology, e.g., attention, perception, memory, personality, thinking, communication, language, emotions.

Frontal lessons, case series discussion, role playing, working group

The program of the course is aimed to describes the scientific psycology in the context of the philosophy and the physiology of the 1800's.In this frame will come examined in systematic way the history, the theories and the methods of the General Psychology and of the psycology of the personality. Main thematic issues regard: - The history and the historiography of the psycology; - the nomotetic method and the idiografic one; - the epistemology of the psycology of personality; - the clinical method and theories; - The others method of the psychology; - the faculties, the traits and personality; - the phenomenology and cognitivism. The course presents the link between the theoretical and the methodological levels in psychology and investigates the main areas of general psychology, e.g., attention, perception, memory, thinking, communication, language, emotions.

• Coon D., Mitterer J.O., Psicologia Generale, UTET De Agostini Scuola SpA, 2016 (total 471 pp)
• Lingiardi V., Gazzillo F., La Personalità ed i suoi disturbi, R.Cortina, 2014 (only part one: the personality, from chapter 1 to chapter 12 (total 367 pp)