Corsi Scienze umane a Padova

...Written exam, with multiple choice questions, at the computer. Other activities during the course can give the students an adjunct point to the final score...

...mood disorders, schizophrenia. 3. The interaction between brain disorders and cognitive functioning, including examples of ways in which brain disorders...

...the written and oral score Neuropsychological correlates of the following diseases: - Alzheimer's dementia - Parkinson's disease and Lewy-body dementia...

...in Clinical Psychology: instruments and procedures (clinical interview, questionnaires, structured interviews, observation, self-monitoring...

...I will present common research methodologies employed by developmental psychologists. Primary attention will be devoted to the period of infancy through...

...Written examination with multiple-choice and "fill-in the blank" questions. The number of questions will be 31 to be completed in 45 minutes During...

...Problems related to the evaluation of risk and communication of risk. Real-world examples. Bayesian inferences through the use of probabilities and by means of natural frequencies...

...of more processing stages underlying the generation of a conscious percept, considering a subset of situations in which such errors may engender in particularly...

...changes in specific cognitive functions (e.g., memory, executive functions) and in the neural mechanisms associated with such functions - problems occurring...

...gap between various levels of analysis (from neurons to behaviour) and can be formalized in computational models. Numerical cognition is used as a...

...environmental and/or psychosocial components; pathogenetic hypotheses. - Cluster A Personality Disorders (Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal): genetic...

...and emotion studies that analyze how people make decisions and evaluate the alternatives available. In particular, the class covers dual-process models of thinking...

...Written exam, with 4 open questions covering main themes addressed during the course and dealing with both theoretical and applied issues International...

...in feelings, in facial expressions), gender differences, emotions in relationship to group processes. The course will also focus on issues of emotion measurement...

...evolutionary approach. - Individual characteristics and their impact in everyday life. - Individual specificities in cognitive functioning. Graphical representations...

...to perform the direct replication of one literature experiment. The direct replication can be performed individually or in groups (I recommend no...

...perspectives 5 - Sensory systems - Do people like what the brain likes? 6 - Reward systems 7 - Scenes and landscapes 8 - Motion 9 - Colour...

...Final Paper Presentation Students are also responsible for a 10-slide power point presentation of the main contents of their final paper. Classroom Participation... Impara:: Word 2007...

...Cardiovascular measures and Heart Rate Variability (HRV): general introduction, examples of clinical applications and practical activity with RSA biofeedback...

...for qualitative and quali-quantitative research, as well as the "why and how" to do it. The second will present methods, techniques, procedures...