Educational objectives Social Neuroscience is an emerging field of study that combines a variety of disciplines ranging from social psychology to cognitive neuroscience. This course aims at offering a broad overview of the relationships between brain and social behavior, through the study of the main topic and techniques pertaining the field of Social Neuroscience.
Knowledge and understanding
The analysis of theoretical and empirical contributions of current literature will allow students to acquire knowledge about the functional mechanisms and neural bases of social cognition and social behavior and their alteration in individuals with brain damage. Moreover, the students will acquire knowledge about the main neuroscientific techniques and their integration in cognitive and social neuroscience.
Applying knowledge and understanding
Students will be able to develop general skills in deepening knowledge related to the same topic explored by different scientific disciplines (e.g. The link between social action and cognitive neuroscience studies of motor cognition.)
Making judgements
Each class will include a collegial discussion on a different topic so that the students will be able to critically evaluate the methodological approach of consolidated theories and experimental data. The students will be able to comment and give explanations and alternative interpretations of theoretical and empirical contributions of current literature.
Communication skills
The course will include collegial discussion of scientific articles conducted by groups of students recruited on a voluntarily basis.
Learning skills
Students will be able to read and critically discuss scientific papers as well as will acquire the theoretical and methodological knowledge in order to perform research on a variety of affective and social processes within a large variety of contexts.
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Educational objectives This course provides an introduction to the logical and epistemological foundations of the scientific research in psychology, of the most common methodological issues researchers deal with, and their possible solutions, of the main data collection procedures and experimental paradigms as they are used in psychology, and their limitations, and finally of the main ethical issues in psychological research.
Knowledge and understanding
Students will have a specific and multidisciplinary knowledge of the main issues concerning the scientific method. Specifically students will have to:
1) understand the logical and epistemological foundation of the scientific research;
2) understand the main methodological issues concerning the scientifici research in different fields of Psychology;
3) know the different data collection procedures and experimental paradigms in the different fields of Psychology, and their limits
4) know the main data analysis techniques used in the different fields of Psychology, and their limits;
5) understand the main ethical issues that characterize the scientific research in Psychology.
Applying knowledge and understanding
The students will:
1) identify and apply the appropriate statistical and methodological techniques in the different fields of Psychology
2) identify the scientific aims of a study and design the appropriate research design
3) identify and deal with the ethical issues of a research project
4) interpret correctly the results of a scientific study, indentifying its limits and possible bias
5) know how to use the main statistical analyses
6) know how to use the most common statistical analysis packages
7) communicate the results of a scientific study following the standard norms adopted in the scientific community
Making judgements
The students will
1) have the technical and theoretical knowledge to autonomously evaluate and make judgments about the results of a scientific study in Psychology
2) be able to collect and analyze scientific data, and asses their relevance to accomplish the aims of the study
3) be able to recognize and solve methodological problems
4) be able to recognize and solve the ethical issues concerning a research project
Communication skills
The students will be able to:
1) communicate the aims and the results of a scientific study in Psychology, orally and in written form, according to the standards used in Psychology
2) communicate and cooperate with non experts in order to make the multidisciplinary collaboration effective
Learning skills
The students will be able to:
1) increase and update their knowledge autonomously through the comunication channels used in the scientific community
2) apply their knowledge to different contexts
3) pursue further studies with a high level of autonomy and effectiveness
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Educational objectives Learning Objectives
The course intends to offer students an introduction to the evaluation of group dynamics, a ultimate group with history: the family group that will be analyzed both from the diachronic and the synchronic point of view according to the theoretical systemic relational orientation. This assessment will make the student competent in the analysis of the relationships of "functional" and "dysfunctional" families through the use of the observational method. The student will be able to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired in practical activities or in individual exercises during the course and an interview with a family proposed at the end of the course, whose outcome, is able to influence the final mark on the exam.
General Objectives
The general objective of the Course is the knowledge of the family system in the fundamental features of its structure and relationships .
The lectures will be useful to propose some theoretical concepts that refer to the clinical and theoretical practice of the systemic relational approach.
The work in small groups will instead be decisive for the application of same theoretical concepts treated in class.
Specific Objectives
Knowledge and Understanding
The student who will pass the exam will be able to:
- observing and recognizing the properties of communication between two or more communicants as well as in extended relational contexts
-Distinguish the “functional” families from the “dysfunctional” ones
Applying Knowledge and Understanding
The student who will pass the exam will be able to identify the relational dynamics according to which the "traditional" families and the new family forms are structured (single-parent families, divorced,families, step families, same sex families, migrant families...).
According to the systemic / relational model, the FAMILY is conceived as a developing “open system”, composed of SUBSYSTEMS based on the functions performed by its members during its life cycle through the FAMILY BOUNDARIES.
Through the use of the ecomap tool, the student will be able to understand the importance of the interpersonal context in the development of the individual and, through the use of the genogram tool, the intergenerational transmission modalities of specific transactional models (S. Minuchin ) learned in the fundamental contexts, at the base of the individual's relational behavior.
Making Judgements
During the lessons the students' contributions will be stimulated to encourage participation and reflection on the acquired knowledge. The written exercises on scientific topics that emerged during the lessons also have the objective of developing a reflective ability useful for the student's subsequent progression.
In the practical test (small teamwork: family interview), the student will be able to experiment in observing the knowledge acquired in class. In addition, always in the small group, each student will play a different role: one will take care of the interview, one will observe the non-verbal behavior of the family, one will note the emerging communication exchanges during the interview, one will build the family genogram, etc.
The final work that will constitute the essay will be the assembly of all the information obtained from each student, which necessarily implies a comparison between the members of the group.
Communication skills
The task of each member of the small group will therefore contribute to the acquisition of a specific technical language that will also become shared.The same task will also contribute to the comparison with colleagues, equally engaged in the interview, but with different roles, as mentioned above.
Learning skills
The course will serve the student to acquire the basic knowledge necessary for his professional growth that will allow him to deepen the concepts learned
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