The teaching aims to provide knowledge and skills that allow the student to know how to orient themselves in the panorama of individual and group processes (dispositions, attitudes, communication) at the basis of social interaction, and to know how to use These skills to interpret the social reality of everyday life, in fields of application such as the promotion of health, environmental education and social sustainability.
With the study of social psychology and attitudes the student will be able to achieve the following training goals.
In Terms of knowledge and ability to understand:
• Knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts of social cognition;
• Knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and methodological foundations of empirical research in the psychological and social field;
• Knowledge and understanding of the concept of social attitude
In terms of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• To distinguish naïve social psychology from knowledge of social behaviour accumulated through empirical research;
• Apply the models of social interaction for the interpretation of the main contexts of daily life in which the social interaction takes place.
• Apply the attitude construct for the evaluation and interpretation of the preferences expressed by individuals in the course of social interaction.
In terms of autonomy of judgement:
• Distinguishing between different approaches and worldviews at the basis of psychosocial research;
• Interpreting the phenomena of social cognition in the light of theoretical models and empirical studies of social psychology.
• Distinguishing explicit and implicit mechanisms in the formation and expression of social attitudes.
In Terms of Communicative skills:
• Synthesize and present in an effective way the main mechanisms of functioning of social interaction and social attitudes.
In Terms of Learning skills:
• Deepen their knowledge using texts and models elaborated within the behavioral sciences and social sciences and in the measurement of social attitudes.
With the study of social psychology and attitudes the student will be able to achieve the following training goals.
In Terms of knowledge and ability to understand:
• Knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts of social cognition;
• Knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and methodological foundations of empirical research in the psychological and social field;
• Knowledge and understanding of the concept of social attitude
In terms of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• To distinguish naïve social psychology from knowledge of social behaviour accumulated through empirical research;
• Apply the models of social interaction for the interpretation of the main contexts of daily life in which the social interaction takes place.
• Apply the attitude construct for the evaluation and interpretation of the preferences expressed by individuals in the course of social interaction.
In terms of autonomy of judgement:
• Distinguishing between different approaches and worldviews at the basis of psychosocial research;
• Interpreting the phenomena of social cognition in the light of theoretical models and empirical studies of social psychology.
• Distinguishing explicit and implicit mechanisms in the formation and expression of social attitudes.
In Terms of Communicative skills:
• Synthesize and present in an effective way the main mechanisms of functioning of social interaction and social attitudes.
In Terms of Learning skills:
• Deepen their knowledge using texts and models elaborated within the behavioral sciences and social sciences and in the measurement of social attitudes.
Curriculum
scheda docente
materiale didattico
Programma
Attitudes: definitions and structure. Persuasion and attitude change. Measurement of attitudes. Attitude-behaviour relations. Practical implicationsTesti Adottati
- Cavazza. Psicologia degli atteggiamenti e delle opinioni. il MulinoBibliografia Di Riferimento
.Modalità Erogazione
front lessons + (eventually) exercise on moodle platformModalità Frequenza
suggested but not mandatoryModalità Valutazione
Examination: The assessment of the learning outcomes will be made through multiple choice and open ended questions. The final assessment will take into account the capacity of identifying the main theories and empirical findings in social psychology, and the processes guiding social interaction and social behavior. The final grade will be attributed as a function of the number of correct answers in multiple choice tests and of the accuracy of the elaboration about the main theories and authors in the open-ended questions.
scheda docente
materiale didattico
Programma
Attitudes: definitions and structure. Persuasion and attitude change. Measurement of attitudes. Attitude-behaviour relations. Practical implicationsTesti Adottati
- Cavazza. Psicologia degli atteggiamenti e delle opinioni. il MulinoBibliografia Di Riferimento
.Modalità Erogazione
front lessons + (eventually) exercise on moodle platformModalità Frequenza
suggested but not mandatoryModalità Valutazione
Examination: The assessment of the learning outcomes will be made through multiple choice and open ended questions. The final assessment will take into account the capacity of identifying the main theories and empirical findings in social psychology, and the processes guiding social interaction and social behavior. The final grade will be attributed as a function of the number of correct answers in multiple choice tests and of the accuracy of the elaboration about the main theories and authors in the open-ended questions.