Class Cognitive Processes III - Emotions, Judgment and Decision Making

This UC addresses the theme of emotions and decision-making and seeks to provide students with basic training in the scientific area of ¿¿studying emotions and cognition, based on a multidisciplinary approach, on the various aspects relevant to understanding human behavior. The aim is to stimulate, develop and deepen a set of knowledge and skills using different perspectives and scientific methodologies relevant to the study of affective phenomena and their various factors (cognitive, emotional, motivational, behavioral and social). The different theories, typologies and emotional and judgment processes will be framed in different everyday contexts to facilitate critical analysis and the skills of reflection, and theoretical and practical thinking associated with psychology.

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1. Introduction to the study of Emotions      1.1. Historical contextualization      1.2. The concept of emotion      1.3. Discrete and dimensional approaches to characterizing emotions      1.4. Primary and secondary emotions 2. The multidimensionality of the emotional response (cognitive/subjective, physiological and behavioral components). 3. Emotional behavior models. Peripheral theories, behaviorist theories, cognitive theories.      3.1. Quantifying Emotional Response      3.2 Experimental paradigms and manipulations 4. The relationship between emotion and cognition      4.1 The relationship between emotion, judgment and decision-making      4.2 Dualistic theories of information processing      4.3 Dualistic processing in decision-making and judgments      4.4. Role of heuristics in information processing      4.5. António Damásio’s theory of somatic markers

Theoretical classes using the expository and demonstrative method. Laboratory classes with predictions of paradigms for inducing emotions and recording and quantifying emotional response, tutorials and self-monitoring.

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