Health Professions of Technical Sciences (diagnostic)

The course will describe three main topics: the first two concern Perception and Attention, with reference to the perceptual and attentive attitudes of people who work in the field of anatomopathology. The third topic will concern the study of human thinking, with special reference to the cognitive “bias” which influence our daily decision making. Those biases have been shown to concern mainly those situations in which probability has to be estimated. This topic is relevant for those who, working in a clinical context, have to evaluate the probability that a particular outcome at some particular test, would actually indicate the presence of a disease.

Being an introductive course, regarding the contents it is not required any preliminary test or knowledge, but it is required student's efforts and motivations.

Title: Cognition: Theory and Practice Author: Russell Revlin Edited by Worth Publishers, New York

Attendance to the classroom is mandatory

The exam is about the contents of the course program and will consist in an oral or written examination, depending on the modality of the examination. The exam will be oral in it is held remotely and written if it is held in person. In both cases, the exam is aimed at evaluating not merely the knowledge of the topics discussed, but especially if they have been effectively understood.