Psycology and Health

GENERAL AIMS The course aims to provide the student with a methodological framework for the quantitative assessment of cognitive, general and specific skills, and of the personality traits, both normal and pathological, through psychological tests, as well as deepening the statistical methods underlying the construction of these tests and the verification of their psychometric properties (reliability and validity). The lectures therefore have the purpose of integrating the conceptual aspects of psychometry (reliability, validity) with the psychology theories of intelligence and personality. The goal is to prepare the student to apply the methods of data analysis necessary to evaluate the psychometric properties of a test, and to learn how to choose a test, administer it correctly and interpret the scores obtained. SPECIFIC AIMS Knowledge and understanding The student must demonstrate that he/she has acquired the basic knowledge and skills related to the construction, use and interpretation of tests in the profession and in psychological research. Applying knowledge and understanding The student must be able to interpret the data analysis necessary to demonstrate the reliability and validity of the tests. Moreover, under the supervision of a professional psychologist, he / she should be able to: consciously use a wide range of psycho-metric tools for psychological assessment; to know how to choose to administer, to interpret the main psychological tests for the evaluation of personality and intelligence. Making judgements The student must be able to assess critically and autonomously how to use different psychological tests, how to deal with ethical and deontological issues related to psychology evaluation, how to interpret the test results in a mindful way. Communication skills The student will be able to elaborate written materials and oral presentations able to communicate the knowledge (for example nature and use of psychological tests) to specialists and non-specialist stakeholders. Learning skills Through the lectures the student will acquire learning skills that can be spent in the specific context of psychometrics applied in different disciplinary fields, and in the more general autonomy in the reading of advanced scientific texts, which will be addressed during the studies, and in particular in the preparation of the "laurea" degree dissertation, as well as necessary to address the master's degree courses.