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L'intelligenza e la sua misura. Il contributo di uno studioso eclettico: Marcello Cesa-Bianchi
No full textL’articolo affronta lo sviluppo della psicologia dell’intelligenza dal suo esordio
fino ai giorni nostri in una prospettiva storica. All’interno di questo percorso
viene sottolineato il ruolo svolto da uno degli psicologi accademici italiani più ecclettico
e facondo, Marcello Cesa-Bianchi, che, all’inizio della sua lunga carriera,
si è occupato di intelligenza e di strumenti per misurarla.The article addresses the development of the psychology of intelligence from
its inception to the present day in a historical perspective. Within this path the
role played by one of the most eclectic and facetted Italian academic psychologists,
Marcello Cesa-Bianchi, who, at the beginning of his long career, dealt with
intelligence and tools to measure it, is highlighted
Il deficit di inibizione come possibile spiegazione delle differenze per età nei compiti di memoria
No full textThis work supports Hasher and Zacks' deficit of inhibition theory (1988). The author pinpoints the first level of cognitive processing (acquisition and working memory)as principal responsible of age related differences in memory tasks and underlines that old aged difficulties to inhibit irrelevant information might partially explain impaired cognitive processes in the elderly
Ageing and society: the university’s role
No full textThe ageing of the population is beginning to be an economic, social and health matter even for countries that do not belong to the advanced developed economies, but where the phenomenon can take on an impressive size that risks affecting the entire globe.
It is clear that intervening downstream of the problem with forms of economic subsidy and health aid is not a winning strategy.
It is necessary to work on prevention by limiting, as much as possible, the periods of non-self-sufficiency of older people that represent high health and social costs. Active ageing seems to be particularly useful in accompanying people towards a long, mostly self-sufficient and value-added old age, whereby older people can continue to be active members of the society in which they live.
The system of higher education is able to perform a function of extreme importance with respect to the possibility, for the elderly population of a country, to actively live their old age: developing the activities of Life Long Learning, encouraging the birth of universities of the third age, intervene in the design, implementation and management of permanent training centres for the elderly are activities in which the university institutions can and must engage
Psychological obstacles to multiculturalism: how stereotypes and mechanisms of defence may cause adverse behaviours to multiculturalism
No full textMigration flows are part of human history. The process of globalization, if on the one hand, it seems to favour the movement of human beings, on the other hand, it is creating the conditions for the recovery of migratory flows, especially within some areas of the world and, in part, directed towards advanced developing countries. This creates problems of acceptance on the part of the host with respect to the customs and habits of the guest. Resistance to reception, used for political ends by populist parties, has deep roots that have to do with psychological and social factors: defence mechanisms, stereotypes and prejudices. The article stresses the importance of training in overcoming these obstacles to building a society that is first multicultural and then intercultural
Leader and Leadership from a psychological perspective
No full textThe issue of leadership is one of the most topical. The focus of the research is on identifying the characteristics a person must possess to be a leader, where the term indicates anyone who has a role in coordinating and guiding a group of people. In a globalised world in which production processes are carried out by teams of people, the possibility of identifying people with leadership skills or, better still, of training people to be leaders acquires fundamental importance. The article attempts to identify the intellectual, personality, emotional and relational characteristics of a leader and suggest ways to 'educate' for leadership, highlighting the centrality of psychology in the study, identification and enhancement of these characteristics
Aged people and tourism
No full textThe increase in the elderly population is a phenomenon of growing importance with various repercussions on the economic side, both in terms of costs that society has to bear from a social and healthcare point of view, and in terms of
opportunities for the various economic sectors that can see the third age as a possible market. The change in attitudes
towards ageing has led to an increase in the proportion of older people who are actively living in the third age. Travelling,
visiting new places and/or spending time away from home, even abroad, are activities that are now part of the lives of
older people, at least those with an adequate income level. Consequently, the elderly have become potential users of the tourism sector: this article attempts to outline the dimensions and characteristics of this phenomenon
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