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Department of Psychology of Learning, Development and Personality |
Full Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo. Graduated in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1976). She obtained a master’s degree (1984) and a doctorate (1990) in the School Psychology and Human Development program at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, and a full professorship (2006) in Psychology from the same university. She researches the following topics: learning and problem solving, with an emphasis on the interrelationships between cognition, affectivity and culture.
Cognitive and Affective Processes – Cultural/Cognitive Psychology
My research aims to study the interrelationships between cognition and affectivity in psychological functioning, seen as culturally constituted. I have focused on studying these relationships in a process known as problem-solving, since this type of activity requires the adaptation of knowledge and processes to new situations, which favors inferences about their learning in culture. In this sense, I have been studying a type of problem that is very conducive to the study of the relationship between affect and cognition: inter-personal conflicts, which require the processing and coordination of information about the situation with knowledge that has already been acquired. The mental functioning perspective of Cultural/Cognitive Psychology has provided theoretical support for data interpretation, since it proposes that psychological processes are culturally constituted, through intersubjectivity, thus affecting the processing of information about situations such as interpersonal conflict.
Subjects
Undergraduate
– Psychology of Learning
– Research Perspectives in Psychology
– Research Practice in Psychology I and II
– Research work in Psychology
Postgraduate
– The Cognitive, Moral and Cultural Construction of the Self
– Affectivity, Culture and Cognition: theoretical and methodological issues
– Pedagogical Practice
– Advanced Seminar in Cognitive Psychology and Language I
– Advanced Seminar in Cognitive Psychology and Language II
– Problem Solving: affective and cognitive aspects involved in the Transfer of Learning
Research Groups
Working Group at the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP)
Social Contexts of Development: evolutionary and cultural aspects CNPq Working Group
1) Social Contexts of Development: evolutionary and cultural aspects (leader)
2) Affectivity and Cognition (vice leader)
Laboratory: Development and Learning Studies Laboratory/Psychopedagogy Laboratory LEDA/LAPP
The Development and Learning Studies Laboratory (LEDA) belongs to the Department of Developmental, Learning and Personality Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo (PSA/ IPUSP). Its general objective is to carry out studies on development and learning in different domains, namely: language, morality, affectivity, intelligence and interpersonal conflicts. Since 2010, together with the Psychopedagogy Laboratory (LaPp), it has expanded its activities to include community service, in the form of courses and workshops for adults and children. LEDA-LaPp projects involve IPUSP professors and students (undergraduate and postgraduate), professors from other universities (national and international), professionals from related fields and the community in general.