The course will familiarize students with the basic psychological processes and the relating factors which influence them. It will also focus on some important application areas of Psychology.
Definition and goals of Psychology; Approaches: Biological, Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Methods: Experimental, Observation and Case study; Fields of application.
Attention : Nature of Attention and its determinants; Perception: Perceptual organization - Perceptual Constancy, Determinants of perception; Types of perception - Form, Space, Depth.
Definition; Classical and Operant Conditioning; Verbal Learning, Observational Learning and Application of Learning Principles.
Process of Memory: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval; Stages of Memory: Sensory, Short term and Long term. Improving Memory; Constructive Memory; Forgetting; Theories of Forgetting
Concepts, Categories and Cognitive Maps; Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, Problem Solving Approaches, Solution Strategies and Mental Sets.