Cognitive Psychology-I

Paper Code: 
PSY 121
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objective:

To acquaint students with the processes involved in cognition and to develop critical understanding about cognitive processes.

 

Course Outcomes:

  • CO1: Knowledge regarding the historical development of cognitive psychology, understanding of basic cognitive functions like attention, perception, memory and emotion through different perspectives/theoretical approaches.
  • CO2: Appreciate the complexity of cognitive processes underlying people's behaviour.
  • CO3: Reflect on the importance of empirical evidence for theoretical positions within various processes of cognitive psychology.
  • CO4: Reflect on how the cognitive perspective helps our understanding of human behaviour and experience.

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to the Cognitive Psychology

History of Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Renaissance, Current Status: Computer Model and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Approaches: Information Processing, Ecological, Connectionist and Evolution Perspective.

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Attention:

Processing Capacity and Selective Attention, Model of Selective Attention, Capacity Models of Attention, Source of dual task, Interference, Divided Attention. Automaticity and Effect of Practice. Neurological Basis of Attention.

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Perceptual Processes:

Theories of Perception, Perceptual Learning and Development, Signal Detection Theory, Mental Images: Properties and Representation

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Memory and Forgetting

Sensory, Short Term and Long-Term Memory, Working Memory, Semantic and Episodic, Eyewitness, Implicit vs Explicit; Models of Semantic Knowledge, The Procedural – Declarative Distinction; Theories of forgetting, Mnemonics.  

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Emotion and Cognition

Dimensional Approaches, Theoretical Approaches; Mood and Memory, Emotional Learning, Emotion and Declarative Memory, Emotion and  Attention & Perception.

 

Essential Readings: 

 

 

  • ØSolso R.L., Maclin O.H., Maclin M.K. (2014). Cognitive Psychology (8Th Ed). Noida: Pearson India Education.
  • Riegler G.B. and Riegler B.R. (2008). Cognitive Psychology – Applying the Science of the Mind. New Delhi: Pearson India Education.
  •  Smith E.E. and Kosslyn S.M. (2007). Cognitive Psychology – Mind and Brain. New Delhi: Prentice Hall India.
  • Hunt R. and Ellis H. (2007). Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology (7th Ed.) Delhi: Tata McGraw.
  • Galotti, K.M. (2014). Cognitive Psychology In and Outside Laboratory. Greater Noida: Sage Publications India
Academic Year: 
2021-22
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