Cognitive Psychology - I

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

COURSE OUTCOMES

 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to: 

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 help in the understanding of human behaviour and experience.

CO5: Understand the neural underpinning of cognitive processes

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to 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: 

  • Galotti, K.M. (2014). Cognitive Psychology In and Outside Laboratory. Greater Noida: Sage Publications India.

  • Hunt R. and Ellis H. (2007). Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology (7th Ed.) Delhi: Tata McGraw.

  • 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.

  • Solso R.L., Maclin O.H., Maclin M.K. (2014). Cognitive Psychology (8Th Ed). Noida: Pearson India Education.

References: 

Suggested Readings

  • Ackerman, R., & Thompson, V. A. (2017). Meta-reasoning: Monitoring and control of thinking and reasoning. Trends in cognitive sciences, 21(8), 607-617. 

  • Duncan, J. (2010). How Intelligence Happens. Yale University Press. EISBN: 978-0-30016-873-0. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1npjpk

  • Hirst, W., & Manier, D. (2008). Towards a psychology of collective memory. Memory, 16(3), 183-200. 

  • Jung, C. G. (2012). Notes of the Seminar on Analytical Psychology Given in 1925. Princeton University Press. EISBN: 978-1-40083-983-4.

 

E-Resources

  • ResearchGate

  • JSTOR

  • Proquest

  • Shodhganga

  • Delnet

  • Google Scholar

  • National Digital Library (NPTEL)

  • Academia

 

Journals

  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences

  • Psychological Bulletin

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

  • Psychological Sciences

  • Memory

Academic Year: 
2022-23
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