COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY-I

Paper Code: 
PSY 121
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives (COs):

This course will enable the students to –

 

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

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning Outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSY 121

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cognitive Psychology - I

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 helps our understanding of human behaviour and experience.

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 the Cognitive Psychology
  • History of Cognitive Psychology,
  • Cognitive Renaissance,
  • Current Status: Computer Model and Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Approaches
  • Information Processing,
  • Ecological,
  • Connectionist
  • 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
  •  Attention
  • Perception.

 

Essential Readings: 

 

  • Solso 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: 
2020-21
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