Course Outcomes (COs):
Course Outcomes |
Learning and teaching strategies |
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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 |
History of Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Renaissance, Current Status: Computer Model and Cognitive Neuroscience.
Approaches: Information Processing, Ecological, Connectionist and Evolution Perspective.
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.
Theories of Perception, Perceptual Learning and Development, Signal Detection Theory, Mental Images: Properties and Representation
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.
Dimensional Approaches, Theoretical Approaches; Mood and Memory, Emotional Learning, Emotion and Declarative Memory, Emotion and Attention & Perception.
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