Course Outcomes (COs):
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Learning and teaching strategies |
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On completion of this course, the students will be able to: CO46: Knowledge regarding higher order cognitive processes. CO47: Understanding of cognitive functioning involved in language, creativity, decision making & problem solving through different perspectives. CO48: Appreciate the complexity of cognitive processes underlying people's behaviour from a life span perspective. CO49: Appreciate research and theories of cognition from diverse fields of study, including neuroscience, neuropsychology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioural economics. CO50: Apply research in cognitive psychology to everyday events and challenges. |
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 |
Structure of Language, Field of Linguistics, Syntactic Formalisms, Relation bit Language and Thought, Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Language and Neurology, Lexical-Decision task, Comprehension, Top-down, Bottom up, Model of Text Comprehension.
Creative Process, Creativity and Functional Fixedness, Investment Theory, Adaptive Function of creativity, Judging creativity. Creativity and Insight. Human Intelligence – Problem of definition, Cognitive theories – Information processing, General Knowledge and reasoning and Problem solving. Cognitive Neuroscience support. Artificial Intelligence.
Concept Formation, Logic, Reasoning-Deductive & Inductive, Judgments: Based on memory, Similarity, Estimates. Decision Making: Nature, Decision Tree, Approaches: Expected Utility and Prospect Theory. Decision Making in the Real World.
Gestalt Psychology and Problem Solving, Representation of the Problem, Types of Problem (Well defined vs ill defined, routine vs non-routine); Problem Space Theory, Approaches to Problem Solving.
Cognitive Development, Neural Development, Development of Cognitive Abilities. Cognition and Ageing.
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