Syllabus (PSYCHOLOGY)

Course Type: MAJ-11

Semester: 7

Course Code: BPSYMAJ11C

Course Title: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

(L-P-Tu): 4-2-0

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Combined

Course Objective: To provide theoretical as well as applied knowledge of cognitive aspects in Psychology.

Learning Outcome: After completing the course the students will: 1) Know about the functions of cognition. 2) Have an in-depth understanding of the process and types of memory. 3) Be competent in Understanding Cognitive Psychology and its relation to the phenomenon of lear

Course Contents:

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION

Concept of Cognition, Origin and historical connection of Cognitive psychology with other schools of Thought; Emergence of Modern Cognitive Psychology, Current Status, assumptions and methods of studying cognitive psychology, Indian apparoach to cognition

UNIT 2: CONSCIOUSNESS, ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION

1. 1. Function and structure of Consciousness, Modern theories of consciousness, Indian views of consciousness.
   2. Information Processing approach: Attention and Perception, Theories of selective and Sustained attention, Perception: Perceptual organization, Top Down and Bottom up approaches, Subliminal perception, Pattern recognition in perception, Signal detection and Vigilance.

UNIT: 3: LEARNING AND MEMORY

1. General Phenomenon of learning: Learning vs. maturation, native response Tendencies & Temporary states of the organism (e.g. Fatigue, adaptation and drugs); Classical Theories of learning: Pavlov, Skinner, & Bandura; Neuro-physiology of learning, Learning and motivation
2. MEMORY PROCESSES; MODELS OF MEMORY: Atkinson-Shifrin, Craik and Lockhart and Baddley Hitch, Types of memory - working memory, semantic, episodic, procedural, eye-witness and flashbulb memory, traumatic and false memory, everyday memory; Approaches to memory- information processing & connectionist approach, Forgetting: Concept and Theories, Biochemical basis of memory

UNIT 4: DECISION MAKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING

Models & theories; Complex and uncertain decision making; Human problem-solving strategies- heuristics and algorithmic; expert and novice problem solvers; Artificial Intelligence.

UNIT 5: EMOTION

Emotion: Cognitive basis of emotion, Cognitive approaches in emotion: Lazarus, Arnold; Relation of emotion with attention, perception, memory, thinking; Application of cognitive approaches to intelligence and emotion in different fields, Emotional Intelligence

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