Paper 1.2: Cognitive Psychology
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| I | Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Nature of Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive processes Influences in the study of Cognitive Psychology, Current trends Paradigms in the study of Cognitive Psychology: Information Processing Approach,Connectivistic Approach, Evolutionary Approach, Ecological Approach Cognitive neuroscience: nature, different techniques: CT, MRI, FMRI Cognitive Revolution PET, ERP |
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| II | Attention, Perception, Memory
Perception: Nature, Gestalt Approach, Bottom up and Top down processes, Neuroscientific aspects Attention: Nature and types, Selective Attention: Filter Theory, Attenuation Theory Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory, Capacity, Coding, Retrieval of Information, Working Memory, Executive Functioning Long term memory-nature, Serial position curve, Coding in long term memory, types of Long term memory, Encoding and retrieval in Long term memory Late-Selection Theory, Schema Theory Retention Duration and Forgetting |
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| III | Higher Cognitive Processes
Language: The Structure of Language-Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics; Language Comprehension and Production; Language and Cognition: Modularity Hypothesis, The Whorfian Hypothesis. Thinking and Problem Solving: Classic Problems and General Methods of Solution: Generate-and-Test Technique, Means–Ends Analysis, Working Backward, Backtracking, Reasoning by Analogy; Reasoning: Nature and types, Approaches to the Study of Reasoning: The Componential Approach, The Rules/Heuristics Approach, The Mental Models Approach, Decision Making: Nature and Phases, Cognitive illusions: Availability, Anchoring, Sunk Cost Effects, Illusory Correlation, Hindsight Bias, Confirmation Bias, Overconfidence Blocks to Problem Solving, Creativity, Critical Thinking Representativeness, Framing Effects in decision making |
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Syllabus Books:
- Benjafield, J.G. (1992). Cognition (2nd ed). New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
- Galotti, K. M. (2013).Cognitive psychology in and out of the laboratory. SAGE.
- Goldstein, E. B. (2007). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience.WadsworthCengage Learning
- Kellogg, R.T. (2007). Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Reference Books:
- Esgate, A. Groome, D. Baker, K. Heathcote, D. Kemp, R. & Maguire, M. (2005). An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology. Corriene Reed Psychology Press.
- Moore, J. (2013). Cognitive Psychology as a Radical Behaviorist Views It. The Psychological Record, 63 (3).
- Moore, J. (2010). What Do Mental Terms Mean?The Psychological Record, 60 (4).
- Barsalou, L. W. (1992). Cognitive Psychology: An Overview for Cognitive Scientists.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.