Paper 1.5: Practicum – Experiments
Unit |
Contents |
Teaching Hrs. |
Domain |
| I | History of Psychology:
Charting a timeline of 100 major events in psychology A study of two-point threshold of two parts of the body. Study of just noticeable difference of lifting weights Measuring strengths and virtues / word association test Preparing a note on experiments in psychology Weber’s law |
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| II | Cognitive Psychology:
Trail making test Assignment on memory retention techniques Experiments in problem solving (Dunker’s (1945) Candle problem for functional fixedness; 2 String Problem; Water Jug experiment by Luchin (1942, 1959) Written assignment of types of heuristics Memory process Classical experiment on Tolman’s cognitive maps |
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3 |
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Desirable to know Nice to know |
| III | Research Design & Methods:
Find and describe one research each from literature regarding different types of researches Perform a mini-research by taking data on any variables of interest using one of the research designs Read a research and prepare a presentation on basic components of research Perform review of literature on a variable using PubMed database and gather abstracts of 10 studies Prepare a note on meta-analysis Case study in clinical psychology |
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| IV | Biopsychology:
Preparing a model of the part of the brain GSR/EMG – a report on recording A case study of amnesic patient Preparing a sleep-waking checklist Perform an EEG Stroop task on a neurological patient |
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4 3 3 3 |
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Desirable to know Nice to know |
Syllabus Books:
- Klein, B. (1970). A History of Scientific Psychology: Its Origins and Philosophical Backgrounds. Basic Books.
- Barsalou, L. W. (1992). Cognitive Psychology: An Overview for Cognitive Scientists.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Todd, B. Nerlich, S. McKeown, D. Clarke. (2004). Mixing Methods in Psychology: The Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Theory and Practice.Psychology Press.
- Pinel, J. (2007). Basics of Biopsychology.
Reference Books:
- Brock, C. (2006). Internationalizing the History of Psychology. NY: New York University Press.
- Levine, &S. Parkinson. (1994). Experimental Methods in Psychology.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.