B.A. Psychology
6th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-10 : Cognitive Psychology
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Unit 1: Introduction
◦Meaning and Nature of Cognitive Psychology
◦Approaches to Cognitive Psychology
◦Methods of study- Behavioural and Physiological
Unit 2: Perception and Attention
◦Attention: Meaning
◦Types of attention
◦Factors influencing selective attention
◦Perception: Meaning
◦Gestalt's theory of perception
◦Factors of perception
◦Depth perception: Monocular and Binocular cues
Unit 3: Thinking, Problem Solving and Creativity
◦Thinking: Meaning
◦Nature and Tools of thinking
◦Convergent and Divergent thinking
◦Problem solving: Meaning and Strategies
◦Trial and error
◦Algorithms
◦Heuristics and Insight
◦Barriers to problem solving
◦Reasoning: Meaning
◦Inductive and Deductive reasoning
◦Creativity: Nature
◦Stages
◦Factors of creativity
Unit 4: Memory and Forgetting
◦Memory: Meaning
◦Reconstructive nature of memory
◦Types of memory- LTM
◦STM
◦Implicit and Explicit
◦Models of memory: Information processing model
◦Levels of processing
◦Parallel distributed processing
◦Forgetting: Meaning
◦Nature and Factors
Reference Books:
- Smith, E.E. & Kosslyn, S. M. (2015). Cognitive Psychology : Mind and Brain. First Ed. Pearson
- Solso, R. L., MacLin, O.H., Kimberly M.K. (2014) Cognitive Psychology. Pearson
- Sternberg, R.J. (2007). Cognitive Psychology. Delhi: Thomson
- Ciccarelli, S.K.; & Meyer, G.E. (2007). Psychology (South Asian Edition). India: PearsonEducation Inc.
- Baron, R.A. & Misra, G. (2014). Psychology, Indian Subcontinent Edition, 5th Edition, PearsonEducation
- Singh, A.K. Sanyanatmak Manovigyan. Motilal Pulishing House.