Why this course?

Description

• Attention: Forms of attention, Models of attention
• Perception:
• Approaches to the Study of Perception: Gestalt and physiological approaches
• Perceptual Organization: Gestalt, Figure and Ground, Law of Organization
• Perceptual Constancy: Size, Shape, and Color; Illusions
• Perception of Form, Depth, and Movement
• Role of motivation and learning in perception
• Signal detection theory: Assumptions and applications
• Subliminal perception and related factors, information processing approach to perception, culture and perception, perceptual styles, Pattern recognition, Ecological perspective on perception.
• Learning Process:
• Fundamental theories: Thorndike, Guthrie, Hull
• Classical Conditioning: Procedure, phenomena and related issues
• Instrumental learning: Phenomena, Paradigms and theoretical issues; Reinforcement: Basic variables and schedules; Behaviour modification and its applications
• Cognitive approaches in learning: Latent learning, observational learning.
• Verbal learning and Discrimination learning
• Recent trends in learning: Neurophysiology of learning
• Memory and Forgetting
• Memory processes: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
• Stages of memory: Sensory memory, Short-term memory (Working memory), Long-term Memory (Declarative – Episodic and Semantic; Procedural)
• Theories of Forgetting: Interference, Retrieval Failure, Decay, Motivated forgetting