Introduction to Basic Cognitive Processes

Overview

COURSE OUTLINE: Introduction to Basic Cognitive Processes is an introductory course in Cognitive Psychology. As opposed to the behaviorist tradition in psychology that concerns itself with only the observable behaviors of the individual, Cognitive Psychology focuses on the internal mental processes. The approach adopted in this course will look at human behavior at large as made up of many component mental processes such as sensation, perception, attention, memory, language, imagery, decision making, problem solving, emotion and others.

Syllabus

Lecture 01-Introduction to Cognitive Psychology.
Lecture 02-A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology.
Lecture 03-A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology (contd...).
Lecture 04- Foundational Assumptions of Cognitive Psychology.
Lecture 05-Foundations of Cognitive Psychology.
Lecture 06- Foundations of Cognitive Psychology (Contd...).
Lecture 07- Approaches towards Cognitive Psychology.
Lecture 08- Modularity and Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Lecture 09-Basic Concepts in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Lecture 10 - The Cerebral Cortex.
Lecture 11- Basics of Research Methods.
Lecture 12-Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology.
Lecture 13- Sensation & Perception.
Lecture 14- Psychophysics: Measuring Sensation.
Lecture 15 - Signal Detection Theory.
Lecture 16 - Physiology of Visual Perception.
Lecture 17 - Representation in Perception.
Lecture 18 - Approaches to Visual Perception - 1.
Lecture 19 - Approaches to Visual Perception - 2.
Lecture 20 - Approaches to Visual Perception - 3.
Lecture 21- Theories of Object Recognition.
Lecture 22 - Perception & Action.
Lecture 23 - Auditory Perception.
Lecture 24 - Auditory Perception - II.
Lecture 25 - Attention - I.
Lecture 26- Attention-II.
Lecture 27- Attention-III.
Lecture 28 - Attention-IV.
Lecture 29 - Memory- I.
Lecture 30 - Memory-II.
Lecture 31- Memory-III.
Lecture 32 - Memory-IV.
Lecture 33 : Memory-V.
Lecture 34 : Memory-VI.
Lecture 35 : Memory- VII.
Lecture 36: Everyday Memory & Memory Errors.
Lecture 37: Disorders for Perception & Attention.
Lecture 38: Disorders of Memory.
Summary and Q & A.