About the course
In the current course, I will first introduce the students to the field of cognitive psychology. I will then move on to talking about the historical developments in Cognitive Psychology. I will spend some time elaborating the fundamental assumptions in cognitive psychology. Also, I will talk about sister disciplines like Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuropsychology and how they help us to understand the mental processes in question. I will then spend some more time talking about methods used in Cognitive Psychology before moving on to talk about the basic mental processes such as sensation, perception, attention and memory. Other cognitive functions like language, imagery, decision making etc. will be taken up in the next part of the course named Introduction to Advanced Cognitive Processes.
Prerequisites
None
Industries that will recognize this course
All industries engaging with human resources, user – interface design & consumer oriented goods may benefit from this course.
Week 1:
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, History and Foundations of Cognitive Psychology.
Week 2:
Approaches towards studying Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.
Week 3:
Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology. Sensation. Psychophysics and Signal Detection Theory.
Week 4:
Physiology of Visual Perception, Representation in Perception and Approaches to Perception.
Week 5:
Theories of Object Recognition, Perception and Action, Attention.
Week 6:
Attention, Concept of Memory, Sensory Memory, Short Term Memory.
Week 7:
Long Term Memory, Errors in Memory, Improving Memory.
Week 8:
Memory and other topics.
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_hs24
Course duration: 08 weeks
Start date and end date of course: 24 July 2017-15 September 2017
Date of exam: 24 September, 2017
Time of exam: Shift 1: 9 am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2 pm-5 pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Registration url - Announcements will be made when the registration form is
open for registrations.
Exam Fee: The online registration form has to be filled and the
certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid.
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the
exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score.
Final score = 25% assignment score + 75% exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 6 out of 8 assignments
Certificate will have
your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will
have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.