Can you provide me the syllabus of Masters Program – MA in Psychology of University of Pune as my exams are near by and I need it for preparation, please help me with this?

The syllabus of Masters Program – MA in Psychology of University of Pune is as follows:

SEMESTER I
EP 101: COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Psy.01. NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY [10]
1. Cognitive Psychology: Definition and domains
2. History and methods of cognitive psychology
3. Theories of cognitive development – Piaget, Vygotsky
4. Current paradigms of cognitive psychology – Information processing approach,
ecological approach
5. Application: Cognitive style and cognitive map
Psy.2. SENSATION, ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION [10]
1. Sensation - Introduction to psychophysics: Basic concepts and methods.
2. Attention: (a) Functions of attention: Divided attention, selective attention (b)
Theories of attention process (c) Signal Detection Theory and vigilance.
3. Perception-approaches: Gestalt, Bottom-Up (feature analysis, template matching,
prototypes), Top-Down and Pandemonium
4. Perception: Cross-cultural studies
5. Application: Subliminal perception, perceptual defense, and extra-sensory perception.
Psy.3. LANGUAGE AND RELATED COGNITIVE PHENOMENA [10]
1. Understanding spoken language: Speech perception, constituent structure,
transformational grammar and factors affecting comprehension
2. Reading: Perceptual process; theories of word recognition, reading and
comprehension
3. Speaking: Selecting the content of speech, speech errors, gestures, social context
of speech
4. Writing: Comparing speaking and writing, cognitive tasks involved in writing
5. Application: Development in reading ability, Multilingualism.
Psy.4. PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVITY AND DECISION MAKING [10]
1. Problem: Definition, problem solving cycle, types, obstacles and aids
2. Problem solving approaches – Algorithm; heuristics: means-end analysis
computer simulation, and analogy
3. Definition of creativity, measurement creativity
4. Reasoning and decision-making: Types of reasoning – Syllogistic and
Conditional; factors influencing decision-making.
5. Application: Artificial intelligence

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