As you requires I am here giving you syllabus for MA Psychology PART I (sem. 1 and sem. 2 ) program of Pune University.

Syllabus MA Psychology PART I program:

Semester 1 :
Cognitive Processes
Psychological Testing: Theory
Statistical Methods
Psychology Practical: Tests

Semester 2 :
Learning and Memory
Psychological Testing: Applications
Research Methodology
Psychology Practical: Experiments

SEMESTER I
EP 101: COGNITIVE PROCESSES

PSY 01: NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
1. Cognitive Psychology: Definition and domain
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 02: SENSATION, ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION
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 defence, and extra-sensory
perception.

PSY 03: LANGUAGE AND RELATED COGNITIVE PHENOMENA
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 04: PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVITY AND DECISION MAKING
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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Syllabus MA Psychology PART I & II program







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