Below are topics for the Three Term Papers

You are expected to write an essay on the chosen topic from

each module.

Word Limit – 1500 - 2000 words

Reference and Citation: as per APA guidelines

Total marks – 50 (each term paper)

Rubrics: Clarity, motivation, and Coherence in describing topics

(10); Critical Evaluation to find the gaps in the given literature (10);
Future direction : Limitation and Scope of the current research/
objective , and Impact (10); Citations and Reference (APA style)
(10); Organization (10).

Plagiarism is not accepted. 30-40% plagiarism = - 50% marks;

40-50% = -70% marks, >50% = -100% marks, resulting ZERO.

Copying will not be appreciated and will be treated similar to the

plagiarism.

General Points:

1. Font Style – Times new roman

2. Font Size – Title (16) , Name, Roll number, and email id (12),
Main heading (14), subheading (12), sub-subheading (11), main
body (11)
3. Space – Single spaced in main text body, before and after
paragraph – choose auto.
4. Layout – normal layout A4 size.
5. Image, Graph, or Table Caption – font style – times new
roman, and font size (10).

There will 3 term papers, focusing on related topics covered

under three modules – mental health, cognitive psychology, and
social psychology. Each module will consist of multiple topics. You
will be required to pick a topic of your choice for the essay. The topic
of the term paper will not be touched deeply or at all in class. This
term paper is a chance for you to deep dive into your psychological
research / topics of interests.
 Term paper 1 : Mental health Module
Choose one of the topics.

Each topic will be allowed to only 7/8 students. So, please

mark your choices to the excel sheet shared with this
description below.

1. Mental Health: The challenges in India, Asia and Western

Society. Do you think these challenges impact the mental health
treatment? Critically reflect on changing scenarios of mental
health in India and worldwide.
2. Creativity and Mental Illness. Is there a link? What does research
inform about this relationship? Critically evaluate the gaps and
methods, and discuss its future directions.
3. Understanding, predicting, and preventing suicide. Where are we
now? What does research from clinical, cultural, genetics,
cognitive, neural, and evolutionary perspectives inform about
this complex issue? . Reflect on its future directions.
4. How disordered mind influence general and emotion concept
coding? How it disturbs the cognitive and emotional information
processing? Choose three psychological disorders of your
interest and evaluate their cognitive and emotional disturbances.
Evaluate the gap between research and clinical findings.
5. How media projects psychological disorder and shapes
individuals understanding about it? Pick at least three movies
(one at least from India) and critically evaluate its merits of
depiction, followed by its impact on people’s perception of
mental health.
6. What is epigenetics? How is it related to child development and
mental health? Reflect on its role in nature-nurture debate.
7. What is addiction? Why some people are more susceptible to
addiction than other? How their environment, cognitive control/
cognitive architecture, and genes contribute to the choices?

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Due Date: 2nd October 2020

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Term paper 2: Cognitive Psychology Module
Choose one of the topics

1. How does brain generates mind? What psychology or cognitive

science has to offer us?
2. Why sleep is important? What does psychology/cognitive and
cognitive-neuroscience data and models inform about this topic?
3. Why do we dream? Can culture and language shapes dream? Are
dreams modality specific or amodal in nature? What kind of
theory of cognition accounts for experience of dream ?
4. What is consciousness? Why should we care? What psychology
and cognitive science have to offer us?
5. What is self? How culture shapes understanding of self? Do you
think that our close and distant relatives (other animals) also
share similar psychological phenomenon and processes of self
and consciousness?
6. What is altered state of consciousness? Can understanding this
would help unravelling the mystery of consciousness?
7. Are we born to experience and express emotion as we do or
emotion is constructed? Why it is important to understand ‘how
emotions are made’?
8. Is there a link between emotion, motivation, and intelligence? If
yes, how it will impact the development of technology aims to
interpret, simulate, and predict emotion?
9. How language and culture shapes our perception and knowledge?
10. Are there any universal concepts? How learning theories account
for their development in different culture?

Due Date: 21th October 2020

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queries.