Presentation BS III (B)

Cognitive Psychology (PY-412)

Following content should be covered in the presentations. You can consult the recommended books or
any other book which covers the content. Students will share the reading material with class.

Chapter Content to be covered

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Attention
Selective attention Group 1
Unit 1 Automaticity and the effects of practice 13/12/21 to
Divided attention 15/12/21
Spatial attention
Neuroscientific studies of attention
Perception
Pattern recognition: Template matching and Feature Analysis
Speech recognition and Voice onset time Group 3
Perceptual Laws of Organization 20/12/21 to
Unit 2 Object Perception 22/12/21
Spatial vs. linear representation
Depth Perception
Color Perception
Perception of Movement
Knowledge Representation
Perception based knowledge Group 4
Meaning based knowledge 27/12/21 to
Unit 3
Cognition in Cross Cutting Perceptive 29/12/21
Decision making and phases of decision making
Cognitive illusions in decision making
Memory
Sensory memory: Iconic memory & echoic memory
Working memory and long-term memory Group 2
Unit 4 Implicit and Explicit memory (6/12/21 to
Retention in episodic memory 8/12/21
Interference: Fan-effect
Recall vs. recognition
Language
Language comprehension: Parsing, Semantic considerations,
and Utilization. Group 5
Unit 5 Language and thought 3/1/22 to 5/1/22
Child language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Linguistic Determinism
Transformational Grammar