Course10910412640 lectures
Introduction to Advanced Cognitive Processes
Prof. Ark Verma · IIT Kanpur
About
This course serves as a general introduction to the field of cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology is referred to as the scientific study of advanced mental processes, such as organization of knowledge, reasoning, decision-making, language, problem solving, emotion etc. Following up on the course on basic cognitive processes the current course will build up on how the basic mental processes like memory, attention & perception give rise to higher-level cognitive processes. I will also talk about the methods used in contemporary Cognitive Psychology to investigate how these higher mental processes are used to achieve the desired outcomes. Some of the lectures will be about making students abreast of recent research in each of these topics.
Intended audience: UG & PG Students interested in Psychology in General & Cognitive Psychology in Particular. Also, students interested in Cognitive Sciences will find this course useful. Professionals working in user interface designs will also find the material insightful.
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 1: Preface, Outline and Course Structure
- Lecture 2: Knowledge - I
- Lecture 3: Knowledge - II
- Lecture 4: Knowledge - III
- Lecture 5: Knowledge - IV
Week 2
- Lecture 6: Knowledge - V
- Lecture 7: Visual Imagery - I
- Lecture 8: Visual Imagery - II
- Lecture 9: Cognitive Maps
- Lecture 10: Mental Imagery
Week 3
- Lecture 11: Language: Introduction
- Lecture 12: Language: Historical Background
- Lecture 13: Evolution of Language
- Lecture 14: Language Acquisition- I
- Lecture 15: Language Acquisition- II
Week 4
- Lecture 16: Language Comprehension - I
- Lecture 17: Language Comprehension - II
- Lecture 18: Language Production
- Lecture 19: Reading - I
- Lecture 20: Reading - II
Week 5
- Lecture 21: Aphasia
- Lecture 22: Bilingualism
- Lecture 23: Reasoning & Decision Making
- Lecture 24: Reasoning & Decision Making - II
- Lecture 25: Reasoning & Decision Making - III
Week 6
- Lecture 26: Problem Solving - I
- Lecture 27: Problem Solving - II
- Lecture 28: Problem Solving - III
- Lecture 29: Problem Solving - IV
- Lecture 30: Creativity
Week 7
- Lecture 31: Cognition and Emotion - I
- Lecture 32: Cognition & Emotion - II
- Lecture 33: Cognition and Emotion - III
- Lecture 34: Cognition & Emotion - IV
- Lecture 35: Cognition & Emotion - V
Week 8
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kanpur
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Ark Verma
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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