COURSE PLAN TEMPLATE

Comprehensive Course Plan – Even Semester 2021-22

SECTION I: COURSE INTRODUCTION

Class BAPSENG Semester II

Course title BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES-II Course Code PSY 231N

Total hours in the semester: 75

Total hours/week: 5

Faculty name Dr. Kritika Rastogi Contact

Ms. Ramni details kritika.rastogi@christuniversit
y.in
ramni.kaushik@christuniversit
y.in

Class policies and Attendance:

guidelines
 85% Attendance is mandatory as per Christ University policy.
 Student failing to secure minimum 85 % of attendance will be barred from
exams.
 Students are expected to attend every class.
 Students are expected to be punctual and strictly follow class timings.
 Late comers will be marked absent.
 Classroom etiquettes:

Students are expected to always maintain decorum of the class.

Students are expected to be respectful towards the fellow classmates and
teachers.
Students are expected to actively participate in classroom activities and
submit the given assignments timely.
Students are not expected to eat in the classroom.
Use of mobile phones are strictly prohibited during the class.

Course This course is conceptualized to help students understand basic cognitive processes as
Description they affect the individual. The course introduces students about different cognitive
concepts such as perception, memory, attention, intelligence, language and thought in
the various manifestations of the study of mind and behaviour.

It introduces the basic framework on how psychologists scientifically study and

understand the cognitive processes through various quantitative and qualitative methods
of inquiry. The course also takes through the various applications on how the human
mind works in different situations and in our everyday life such as the applications of
human memory in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and modern machines. Students
will have the opportunity to examine these concepts from multiple psychological
perspectives and to reflect upon the applicability of these concepts.

Course Objectives This course will help the learner learn about
 ● How people perceive, learn, represent, remember and use information.
● To develop an understanding of the influence of behaviour, cognition, and states
of consciousness and behaviour.
● To appreciate the use of various models, theories and methods in understanding
cognitive processes.

Knowledge Define the basic cognitive process that influence behaviour and explain how
the influence of behaviour, cognition, and the environment affects behaviour.

Skill Compare and contrast various models, theories and methods in understanding
Course cognitive processes.
Outcomes

Attitude Apply these concepts to explain everyday life events and situations.
 SECTION II: WEEK WISE & UNITWISE DESCRIPTION

Week Unit Topic(s) Class Activity Readings Material/ Duration

Details activities
Hours/week
List teaching Enter details of reference
modalities/activities materials/ activities to be
used
Week 1,2 Unit I Topic (T)1: 5
(Sensation Course Plan ● Session (S)1- Course
and Discussion Plan Discussion and
Perceptio and CIA Explanation and
n) Orientation Orientation Activity
Activity
● S-1 Lecture and
Discussion on topic
Sensation and
Perception. Chapter 4-
Weiten, W. (2014).
Differentiate
Psychology: Themes
between
and Variations
sensation and
(Briefer Version, 9th
perception
edition). Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 110
● Activity 1: Video
● S- 2 Lecture and on How we see-
Explain the Discussion on topic https://www.youtub
process of Sensation and e.com/watch?
 vision and v=o0DYP-u1rNM
how people Perception. Chapter 4-
see color and Weiten, W. (2014).
depth Psychology: Themes
and Variations
(Briefer Version, 9th
edition). Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 113
● Activity 2: A small
Quiz (ungraded)
on Google
Classroom on
Understanding
Sensory Processes
in the Retina

Week 3,4,5 Unit I Explain the 5

(Sensation basics of Reflection and Discussion
and hearing, on the video
Perceptio taste, smell,
● Lecture on The
n) touch, pain,
Other Senses: Taste,
and the
Smell, and Touch
vestibular
Weiten, W. (2014).
sense
Psychology: Themes
and Variations
(Briefer Version, 9th
edition). Belmont, CA:
 Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 134

● Weiten, W. (2014).
Psychology: Themes
and Variations
(Briefer Version, 9th
edition). Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg. 119-121

● Lecture on Gestalt
Define principles of
perception perceptual Activity 1: Watch video on
and give organization. Gestalt Psychology
examples of Evolution of https://www.youtube.com/
gestalt Psychology Weiten, watch?v=FryaH599ec0
principles W. (2014).
and Psychology: Themes Write your understanding
multimodal and Variations about gestalt psychology
perception (Briefer Version, 9th after watching in 100
edition). Belmont, CA: words.
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 119-121

● Lecture on Gestalt
principles of
 perceptual
organization. Activity 2: Watch Videos
Evolution of on Laboratory
Psychology Weiten, Demonstration: Illusion
W. (2014). experiment
Psychology: Themes
and Variations https://www.youtube.com/
(Briefer Version, 9th watch?v=jcZBKzkpUOE
edition). Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 122-125

Activity 3: Watch Videos

on Depth Perception
https://www.youtube.com/
Laboratory watch?v=DrzmvI6iMrE
Demonstratio
n: Illusion
experiment,
Depth
Perception,
Colour
Blindness
test, Watch Videos on Color
 Dexterity test Blindness

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=emEKDww0iac

Week 1 ,2,3 Unit-2 Topic: Icebreaking activity 5

orientation
class Orientation

Lecture: conceptual
Topic: understanding and
theoretical theories(Atkinson Shiffrin
approaches Model, Serial Position effect,
to memory levels of processing..

Polling activity on how

familiar students are with this
topic.

Menti activity
Types of Lecture: Classical and operant 5
learning conditioning

V:https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=PRdCowYEtAg
 Activity: insights from video

Lecture: Sensory, short-term,

working memory
Types of
memory Activity: online quiz

V:
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=WnasLfm36mM

Lecture: Long term memory 5

Types of
memory Activity: peer discussion on
differences in STM and LTM

Lecture: autobiographical,
flashbulb, eyewitness,
semantic, episodic memory
Types of
 memory Activity: discussion on
memory biases.

https://nobaproject.com/mo
dules/eyewitness-testimony-
and-memory-biases

Week(4,5,6,7 Unit 2 organic Lecture: meaning, causes, 5

) amnesia symptoms

V:https://www.coursera.org/le
cture/memory-and-
movies/lecture-18-organic-
amnesia-from-brain-injuries-
film-the-music-never-
stopped-2W8jb

functional
amnesia Lecture: meaning, causes,
symptoms

V:http://neurowiki2013.wikid
ot.com/individual:functional-
amnesia
V2:
https://www.coursera.org/lect
 ure/memory-and-
movies/lecture-19-lost-and-
found-memories-dissociative-
amnesia-film-the-return-of-
the-BGLEC

Topic: Neurological studies of 5

neuropsych memory processes
ological and
neurophysi
ological
findings

Childhood Lecture on childhood memory

memory Activity: peer discussion on
good childhood memories of
students.

Forgetting Lecture: forgetting curve, 5

causes of forgetting

Activity: Inputs on repressed

memories controversy

V:
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=ZKQkr8Gs5PQ
 Rehearsal, distributed
Improving practice, ways to minimize
learning and interference, mnemonics
memory
Activity: students have to
share what mnemonics they
use to memorize better

V:https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Js5Tm1y0igY

Demo: digit Lecture: procedure (direct and 5

span indirect) and application of
digit span test

Activity: In class conduction

by making two students
volunteer.

Lecture: Demonstration of the

Demo: test, application.
memory V:https://www.youtube.com/
drum watch?v=vk7lgBqyyzA
Questions and answers
 session
Week 8,9,10 Unit-2 Memory Lecture: any pending topic, 5
revision

Unit-3 Intelligence
: concept Lecture: definition, concept,
gardner’s theory

Activity: students have to

identify which intelligence
they are high on as per
gardner’s theory

V:https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=s2EdujrM0vA

Theories of Lecture: Anderson’s theory 5

Intelligence
Activity: peer discussion

Sternberg’s theory
Theories of
Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/w
 atch?v=1_7YDHtTURI

Poll/menti activity

Theories of Ceci’s theory 5

Intelligence
Activity: Peer discussion

Theories of Comparison of all

Intelligence contemporary theories

Activity: inputs from students

on comparison of theories
Week Unit 3 Influences Biological influence 5
(11,12,13) on
intelligence Activity: students have to
identify what environmental
factors influenced their
intelligence.

Environmental influence

Influences Activity: students have to

on identify what environmental
intelligence factors influenced their
intelligence.
Individual Lecture: IQ and gender, IQ 5
differences and age, gifted children,
intellectual disability

Concept of IQ and Bhatia’s

Measures battery orientation
and
assessment Activity: menti activity on
of factors which can affect
intelligence intelligence
Measures Bhatia battery 5
and
assessment Revision of all subtests
of
intelligence

Brief orientation to the

subtests of WISC/WAIS
Measures
and V:
assessment https://www.youtube.com/wat
of ch?v=yb1fKIXrFTU
intelligence
 Polling activity
Week(14,15) Unit- 3 Measures Ravens(demo) 0+2
and
assessment
of
intelligence

Measures Ravens(demo)
and
assessment
of
intelligence
Measures Creativity: nature, 5
and measure(demo)
assessment
of
intelligence

Revision
Measures
and Questions and answers
assessment
of
intelligence
Week 6, 7 Unit IV - Define Watch Video on Problem 5
Cognitive cognition ● Lecture and Solving Strategies
Processes and explain Discussion on topic
the role of Problem Solving: In https://www.youtube.com/
concept Search of Solutions watch?v=J3GGx9wy07w
Weiten, W. (2014).
 formation,
problem- Psychology: Themes
solving, and Variations
reasoning (Briefer Version, 9th
edition). Belmont,
CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 260-263

● Lecture and
Describe
Discussion on topic
the role
Problem Solving: In
language
Search of Solutions
plays in
Weiten, W. (2014).
communica
Psychology: Themes
tion and
and Variations
thought
(Briefer Version, 9th
edition). Belmont,
CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 264-266

Week 9, 10, Unit IV - Human 5

11 Cognitive Information ● Lecture and
Processes Processing Discussion on topic
and Biological Rhythms Activity : Small ungraded
Artificial and Sleep Weiten, W. quiz/ Polling activity on
Intelligence (2014). Psychology: cognitive processes
Themes and
Variations (Briefer
 Version, 9th edition).
Belmont, CA:
Laboratory Wadsworth/Cengage
Demonstrat Learning Pg 153
ion:
Concept
formation,
Creativity

Week 12, 13 States of Describe 5

Conscious consciousne ● Lecture and
ness ss and Discussion on topic
biological Biological Rhythms
rhythms and Sleep Weiten, W.
(2014). Psychology:
Themes and
Variations (Briefer
Version, 9th edition).
Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 153

● Lecture and
Discussion on topic
Biological Rhythms
and Sleep Weiten, W.
(2014). Psychology:
Themes and
Variations (Briefer
 Describe Version, 9th edition).
what Belmont, CA:
happens to Wadsworth/Cengage
the brain Learning Pg 162
and body
during
sleep

Week 14, 15 States of Explain ● Lecture and 5

Conscious how drugs Discussion on topic
ness affect Drug Dependence Activity 1: Watch the
consciousne Weiten, W. (2014). video and write your
ss Psychology: Themes understanding in 100
and Variations words:
(Briefer Version, 9th https://www.youtube.com/
edition). Belmont, watch?v=ZGVHtiorpAc
CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning Pg 176-178

● Watch video during Activity 2: Small

class ungraded quiz/ Polling
https://www.youtube.c activity on drugs and its
om/watch? impact
v=icD3l5bhhKY

Discussion and lecture on the

basis on video
 Revision

● Mention briefly the details of the activities and assignments. Provide the references of the reading materials.
● An academic semester spans over 15 weeks.

SECTION III: ASSESSMENT AND MAPPING

Assessment outline: The weightage of marks allotted is as follows

CIA I CIA II CIA III ESE Class Participation Attendance Total

20 50 20 50 NA 5 100

(Please refer to the grading pattern CIA-ESE for this course and enter details only in components that are applicable)
 Mapping: A template to map the Learning Outcomes of the course against the components of assessment is given below:

Course Outcomes Components of assessment

CIA I CIA II CIA III ESE

CO 1

CO 2

CO 3

SECTION IV: ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION DESCRIPTION

(Use multiple tables for multiple CIAs and multiple components the CIAs)
Assessment Mini-Survey research (20 marks)
Description

Students will be required to administer a psychometric test (mentioned in the syllabus) of

their choice on the minimum sample of 10. The test has to be administered on a subject of
any age and gender. A detailed report which includes introduction, ROL, Method, result
and interpretation will have to be created and submitted after the administration of test.

Assignment Submission details:

Details
1. Late submission of the report will lead to awarding to zero marks.
2. Case report to be submitted on LMS on the assigned date i.e., 3rd February.
3. Case report to be submitted in Pdf Format.

Submission Date 20 February

Assignment
description: ● CIA I is of 20 marks.
● It is an individual level assignment.
1. Define the basic cognitive process that influence behavior.
Learning 2. Apply these concepts to explain everyday life events and situations.
outcomes:

4 3 2 1

Introductio
n and ROL Detailed Satisfactory Incomplete Incoherent
introduction introduction content content
given given
 inclusive of
8-10 studies

Method and
Procedure All steps Some steps Few steps Incomplete/i
covered: covered covered ncoherent
description content
of the test,
particulars
of the
subject,
precautions
taken,
ethical
consideratio
ns,
instructions
given for the
test

Scoring
Accurate complete Incomplete Incorrect
scoring of scoring of scoring scoring
the test as the test
per manual
 Interpretati
on Detailed and Satisfactory Incomplete Incorrect
correct interpretatio interpretatio interpretatio
interpretatio n of the test n n
n of the
results
obtained

Discussion
Rich Satisfactory Incomplete Incoherent
Detailed discussion discussion content
discussion
of the
administered
test given
along with
few studies

Assessment Group Presentation (20 marks)

Description
Students will be divided into group of 6-8. Students need to present an online exhibition on
topic Role Psychology in my Life. Each team will select any topic from the syllabus and
Assignment
demonstrate the application in in real life.
Details
Step 1: Team need to explain the topic
 Step 2: Demonstration of application of the selected topic
Step 3: Uploading/ Submission of work done in the form of report
Assignment April 10, 2022
description:

 Application of Psychology in life

Learning  Better understanding of theoretical knowledge of subject
outcomes:  Team work
Evaluation
Rubric/s:

Evaluation Excellent Good Average

Parameter (5) (3-4) (1-2)

Quality of The excellent The good quality Content presented is

Content quality content content backed up with
presented is backed presented is references, theories,
up with references, backed up with experiences, case
theories, references, studies etc. from 1-3
experiences, case theories, sources.
studies etc. from 8- experiences,
10 sources. case studies etc.
from 4-7
sources.

Presentation Excellent Good Average presentation

skills Presentation with presentation without any connects
good connect with with some with audience
audience through connects with
various interactions audience
and activities
 Interaction Able to completely Able to partially Able to connect with
with Audience connect with connect with audience with the help
audience with the audience with of various activities or
help of various the help of handouts
activities or various activities
handouts or handouts

Report Writing Well structured and Report as per the Report as per the APA
well written report APA format format which does not
as per the APA which includes include details of
format which the reflection of reflection of experience
includes the experience and and learning.
reflection of learning.
experience and
learning.

Essential References
Weiten, W. (2014). Psychology: Themes and Variations (Briefer Version, 9th edition). Belmont, CA:Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.
Recommended References
King, L. A. (2010). Experience Psychology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Gazzaniga, Heatherton, Halpern (2015). Psychological Science, 5th Edition, Norton.
Feldman.S.R.(2009). Essentials of understanding psychology (7th Ed.) New Delhi: Tata Mc Graw Hill.
Baron, R.A and Misra, G. (2014). Psychology (Indian Subcontinent Edition). Pearson Education Ltd.