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PSY504 Cognitive Psychology

 PSY504  Cognitive Psychology    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kc42KLVUvCvoqODVaH-DF1qEejYXON5u?usp=sharing Cognitive Psycholo gy Cognitive Psychology deals with cognition. Cognition can be understood as “thinking” or “knowing.” We can say, in other words, that cognitive psychology deals with the processes involved in thinking, gaining and storage of knowledge. For this purpose it adopts an information processing approach. Historical Background Plato, the great Greek philosopher , the founder of all modern sciences was the first person to present a clear theory of how knowledge is acquired and retained. His main ideas of contribution ·          Ideas are innate (thinking capacity of humans ) ·          Visible world is an illusion (shadow of reality which is in our mind ) ·        ...

SOC101 Introduction of Sociology

SOC101 Introduction of Sociology   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12roKRAzSXNyIZzVLRXcaFWMviCEhRsKo?usp=sharing  THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY Sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human social life, groups and societies. There was no sociology as a distinct discipline before the advent of 19th century. As a distinct discipline it emerged about the middle of the 19th century when European social observers began to use scientific methods to test their ideas. It looks that three factors led to the development of sociology. The first was the Industrial revolution. • By the mid 19th century Europe was changing from agriculture to factory production. There was the emergence of new occupations as well as new avenues of employment away from the land. • Masses of people migrated to cities in search of jobs. Pull and push factors were instrumental in such migrations. In the countryside, due to the nature of agricultural society, there were no occupations that could be alter...

BIO101 Biology

 BIO101 Biology  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1obBGXfPEt2AWR0e_eIAGQfPV4TcA8gnb?usp=sharing Cells Cells- The fundamental Unit of life If you remember, in our previous session we have  seen the basic difference between a living and a non- living thing and some of the characteristics  shown by living organisms. So today we will be looking at the 1st characteristic in detail i.e the composition of an organism The trees in the forest the fish in the river the birds in the sky the worm in the soil the tiger  in the jungle the cactus in the desert your class mate in fact any living thing on this  planet is made up of cells which are known to be the building blocks of a living thing.  Many many cells come together to form a living organism.  Besides this, some organisms like bacteria are made up of only one cell.  One celled organism is all together an individual itself which can perform all the functions  like any other multi-cellula...

PSY403 Social Psychology

 PSY403 Social Psychology  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KGxHirJyMWzqfGe7sQW-KmE_dG--H1uJ?usp=sharing ATTITUDE CHANGE   Behavior changing attitudes ·          _ From self-perception theory (Bem, 1965) we know that we can infer our attitudes from observing our own behaviors (i.e., behaviors can cause attitudes) ·          _ Ours behaviors can also change attitudes, if they are unexpected...(if we suddenly realize we are good at something ) Cognitive dissonance theory ( Festinger, 1957) ·          _ A feeling of discomfort caused by performing an action that is inconsistent with one’s attitudes ·          _ Principle of Cognitive consistency were first introduced by Fritz Heider (1946) ·          _ A motivational instead of a cognitive approach; has Ge...