Cognitive Psychology Notes

If you've ever tried to prepare cognitive psychology for an entrance exam using three different textbooks, a professor's slides, and half remembered lecture notes, you already know how exhausting it is just to figure out what you're supposed to be reading, let alone actually learning it. This is a complete, extensively written set of revision notes covering all 11 chapters of cognitive psychology, built specifically for M.Clin.Psy entrances, UGC NET JRF, and PhD entrance examinations, so you're never left guessing which theory deserves three lines and which one deserves three pages.

What's covered:

1. Perception: template matching, the Pandemonium model, face perception, Gibson's theory of direct perception, and the visual agnosias that come up when perception breaks down
2. Attention and Consciousness: theories of attention, thought suppression, and blindsight, explained clearly enough to recall under exam pressure, not just recognise
3. Working Memory: sensory memory, classic research, and the working memory approach
4. Long Term Memory: the modal model, encoding and retrieval processes, and autobiographical memory
5. Memory Strategies and Metacognition: including the tip of the tongue phenomenon and other recall quirks that exams love to test
6. Mental Imagery and Cognitive Maps: the characteristics of mental images and how cognitive maps are formed and used
7. Memory for General Knowledge: semantic memory models, schemata, and the implicit versus explicit memory distinction that trips up so many students
8. Language: the nature of language, reading processes, discourse, speaking, writing, and bilingualism, an area entrance exams love to test for nuance
9. Thinking and Problem Solving: understanding the problem, problem solving strategies, the factors that affect performance, and creativity
10. Reasoning: deductive and inductive reasoning, patterns of reasoning performance, and the major approaches to studying reasoning
11. Decision Making: the phases of decision making, basic concepts of probability, and models of decision making

Why it's different:

1. Written in the same plain, conversational style I teach in on @the.psych.digest, explaining the reasoning behind each theory instead of just listing it
2. Sequenced the way exams actually test the material, not just the way a textbook happens to be organised
3. Meant to be kept open on your desk in the final weeks before an exam, not skimmed once and forgotten
4. Yours to revisit as many times as you need, right up until exam day

Complete set of 11 chapters for ₹500.