Psychology

This course deals with the interface areas between the cognitive sciences of Linguistics and Psychology and Neuroscience. Issues to be discussed include Speech perception, Sentence perception and processing, Language production, First language acquisition, Biological foundations of language, aphasiology, evolutionary perspectives on language, Mental lexicon, Lab techniques for analysis, Corpus analysis and Modularity.

Crisis and Recent debates on different issues in Psychology. Theories and Research in Feminist Psychology and Gender Studies. Organizational Behaviour: Present status. Research on Training and development. Cognitive Psychology: Research on intelligence and cognitive development. Applied Social Psychology. Methodological issues in psychological research. Environmental and Community Psychology.

Inferential statistics. Tests of mean differences: +, F, Neuman Keul, Duncan, Suffay, Turkey tests. Simple, multiple, partial, and canonial correlation. Simple and multiple regression. ANOVA and MANOVA. Discriminant, Factor, and Cluster Analyses. Brief introduction of Trend and Path Analysis. Non parametric tests. Chi square, Mann whitney U test, Run test, sign test etc.

The nature and process of research, selection and formulation of a research problem. Research design: explanatory and descriptive studies, testing of hypothesis. Problems of measurement. Data collection: observational methods, questionnaires and interviews, projective and other indirect methods. Use of available data as source material. Scaling techniques. Sampling. Analysis and interpretation; establishment of categories, coding, tabulation, statistical analysis. The use of non-quantified data in analysis and interpretation. The research report.

1.Speaking skills and oral presentation
2.Basics of Academic writing and reports
3.Technical writing skills
4.Reading, Listening, Note-taking
5.Structure of Academic Essay
6.Argumentation
7.Ethics and Plagiarism
8.Literature Survey
9.Stylistic Devices
10.Dictionary and Grammar Skills
11.Common Errors in Academic writing
12.Bibliography, References
13.Gender and Cultural Sensitivity