Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting (GATE XH) — GATE Humaniti…
Sensation, sensory thresholds and sensory adaptations, Vision, hearing, touch and pain, smell and taste, kinesthesis and vestibular sense. Perception: Role of attention; organizing principles of perception, Gestalt perception, depth perception and illusions. Theories of learning: Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning theory, cognitive learning. Memory: encoding, storage, retrieval, Information processing theories of memory, retrieval in long term memory, reconstructive nature of long-term memory. Forgetting: encoding failure, interference theory, memory trace decay theory.
- Exam: GATE Humanities and Social Sciences (XH)
- Section: XH5 Psychology (60M, choose any one)