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4. Perception
4.1 The nature of perception
4.2 Selectivity in perception
4.2.1 Selective attention
4.2.2 Determiners of stimulus selection
4.3 Form perception
4.3.1 Figure and ground
4.3.2 Contour perceptual organization
4.4 Perceptual constancy
4.4.1 Size and Brightness constancy
4.5 Depth perception
4.5.1 Monocular and Binocular cues to depth perception
5. Learning
5.1 Definition of Learning
5.2 Classical conditioning
5.3 Operant conditioning
5.4 Cognitive mapping
5.4.1 Latent learning
5.4.2 Insight Learning
5.5 Principles of reinforcement
5.5.1 Primary and secondary Variables influencing Reinforcement
5.5.2 Schedules of reinforcement
5.5.3 Variables influencing Reinforcement
6. Memory and forgetting
6.1 Defining of memory
6.2 Types of Memory
6.2.1 Sensory memory
6.2.3 Short-term memory
6.2.4 Long term memory
6.3 Improving Memory
6.4 The Physiology of memory
6.5 Why we forget? Interferences, Decay, Repression, Cognitive, discrepancy?
Retrieval failure Amnesia
7. Language, Thinking and problem solving
7.1 The structure and rules of language
7.2 How language is learned
7.3 Language and Concepts
7.4 The thinking process
7.5 Problem solving
8. Motivation
8.1 Defining motivation
8.2 Theories of motivation
8.2.1 Instinct theory
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