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Syllabus in Psychology

The syllabus outlines key topics in psychology, including its definition, methods of study, and the structure of the brain and neurons. It covers essential concepts such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, intelligence, personality, and psychological disorders. Additionally, it includes basics of statistics and testing methods relevant to psychological assessment.

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Syllabus in Psychology

The syllabus outlines key topics in psychology, including its definition, methods of study, and the structure of the brain and neurons. It covers essential concepts such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, emotion, intelligence, personality, and psychological disorders. Additionally, it includes basics of statistics and testing methods relevant to psychological assessment.

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SYLLABUS IN PSYCHOLOGY

• Meaning and Development of Psychology, Definition of Psychology,


Psychology as a science, the subject matter of Psychology, Development of
Psychology as a modern discipline.
• Methods of studying Psychology: Observational method, Experimental method
and Correlational method.
• Structure and functions of Neurons, Structure and functions of the Brain
• Perception: Organizing Principles of Perception, Constancies and Illusion.
• Learning: Classical Conditioning- Its nature and basic principles, Operant
Conditioning - Its nature and basic principles, Observational Learning and its
basic principles.
• Memory: The Information Processing Approach, Sensory Register, Short Term
Memory (STM), Long Term Memory (LTM).
Forgetting: Nature and Theories; Problem Solving, Steps in Problem Solving.
• Motivation: Nature and types of motivation.
Emotion: Nature, Physiology and Expressions of emotion.
• Intelligence: Nature and measurement of Intelligence, Creativity and Intelligence.
Personality: Freud ’s theory of Personality, Types and Trait Theories.
• Meaning and Concept of Life Span Human Development, Piaget’s Theory of
Cognitive development.
• Changing conceptions of Psychological Disorders (DSM-IV).
Psychological disorders: Anxiety disorders, Schizophrenia, Mood disorders,
Somatoform disorder.
• Attitude, Prejudice and Discrimination: Meaning and Nature.
• Basics of Statistics:
(i) Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, Population and Sample, Statistic and
Parameter, Scales of Measurement- Normal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio.
Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics, Uses and misuses of Statistics
(ii) Frequency distribution, Graphic Presentation of data, Measures of Central
Tendency, Measures of Variability, Standard Scores.
• Objective Type and Essay type testing: Advantages and Limitations, Standardized
tests: Advantages and Disadvantages of Standardized tests for use in Classroom
Assessment.
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