Grade – XI
Full Marks 100
Teaching hours 150
Unit – 1:Behaviour and its bases (30 TH )
– Psychology
-Psychological bases of behaviour
-Environmental determinants of behaviour
-Deprivation
Unit – 2:Perceiving the World (20 TH )
-Sensory, attention and perceptual process
-Nature and span of attention, distraction, factors affecting attentive
-Perception
Unit – 3:Dynamics of Behavour (15 TH )
-Motivational and emotional aspects of behaviour
-Emotional reactions
-Jomes – Lange theory
-Canon- Bord theory
Unit – 4Learning and Memory ( 40 TH )
-Concepts of learning and maturation learning curve
-Types of learning
-Transfer of learning
-Memory
-Types of memory
-Measurement of retention
-Forgetting
-Factors influencing memory
Unit – 5:Thinking and problem solving (20 TH )
-Problem solving
-Concept formation
-Creative thinking
Unit – 6:Practical Work (30 TH )
A minimum of 4 experiments are required to be performed from the list given below:
a)Effects of goal – setting on achievement
b)Effect of set in perception
c)Effect of set in judgment
d)Effect of knowledge of results on performance
e)Measurement of error in judgment
Grade – XII
Full Marks 100
Teaching hours 150
Unit – 1:Individual differences and Personality (25 TH )
-Individual differences
-Personality
Unit – 2:-Communication and group Dynamics (25 TH )
-Communication and interpersonal relationship
-Attitudes
-Group factors facilitating group formation, characteristics of group, types of groups, group behaviour, leadership;
Unit – 3:Adjustment and Health (40 TH )
-Personal, social and occupational adjustment
-Defense mechanisms
-Development disorder
-Concept of abnormality, four major types and symptoms, Psychosis, Mental retardation and anti-social behaviour
-Mental retardation
-Behavioral problems
Unit – 4:Guidance and counseling (10 TH)
-Guidance
-counseling
Unit – 5:Descriptive Statistics in Psychology (30 TH )
-Importance of statistics
-Presentation of data
-Measures of central tendency
-Measures of variability
Unit – 6:Practical works (20 TH )
All practical listed below are compulsory
i)Serial transformation of a verbal method (Rumour method)
ii)Block design test
iii)Draw a man test for children
iv)Cooperation and competition (bottle and beads) experiment
Prescribed Text Book: XI & XII
1.Hilgard, Atkinson and Atkinson – Introduction to Psychology
2.Collins and Driver : Experimental Psychology
3.Franklin D. Cordell : Psychological war on fat experiments in Psychology
4.Karin C. Meiselman: A Psychological Study of Cacises and effect with treatment.
5.Freeman – “Psychological Testing”.
