B.A. (I Semester)

PSYCHOLOGY
Basic Psychological Processes

SYLLABUS

UNIT - I

Psychology Nature, Scope and Applications; Approaches; Psychodynamic, Behavioristic, Cognitive, Humanistic & Indigenous Indian Psychology (with special reference to Shrimad Bhagwad Gita, Sankhya Darshan and Buddhism).

UNIT - II

Attention Processes: Selective and Sustained Attention: Nature and Determinants; Perceptual Processes: Nature and Determinants; Perceptual Organization; Perceptual Illusion.

UNIT - III

Learning Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning and Verbal Learning: Methods and Procedures.

UNIT - IV

Memory and Forgetting: Stages of Memory: Encoding, Storage and Retrieval Types of Memory: Sensory, Short Term and Long Term Memory (Basic Introduction); Forgetting: Interference and Cue-Dependent Forgetting.

UNIT - V

Intelligence: Nature and Definition; Concept of IQ; Theories of Intelligence (Introduction of Basic Concepts): Spearman, Thurston, Guilford, Stemberg, Gardner.

UNIT - VI

Personality: Definition and Determinants; Approach of Personality (Basic Concepts): Trait approaches (Allport and Cattell); Psychodynamic (Freud); Humanistic (Rogers and Maslow).

UNIT - VII

Motivation: Nature and Concept (Needs, Drives, Instincts) : Types of Motives; Biological and Social Motives; Pull and Push Mechanism; Intrinsic Motivation.

UNIT - VIII

Emotion: Nature of Emotion; Basic Emotions; Expressions of Emotion Universal Versus Culture specific; Theories of Emotion: James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer.

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