Syllabus (PSYCHOLOGY)

Course Type: MAJ-1

Semester: 1

Course Code: BPSYMAJ01C

Course Title: Introduction to Psychology

(L-P-Tu): 4-2-0

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Combined

Course Objective: To help students get acquainted with the nature and evolution of Psychology, and various Psychological Processes

Learning Outcome: 1) Upon the successful completion of this course students will be able to, 2) Differentiate between the assumptions of different schools of psychology. 3) Identify different methods employed to the understanding of psychology. 4) Understand conduction mec

Course Contents:

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology: Nature, Definition, Scope and Branches, Brief concept of Schools of Psychology: Behaviorism and Gestalt; Methods: Introspection, Observation, Experimentation, Interview, Field Study, Clinical and Questionnaire Method; Psychology in Modern India

UNIT 2: SENSATION, ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION

Sensation: Definition and Characteristics.

Attention: Meaning, Phenomena - Shift, fluctuation, and oscillation, determinants of attention.

Perception: Meaning and characteristics, Perceptual Organization (Gestalt School), Depth Perception: Meaning, Perceptual Constancies, Monocular and Binocular Cues, Distance, and movement perception; Errors in perception: Illusions and Hallucination.

UNIT 3: LEARNING& MEMORY

1. Learning: Introduction, Principles and types of Learning, Classical conditioning, Operant conditioning, Observational and Cognitive learning; Learning strategies
2. Memory: Basic processes, Models of memory: Information processing (Atkinson & Shiffrin), Levels of processing, Parallel Distributed processing model, Forgetting - causes of forgetting (Trace decay theories, interference theories, motivated forgetting), Improving memory

UNIT 4: EMOTION AND MOTIVATION

1. Emotion: Components, types of emotion, theories of emotion (James-Lange theory, Cannon Bard theory and Cognitive theories)
2. Motivation: Concepts, types, and theories (Maslow’s need hierarchy theory, McClelland’s theories of achievement motivation, and Ryan and Deci’s Self-Determination theory), motivational conflicts.

PRACTICUM:

1. Experiment on Attention – fluctuation of attention

2. Experiment on Memory – spaced vs. unspaced and whole vs. part techniques of memory

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