PSYCHOLOGY
PAPER - I
Foundations of Psychology
1. Introduction:
Definition of Psychology; Historical ante-cedents of Psychology and trends in the
21stcentury; Psychology and scientific
methods; Psychology in relation to other
social sciences and natural sciences; Ap-plication of Psychology to societal prob-lems.
2. Methods of Psychology:
Types of research: Descriptive, evaluative,
diagnostic and prognostic; Methods of
Research: Survey, observation, case-study
and experiments; Characteristics of experi-mental design and non-experimental de-sign, Quasi-experimental designs; Fo-cussed group discussions, brain storming,
grounded theory approach.
3. Research Methods:
Major steps in Psychological research
(problem statement, hypothesis formula-tion, research designs, sampling, tools of
data collection, analysis and interpretation
and report writing) Fundamental versus
applied research; Methods of data collec-tion (interview, observation, question-naire); Research designs (ex-post facto
and experimental); Application of statisti-cal technique (t - test, two way ANOVA cor-relation, regression and factor analysis);
Item response theory.
4. Development of Human Behaviour:
Growth and development; Principles of
development, Role of genetic and environ-mental factors in determining human
behaviour; Influence of cultural factors in
socialization; Life span development -Characteristics, development tasks, pro-moting psychological well-being across
major stages of the life span.
5. Sensation, Attention and Perception:
Sensation: concepts of threshold, absolute
and difference thresholds, signal-detection
and vigilance; Factors influencing atten-tion including set and characteristics of
stimulus; Definition and concept of percep-tion, biological factors in perception; Per-ceptual organization-influence of past ex-periences, perceptual defence-factors in-fluencing space and depth perception, size
estimation and perceptual readiness; The
plasticity of perception; Extrasensory per-ception; Culture and perception, Sublimi-nal perception.
6. Learning:
Concept and theories of learning (Behavi-ourists, Gestaltalist and Information pro-cessing models); The Processes of extinc-tion, discrimination and generalization;
Programmed learning, probability learning,
self-instructional learning, concepts; Types
and the schedules of reinforcement, es-cape, avoidance and punishment, model-ing and social learning.
7. Memory:
Encoding and remembering; Short term
memory, Long term memory, Sensory
memory, Iconic memory, Echoic memory:
The Multistore model, levels of process-ing; Organization and Mnemonic tech-niques to improve memory; Theories of for-getting: decay, interference and retrieval
failure: Metamemory; Amnesia: Antero-grade and retrograde.
8. Thinking and Problem Solving:
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development;
Concept formation processes; Information
processing, Reasoning and problem solv-ing, Facilitating and hindering factors in
problem solving, Methods of problem solv-ing: Creative thinking and fostering creativ-ity; Factors influencing decision making and
judgment; Recent trends.
9. Motivation and Emotion:
Psychological and physiological basis of
motivation and emotion; Measurement of
motivation and emotion; Effects of motiva-tion and emotion on behaviour; Extrinsic
and intrinsic motivation; Factors influenc-ing intrinsic motivation; Emotional compe-tence and the related issues.
10. Intelligence and Aptitude:
Concept of intelligence and aptitude, Na-ture and theories of intelligence -Spearman, Thurstone, Gullford Vernon,
Sternberg and J.P; Das; Emotional Intelli-gence, Social intelligence, measurement
of intelligence and aptitudes, concept of
IQ, deviation IQ, constancy of IQ; Measure-ment of multiple intelligence; Fluid intelli-gence and crystallized intelligence.
11. Personality:
Definition and concept of personality; Theo-ries of personality (psychoanalytical, socio-cultural, interpersonal, developmental,
humanistic, behaviouristic, trait and type
approaches); Measurement of personality
(projective tests, pencil-paper test); The
Indian approach to personality; Training
for personality development; Latest ap-proaches like big 5 factor theory; The no-tion of self in different traditions.
12. Attitudes, Values and Interests:
Definition of attitudes, values and interests;
Components of attitudes; Formation and
maintenance of attitudes; Measurement of
attitudes, values and interests; Theories of
attitude change; Strategies for fostering
values; Formation of stereotypes and preju-dices; Changing others behaviour; Theo-ries of attribution; Recent trends.
13. Language and Communication:
Human language - Properties, structure
and linguistic hierarchy, Language acqui-sition-predisposition, critical period hypoth-esis; Theories of language development -Skinner and Chomsky; Process and types
of communication - effective communica-tion training.
14. Issues and Perspectives in Modern
Contemporary Psychology:
Computer application in the psychological
laboratory and psychological testing; Arti-ficial intelligence; Psychocybernetics;
Study of consciousness-sleep-wake
schedules; dreams, stimulus deprivation,
meditation, hypnotic/drug induced states;
Extrasensory perception; Intersensory per-ception Simulation studies
PAPER - II
Psychology: Issues and Applications
1. Psychological Measurement of Indi-vidual Differences:
The nature of individual differences; Char-acteristics and construction of standardized
psychological tests; Types of psychologi-cal tests; Use, misuse and limitation of psy-chological tests; hical issues in the use of
psychological tests.
2. Psychological well being and Mental
Disorders:
Concept of health-ill health; Positive health,
well being; Causal factors in mental disor-ders (Anxiety disorders, mood disorders,
schizophrenia and delusional disorders;
personality disorders, substance abuse
disorders); Factors influencing positive
health, well being, life style and quality of
life; Happiness disposition.
3. Therapeutic Approaches:
Psychodynamic therapies; Behaviour
therapies; Client centered therapy; Cogni-tive therapies; Indigenous therapies (Yoga,
Meditation); Bio-feedback therapy; Preven-tion and rehabilitation of the mentally ill;
Fostering mental health.
4. Work Psychology and Organisational
Behaviour:
Personnel selection and training; Use of
psychological tests in the industry; Train-ing and human resource development;
Theories of work motivation – Herzberg,
Maslow, Adam Equity theory, Porter and
Lawler, Vroom; Leadership and participa-tory management; Advertising and mar-keting; Stress and its management; Ergo-nomics; consumer psychology; Manage-rial effectiveness; Transformational lead-ership; Sensitivity training; Power and poli-tics in organizations.
5. Application of Psychology to Educa-tional Field:
Psychological principles underlying effec-tive teaching-learning process; Learning
styles; Gifted, retarded, learning disabled
and their training; Training for improving
memory and better academic achievement;
Personality development and value edu-cation, Educational, vocational guidance
and career counseling; Use of psychologi-cal tests in educational institutions; Effec-tive strategies in guidance programmes.
6. Community Psychology:
Definition and concept of community psy-chology; Use of small groups in social ac-tion; Arousing community consciousness
and action for handling social problems;
Group decision making and leadership for
social change; Effective strategies for so-cial change.
7. Rehabilitation Psychology:
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
programmes-role of psychologists;
Organising of services for rehabilitation of
physically, mentally and socially chal-lenged persons including old persons,
Rehabilitation of persons suffering from
substance abuse, juvenile delinquency,
criminal behaviour; Rehabilitation of vic-tims of violence, Rehabilitation of HIV/AIDS
victims, the role of social agencies.
8. Application of Psychology to disadvan-taged groups:
The concepts of disadvantaged, depriva-tion; Social, physical, cultural and economic
consequences of disadvantaged and de-prived groups; Educating and motivating the
disadvantaged towards development; Rela-tive and prolonged deprivation.
9. Psychological problems of social inte-gration:
The concept of social integration; The prob-lem of caste, class, religion and language
conflicts and prejudice; Nature and mani-festation of prejudice between the in-group
and out-group; Causal factors of social
conflicts and prejudices; Psychological
strategies for handling the conflicts and
prejudices; Measures to achieve social in-tegration.
10. Application of Psychology in Infor-mation Technology and Mass Media:
The present scenario of information tech-nology and the mass media boom and the
role of psychologists; Selection and train-ing of psychology professionals to work in
the field of IT and mass media; Distance
learning through IT and mass media; En-trepreneurship through e-commerce; Mul-tilevel marketing; Impact of TV and foster-ing value through IT and mass media; Psy-chological consequences of recent devel-opments in Information Technology.
11. Psychology and Economic develop-ment:
Achievement motivation and economic
development; Characteristics of entrepre-neurial behaviour; Motivating and training
people for entrepreneurship and economic
development; Consumer rights and con-sumer awareness, Government policies for
promotion of entrepreneurship among
youth including women entrepreneurs.
12. Application of psychology to environ-ment and related fields:
Environmental psychology-effects of noise,
pollution and crowding; Population psy-chology: psychological consequences of
population explosion and high population
density; Motivating for small family norm;
Impact of rapid scientific and technologi-cal growth on degradation of environment.
13. Application of psychology in other
fields:
(a) Military Psychology
Devising psychological tests for defence
personnel for use in selection, Training,
counseling; training psychologists to work
with defence personnel in promoting posi-tive health; Human engineering in defence.
(b) Sports Psychology
Psychological interventions in improving
performance of athletes and sports. Per-sons participating in Individual and Team
Games.
(c) Media influences on pro and antisocial
behaviour.
(d)Psychology of terrorism.
14. Psychology of Gender:
Issues of discrimination, Management of
diversity; Glass ceiling effect, Self fulfilling
prophesy, Women and Indian society.
PAPER - I
Foundations of Psychology
1. Introduction:
Definition of Psychology; Historical ante-cedents of Psychology and trends in the
21stcentury; Psychology and scientific
methods; Psychology in relation to other
social sciences and natural sciences; Ap-plication of Psychology to societal prob-lems.
2. Methods of Psychology:
Types of research: Descriptive, evaluative,
diagnostic and prognostic; Methods of
Research: Survey, observation, case-study
and experiments; Characteristics of experi-mental design and non-experimental de-sign, Quasi-experimental designs; Fo-cussed group discussions, brain storming,
grounded theory approach.
3. Research Methods:
Major steps in Psychological research
(problem statement, hypothesis formula-tion, research designs, sampling, tools of
data collection, analysis and interpretation
and report writing) Fundamental versus
applied research; Methods of data collec-tion (interview, observation, question-naire); Research designs (ex-post facto
and experimental); Application of statisti-cal technique (t - test, two way ANOVA cor-relation, regression and factor analysis);
Item response theory.
4. Development of Human Behaviour:
Growth and development; Principles of
development, Role of genetic and environ-mental factors in determining human
behaviour; Influence of cultural factors in
socialization; Life span development -Characteristics, development tasks, pro-moting psychological well-being across
major stages of the life span.
5. Sensation, Attention and Perception:
Sensation: concepts of threshold, absolute
and difference thresholds, signal-detection
and vigilance; Factors influencing atten-tion including set and characteristics of
stimulus; Definition and concept of percep-tion, biological factors in perception; Per-ceptual organization-influence of past ex-periences, perceptual defence-factors in-fluencing space and depth perception, size
estimation and perceptual readiness; The
plasticity of perception; Extrasensory per-ception; Culture and perception, Sublimi-nal perception.
6. Learning:
Concept and theories of learning (Behavi-ourists, Gestaltalist and Information pro-cessing models); The Processes of extinc-tion, discrimination and generalization;
Programmed learning, probability learning,
self-instructional learning, concepts; Types
and the schedules of reinforcement, es-cape, avoidance and punishment, model-ing and social learning.
7. Memory:
Encoding and remembering; Short term
memory, Long term memory, Sensory
memory, Iconic memory, Echoic memory:
The Multistore model, levels of process-ing; Organization and Mnemonic tech-niques to improve memory; Theories of for-getting: decay, interference and retrieval
failure: Metamemory; Amnesia: Antero-grade and retrograde.
8. Thinking and Problem Solving:
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development;
Concept formation processes; Information
processing, Reasoning and problem solv-ing, Facilitating and hindering factors in
problem solving, Methods of problem solv-ing: Creative thinking and fostering creativ-ity; Factors influencing decision making and
judgment; Recent trends.
9. Motivation and Emotion:
Psychological and physiological basis of
motivation and emotion; Measurement of
motivation and emotion; Effects of motiva-tion and emotion on behaviour; Extrinsic
and intrinsic motivation; Factors influenc-ing intrinsic motivation; Emotional compe-tence and the related issues.
10. Intelligence and Aptitude:
Concept of intelligence and aptitude, Na-ture and theories of intelligence -Spearman, Thurstone, Gullford Vernon,
Sternberg and J.P; Das; Emotional Intelli-gence, Social intelligence, measurement
of intelligence and aptitudes, concept of
IQ, deviation IQ, constancy of IQ; Measure-ment of multiple intelligence; Fluid intelli-gence and crystallized intelligence.
11. Personality:
Definition and concept of personality; Theo-ries of personality (psychoanalytical, socio-cultural, interpersonal, developmental,
humanistic, behaviouristic, trait and type
approaches); Measurement of personality
(projective tests, pencil-paper test); The
Indian approach to personality; Training
for personality development; Latest ap-proaches like big 5 factor theory; The no-tion of self in different traditions.
12. Attitudes, Values and Interests:
Definition of attitudes, values and interests;
Components of attitudes; Formation and
maintenance of attitudes; Measurement of
attitudes, values and interests; Theories of
attitude change; Strategies for fostering
values; Formation of stereotypes and preju-dices; Changing others behaviour; Theo-ries of attribution; Recent trends.
13. Language and Communication:
Human language - Properties, structure
and linguistic hierarchy, Language acqui-sition-predisposition, critical period hypoth-esis; Theories of language development -Skinner and Chomsky; Process and types
of communication - effective communica-tion training.
14. Issues and Perspectives in Modern
Contemporary Psychology:
Computer application in the psychological
laboratory and psychological testing; Arti-ficial intelligence; Psychocybernetics;
Study of consciousness-sleep-wake
schedules; dreams, stimulus deprivation,
meditation, hypnotic/drug induced states;
Extrasensory perception; Intersensory per-ception Simulation studies
PAPER - II
Psychology: Issues and Applications
1. Psychological Measurement of Indi-vidual Differences:
The nature of individual differences; Char-acteristics and construction of standardized
psychological tests; Types of psychologi-cal tests; Use, misuse and limitation of psy-chological tests; hical issues in the use of
psychological tests.
2. Psychological well being and Mental
Disorders:
Concept of health-ill health; Positive health,
well being; Causal factors in mental disor-ders (Anxiety disorders, mood disorders,
schizophrenia and delusional disorders;
personality disorders, substance abuse
disorders); Factors influencing positive
health, well being, life style and quality of
life; Happiness disposition.
3. Therapeutic Approaches:
Psychodynamic therapies; Behaviour
therapies; Client centered therapy; Cogni-tive therapies; Indigenous therapies (Yoga,
Meditation); Bio-feedback therapy; Preven-tion and rehabilitation of the mentally ill;
Fostering mental health.
4. Work Psychology and Organisational
Behaviour:
Personnel selection and training; Use of
psychological tests in the industry; Train-ing and human resource development;
Theories of work motivation – Herzberg,
Maslow, Adam Equity theory, Porter and
Lawler, Vroom; Leadership and participa-tory management; Advertising and mar-keting; Stress and its management; Ergo-nomics; consumer psychology; Manage-rial effectiveness; Transformational lead-ership; Sensitivity training; Power and poli-tics in organizations.
5. Application of Psychology to Educa-tional Field:
Psychological principles underlying effec-tive teaching-learning process; Learning
styles; Gifted, retarded, learning disabled
and their training; Training for improving
memory and better academic achievement;
Personality development and value edu-cation, Educational, vocational guidance
and career counseling; Use of psychologi-cal tests in educational institutions; Effec-tive strategies in guidance programmes.
6. Community Psychology:
Definition and concept of community psy-chology; Use of small groups in social ac-tion; Arousing community consciousness
and action for handling social problems;
Group decision making and leadership for
social change; Effective strategies for so-cial change.
7. Rehabilitation Psychology:
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
programmes-role of psychologists;
Organising of services for rehabilitation of
physically, mentally and socially chal-lenged persons including old persons,
Rehabilitation of persons suffering from
substance abuse, juvenile delinquency,
criminal behaviour; Rehabilitation of vic-tims of violence, Rehabilitation of HIV/AIDS
victims, the role of social agencies.
8. Application of Psychology to disadvan-taged groups:
The concepts of disadvantaged, depriva-tion; Social, physical, cultural and economic
consequences of disadvantaged and de-prived groups; Educating and motivating the
disadvantaged towards development; Rela-tive and prolonged deprivation.
9. Psychological problems of social inte-gration:
The concept of social integration; The prob-lem of caste, class, religion and language
conflicts and prejudice; Nature and mani-festation of prejudice between the in-group
and out-group; Causal factors of social
conflicts and prejudices; Psychological
strategies for handling the conflicts and
prejudices; Measures to achieve social in-tegration.
10. Application of Psychology in Infor-mation Technology and Mass Media:
The present scenario of information tech-nology and the mass media boom and the
role of psychologists; Selection and train-ing of psychology professionals to work in
the field of IT and mass media; Distance
learning through IT and mass media; En-trepreneurship through e-commerce; Mul-tilevel marketing; Impact of TV and foster-ing value through IT and mass media; Psy-chological consequences of recent devel-opments in Information Technology.
11. Psychology and Economic develop-ment:
Achievement motivation and economic
development; Characteristics of entrepre-neurial behaviour; Motivating and training
people for entrepreneurship and economic
development; Consumer rights and con-sumer awareness, Government policies for
promotion of entrepreneurship among
youth including women entrepreneurs.
12. Application of psychology to environ-ment and related fields:
Environmental psychology-effects of noise,
pollution and crowding; Population psy-chology: psychological consequences of
population explosion and high population
density; Motivating for small family norm;
Impact of rapid scientific and technologi-cal growth on degradation of environment.
13. Application of psychology in other
fields:
(a) Military Psychology
Devising psychological tests for defence
personnel for use in selection, Training,
counseling; training psychologists to work
with defence personnel in promoting posi-tive health; Human engineering in defence.
(b) Sports Psychology
Psychological interventions in improving
performance of athletes and sports. Per-sons participating in Individual and Team
Games.
(c) Media influences on pro and antisocial
behaviour.
(d)Psychology of terrorism.
14. Psychology of Gender:
Issues of discrimination, Management of
diversity; Glass ceiling effect, Self fulfilling
prophesy, Women and Indian society.
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