Syllabus of Psychology - HSEB



Psychology Syllabus of HSEB

               
Grade – XI                                                                                                                                                                
Full Marks 100
Teaching hours 150
                                               

Unit – 1:                Behaviour and its bases                                                                                     30 Teaching hours
                                -               Psychology
                                -               Psychological bases of behaviour
                                -               Environmental determinants of behaviour
                                -               Deprivation
Unit - 2: Perceiving the World                                                                                                           20 Teaching hours
                                -               Sensory, attention and perceptual process
                                -               Nature and span of attention, distraction, factors affecting attentive
                                -               Perception
Unit – 3:                Dynamics of Behavour                                                                                      15 Teaching hours
                                -               Motivational and emotional aspects of behaviour
                                -               Emotional reactions
                                -               Jomes – Lange theory
                                -               Canon    - Bord theory
Unit – 4  Learning and Memory                                                                                                       40 Teaching hours
                                -               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 Teaching hours
                                -               Problem solving
                                -               Concept formation
                                -               Creative thinking
Unit – 6:                Practical Work                                                                                                     30 Teaching hours
                                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 Teaching hours
                                -               Individual differences
                                -               Personality
Unit – 2:                -               Communication and group Dynamics                                            25       ,,            ,,                    -                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 Teaching hours
                                -               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 Teaching hours
                                -               Guidance
                                -               counseling
Unit – 5:                Descriptive Statistics in Psychology                                                                 30 Teaching hours
                                -               Importance of statistics
                                -               Presentation of data
                                -               Measures of central tendency
                                -               Measures of variability
Unit – 6:                Practical works                                                                                                     20 Teaching hours
                                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".

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