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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