Psychology for Everyday Living
Hours/Week: 02 Exam Hours: 03
Total Hours: 40 Exam Marks: 400
Objectives:
- To Impart knowledge of the basic concepts and modern trends in psychology
- To help students to equip with psychological skills to enhance their everyday Living
- To Familiarize the students with the basic Psychological Processes and their application
PAPER I: EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY
- Meaning and Definition of Psychology
- Myths about Psychology
- Branches of Psychology
- Research Areas: Developmental, Social and Psychometrics
- Applied: Clinical, Counselling, Educational, Industrial, Sports
PAPER II: LEARNING PROCESSES
- Meaning and Definition
- Types of Learning: Classical Conditioning,
- Operant: Reinforcement, Schedules of Reinforcement, Punishment, Effective Punishment, Trail and Error Learning: Laws of Learning,
- Observational Learning,
- Seligman’s learned Helplessness.
PAPER III: DYNAMICS OF PERSONALITY
- Meaning and Definition
- Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspective to Personality
- Classification of personality: Eysenck’s Classification, Friedman and Rosen man Type A and Type B Personality, Macre and Costa’s Big Five Factors
- Personality Disorders: Cluster A,B,C
PAPER IV: UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS:
- Neurotic Disorders: Anxiety, Phobia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
- Psychotic Disorders: Schizophrenia, Bipolar
- Eating Disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia
- Impulse Control Disorders: Kleptomania, Trichotillomania ,Pyromania, Pathological Gambling
BIBLIGRAPHY:
- Understanding Psychology: Robert .S. Feldman, Tata McGrawhill Publication
- Psychology Robert Baron Prentice- Hall of India Pvt Ltd
- Textbook of Abnormal Psychology: David.H.Barlow Mark Durand
- DSM IV TR.
- Schultz and Schultz : Theories of Personality Cengage Learning
- Study Material
