Major Course-XIV: PSYCHOLOGY (Major Programme)

Objective: The objective of the first part of this paper is to acquaint the students of

                  Philosophy with the psychological aspect of human life. It also emphasizes

                  on the methods and problems of psychology along with the different schools

                  approaching the mind.

Unit-I

* Nature of Psychology, Its methods - Introspective, Inspective & Experimental

   What is Psychology (NCERT material)

* Schools of Psychology - Behaviourism, Gestaltism & Psychoanalysis

*Applied Psychology introduction

Extra Information

1. Introduction to the Structure and Function of the Nervous System

Unit-II

*Psychological Basis of mental life - Nervous system

                                                            the doctrine of Central Localization (page no.10)

*Sensation - its definition

 Weber - Fechner Law of Sensation

* Perception - definition, stages of perception

  Gestalt Theory of Perception

Unit-III

* Memory - factors, conditions & marks of good memory

* Forgetting, its causes

* Imagination - Nature and kinds

    Freudian theory of Dream

Unit-IV

* The nature of Feeling, Feeling & Emotion

* James-Lange Theory of Emotion (page no. 178)

* Learning -Theories of Learning

Unit-V

* Personality - Traits, Factors, Kinds

                         - Factors

* Intelligence - Nature, Tests IQ

                          - Tests IQ                                    IQ Testing 

*Motivation, nature and types

Extra Information

1. Methods of Enquire in Psychology

2. Sensory, Attentional and Perceptional Processes

3. Introduction to Psychology (e-book)

4. NCERT books on Psychology