Nature Methods and Approaches: Psychology as a science, Non-experimental vs. Experimental methods. Approaches: S-R, Cognitive and humanistic & fields of applications of psychology.
Biological Bases of Behaviour: Genetic factors, Receptors, Neurone, nerve impulse and neural transmission, Types of nervous systems. Brain, structure and functions & Endocrine glands and psychological functions.
Development of Behaviour: Growth, maturation and development, Role of Environmental factors, Cognitive & Social and moral development.
Sensation and Perception: Definitions and distinctions, Visual and auditory processes, Top-down and bottom-up approaches. Figure Ground and perceptual organizations. Perceptual constancies and depth perception, Role of motivation & set and social factors perceptual selection.
Learning and Memory: Classical conditioning, instrumental learning and observational learning, Memory processes: Encoding, storage and retrieval, Storage model versus process approach, Forgetting: Interference and encoding variability approaches, Semantic memory versus episodic memory & Constructive nature of memory Eye witness memory.
Motivation and Emotion: Nature of motivation, Classification of motives, Techniques of measuring motivation. Nature of emotions and theoretical approaches. Physiological co-relates of emotions & Recognition of emotions.
Thinking: Language of thinking, concept learning: Artificial concepts and natural categories. Deductive and inductive reasoning & Creative thinking.
Intelligence: Its nature, Genetic and environmental factors & Measurement of intelligence.
Personality: Its nature, approaches: trait, type and interationist, Determinants of personality & Personality assessment techniques and types of tests.
Person perception: Impression formation, Self perception & social cognition.
Group structure and Dynamics: Formal-informal groups, Communication patterns, influence of groups on behaviour and decision making & group conflict and its resolution.
Social Influence: Conformity compliance and obedience, Leadership and fellowship.
Social Exchange and Social comparison: Resource and Power, Equity and Relative Deprevation, Negotiations & Minority influence.
Abnormal Behaviour: Criteria of abnormality. Dynamics of abnormal behaviour with special emphasis on conflict, stress and maladaptive behaviours, Psychoneurosis, Psychoses Psychosomatic disorders, Child pathology & Mental hygiene.
