SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY B.A / B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CBCS (Effective from the Academic Year 2015-2016) SYLLABUS Semester V - Core V – Child and Adolescent Psychology-I UNIT I: Introduction A) Meaning, Nature and importance of Developmental Psychology Concept of growth and development, Principles of development. Stages of human life span. B) Methods of studying human development - Importance of Developmental Psychology. Factors influencing growth and development: Heredity and environment. UNIT II: Early Stages of development A) Fertilization: the mechanisms of heredity; heredity and environment; chromosomal abnormalities; Genetic counseling; prenatal diagnosis of birth defects; Prenatal influences, maternal nutrition, maternal drug intake and other maternal-factors; prenatal stages and characteristics. B) Prenatal Period: Characteristics, Importance of conception, prenatal stages, factors influencing prenatal development –Hazards. UNIT III: Infancy and Toddlerhood A) The Birth Process, Neonatal Adjustment, Infancy B) Infancy: Characteristics - adjustments in infancy – conditions influencing postnatal life (Pre maturity, multiple births, post maturity) – physical development- Maturation & Readiness, : Locomotion. Mental development, emotions of infants, concept development , language development – Hazards of Infancy UNIT III: Babyhood A) Babyhood: Characteristics – developmental tasks – physical development – physiological functioning- muscle control B) Speech development – emotional behavior – social responses – play interests – development of understanding and morality -Sex role typing and family relations - personality development- Hazards. UNIT IV: Early Childhood A) Early childhood : General characteristics – developmental tasks- physical development – skills of early childhood- speech development – emotional patterns
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SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
B.A / B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CBCS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2015-2016)
SYLLABUS
Semester V - Core V – Child and Adolescent Psychology-I
UNIT I: Introduction
A) Meaning, Nature and importance of Developmental Psychology
Concept of growth and development, Principles of development. Stages of human life
span.
B) Methods of studying human development - Importance of Developmental
Psychology.
Factors influencing growth and development: Heredity and environment.
UNIT II: Early Stages of development
A) Fertilization: the mechanisms of heredity; heredity and environment; chromosomal
abnormalities; Genetic counseling; prenatal diagnosis of birth defects; Prenatal
influences, maternal nutrition, maternal drug intake and other maternal-factors;
prenatal stages and characteristics.
B) Prenatal Period: Characteristics, Importance of conception, prenatal stages, factors
influencing prenatal development –Hazards.
UNIT III: Infancy and Toddlerhood
A) The Birth Process, Neonatal Adjustment, Infancy
B) Infancy: Characteristics - adjustments in infancy – conditions influencing postnatal
life (Pre maturity, multiple births, post maturity) – physical development- Maturation
& Readiness, : Locomotion. Mental development, emotions of infants, concept
development , language development – Hazards of Infancy
UNIT III: Babyhood
A) Babyhood: Characteristics – developmental tasks – physical development –
physiological functioning- muscle control
B) Speech development – emotional behavior – social responses – play interests –
development of understanding and morality -Sex role typing and family relations -
personality development- Hazards.
UNIT IV: Early Childhood
A) Early childhood : General characteristics – developmental tasks- physical
development – skills of early childhood- speech development – emotional patterns
B) Patterns of early socialization and sex- role typing – play interests – development of
understanding and morality – family relationships- personality development.-
Hazards.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Hurlock , E.B. 1980. Developmental Psychology – a life span approach . M. C .Graw
Hill, Inc,.
2. Olds , S.W & Papalia , D.E 1986. Human Development. Mc Graw Hill,
SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
B.A / B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CBCS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2015-2016)
SYLLABUS - Child and Adolescent Psychology Practicum-I
Semester V
I. Conduct any five experiments from the following
1. Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices
2. Moral Judgment Test by D. Sinha and Meera Verma 6-11 yrs (NPC Agra)
3. Bem’s Sex Role Inventory
4. Adolescent Adjustment Inventory
5. Seguin Form Board Test
6. Aggression Questionnaire by G.C. Pati
7. Emotional Adjustment
II. Project work/ Field work- Case Study (any 1) to be submitted from any of the
following:
1. Elementary school children
2. Adolescents
3. Middle aged
Case Study Report (not Exceeding 15 Pages)
SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
B.A / B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CBCS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2015-2016)
SYLLABUS
Semester V- Elective– I Abnormal Psychology - I
UNIT I: Introduction
A) Introduction to Abnormal Psychology: Defining abnormality. Abnormal psychology –
past and present – views and treatments.
B) Approaches to psychopathology – psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive behavioural,
existential and biological.
UNIT II: Classification and Assessment
A) Classification: Classification of disorders Etiological factors in abnormality Stress,
coping and the ego-defense mechanisms.
B) Causes of Abnormality : Biological , Psycho Social and Socio Cultural factors
UNIT III: Anxiety Disorders
A) Anxiety Disorder – Nature and Symptoms Generalized anxiety disorder
B) Phobias Panic and panic disorders; Obsessive-compulsive disorder
UNIT IV: Somatoform Disorders
A) Somatoform Disorders – Nature and Symptoms Conversion disorders- with
motor/sensory symptoms or deficits, with seizures.
B) Pain disorders – headache, migraine, low back pain, etc. Acute versus chronic pain,
cognitive perception of pain, individual differences in reaction to pain,
Hypochondriasis.
UNIT V: Dissociative Disorders
A) Dissociative Disorders – Nature and Symptoms - Amnesia and fugue, Dissociative
Identity disorder.
B) Casual Factors in Dissociative Disorders, Treatment and outcomes.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Lamm, A. (1997). Introduction to Psychopathology, N.Y.: Sage
2. Buss, A.H. (1999). Psychopathology. N.Y.
3. John Wiley Irvin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason (2006).Abnormal Psychology 11th
edition. Prentice Hall India.
4. Carson Robert, C. Butcher J.N. & Mineka, S Abnormal Psychology 13th edition.
Pearson education India.
SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
B.A / B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CBCS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2015-2016)
SYLLABUS
Semester V- Elective– I Abnormal Psychology- Practicum-I
I. Conduct any five experiments from the following
1. Stressful life –events scale
2. Anxiety
3. Self-esteem
4. Extraversion - Introversion
5. Security – Insecurity Scale
6. Word-association technique
7. Neuroticism - Personality assessment.
II. Project work classification systems – DSM V – ICD 10.
SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
B.A / B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CBCS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2015-2016)
SYLLABUS
Semester V- Elective– II Educational Psychology-I
UNIT I: Introduction
A) Educational Psychology: Nature, Scope and importance Definition & Scope.
B) Methods of educational psychology.
UNIT II: Learning Process
A) The nature of learning process : Nature of learning – learning and maturation – the
process of learning - learning curves - plateaus in learning
B) Experimental analysis of learning: Behaviour Modification, shaping, Discrimination,
Neurophysiology of learning
UNIT III: Theories and laws of learning
A) Theories and laws of learning and their educational implications: trial and error
learning - learning by conditioning – learning by insight
B) Learning of skills - Role of motivation, attention and interest in learning – kinds of
motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic, achievement motivation – Methods of motivating
pupils to learn.
UNIT IV: Transfer of Learning
A) Transfer of Learning: Forms of transfer – theories of transfer of learning – factors
influencing transfer of learning.
B) Transfer of Verbal and motor learning Distribution of practice, knowledge of results.
UNIT V: Memory & Forgetting
A) Memory and forgetting -Types and methods of memorization – factors influencing
retention.
B) Forgetting – Meaning, Measurement, Curves of forgetting – Types of forgetting –