CBSE 11th Class Psychology Syllabus

Course Structure

Course Syllabus

Unit I: What is psychology?

• Introduction

• What is Psychology?

  • Consciousness (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material) −

    • Psychology as a Discipline

    • Psychology as a Natural Science

    • Psychology as a Social Science

• Understanding Mind and Behaviour

• Popular Notions about the Discipline of Psychology

• Evolution of Psychology

• Development of Psychology in India

• Branches of Psychology

• Themes of Research and Applications

• Psychology and Other Disciplines

• Psychologists at Work

• Psychology in Everyday Life −

  • Linkages across psychological processes (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

Unit II: Methods of Enquiry in Psychology

• Introduction

• Goals of Psychological Enquiry −

  • Steps in Conducting Scientific Research

  • Alternative Paradigms of Research

• Nature of Psychological Data

• Some Important Methods in Psychology −

  • Observational Method

  • Experimental Method

  • Correlational Research

  • Survey Research

  • Psychological Testing

  • Case Study

• Analysis of Data

  • Quantitative Method −

    • Concepts and computation of the Measures of Central Tendency

    • Graphical Presentation of Data: Bar, Histogram, Polygon (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

  • Qualitative Method

• Limitations of Psychological Enquiry

• Ethical Issues

Unit III: The Bases of Human Behaviour

• Introduction

• Evolutionary Perspective

• Biological and Cultural Roots

• Biological Basis of Behaviour −

  • Neurons

• Structure and Functions of Nervous System and

• Endocrine System and their Relationship with

• Behaviour and Experience −

  • The Nervous System −

    • Sleep and Wakefulness (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

  • The Endocrine System

• Heredity −

  • Genes and Behaviour

• Cultural Basis: Socio-Cultural Shaping of Behaviour −

  • Concept of Culture

• Enculturation

• Socialisation

• Acculturation −

  • Globalization (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

  • Diversity and Pluralism in the Indian Context (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

Unit IV: Human Development

• Introduction
• Meaning of Development −
  • Life-Span Perspective on Development
• Factors Influencing Development
• Context of Development
• Overview of Developmental Stages −
  • Prenatal Stage
• Infancy
• Childhood
• Challenges of Adolescence
• Adulthood and Old Age

Unit V: Sensory, Attentional, and Perceptual Processes

• Introduction
• Knowing the world
• Nature and varieties of Stimulus
• Sense Modalities −
  • Visual Sensation
  • Auditory Sensation
• Attentional Processes −
  • Selective Attention
  • Sustained Attention
• Perceptual Processes −
  • Processing Approaches in Perception
• The Perceiver
• Principles of Perceptual Organisation
• Perception of Space, Depth, and Distance
• Monocular Cues and Binocular Cues
• Perceptual Constancies
• Illusions
• Socio-Cultural Influences on Perception −
  • Person Perception

Unit VI: Learning

• Introduction
• Nature of Learning
• Paradigms of Learning
• Classical Conditioning
• Determinants of Classical Conditioning
• Operant/Instrumental Conditioning −
  • Determinants of Operant Conditioning
  • Key Learning Processes
• Observational Learning
• Cognitive Learning
• Verbal Learning
• Concept Learning
• Skill Learning
• Transfer of Learning −
  • Learning Curve (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)
• Factors Facilitating Learning
• The Learner −
  • Learning Styles
• Learning Disabilities
• Applications of Learning Principles

Unit VII: Human Memory

• Introduction

• Nature of memory

• Information processing Approach: The Stage Model

  • An alternative approach - The Information Processing Perspective (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

• Memory Systems − Sensory, Short-term and Long-term Memories

• Levels of Processing

• Types of Long-term Memory

  • Declarative and Procedural; Episodic and Semantic

• Knowledge Representation and Organisation in Memory

• Memory as a Constructive Process

• Nature and Causes of Forgetting

  • Forgetting due to Trace Decay, Interference and Retrieval Failure

  • Pathologies related to Memory (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

• Enhancing Memory

  • Mnemonics using Images and Organisation

Unit VIII: Thinking

• Introduction

• Nature of Thinking

  • Building Blocks of Thought

• The Processes of Thinking

• Problem Solving

• Reasoning

• Decision-making

• Nature and Process of Creative Thinking

  • Nature of Creative Thinking

  • Process of Creative Thinking

• Developing Creative Thinking

  • Barriers to Creative Thinking

  • Strategies for Creative Thinking

• Thought and Language

  • Stages of Cognitive Development Introduction to the ideas of Piaget, and Vygotsky (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

• Development of Language and Language Use

Unit IX: Motivation and Emotion

• Introduction

• Nature of Motivation

• Types of Motives

  • Biological Motives

  • Psychosocial Motives

• Maslow‟s Hierarchy of Needs

• Nature of Emotions

• Physiological Bases of Emotions

• Cognitive Bases of Emotions

• Cultural Bases of Emotions

• Expression of Emotions

  • Culture and Emotional Expression

  • Culture and Emotional Labelling

• Managing Negative Emotions

• Enhancing Positive Emotions

  • Human Existence (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

  • Competence (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

  • Self-efficacy (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

  • Intrinsic motivation (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

  • Development of positive emotions (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

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