NTRCA college written syllabus

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1. Introduction:  Definition and nature of Psychology. Psychology as a Science. Fields 
of Psychology : Experimental, Physiological, Clinical, Counseling, Industrial, 
Educational, Social and Development Psychology. Methods of Psychology: 
Experimental, observational, Clinical, Case histories, Survey Method.  
2. Learning:  Definition and nature of Learning. Facto rs of Learning. Classical 
Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Learning, Latent Learning, Insightful 
Learning: Memory and forgetting, Ways of measuring memory. General causes of 
forgetting.  
3. Perception:  The nature of Perception. Selectivity in Perc eption. 
1. Form Perception:  Figure and ground, contour, Perceptual organization. Depth 
perception: Monocular and Binocular cues to depth perception. Perception of 
movement, Illusion and Hallucination.  
4. Motivation and Emotion:  Defining Motivation, Motivation Cy cle, and Classification 
of motives, Biological motives, Social motives, and Motivation theories. Nature of 
emotion, Theories of emotion, Physiological changes in emotion. Behavioral changes 
in emotion, Dealing with emotional behaviour.  
5. Personality and Inte lligence:  Nature of personality. Determinants and Measuring of 
personality. Type of personality. Definition of Intelligence. Concept of I.Q. 
Measurement of Intelligence.   
6. Socialization:  Nature of Socialization. Process and agents of socialization. Effect o f 
Socialization. Impact of Culture on Personality.  
7. Attitude and Job satisfaction:  Characteristics and components of attitude. 
Formation and change in attitude. Measurement of attitude and Job satisfaction.  
8. Measurement and Evaluation : Need for measurement. Goals of the student 
evaluation system. Characteristics of objective and Essay type tests.  
9. Group and intergroup behaviour:  Group dynamics, crowds, Rumour. prejudices. 
Group cohesiveness, Sociometry inter group behaviour Conflict commitment, power 
and polit ics. 
10. Leadership:  Definition approaches to the study of leadership, functions and types of 
leaders; Effective leadership and its determinants. Leadership theories.  
11. Psychology of being a teacher:  Characteristics and behaviours of effective teacher. 
Teacher a s a Learner, Teacher -Student interaction, Teacher Centered approach to 
learning.