Introduction to psychology : Concept and definition of psychology. Nature and Scope. Branches of psychology. Application of psychology to soceity and social problems.

Methods in Psychology :Characteristics of psychological studies, Observation. Survey method, Clinical and case study method. Experimental method. Application of the method. Quantitive Analysis :Measures of central tendency and dispersion. Correlation. Levels of measurement. Reliability and validity. Application in test construction.

Physiological Psychology :Structure of neuron, nerve impulses, synapse and neurotransmitters. Central and peripheral nervous system-structure and neural control of behaviour. Hemispheric specialisation. Endocrine system and hormonal control of behaviour. Application of hemispheric knowledge to diagnostic purposes. Development of human behaviour :Individual Differences : Heredity and environment. Life span developent. Role of early experience and mastering of developmental tasks. Sensitive or critical periods of development in human life cycle and its application.

Perception :Preceptual processes. Perceputal organsiation. Perception of form, colour, depth and time. Perceptual readiness and constancy. Role of motivation, social and cultural factors in perception. Application of knowledge of perception to skill development (e.g. for certain jobs like that of driving, airline pilots etc.) Learning :Classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Modeling and observational learning. Transfer of training. Learing and motivation. Application of the above to the improvement of academic performance in education.

Memory : Physiological basis of memory. Memory and forgetting. Measurement of memory (Recall, Recognition, Relearning). Short term and long term memory. Theories of forgetting (Decay and Interference theories and Repressive forgetting). Application of Mnemonic devices etc, to improving memory.

References:
1. General Psychology – Morgan & King 2. General Psychology – Atkinson 3. General Psychology – Baron 4. Organization Behaviour – Stephen Robbin 5. Organization Behaviour – Fred Luthans 6. Industory Psychology - Coon.