Course Name & Paper No.2 : Adolescent Psychology

 Course Name & Paper No.2 : Adolescent Psychology

Course Objectives:

This course should help Students:

1. To aim part knowledge about the normality

2. To make student understand the nature and course of various adolescent conditions

3. To impart knowledge in skills needed for psychological assessment and different condition

4. Use to filed of adolescent Psychology

Course:

Unit-1: Introduction to Adolescent Psychology

 Introduction, Definition

 Concept of Adolescence – Hall & Gesell

 Characteristics and principles of adolescence development

 Stage of Human Development

 Subject Filed of Adolescent Psychology

Unit-2: Method of Child Psychology

Physical Development:

 Growth Spurt,

 Sexual Maturation

 Psychological effects of pubertal development-concerns about body image.

 Challenges to early and late development.

 Changes in the adolescent brain. Sleep patterns in adolescence.

Mentally Development:

 Stage of Mental Development

 Factor of Mental Development

 Intelligence and individual difference

 Sex difference.

Emotional Development:

 Emotional Intelligence – Self Awareness, Social awareness, Self-management of emotions, establishing and maintaining healthy Relationships.

Name of course

Sem.

course

Course/ Paper Title

Credit

Internal Marks

External Marks

Total Exam Marks

Practical and

Viva

External Exam Time Duration

B.A.

I

Core

Elective-I

Elective-II

OR

Adolescent Psychology

03

30

70

100

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2:30 Hours

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Social Development:

 Generation gap, Parenting styles, parent-adolescent conflict; siblings - influence of family size and birth order.

 Peers – functions, peer pressure; friends – stability of friendship.

Unit : 3 Personality Development

 Meaning of Personality Development

 Needs of Personality Development

 Personality Characteristics of Adolescent.

Unit : 4 Development of Aptitude, Attitude and Belief

 Meaning of Discipline and Authority

 Meaning of Aptitude

 Attitude of Sexuality

 Nature of Aptitude

 Development of Attitude and Belief

Unit : Issues, Challenges, & Problems of adolescent

 Risk Behaviours: STDs, HIV/AIDS; Teenage Pregnancy, Addiction to Technology

 Substance abuse; Juvenile delinquency; Violence and rape; Poverty and low educational attainment; Adolescent stress- external and internal stressors.

 Obesity and eating disorders; Depression and suicide. Risk factors and Protective factors.

Reference Book:

 Hutchinson, D. Elizabeth. (Ed) (2008), Dimensions of Human Behaviour: The Changing Life Course, USA, Sage Publications Inc.

 Hurlock, Elizabeth. B. (1981). Development Psychology A Life-Span Approach, (Fifth Edition), Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi.

 Santrock, John. W. (2008). Child Development, (Eleventh Edition), Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi.

 Elizabeth Hurlock "Developmental Psychology" M. C. Graw Hill

 Lawrce Fenk,"Developmental Psychology"

 G.W. Allport, "Personality" M. C. Graw Hill, (1989)

 Karl Garrison, "Development of Applied and Attitude Psychology"

 Development Psychology – Pre Yogendra K. Desai

 Human Development & Adolescent Psychology, Dr. R. G. Parmar, Sau. University, Rajkot.

 ર્ૉ. િોિા, ર્ૉ. ર્ઢાણીયા, ર્ૉ. ભાલાળા, ર્ૉ. જારસાણીયા, ર્ૉ. કુાંભાણી (૨૦૧૬): તરુણાવસ્ર્થાનુાં મનોનવજ્ઞાન, સી. જમનાદાસની કાંપની, અમદાવાદ.

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Subject: Psychology

Course Name & Paper No.3 : Basic Psychological Processes-II

Course Objectives:

1. The student will come to understand various types of learning.

2. Student will get information regarding Reinforcement and its schedule for shaping animal and human behavior.

3. Student will get information of memory and utilization of it.

4. Student will define various types of aptitude and its efficacy.

5. Will come to know his/her own interest and aptitudes

6. After learning concept of languages, student will use proper languages to exhihibit his/her ideas.

7. The Course will familiarize students with the basic psychological process and studies relating to the factors which influence them. It will also focus come basic processes areas of Psychology.

8. Learn to use Psychology and other information sources.

Course:

Unit-I: Personality

 Meaning and definition of personality

 Types of Personality

 Determinants of personality: biological, cultural, social & situational.

 Approaches of Personality (In Brief):

o Psychoanalysis approach: Freud, Jung and Adler

o Trait theories Approach: Allport, Cattell

o Biological Approach: Eysenck

o Humanistic Approach: Rogers, Maslow

o Social learning Approach: Bandura

Unit-II: Learning Process

 Meaning and definition of learning

 Nature of Learning

 Factors affecting of Learning

 Transfer of training

Name of course

Sem.

course

Course/ Paper Title

Credit

Internal Marks

External Marks

Total Exam Marks

Practical and

Viva

External Exam Time Duration

B.A.

II

Core

Elective-I

Elective-II

Basic Psychological Processes-II

03

30

70

100

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2:30 Hours

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 Role of Motivation in Learning,

 Theory of Learning:

o Trial and error learning (Observational learning)

o Classical conditioning

o Operant conditioning

o Insight learning.

Unit: III Memory and Forgetting

Memory

 Meaning and definition of memory

 Stages of Memory

 Types of memory: Short term and Long Term Memory

 Characteristics of Good Memory

 Memory Measurement Methods

Forgetting:

 Definition of Forgetting Why we forget?

 Theories (Reasons) of forgetting

 Curve of forgetting

 Strategies for improving memory

Module IV: Thinking (Cognition) Process

 Meaning and Definition of Thinking:

 Nature and Characteristic of thought

 Basic sources of error in reasoning

 Types of Thinking

 Modes of Thinking: Lateral, Divergent & Convergent Thinking

 Stages in creativity Thinking

 Factors that corrupt thinking

UNIT-V: Intelligence and Psychological Testing

Intelligence:

 Meaning and Definition Intelligence

 Determinants of intelligence: heredity and environment.

 Theories of Intelligence

o Two factor theory (Spearman)

o Primary Mental Abilities (Thurstone)

o Multifactor theory (Thorndike)

o Multiple intelligence (Gardner)

 Concept: Mental Age and Intelligence Quotient, Emotional intelligence, Social intelligence, Spiritual Quotient, Artificial intelligence.

 Mental retardation and giftedness.

Psychological Test:

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 Meaning and Definition of Psychological Test

 Characteristics of a Standard Psychological Test

 Uses of Psychological test

Reference:

 Baron, R.A. & Misra, G. (2014). Psychology, 5th ed. New Delhi: Pearson Education.

 Coon, D. (1998). Introduction to psychology: Exploration and application. USA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.

 Ciccarelli, S.K., & Meyer, G.E. (2008). Psychology, South Asian ed. New Delhi: Pearson.

 Bootzin, R., & Bower, G.H. (1991). Psychology today-An Introduction, 7th ed. New York: McGraw Hill Inc.

 Kuppuswamy, B. (1990). Elements of Ancient Indian psychology, 3rd Ed. New Delhi: Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

 Lefrancois, G.R. (2000). Theories of human learning, 4th ed. London:Wadsworth.

 Lee. J A (2010) The Scientific Endeavour. New Delhi. Pearson

 Mishra, B. K. (2008). Psychology: The study of human behaviour. New delhi: Prentice Hall of India.

 Morgan, C.T., King, R.A., Weisz, J.R., & Schopler, J. (1993). Introduction to psychology, 7thed. New Dehi: Tata McGraw Hill.

 Kellogg, R.T. (2007). Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology. California: Sage Publications Inc., Chapter 2 &3.

 Weiten, W. (2002). Psychology: Themes and variations, 5th ed. New York: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., Chapter 4.

 Basic Psychological Process-I, Dr. R. G. Parmar, Dr. C. B. Jadeja, Dr. Jignesh Tapariya

 General Psychology – Dvan Nostran Com. – J. P Gilfourd

 Elements – Rech Devid

 Psychology – Norman L. Munn

 સામાન્ય મનોનવજ્ઞાન – યુનનવસીટી ગ્રાંર્થ નનમાકણ બોર્ક, ર્ૉ. સી. પી. ભટ્ટ.

 પ્રગત સામાન્ય મનોનવજ્ઞાન - યુનનવસીટી ગ્રાંર્થ નનમાકણ બોર્ક, ર્ૉ. બી. એ. પરીખ

 સન્માન્ય માનસશાસ્ર, ર્ૉ. બી. એ. પરીખ, પોપ્યુલર પબ્લીશીંગ હાઉસ-સુરત.

 સામાન્ય મનોનવજ્ઞાનની રૂપરેખા, આવૃનિ ૧૯૯૩-૯૪, સી. જમનાદાસની કાંપની. અમદાવાદ.

 મૂળભૂત મનોવૈજ્ઞાનનક પ્રક્રિયાઓ, આવૃનિ ૨૦૦૭-૨૦૦૮, સી. જમનાદાસની કાંપની. અમદાવાદ.

 વ્યનક્તત્વના નસધ્ાાંતો, કુસુમબેન ભટ્ટ, યુનનવસીટી ગ્રાંર્થ નનમાકણ બોર્ક અમદાવાદ.

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Subject: Psychology