M. A.

Psychology
Revised Syllabus
M. A. Part – I
(With effect from June 2008)
Marks Duration

PSY-101 Personality Motivation and Emotion (New) 80 3 Hrs

PSY-102 Health Psychology and Human Life (New) 80 3

OR
PSY-102 Cognitive Psychology (New) 80 3

PSY-103 Research Methodology in Psychology (New) 60 2

PSY-104 Psychological testing and

Statistical Methods (New) 80 3

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 Psychology
M.A. Part-I
Paper-1
Total Marks – 80
Total Hours – 100

Personality – Motivation and Emotion (PSY – 101) Hours

1. Nature of Personality – Motivation – Emotion & Methods 10

1.1 Defining Personality
1.2 Theory in personality psychology.
1.3 Methods Gathering information – issues in personality assessment.
1.4 Motivation – Nature – types
1.5 Emotion – Nature – types
2. Dispositional Perspective. 10
2.1 Types
2.2 Traits
2.3 Interactionism
2.4 Theories approach: Cattle, Eysenck, Goldberg, All port
2.5 Needs and Motives and personality
3. Biological Perspective 10
3.1 Physique and personality
3.2 Inheritance in personality
3.3 Evolution and human behavior
3.4 Problems in behavior and change
3.5 Extraversion – Neuroticism and brain function
3.6 Sensation Seeking Hormones and Personality
4. Psychoanalytical Perspective. 10
4.1 Structure and process
4.2 Component’s of personality structural model
4.3 Motivation – the drive personality
4.4 Psychosexual development
4.5 Anxiety – Defense Mechanism – Psychopathology of every day life.
4.6 Theories related Psychoanalytical perspective
5. The Neo psycho analytical perspective. 10
5.1 Ego Psychology
5.2 Ego development
5.3 Psycho social theories
5.4 Attachment theory
5.5 Theory of Psychosocial development
6. Learning perspective. 10
6.1 Classical – Instrumental Conditioning
6.2 Problems in behaviour and change
6.3 Social cognitive leering theories

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 Conditioning process
Observational learning
Manifestation of cognitive and social learning
6.4 Theories on learning perspective.
7. The Phenomenological perspective. 10
7.1 Self Actualization
7.2 Existential Psychology
7.3 Personal construct
7.4 Theories related to phenomenological perspectives.
8. Anxiety and Stress. 10
8.1 Concept
8.2 Theories of Anxiety
8.3 Theories of stress
8.4 Anxiety and performance
9. Psycho Physiology of Motivation and theories. 10
9.1 Physiological basis of sleep – wakefulness – dream Role of RAS
9.2 Neural and peripheral mechanism of hunger, thirst sex.
9.3 Theories ( Murray, Atkinson, McClelland)
10. Psycho physiology of Emotion and Theories Emotion 10
10.1 Role of CNS and ANS
10.2 Role of Hormonal factors in emotion.
10.3 Theories of emotion ( Schachter singer Lazarus Frijda)

Note :- Each units carry equal weightage of marks.

Reading Books And Reference Books

1. Buck R (1976) Human Motivation and Emotion. New York wiley
2. Hall C. S. Lindzey, (ampbell 1998) – Theories of personality john wiley and
sons New York.
3. Perspectives on Personality (Third Ed) Carva – Scheier (1996)
A llyn and Bacon – Bootom – Singapore
4. Allen B. P. (1997) – Personality Theories, New York Harper and Roc.
5. Feist J (1985) Theories of personality
6. Pervin LA (1985) Personality – Theory and research (4 ed)
New York – John wiley and sons
7. Kalat J. W. (2000) Biological psychology, Wordsworth inc
8. Kaplan H. B. (1996) Psycho social stress from perspective of theory N. Y.
Academic press
9. Oatley K. Jenkins (1992) – Understanding emotion Black well publisher.
10. Robert F (1988) – Human Motivation, Brooks Publication
11. Ledoux (1998) The emotional brain
Weidenfield & Nicolason

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 Psychology
M.A. Part-I
Paper-II Health Psychology and Human life (PSY-102)
Total Marks – 80
Total Hours – 100
Objectives :- 1) To know the effect of stress on health.
2) To understand health problems an individual and social level.
Hours
Unit – I An overview of psychology and health. 10
1.1 Health – illness I wellness – Today and in the past
1.2 View points from history.
1.3 Seeing a Need ; Psychology’s role in health.
1.4 Current perspectives on health and illness.
1.5 Relating health psychology to other subfields.
Unit – II The Body’s physical system. 10
2.1 The Nervous system
2.2 The Digestive system
2.3 The cardiovascular system.
2.4 The immune system
2.5 The Reproductive system.
2.6 The Endocrine system
Unit – III Stress, meaning and impact. 10
3.1 Experiencing stress in life.
3.2 Biopsychosocial aspect of stress.
3.3 Sources of stress.
3.4 Measuring stress.
Unit – IV Stress biopsychosocial factors and illness. 10
4.1 Psychosocial modifiers of stress.
4.2 Stress and health
4.3 Psychophysiological disorders.
4.4 Stress and cardiovascular disorders
4.5 Stress and cancer.
Unit – V Coping with stress and Reducing stress. 10
5.1 Coping with stress.
5.2 Reducing the potential for stress.
5.3 Reducing stress Reactions.
5.4 Using stress management to Reduce coronary risk.
Unit – VI Health – Related behaviour-
6.1 Health and behaviour.
6.2 Determinants people’s health related behaviour.
6.3 Developmental Gender sociocultaral factors.
6.4 Programs for health promotion.
Unit – VII Reducing substance use and Abuse 10
7.1 Substance Abuse
7.2 Smoking

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 7.3 Alcohol use
7.4 Drug Abuse
Unit – VIII Improving Nutrition – exercise – safety. 10
8.1 Nutrition
8.2 Weight control and diet
8.3 Exercise
8.4 Safety
Unit IX Becoming ill-getting medical treatment. 10
9.1 Types of health services.
9.2 Perceiving and interpreting systems.
9.3 Using – Misusing health services.
9.4 Patient – Practioner relation.
9.5 Compliance – Adhering to medical advice.
Unit X Hospital Management. 10
10.1 The hospital, setting, procedure.
10.2 Being hospitalized
10.3 Emotional adjustment in hospital
10.4 Role of health psychologist.

Note :- Each units carry equal weightage of marks.

Books for Reading and References

1) Sorson I. G. (1985) Potter E. H. Lete event social support.
2) Sarotino E. P. – Health psychology – biosocial interaction 3rd edition John wiley
1997.
3) Nehemark (1986) – Conpliance. The dilemma of Cronically ill New York
Springer.
4) Pellones (1990) – Health psychology wiley.
5) Coloman (1978) – Effective behavior Taraporwala.
6) Shanmugan (1988) – Community psychology.
7) Quick J. C. (1984) – Organizational stress and preventive management, New
York Mcgraw Hill.

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 Psychology
M.A. Part-I

Paper-II Cognitive Psychology (PSY-102)

Total Marks – 80
Total Hours – 100
Objective :- 1) To introduce cognitive nature to students.
2) To acquaint students major theories of learning.
1. Nature – Scope. 10 Hours
1.1 Origin of Cog. Psychology.
1.2 Modern Cog. Psychology.
1.3 ISMS in Cog. Psychology.
1.4 Current Status.
1.5 Methods – Paradigm approaches
2. Attention Process. 10
2.1 Selection attention.
2.2 Theories of attention.
2.3 Divided attention.
2.4 The attention hypothesis of autometisation.
2.5 Automatically.
2.6 Feature integration theory.
3. Perception Process 10
3.1 Definition and Nature of perception.
3.2 Patter Recognition
3.3 Neuropsychological Research
3.4 Gestalt approach to perception.
3.5 Bottom up processes.
3.6 Prototype matching.
3.7 Top down processes.
4. Episodic memory 10
4.1 Theories of memory.
4.2 Level of processing approach.
4.3 Tulvings model
4.4 STM, LTM
4.5 Inhibition effect.
4.6 Autobiographical.
5. Semantic Memory 10
5.1 Concept and categories
5.2 Classical view
5.3 Prototype view
5.4 Theories of semantic memory
5.5 Example model
6. Concept formation and the meta memory. 10
6.1 Strategies.
6.2 Acquiting Prototypes

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 6.3 Schemas
6.4 Tot Phenomenon
6.5 Meta conqnition
7. Problem solving 10
7.1 Nature.
7.2 Classification.
7.3 Problem space theory
7.4 Means – End hypothesis
7.5 Analogy Approach
7.6 Algoritham, Heuristics – cass room problem solving.
7.7 Facilitating factors
8. Creativity 10
8.1 Nature of creative thinking
8.2 Creativity and intelligence
8.3 Creative abilities
8.4 Creativity and learning.
8.5 Factors influencing creativity
8.6 Fostering Creativity
9. Theories of Learning 10
9.1 Pavlovian Classical Conditioning
9.2 Thorndike’s Instrumental and law of effect.
9.3 Tolmans purposive behaviorism
9.4 Hull’s Logical Behaviour
9.5 Skinners Radical Behaviour
10. Human Memory and Artificial Intelligence. 10
10.1 Structural account of memory – information processing.
10.2 Processing view of memory
10.3 Atrificial Intellgence.

Note :- Each units carry equal weightage of marks.

Books of Reading and References

1) Best. J. B. (1995) Cognitive psychology – West Publising
2) Glass A. L. and Holyoak K. J. – Cognition 2nd ediction McGraw Hill
International Edition.
3) Solso R. L. (2004) – Cognitive psychology (6th edition) Bosten : Allyn & Becon
pub.
4) Sternberg R. L. (1996) – Cognitive psychology New York, Horcourt Brace
College Pub.
5) Best J. B. (1999) – Cognitive psychology (5th edition) New York ITP Pub.
Comp.
6) Haber and t. k. (1997) – Cognitive psychology (2nd edition) Allyn Becon pub.
Comp.
7) Beck R. C. (1983) – Motivation : Theories and principles prentice Hall, Line
Englewood cliffs, New Jerses.
8) Benjafield J. B. (1997) – Cognition psychology west publishing co.

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9) Hampson P. J. and Morris, P. E. (1996) – Understanding Cognition Blackwell
publishers ltd.
10) Leahey T. H. and Harris, R. J. (1997) – Learning and cognition prentice hall,
upper saddle river New Jersey.
11) Matlin M. W. (1995) – Cognition 3rd edition Bonglore Prism books.
12) Galotti K. M. (2001) – Cognitive psychology (2nd edition) New Delhi- Wiley.

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 Psychology
M.A. Part-I
Paper-III Research Methodology in Psychology (PSY-103)
Marks :- 60
Hours - 100
Objective :- (i) To acquaint the student with methodological Techniques.
(ii) To direct the students for preparation for research.
(iii) To develop Skills among student for research.
(iv) To encourage student with research project and practicum work.

Unit :- I Research process. 10 Hours

1.1 Characteristics of scientific method.
1.2 Basic concept in research.
1.3 Steps in research.
1.4 Problem and hypothesis characteristics types.
1.5 Variable types operational definition.
Unit :- II Types of infestation. 10
2.1 Control laboratory experiment
2.2 Field experiment
2.3 Ex post facto field studies.
2.4 Ex post fact laboratory studies.
Unit :- III Method of data collection. 10
3.1 Observation.
3.2 Questionnaire
3.3 Interview
3.4 Case study
3.5 Survey research.
Unit :- IV Sampling Techniques and Scaling methods. 10
4.1 Simple Random sampling.
4.2 Systematic sampling.
4.3 Random sampling.
4.4 Stratified sampling.
4.5 Other sampling techniques.
4.6 Scaling methods types of scale.
Unit :- V Research designs and Multivariate data analysis. 10
5.1 Purpose.
5.2 Experimental design single group, two groups, quassi experimental,
multi group non equivalent, control group factorial design.
5.3 Multivariate data analysis – Characteristics.
Factor analysis – Second order, higher order
Multiple regression – canonical correlation
Path analysis – Structural equation.
Unit VI :- Writing Research and use of Computer in research. 10
6.1 Research proposal steps.
6.2 Research report nature.

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 6.3 APA Style for research.
6.4 Writing dissertation and thesis.
6.5 Precaution for writing research report.
6.6 Use of computer in research and precaution computer crime.
6.7 Advantages of computer, internet, websites in research.

Note :- Each units carry equal weightage of marks.

Reference
1) Shougnnessy J. T. and Research methods in psychology Zhmeister E. B. (1997)
– 4th edition, New York McGraw Hill.
2) Zechmeister J. S. Zechmeister E. B. and Shaugnnessy J. I. (2001) – Essentials
of research methods in psychology, Boston McGraw Hill.
3) Mason E. J. (1989) – Understanding and conducting research (2nd ed) McGraw
Hill.
4) Karlinger F. B. (1999) – Foundation of behavioural research (7th ed) Banglore.
5) Singh A. K. (2002) – Test measurement in research, New Delhi.

Important Note :- Project / desartation (practicum) for 20 Marks

1) Student should complete one research project / disartation (Practicum) for 20
marks with methodology.
2) Practicum is more than twenty pages.
3) All the research reports steps are should included in project.

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 Psychology
M.A. Part-I
Paper – IV Psychological testing and statistical Methods (PSY-104)

Marks :- 80
Objectives:- Hours :- 100
1. To Introduce various test to students.
2. To acquaint student with construction and development of Psychological
Test.
3. To impart student for statistical analysis.
4. To encourage student with statistical techniques for the new world.
Unit I :- Nature of Psychological test. 10 Hours
Principle characteristic of psychological tests.
Uses of psychological tests.
Types of psychological test.
Norms and types of norms.
Item analysis.
Test construction.
Unit II :- Reliability and Validity. 10
2.1 Nature of reliability.
2.2 Types of reliability.
2.3 Nature of Validity.
2.4 Types of validity
2.5 Application.
Unit III :- Measurement of Intelligence. 10
3.1 Intelligence – Nature – theories.
3.2 Binets contribution.
3.3 Individual and group tests.
3.4 Performance and language tests.
3.5 Application.
Unit IV :- Personality Measurement. 10
4.1 Projective Techniques.
4.2 Self Report Inventories.
4.3 Situational test.
4.4 Interest Measurement.
4.5 Attitude Measurement.
Unit V :- Ability Tests. 10
5.1 Ability Test
5.2 Multiple aptitude test.
5.3 Special aptitude test.
5.4 Educational, Occupation Test.
5.5 Value test.
Unit VI :- Probability 10
6.1 Elementary principles of probability.

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 6.2 Normal distribution curve.
6.3 Areas under normal distribution curve.
6.4 Application of normal distribution curve
Unit VII :- Correlation 10
7.1 Meaning and types of Correlation.
7.2 Uses of Correlation.
7.3 Product moment correlation.
7.4 Scatter diagram.
7.5 Biseral of correlation.
7.6 Partial multiple correlation.
7.7 Simple correlation.
7.8 Regression (concept-types)
Unit VIII :- Statistical Inferences. 10
8.1 Technique difference between mean.
8.2 Independent sample t
8.3 Paired sample t.
8.4 Difference between percentage and
Correlation coefficient.
Unit IX :- Non Parametric statistics and chi square 10
9.1 Parametric Vs nonparametric test.
9.2 Chi. square, uses.
9.3 Procedure of testing 2 X 2 n X n
9.4 Sign test.
9.5 Menemar test.
9.6 Wile Oxon test.
9.7 The Mann- Whitney u test.
9.8 Score transformation – T scores.
Unit X :- Analysis of variance 10
10.1 Analysis one-way variance.
10.2 Two way classification.
10.3 Covariance.
10.4 Analysis of some special analysis of variance methods.
10.5 Nature of multivariate analysis.

Note :- Each units carry equal weightage of marks.

Reference
1. Anastasi A, (1990) – Psychological Testing. McMillor
2. Chronbatech L. J. (1990) – Essentials of psychological Testing - Harper.
3. Thorlon G. C. and oeting E. R. (1992) – Exercises to psychological Testing –
Harper and Row.

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 4. Remmers H. Gage N (1967) - A practical introduction to measurement and
evaluation Harper – Row.
5. Freeman (1996) – Psychological testing. McGraw Hill.
6. Garret (1972) – Statistics in psychology and Education.
7. Goiford J.P. (1972) – Fundamental statistics in psychology and Educations.
8. Edward A. L. (1967) – statistical methods in psychological research. Rinehart- New
York.
9. new Nemer Q. (1976) – Psychological statistics Wiley- New York.

Important Note :-
1. Only problems on t test, correlation (product moment), chi square, one way ANOVA,
Scatter diagram allowed for examination.
2. Simple calculator is allowed in examination.

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 M. A. Psychology
Revised Syllabus
M. A. Part – I
(With effect from June 2008)
Equivalent Course
Sr. Old Course (June
Paper Paper New Course (2008)
No. 2003)
EP. 01 Psy- 101 Personality Motivation and
1.
Paper- I
Personality Emotion
EP. 02 Psy- 102 Health Psychology and Human
Cognitive Process
Paper-II Life
2. Motivation
Or
And Emotion Psy- 102 Cognitive Psychology
EP. 03
Research Methods Research Methodology in
3. Paper-III Psy- 103
and Statistics Psychology.
Psychological Testing
EP. 04
and Application Psychological testing and
4. Paper-IV Psy- 104
Theory Application. statistical Methods
(Practical)

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