PSYCHOLOGY SYLLABUS BHU ENTRANCE
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HISTORY AND EMERGENCE
INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction: Psychology as a scientific study of behaviour.
2. Biological and socio-cultural bases of behaviour.
3. Applications of psychology.
CULTURE AND
HUMAN
BEHAVIOUR
1. Introduction: Concept of
culture; cross
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cultural and cultural psychology; socio
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biological and eco-cultural approaches; ethnocentrism and multiculturalism.
2. Methods of study: Observation, survey and experimentation; choice of
measuring instruments; quantification of qualitative data; sampling and
comparability issues.
3. Sensation and perception: Sensory preferences; colour and depth perception;
interpreting patterns and pictures; perception of time.
4. Culture and intelligence: Meaning of intelligence; psychometric and cultural
approaches, interpreting intelligence test scores; deficit and difference
hypotheses; biological and cultural factors in intelligence.
5. Culture and emotion: Similarities and differences in emotions; physiological
arousal and evaluations, experience and expression of emotions; emotion and
judgment.
PRACTICAL
a. Colour /Depth perception
b. Perception of emotions
APPLIED
PSYCHOLOGY
1. Introduction: Nature and fields.
2. Psychology in industries and organizations: Personnel selection; job analysis;
fatigue and accidents; advertising and consumer behaviour.
3. Psychology in education: School as an agent of socialization. Factors influencing
school achievement. Exceptional children: Problems and remedial measures.
4. Psychology and mental health: Symptoms and causes of anxiety disorders and
schizophrenia, mental retardation. Anti-social behaviour: Crime and delinquency.
5. Psychology and social behaviour: Prejudice and stereotypes; conflict and its
resolution.
