The syllabus of M Sc Psychology - University of Madras, Institute of Distance Education is as follows:

FIRST YEAR

PAPER I - ADVANCED GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

UNIT - 1 : THE WORLD OF PSYCHOLOGY
Definition of Psychology : Sub-fields of Psychology -
Experimental, Biological, Personality, Social, Clinical and Counselling, Development and Quantitative Psychology.
Methods in Psychology - Survey, Case Study, Naturalistic, Observation, Experiment.

UNIT - 2 : BIOLOGY OF BEHAVIOUR
The Nervous system : Communication in the Nervous system and interaction between neuron.
Neurotransmitters and its functions.
The Spinal cord and its functions.
The Brain and its functions.
The Endocrine systems and its functions.

UNIT-3: SENSORY PROCESS, PERCEPTION AND ATTENTION
The Five senses - its characteristics.
Definition of perception.
Features of perception.
Approaches to perception.
Constructional view of perception.
Ecological view of perception.
Psychophysics.
Attention - Determinants of attention Selective, focused and divided attention.

UNIT - 4 : LEARNING
Definition of Learning.
Classical Learning.
Instrumental and Operant conditioning Learning.
Observational Learning.
Cognitive Process in Learning.

UNIT - 5 : MEMORY AND FORETTING
Types of Memory.
Stages of Memory.
Sensory Memory.
Short-term Memory and Long-term Memory.
Causes of forgetting.
Constructing Memory.
Improving Memory.

UNIT - 6 : EMOTIONS
Emotions and the ANS.
Theories of Emotions.
Expression of Emotions.
Stress and coping styles.
Physical, Physiological
Psycho-social basis of stress.

UNIT - 7 : TESTING AND MENTAL ABILITIES
Principles of Psychological Testing and its types.
Intelligence Tests - Definition of Intelligence.
Theories of Intelligence.
Creativity - Characteristics of Creative Person.

UNIT - 8 : THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE
Thinking process - concepts, problem solving, decision making.
Language - Elements of Language, Understanding sentences and conversation stages of language
development.
Acquiring of Language.

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