Well the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is a public institution established by the Government of India, located in Guwahati.

B.Tech Psychology curriculum

The nature and history of psychology; Methods of psychology; Perceptual processes: Attention; Constancies and Illusion; Psychophysics – Classical Psychophysics & Signal Detectability; Learning: Thorndike; Classical Conditioning; Operant Conditioning; Cognitive Learning (Tolman, Kohler); Transfer of Learning; Memory: STM-LTM model, Forgetting -major theories; Emotion -major theories: James-Lange theory, Canon-Bard theory; Papez-MacLean theory; Lindsley’s activation theory; Schachter’s cognitive theory; Intelligence –major model; Measurement of abilities; Personality — Trait and Type approaches; Psychodynamic approach; Learning approaches/Social learning theory; Measurement of Personality; Genetic and environmental determinants of individual differences.

Texts:

1. C. T. Morgon, R. A. King, J. R. Weisz and J. Schoplor, Introduction to Psychoogy,
TMGH, 1993.

2. E. R. Hilgard, R. C. Atkinsorl and R. L. Atkinson, Introduction to Psychology, Oxford
and IBH, 1976.

3. R. A. Baron, Psychology, Prentice Hall, 1996.

4. N. R. Carlson and W. Buskist, Psychology: The Science of Behaviour, Allyn & Bacon, 1997.

Address:

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Near Doul Gobinda Road, Amingaon,

North Guwahati, Guwahati,

Assam 781039

Phone: 0361 258 3000