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    BBA161A - BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS (2021 Batch)

    Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30 No of Lecture Hours/Week:2


    Max Marks:100 Credits:2
    Course Objectives/Course Description
    Course Description: To introduce and initiate the student into the world of Psychology. It will provide a brief historical sketch of the
    science of psychology and a glimpse into the methods used in the study of human behavior.

    Course Objectives:

     To provide sufficient knowledge and information about the nature and history of psychology, different fields of psychology,
    approaches in psychology and multiple perspectives and recent trends in the field.
     To understand the basic principles of psychology and methods of psychology.
     To design fundamental processes underlying human behaviour such as learning, motivation, emotion, personality
     To provide understanding in biological basis of behaviour.
     To explain psychological processes of attention, perception, and forgetting.

    Course Outcome
    CLO1 Provide sufficient knowledge and information about the nature and history of psychology, different fields of psychology,
    approaches in psychology and multiple perspectives and recent trends in the field.
    CLO2 Understand the basic principles of psychology and methods of psychology.
    CLO3 Design fundamental processes underlying human behaviour such as learning, motivation, emotion, personality
    CLO4 provide understanding in biological basis of behaviour.
    CLO5 explain psychological processes of attention, perception, and forgetting.
    Unit-1 Teaching Hours:4
    Introduction
    Definition and goals of Psychology, Role of a psychologist in society, Modern perspectives-Biological, Psychodynamic,
    Behaviouristic, Gestalt, Cognitive, Cross cultural, Humanistic and Evolutionary perspective. Methods: Experimental, Observation,
    Survey Method, Archival method, Interview and case study.
    Unit-2 Teaching Hours:7
    Sensory and Perceptual processes
    Sensation: Basic concepts. Sensory adaptation-advantages and disadvantages, Integration of senses. Perception: Understanding
    perception, Gestalt laws of organization. Illusion, Subliminal perception, Extrasensory perception
    Unit-3 Teaching Hours:7
    Memory and Forgetting
    Basic processes- Encoding, Storage, Retrieval. Sensory storage -Iconic memory and Echoic memory. STM-Working memory, Serial
    position curve, Rehearsal, Chunking; LTM-Units of Memory-Declarative, Procedural, Semantic, Episodic memory. Associative
    models-Explicit and Implicit memory, Retrieval cues, State dependent and Context dependent memory. Forgetting- Decay,
    Interference, Amnesia Retrieval problems, Motivated forgetting.
    Unit-4 Teaching Hours:6
    Personality
    Definition, Approaches – Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Dispositional (Type and Trait) and Social-Cognitive approach, Assessment of
    Personality – Questionnaire, Rating Scales and Projective tests – Characteristics, Advantages and disadvantages. Body language
    Unit-5 Teaching Hours:6
    Cognitive Processes
    Cognition-definition. Attention: definition, Characteristics, Selective attention, Divided attention. Thinking- Process of thinking,
    Image and thinking, Language and thought. Types of Thinking- Concept formation, Reasoning, Problem solving, Decision Making,
    Creative thinking, Meditation: Meaning, Short term and long-term effects of meditation
    Text Books And Reference Books:

    1. Feldman R.S (2011 ).Understanding Psychology, 10th edition. Delhi : Tata- McGraw Hill.
    2. Morgan, C.T, King, R.A., Weisz, J.R., and Schopler, J. (2004). Introduction to Psychology, 7th ed, 24th reprint. New Delhi:
    Tata McGraw-Hill.
    Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

    1. Baron, R.A. Psychology.(1995). 3rd edition. Delhi: Prentice Hall.


    2. Munn, N.L., Fernald, L.D., & Fernald, P.S.( 1997 ) Introduction to Psychology. Delhi: Houghton Mifflin.
    3. Munn, N.L., Fernald, L.D., & Fernald, P.S.( 1997 ) Introduction to Psychology. Delhi: Houghton Mifflin.
    4. Smith, E.E., Hoeksman, S.N., Fredrickson, B., Loftus, G.R. (2003) .Atkinson’s & Hilgard’s Introduction to Psychology. First
    Reprint. Delhi Thomson Wadsworth.
    5. Weiten, W. (2010). Psychology: Themes and variations.4th edition. Delhi: Brooks/ Cole Publishing Co.
    Evaluation Pattern

    Evaluation Pattern for Optional Electives

    CIA – 2 (30 Marks) CIA – 3 (15 Marks) CIA – 3 (30 Marks)


    CIA – 1 (15 Marks)
    Written Assessment/ MCQ based Minor Project/Skill Based Case Study/Role Viva /written Exam/
    Quiz Activity/Case Study /viva/ Exam Play/Class submission assignment /
    Participation/GD project (50 Marks)
    (30 Marks) (40 Marks)
    (30 Marks)

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