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    HUL 261

    Psychological basis of behavior


    4 credits 3-1-0

    Snehlata Jaswal

    COURSE CONTENT

    Psychology as a science and its methods


    Fields of psychology
    Principles of learning
    Remembering and forgetting
    Thinking: The thinking process, Concepts, Problem
    Solving, Decision making, Creative Thinking
    Motivation: Theories of motivation, Various types of
    motives, Frustration and Conflict
    Perception: Attention process, Form perception,
    Constancy of perception, Depth perception,
    Movement perception, The plasticity of perception,
    Factors affecting perception
    Personality: Various approaches to personality

    PRACTICAL COMPONENT
    PROJECT WORK

    Each student to independently design and


    conduct one experiment with at least two
    independent variables, involving normal
    human subject(s)

    EVALUATION
    Pre minor test
    Minor 1
    Minor 2
    Major
    Term paper
    Presentation in tutorial
    Class test
    Project
    Report
    Viva voce

    5%
    10%
    10%
    40%
    10%
    5%
    5%
    10%
    5%

    TEXTS / JOURNALS FOR REFERENCES


    Texts for reference:

    Baron, R. A. (2005). Psychology. New Delhi: Pearson.


    Feldman, R.S. (2005). Understanding Psychology. Singapore: McGraw
    Hill
    Morgan, C.T., King, R.A., Weisz, J.R., and Schopler, J. (2004). An
    Introduction to Psychology. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.
    Any other introductory psychology text
    Journals:

    Annual Reviews
    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
    Journal of Cognitive Psychology
    Perception and Psychophysics
    Journal of Experimental Psychology All three
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

    SEARCH ONLINE
    Google with the title or part of the title
    Annual reviews.org
    Medline (Pubmed)
    Web of Knowledge
    Websites of the authors
    Seek help from the librarian
    Ask me?????

    Thank you

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