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Rainbow International School

CURRICULUM PLANNER
2022 -23
SUBJECT: PSYCHOLOGY CLASS XI

Number
of
working Number of periods Topics / Subtopic Objective/s Aids/ Activities Multiple Learning Outcomes
days / intelligence
Month
7 periods- Topic: Unit I : What is Logical
explanation Psychology To make the learners: thinking
August-12 1 period - CBSE 1. What is Psychology? 1. To understand the skills The students will be
days question bank solving a. Psychology as a Discipline nature and role of able to-
Total – b. Psychology as a Natural psychology in understand and
8 periods Science understanding mind and appreciate
c. Psychology as a Social behavior. Scientific Psychology as
Science 2. To State the growth of Inquiry discipline, its
2. Understanding Mind and the discipline. application and
Behavior 3. To know the different relationships with
3. Popular notions about the fields of psychology, its other science through
Discipline of Psychology. relationship with other Intrapersonal appropriate and
4. Evolution of Psychology disciplines, and skills interesting examples
5. Development of professions. and analysis of
Psychology in India 4. To appreciate the value everyday experience.
6. Branches of Psychology. of psychology in daily life
7. Themes of research and to help you understand Logical
Applications. yourself and others better. thinkin
8. Psychology and other g skills
Disciplines.
9. Psychologists at Work.
10. Psychology in Everyday
life.
 periods- explanation Unit II : Methods of Enquiry in
1 period - CBSE Psychology
question bank solving 1.Goals of Psychological
Total – Enquiry
0 periods a. Steps in Conducting
Scientific Research. b.
Alternative Paradigms of
Research
2.Nature of Psychological
Data
September- periods- explanation Unit II : Methods of
20 days 1 period - CBSE Enquiry in Psychology
question bank solving 3. Some important Methods
Total – in Psychology.
0 periods a. Observational Method
b. Experimental Method
c. Correlation Method
d. Survey Research
e. Psychological Testing
f. Case Study
4. Analysis of Data
a. Quantitative Method
b. Qualitative Method
5. Limitation of
Psychological Enquiry
6. Ethical Issues
Topic:
periods- explanation Unit IV: Human Development
1 period - CBSE 1. Meaning of Development a. Life 1. Able to describe the
question bank solving span perspective on Development meaning and process of
Total – 2. Factors influencing
0 periods Development
3. Context of Development
4. Overview of Developmental
Stages a. Prenatal Stage
5. Infancy
6. Childhood
7. Challenges of Adolescent
8. Adult and Old age
1. The learner is able to
explain the goals and
nature of psychological
enquiry.
2. The student will learn to
understand different types
of data used by
psychologists
. Logical
1. To enable the student to
gain knowledge related to
important methods of
psychological enquiry.
2. To understand the
methods of analyzing data.
3. To enable the students to
understand the limitations
of psychological enquiry
and ethical considerations.
To make the learners:
development.
2. To understand the
influence of heredity,
environment and context
on human development.
3. To know the different
stages of development and
describe the major
characteristics of infancy,
The student will familiarize
with the methods of
studying and understanding
both Quantitative and
Qualitative methods in
Psychology and various
issues related with.
The student will familiarize
thinking with the methods of
skills studying and understanding
both Quantitative and
Qualitative methods in
Psychology and various
Visual - issues related with.
Spatial
Scientific
Inquiry
Intrapersonal
skills
Logical
thinking The students will be
skills able to-
understand and able to deal
with various Developmental
Tasks and Needs across the
Visual - life span.
Spatial
Scientific
 childhood, adolescence, Inquiry
adulthood and old age.
4. To reflect on your own
course of development and
related experiences. Intrapersonal
skills

Logical
thinkiNG
Logical
October- Unit V: Sensory, Attentional, 1. To enable the student thinking The students will be
days periods- explanation and Perceptual Process to understand the skills able to-
1 period - CBSE 1. Knowing the World nature of sensory explain how various
question bank solving 2. Nature and Varieties of processes. sensory stimuli are
Total – Stimulus 2. Able to explain the received, processed
periods 3. Sense Modalities processes and types of Visual - and interpreted by
a. Visual Sensation attention. Spatial Human brain and
b. Auditory Sensation 3. To analyze the related organs to
4. Attentional Process a. problems of form and understand the world
Selective Attention b. space perception. around us.
Sustained Attention 4. Develop Scientific
5. Perceptual Process a. sensitivity towards Inquiry
Processing approaches in role of socio-cultural
b. Perception 6. Perceiver 7. factors in perception.
Principles of Perceptual 5. Able to reflect on
Organization 8. Perception of sensory, attentional Intrapersonal
Space, Depth and Distance a. and perceptual skills
Monocular cues and Binocular processes in everyday
cues 9. Perceptual constancies life.
10. Illusions 11. Socio-
Cultural influence on . Logical
Perception thinkin
g skills
Unit VI: Learning
1. Nature of Learning 1. To explain the specific The students will
2. Paradigms of Learning nature of learning. understand how human
3. Classical Conditioning a. 2. The student will learn to beings acquire new
Determinants of Classical understand different forms or behavior and how
 Conditioning
4. Operant/Instrumental
Conditioning
a. Determinants of Operant
Conditioning
b. Key Learning Process
5. Observational Learning
6. Cognitive Learning
7. Verbal Learning
8. Concept Learning
9. Skill Learning
10.Transfer of Learning
11.Factors Facilitating
Learning
12.The Learner: Learning style
13.Learning Disabilities
14.Applications of Learning
Principles
periods- explanation
November 1 period - CBSE Unit VII: Human Memory
– days question bank solving 1. Nature of Memory
Total – 2. Information Processing
periods Approach: The Stage Model
3. Memory Systems:
Sensory, Short- Term and
Long-term Memories
4. Levels of Processing
5. Types of Long Term
Memory
a. Declarative and
Procedural; Episodic and
Semantic
6. Knowledge Presentation
and Organization in Memory
7. Memory as a constructive
Process
8. Nature and Causes of
Forgetting a. Forgetting due
to trace Decay, Interference
and Retrieval Failure
9. Enhancing Memory a.
types of learning and the changes in behavior take
procedures used in such types place. Students can
of learning. identify their personal
3. To know various style of learning and
psychological processes that develop various study
occur during learning and skills.
influence its course.
4. To understanding key
elements that influence the
process of learning.
5. To familiarize yourself with
some applications of learning
principles.
Logical
1. Develop an understanding thinking The students will be
the nature and significance of skills able to-
memory. understand how
2. Able to distinguish between information is
different types of memory and received, stored,
its functioning. Visual - retrieved and lost and
3. To explain how the Spatial they will also be
contents in short term and learned some
long-term memory are techniques to improve
represented and organized. memory.
4. Able to appreciate the Scientific
constructive and Inquiry
reconstructive processes in
memory, understand the Intrapersonal
nature and causes of skills
forgetting.
5. The student will learn the
strategies for improving
memory.
Logical
thinking
 Mnemonics using Images skills
and Organization

1. To describe the nature of The students will be

periods- explanation Unit VIII : Thinking
period - CBSE 1. Nature of Thinking a.
question bank solving Building Blocks of Thought
Total – 2. The process of Thinking
periods 3. Problem Solving
4. Reasoning
5. Decision-Making
6. Nature and Process of
Creative thinking
a. Nature of Creative
thinking
b. Process of Creative
Thinking
7. Developing Creative
Thinking
a. Barriers to Creative
Thinking
b. Strategies for Creative
thinking
8. Thought and Language
9. Development of Language
and Language use
thinking and reasoning. Visual - able to-
2. Able to demonstrate an Spatial understand various
understanding of some process involved in
cognitive processes involved thinking like
in problem solving and reasoning, decision
decision-making. Scientific making, Problem
3. To understand the nature Inquiry solving and creative
and process of creative thinking etc., Students
thinking and learn ways of Intrapersonal will be able to
enhancing it. skills develop some meta
4. To make the student cognitive strategies.
understand the relationship
between language and
thought.
5. To know the different
process of language
development and its use.

December periods- explanation Unit IX: Motivation and
1 period - CBSE Emotion
– days
question bank solving 1. Nature of Motivation
Total – 2. Types of Motives
periods a. Biological Motives
b. Psychological Motives
3. Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs
4. Nature of Emotions
5. Physiological bases of
Emotion
6. Cognitive bases of Emotion
7. Cultural bases of Emotion
1. To understand the
nature of human
motivation.
2. To able describe the
nature of some important
motives.
3. To understand the key
elements in the nature of
emotional expression.
4. Able understand the
relationship between
culture and emotion.
5. To know how to
The students will be
Logical able to-
thinking
understand and
skills describe why Human
being behave as they
do. They also be
developed positive
Visual - attitudes towards their
Spatial fellow beings and
being emotionally
stabled persons.
Scientific
 8. Expression of Emotion manage your own Inquiry
a. Culture and Emotional emotions.
expression
b. Culture and Emotional Intrapersonal
labeling skills
9. Managing negative
Emotions
10. Enhancing Positive
Emotions
Logical
thinkin
g skills

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