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UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) Psychology

(SEMESTER-I)

based on
Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 2022 (UGCF)
(Effective from Academic Year 2022-23)

DSC-1- Introduction to Psychology

Course Title Nature of Total Components Eligibility

the Course Credits Criteria/Prerequisite
Introduction to Psychology DSC-01 4 L T P Class XII Pass
3 0 1
Contents of the course and reference is in Annexure-I

DSC-2- Cognitive Psychology

Course Title Nature of Total Components Eligibility

the Course Credits Criteria/Prerequisite
Cognitive Psychology DSC-02 4 L T P Class XII Pass
3 0 1
Contents of the course and reference is in Annexure-II

DSC-3- Bio Psychology

Course Title Nature of Total Components Eligibility

the Course Credits Criteria/Prerequisite
Bio Psychology DSC-03 4 L T P Class XII Pass
3 1 0
Contents of the course and reference is in Annexure-III
 UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

DEPARTMENT: PSYCHOLOGY

Course Name: B.A. (Hons.) and B.A. (Hons.) Applied Psychology

(SEMESTER – 1)

based on

Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 2022 (UGCF)

(Effective from Academic Year 2022-23)

University of Delhi

List of GE Papers

Course Title Nature Total Components Contents of the

of the Credits Lecture Tutorial Practical course and
Course reference is in
Foundations of GE 01 4 3 1 0
Psychology
Understanding GE 02 4 3 0 1
Psychology Annexure-IV
Psychology for GE 03 4 3 1 0
Healthy Living
Understanding GE 04 4 3 1 0
Human Mind
 Annexure-I

COURSES FOR B.A. (HONS.) PSYCHOLOGY

SEMESTER I

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE (DSC) COURSES

DSC01: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

Credit: 4 (3 Lecture + 1 Practical)

Course Learning Outcomes:

 To introduce the key concepts of the field of psychology with an emphasis on
applications of psychology in everyday life.
 To Develop an understanding and ability to interweave basic concepts of learning, memory,
motivation and emotion in Psychology.
 To develop an understanding of the key figures, diverse theoretical perspectives and research
findings that have shaped some of the major areas of contemporary psychology.

Unit 1: Introduction: Nature of Psychology- Indian and Western ;Scope of Psychology ,

Perspectives in Psychology, Subfields of Psychology, Psychology Today

Unit 2: Learning and Memory: Learning, Nature of learning, Principles and applications of
Classical Conditioning, Operant Learning, Observational Learning, and Cognitive Learning in brief
Memory: Definition, Models of memory,Forgetting, Improving memory

Unit 3:Motivation and Emotion Motivation: Nature, Perspectives, Types- biogenic, sociogenic,
intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, relationship between motivation and emotion.
Emotions: Nature, Functions of Emotion, Theories of emotion , Culture and Emotion - Indian
perspective.

PRACTICAL : Any one Practicum based on Unit 2 or Unit 3. Each practical group will consist of
10-12 students.

References:

 Baron, R.,&Misra, G. (2016). Psychology(5th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson.

 Feldman, R.S. (2011). Understanding Psychology (10th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
 Galotti, K.M. (2014). Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory(5th ed.). New
Delhi: Sage.
 Passer, M.W.,& Smith, R.E. (2010). Psychology: The science of mind and behaviour. New
Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill.
 Zimbardo, P.G., Johnson, R.L.,& McCann, V.M. (2012). Psychology: Core concepts. (7th
ed.). U.S.A.: Pearson.

Additional References:
 Annexure-II
Annexure-III

 Singh, K. (2022). There isn’t only cultural blindness in psychology; psychology is culture blind.
In Robert W. Hood, Jr. & Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Eds.), Research in the social scientific
study of religion, volume 32 (pp. 399-426). Boston: Brill.

DSC02: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Credit: 4 (3 Lecture + 1 Practical)

Course Learning Outcomes:

 To gain an understanding of basic theoretical, empirical, and applied knowledge that have
shaped cognitive psychology.
 To understand the fundamentals of cognitive processes and cognitive psychology.

Unit 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Brief history, Nature & Research methods in
Cognitive Psychology, Paradigms- Information processing, Connectionist, Evolutionary Ecological

Unit 2: Sensing and Perceiving: Sensation to representation, approaches to perception, perception

of object and forms, perception of constancies and deficits of perception, Attention: nature &
theories, when attention fails us, Automatic and Controlled Processes in Attention

Unit 3:Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making:

Components of thoughts, imagery and cognitive maps, strategies and barriers of effective problem
solving; judging and making decisions: biases and methods

PRACTICAL : Any one practicum based on Unit 2 or Unit 3. Each practical group will consist of
10-12 students.

References:

 Braisby, N.,&Gellatly, A. (2005).Cognitive Psychology. Oxford University Press.

 Galotti, K. (2013). Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory (5th ed.). Sage
Publications.
 Sternberg, K., & Sternberg, R. (2011). Cognitive Psychology. Cengage Learning.
 Zimbardo, P.G., Johnson, R.L., & McCann, V.M. (2012). Psychology: Core concepts. (7th
ed.). U.S.A.: Pearson.

Additional References:

 Singh, K. (2022). There isn’t only cultural blindness in psychology; psychology is culture blind.
In Robert W. Hood, Jr. & Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Eds.), Research in the social scientific
study of religion, volume 32 (pp. 399-426). Boston: Brill.

DSC03: BIO PSYCHOLOGY

Credit: 4 (3 Lecture+1 Tutorial)

Course Learning Outcomes:

 To understand into the nature and scope of bio psychology and its applications in psychology
 To learning the structure and function of Neuron and the importance of action potential and
synaptic activity
 To become aware of the methods to study the brain and its role in behavior
 To learn how endocrine glands mediate behavior.

Unit 1: Introduction to Biopsychology & Nerve Impulse: Nature & scope of bio psychology(
briefly explain what is bio psychology, and its application in psychology).

Unit 2: Neuron: structure and function of Neurons, action potential/nerve impulse, synaptic
transmission

Unit 3:Brain and Behavior: Methods (EEG, CT, fMRI), CNS and behavior( Spinal cord and Brain
functions.)

Unit 4: Endocrine System: Endocrine basis of behavior, Structure, function and abnormalities
(Pituitary, Adrenal,Thyroid, Gonads)

References:

 Carlson, N. R.(2009). Foundations of Physiological Psychology (6th ed.). New Delhi:

Pearson Education. (Latest ed., pp. 26-59; pp. 62-92).
 Khosla, M. (2017).Physiological Psychology: An Introduction.Delhi: Sage Texts.
 Leukel,F. (1976). Introduction to Physiological Psychology. Pearson: New Delhi. (pp 35-55).
 Levinthal, C. F. (1983). Introduction to Physiological psychology. New Delhi. PHI. (pp 116-
151).
 Pinel, J. P. J. (2016). Biopsychology(9th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education.(Pp 25-39, pp
75-120).

References for Additional Readings:

 Kolb, B., & Whishaw, I. Q. (2009). Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, 6th Edition.
Worth Publishers: New York. Pg 51-81, 110-131
 Rains, G. D. (2002). Principles of Human Neuropsychology. McGraw Hill: New York. Pg 45-
71.
 Annexure-IV

GENERIC ELECTIVE (GE) COURSES

B.A. (HONS.) PSYCHOLOGY& B.A. (HONS.) APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

FIRST YEAR

SEMESTER I
GE 01: FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY

Credit: 4 (3 Lecture + 1 Tutorial)

Course Learning Outcomes

● To introduce the core concepts of psychology with an emphasis on applications of

psychology in everyday life.
● To help students develop an insight into their own and others’ behavior and underlying
mental processes.
● To understand and be able to interweave the fundamental psychological concepts of
learning, memory, motivation, and emotion.
● To understand the theoretical perspectives and research findings that have shaped
some of the most important areas of contemporary psychology.

Unit 1: What is Psychology : Psychology as a science; Major schools of Psychology;

Evolution of Psychology in India; Subfields and Applications of Psychology

Unit 2: Mind as Information Processer: Bottom-up and Top-down processing, Perceptual

organizational processes, Acquiring Information: Learning by Association, Social Cognitive
Learning, Encoding and Retrieval in Memory: Information Processing model; Why we
forget? Mnemonics

Unit 3: Self and Personality: Nature and Perspectives (Trait and Type, Jungian Theory of
Psychoanalysis, Roger’s Self Theory), Measures of Personality: Inventories and Projective
techniques, Culture and Personality

Unit 4: Intelligence and Creativity: Nature and Perspectives: Psychometric approach

(Spearman’s ‘g’ factor theory), Cognitive perspective (Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence;
Triarchic Theory of Intelligence), Multiple Intelligences, Managing emotions intelligently,
Nature of Creativity

References:

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 Baron, R.A and Misra, G. (2014). Psychology (Indian Subcontinent Edition). Pearson
Education Ltd.
 Ciccarelli, S. K & Meyer, G.E (2008). Psychology (South Asian Edition). New Delhi:
Pearson
 Feldman. S.R. (2009). Essentials of understanding psychology (7th Ed.) New Delhi: Tata
Mc Graw Hill.
 Passer, M.W., Smith, R.E., Holt, N. and Bremner, A. (2008). Psychology: The Science of
Mind and Behaviour. McGraw-Hill Education. UK
 Zimbardo, P.C. & Weber, A.L. (1997). Psychology, New York: Harper Collins College
Publishers.
 Robinson-Riegler, G., & Robinson-Riegler, B. (2008). Cognitive psychology: Applying the
science of the mind (2nd ed.). Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
 Singh A.K (2017) सं ाना मक मनो व ान: Cognitive Psychology. Motilal Banarsidass
Publishers Pvt.Ltd.
 Singh A.K (2017) उ चतर सामा य मनो व ान: Advanced General Psychology. Motilal
Banarsidass Publishers Pvt.Ltd.

GE 02: UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY

Credit: 4 (3 Lecture + 1 Practical)

Course Learning Outcomes

 To develop an understanding of self and others’ by using the knowledge gained through
the course about the different approaches in understanding behavior
 Demonstrate comprehension of the theoretical concepts of psychology and the related
empirical findings in areas such as perception, memory, motivation, emotions, learning,
Intelligence, personality, cognition etc.

Unit 1: Introduction to Psychology: Nature and Scope, Historical Development

(structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalytic, cognitive, behavioural, humanistic-
existential, gestalt), Psychology in India

Unit 2: Intelligence and Personality: Nature (Intelligence and Personality) Theories of

personality: Psychoanalytic and Socio Cognitive Theory; Theories of intelligence:
Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory and Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligence; Emotional
intelligence; Assessment of intelligence and personality. Intelligence and personality in
Indian Context

Unit 3: Learning and Memory : Nature (Learning and Memory), Conditioning (Classical
and Instrumental), Observation learning. Memory- Models (Information Processing Model,
Levels of Processing Model, Improving memory. Memory in Indian Context
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PRACTICAL: Total of TWO Experiments- One each from Unit 2 and 3 based on course GE
02: Understanding Psychology. Each practical group will consist of 10-12 students.

References:

 Abhedananda, S. (2008). True Psychology. Ram Krishna Vedanta Math. Kolkata

 Atkinson, R. L., Atkinson, R. C., Smith, E. E., Bem, D. J., & Hilgard, E. R. (2013).
Introduction to Psychology. New York: H. B. J. Inc.
 Baron, R. A., & Misra, G. (2014). Psychology. New Delhi: Pearson Education.
 Ciccarelli, S. K., Meyer, G. E. & Misra, G. (2013). Psychology: South Asian Edition. New
Delhi: Pearson Education.
 ICSSR Research Surveys and Explorations: Psychology, Vols 1–5
 Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Fredrickson, B., Loftus, G. R., & Lutz, C. (2014). Atkinson &
Hilgards: Introduction to Psychology. Andover: Cengage Learning.
 Paranjpe, C. A. (2002). Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought.
Kluwer Academic Publishers
 Passer, M. W., & Smith, R. E. (2013). Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behavior. New
Delhi: Tata McGraw- Hill
 Sinha, D., Misra, G., & Dalal, K. A. (2015). Psychology for India. Sage Publications.
 Zimbardo, G. P. (2013). Psychology and Life. Pearson

GE 03: PSYCHOLOGY FOR HEALTHY LIVING

Credit: 4 (3 Lecture + 1 Tutorial)

Course Learning Outcomes

 To build anin-depth understanding of topics like stress, health, well-being and positive
human behaviour
 To develop skills and competencies by application of these principles for promoting
health, well-being and positive functioning in self and others.

Unit 1: Stress and coping: Understanding causes of stress; Effects of stress on physical
and mental health; coping strategies (emotion focused, problem focused, avoidant coping),
coping techniques

Unit 2: Understanding subjective wellbeing and health: Meaning of subjective and

psychological/hedonistic and eudaimonic well-being); comparing Medical and Bio-psycho-
social approaches to health.

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Unit 3: Health-enhancing behaviours: Introduction to health enhancing behaviours:
Exercise, Nutrition and Sleep

Unit 4: Promoting Positive human functioning: Introduction to Positive Psychology,

Hope (definitions, Snyder model, applications), Optimism (Optimism as an explanatory
style, benefits) andSelf-efficacy (Bandura’s concept, sources of self-efficacy, applications in
different arenas)

References:

 Arora,M.K. and Sran,S.K (2017) Psychology of health and well-being , Book Age
Publications: New Delhi, ISBN: 978-93-83281-71-8.

 Carr, A. (2011). Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Human Strength.
 London, UK: Routledge.

 Dalal,A.K.,&Misra,G.(2011).New Directions in Health Psychology.Sage

 Dimatteo, M. R., & Martin L. R. (2011). Health psychology. Indian adaptation by Tucker,
V and Tucker O.P. (2018). New Delhi: Pearson India Educational Services Pvt. Ltd. (Unit
1: Chapter 1; Unit 2: Chapter 6).

 Khosla,M.(Ed.)(2022). Understanding the Psychology of Health and Well-being. Sage

Texts, Delhi.ISBN 9789354794391

 Lazarus, J. (2008). Stress Relief and Relaxation Techniques. Los Angeles: KeatsPublishing.

 Luthans, F, Brett C. Luthans, Kyle W. (2015). Organizational behaviour: An evidence

based approach,13th Edition. McGraw Hill(Chapter: Positive organizational behavior
and Psychological Capital).

 Sarafino, P, E (1998). Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions (third edition).

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Unit 1: Chapter 3, Chapter 4; Unit 2: Chapter 5).

 Seaward, B.L. (2018).Managing Stress: Principles and Strategies for Health andWell-
Being (9th Edition). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

 Snyder, C.R., Lopez S. J., &Pedrotti, J. T. (2011). Positive psychology: The scientific and
practical explorations of human strengths. New Delhi: Sage. (Unit 4: Chapter 5).

 Taylor, S.E. (2006). Health psychology, 6th Edition. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.(Unit
2: chapter 3; Unit 3: Chapters 4 and 10)

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 Weiten, W. & Lloyd, M.A (2007).Psychology Applied to Modern life. Thomson Detmar
earning.(Unit 1: Chapter 3; Unit 2: Chapter 4)

GE04: UNDERSTANDING HUMAN MIND

Credit: 4 (3 Lectures+ 1 Tutorial)

Course Learning Outcomes:

:
 To introduce students to the various perspectives of studying the mind with special
emphasis on sensitizing with the Indian models.
 To acquaint the students with the discipline of Psychology which involves studying
important social-cognitive skills
 To discuss the scope and methodological challenges involved in studying the human
mind
 To introduce students to the practical aspects of cognitive psychology in understanding
human behavior.

Unit 1: Introduction: Perspectives of studying the mind: Eastern- Advait Vedanta,

Sāṁkhya Yoga, Buddhism, Sri Aurobindo’s theory of mind. Western-Wilhelm Wundt
Structuralism, William James functionalism, Freudian three levels of mind, cognitive-
information processing model.

Unit 2: Methods and Scope of studying mind: Methods-Experimental, Case study,

Introspection, Observation, Phenomenology Scope-Cognitive neuroscience, Artificial
Intelligence, Psychotherapy and preventive measures.

Unit 3: Perception and Attention: Nature, factors and automatic and controlled
processes, Perception: Perceptual processes, perceptual organization, role of attention in
perception. Indian Perspective on attention and perception- Advait Vedanta- chitta, vriti;
Sāṁkhya Yoga- buddhi, ahankara, manas.

Unit 4: Thinking and Problem Solving: Mental images, concepts and prototypes; Problem
solving approaches – Algorithm; heuristics, means-end analysis, insight. Concept of
Thinking in Indian perspective.

References:

 Vivekananda, S. (2003). Raja Yoga. Advaita Ashrama.

 Galotti, K. M. (2018). Cognitive PsychologyIn and out of the laboratory(4th ed.). Thomson
Wadsworth.
 Rao, K.R., &Paranjpe, A.C. (2016). Scope, Substance, and Methods of Study. In:
 Psychology in the Indian Tradition (pp-1-35).Springer: New Delhi.
 Rao, K.R.,&Paranjpe, A.C. (2016). Mind–Body Complex. In: Psychology in the Indian
 Tradition(pp- 95-128) (102-105 Advait Vedanta, Sāṁkhya Yoga-102). Springer:

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 New Delhi.
 Sen, I. (1952). Sri Aurobindo’s Theory of Mind. Philosophy East and West. 1(4), (pp 45-
53).
 Singh, A.K. (2017).सं ाना कमनोिव ान Cognitive Psychology. Motilal Banarsidass
Publishers Pvt.Ltd.
 Singh, A.K. (2017).उ तरसामा मनोिव ानAdvanced General Psychology.Motilal
Banarsidass Publishers Pvt.Ltd.
 Stenberg & Stenberg (2012). Cognitive Psychology. (6th ed.).
 Watson, J.L. (2020).Ayurvedic and Bionian Theories of Thinking: Mental Digestion and
the Truth Instinct.