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Syllabus Code No.: 04 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY 1. Emergence of Psychology Psychological thought in some major Eastern Systems: Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Sufism and Integral Yoga. Academic psychology in India: Pre- independence era; post-independence era; 1970s: The move to addressing social issues; 1980s: Indigenization; 1990s: Paradigmatic concerns, disciplinary identity crisis; 2000s: Emergence of Indian psychology in academia. Issues: The colonial encounter; Post colonialism and psychology; Lack of distinct disciplinary identity. Western: Greek heritage, medieval period and modern period. Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalytical, Gestalt, Behaviorism, Humanistic- Existential, Transpersonal, Cognitive revolution, Multiculturalism. Four founding paths of academic psychology - Wundt, Freud, James, Dilthey. Issues: Crisis in psychology due to strict adherence to experimental- analytical paradigm (logical empiricism). Indic influences on modern psychology. Essential aspects of knowl...

Branches of Psychology Various fields of specialization in psychology: Cognitive Psychology • Investigates mental processes involved in acquisition, storage, manipulation, and transformation of information received from the environment along with its use and communication. • The major cognitive processes are attention, perception, memory, reasoning, problem solving, decision-making and language. • In order to study these cognitive processes, psychologists conduct experiments in laboratory settings. • Some of them also follow an ecological approach, i.e. an approach which focuses on the environmental factors, to study cognitive processes in a natural setting. Cognitive psychologists often collaborate with neuroscientists and computer scientists. Biological Psychology • Focuses on the relationship between behavior and the physical system, including the brain and the rest of the nervous system, the immune system, and genetics. • Biological psychologists often collaborate with neuroscienti...

Introduction: The Earth crust is dynamic. The earth surface is being continuously subjected to external forces (exogenic ) induced basically by energy (sunlight) and internal forces (endogenic) are active though with different intensities Some changes are fast and some are slow. Earthquakes and volcanoes are endogenic forces which cause sudden changes on the earth. Weathering and agents of sculpture are exogenic forces which bring about slow changes. Exogenic as well as endogenic processes are constantly shaping the landscape. Volcanic eruption and volcanic features are an important source of obtaining direct information of earth. Volcano The molten material coming out from inside the earth through a pipe or vent and accumulating around the pipe in the form of a mound is called a volcano. All volcanoes result from magma, molten material below the earth’s surface, which is brought to the surface as lava or volcanic fragments. Volcanoes show considerable variation in size, shape and the...

Introduction: The concept of motivation focuses on explaining what “moves” behavior. In fact, the term motivation is derived from the Latin word ‘movere’, referring to movement of activity. Most of our everyday explanations of behavior are given in terms of motives. Why do you come to school or college? There may be any number of reasons for this behavior, such as you want to learn or to make friends, you need a diploma or degree to get a good job, you want to make your parents happy, and so on. Some combination of these reasons and/or others would explain why you choose to go in for higher education. Motives also help in making predictions about behavior. A person will work hard in school, in sports, in business, in music, and in many other situations, if s/he has a very strong need for achievement. Hence, motives are the general states that enable us to make predictions about behavior in many different situations. Motivational Cycle Psychologists now use the concept of need to descr...