SEMESTER-II
Paper 5: Psychology & its Application – II
UNIT I: Cognition – Thinking, Concepts and Categorization, Problem Solving,
Application
UNIT II: Intelligence – Nature, Theories, Application
UNIT III: Personality – Nature, Theories, Application
UNIT IV: Assessment of cognition, intelligence, personality and their application
Reading List:
Atkinson, R. L., Atkinson, R. C., Smith, E. E., Bem, D. J. & Hilgard, E. R. (1990).
Introduction to Psychology. New York: H. B. J. Inc.
Ciccarelli,S. K., Meyer, G. E. & Misra, G. (2010). Psychology: South Asian Edition.
New Delhi: Pearson Education.
Sternberg, R. J. (2010). Cognitive Psychology. New York: Cengage Learning
Passer, M.W. & Smith, R.E. (2010). Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour.
New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill
Paper 6: Research Methodology & Statistics- II
UNIT I:
Sampling
Probability: simple random, stratified & cluster
Non- probability: accidental, quota, purposive
UNIT II:
Qualitative research: define, differentiate from quantitative research
Scale construction: Likert, Thurstone, Guttman & semantic differential.
UNIT III:
Hypothesis testing: single & double (dependent & independent) means Z and
student’s t.
Type I & II errors, power of a test
UNIT IV:
Hypothesis testing for more than two means: one way ANOVA
Introduction to non parametrics: Chi square.
Reading List:
Aron, A., Aron, E.N., & Coups, E.J. (2007).Statistics for Psychology. (4thEd.) India:
Pearson Education, Prentice Hall.
King, B.M. & Minium, E.W. (2007).Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences.
(5th Ed.) USA: John Wiley.
Paper 7: Practicum based on Paper 4
One from each of the following:
i) Intelligence – using a test battery
ii) Personality – Any one test (16 PF, MBTI, MMPI etc.)
iii) Critical Thinking / Problem solving & reasoning using any test.
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