Certificate Course in Applied Psychology

The Guru Nanak Dev University's Faculty of Arts and Social Science offers Certificate Course in Applied Psychology course to its students. The course structure for it is as follows:

(Paper – ‘A’)

Unit I : Understanding Human Behaviour
Origin, Definition, Nature and Scope of Psychology.

Unit II : Applied Psychology
History,Definition, Nature and Methods of Applied Psychology.
Brief introduction to the branches of applied Psychology :-
a) Educational Psychology
b) Developmental Psychology
c) Social Psychology
d) Industrial Psychology
e) Clinical Psychology
f) Guidance and Counseling
g) Crime and Justice.

Unit III : Developmental Psychology
Meaning and definition of Growth and Development.
Difference between Growth and Development.
Principles of Growth and Development.
Stages of Human Development.
Relative importance of Heredity and Environment in the development of a child.

Unit IV : Characteristics and Problems of Adolescence
Juvenile Delinquency and Crime

(Paper – ‘B’)

Unit I : Educational Psychology
Difinition, Nature, Scope of education Psychology.

Unit II : Individual Differences
Difinition, Types and Caused of individual differences Advantage of the Knowledge of individual differences in education.

Unit III : Learning in a Classroom
Concept of learing, Laws of learning.
Factors affecting learning.
Mehods of Teaching.
Feed Back.
Reward and Punishment.

Unit IV : Statistics
Measures of central Tendency (Mean, Median, Mode)