MASTER OF ARTS(PSYCHOLOGY)

This course is aimed at familiarizing the student primarily with the history of psychology that includes the comprehensive Schools and systems and specific theories of learning and personality.

COGNITIVE PROCESSES-I
BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES
APPLIED STATISTICS
SYSTEMS AND THEORIES IN PSYCHOLOGY

Unit I
Associationism: S-R Association; Ebbinghaus; Pavlov; Thorndike
Structuralism: Antecedents; Titchner’s Contribution; Criticism and Fate of Structuralism .

Unit II
Functionalism: Antecedents; Contributions of S. Hall, Dewy, Angell; Behaviorism; Early Trends; Watson’s Contribution.

Unit III
Gestalt Psychology; Antecedents, Concepts of Field and Isomorphism; Empirical Statements; Evaluation and Status. Psychoanalysis: Antecedents; Freud; Adler; Jung; Criticism and Evaluation. Self Theories.

Unit IV
S-R Theories; Hull-Spence School; (Skinner) Guthrie, Miller And Mowrer. Field Theories; Lewin’s Vector Field Theory; Tolman’s Cognitive Field Theory.