To acquaint the students with systems and theories in psychology. The Scheme of the Question Paper :
1. The paper will consist of five units.
2. There will be two chapter in each unit.
3. Every chapter in the unit should be given equal weightage in the examination.
4. Question paper should be drawn with the "Internal Option" in such a way that students should not omit any chapter. Marking Scheme :
* Total Marks : 100
* Each unit carry equal marks in the question paper
* Each chapter in the should have equal weightage of 10 marks. Unit - 1
Chapter : 1 Structuralism & Functionalism :
Structuralism :
* Wilhelm Wundt - Scientific Psychology
* Edward Bradford Titchener's Structuralism - Nature of Psychology - Method of Psychology
* System of Structuralism
Functionalism :
* The Foreuranners of Functionalism
* William Jame's Functionalism
* Pioneer American Functionalist G. Stanley Hall
* The Founding of Functionalism John Dewey, Harvey A. Carr R.S. Woodworth
Chapter : 2 Associationism, Pavlov's Conditioning :
Associationism :
* Old Associationism and New Associationism
* Thorndike's Connectionsm and Laws Of Lerning
* Conditioning and objective psychology. - Pavlov's Postulates and Principles - Classical Conditioning - Conditioned Reflex - Stimulus - Generalization and Discrimination - Extinction and Inhibition - Experimental Neurosis Unit - 2
Chapter : 3 Behaviorism and Reductionism :
* Forces in the background of Behaviorism
* Watson's Behaviorism, Principles of Behaviorism
* Some earlier behaviorists
* Karl S. Lashley, Donald Hebb
Chapter : 4 Neo-Behaviorism and Learning Theory :
* Contiguity conditioning theory of Edwin Guthrie
* B.F. Skinners inductive