Syllabus
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Course Code: MSE-102 Course Name: Psychology of Development and Learning |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Overview Educational Psychology 1.1 Nature and scope of educational psychology 1.2 Principles of educational psychology 1.3 Methods of Educational Psychology 1.3.1 Observation 1.3.2 Experimental method 1.3.3Correlational 1.3.4 Clinical 1.3.5 Case Study 1.4 Applications of educational psychology to person with disabilities 1.5 Contemporary trends |
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| 2 | Understanding the Development of the Learner 2.1 Concept of Growth and Development 2.2 Methods of studying development: Longitudinal, Cross-sectional, Cohort sequence 2.3 Physical, social, emotional, moral development, play and language development 2.4 Cognitive Development: Piaget, Vygotsky and Kohlberg 2.5 Factors affecting Growth and Development |
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| 3 | Cognition and Information Processing 3.1 Sensation, Perception and Attention 3.2 Memory - Nature and types, factors affecting memory 3.3 Thinking: Concept Formation, Reasoning, Problem solving 3.4 Intelligence: Nature, types, theories and assessment 3.4.1 Creativity 3.5 Individual differences and its educational implications for children with disabilities |
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| 4 | Motivation, Learning and Personality 4.1 Concept, definition and theories of Motivation 4.2 Classical and Contemporary Learning Theories: Behavioural, Cognitive and Social 4.3 Concept, definition and principles of personality development 4.4 Personality Theories- 4.4.1 Psychoanalytic-Freud & Neo-Freudians, Trait, Humanistic 4.4.2 Assessment of Personality 4.5 Implications in teaching-learning with reference to children with disabilities |
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| 5 | Psychological Aspects of Teaching 5.1 Individual differences in cognitive and affective areas and its educationalImplications 5.2 Classroom climate, group dynamics 5.3 Peer tutoring, co-operative learning, self-regulated learning 5.4 Teacher effectiveness and competence 5.5 Guiding children with disabilities |
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