Syllabus

Course Code: MED101    Course Name: Psychology of Learning & Development

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 1. Concept of Educational Psychology
∙ Relationship of Education & Psychology
∙ Meaning & Concept of Educational Psychology
∙ Scope of Educational Psychology

2. Concept of Growth and Development
∙ General Principles of Growth and Development
∙ Physical Development in Adolescence
∙ Social Development in Adolescence
∙ Emotional Development in Adolescence
∙ Intellectual Development in Adolescence
2 3. Individual Differences
· Meaning and Areas
· Determinants: Role of Heredity and Environment in Developing Individual Differences
· Implications of Individual Differences for Organizing Educational Programmes

4. Personality
· Meaning and Determinants
· Types and Trait Theories
· Assessment of Personality by Subjective and Projective Methods
3 5. Intelligence
· Meaning
· Theories: Two Factory theory (Spearman); Multi Factor Theory, Guilford Model of Intellect
· Measurement of Intelligence (two verbal and two non verbal tests)

6. Learning
. Meaning, Factors Influencing Learning
· Theories of Learning
∙ Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning
∙ Skinner’s Operant Conditioning
4 7. Theories of Learning
. Hull’s Reinforcement Theory
∙ Learning by insight
. Gagne’s Hierarchy of Learning Types

8. Motivation
· Concept of Motivation
∙ Factors affecting Motivation · Theories of Motivation:
∙ Physiological Theory
∙ Murray’s Need Theory
∙ Maslow’s Theory of Hierarchy of Needs
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