Syllabus

Course Code: MSW(C) -202    Course Name: Human Growth and Development-II

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 - Motivation: Concept, nature, factors and motivational cycle, theories of motivation ( instinct, incentive, drive, Humanistic and arousal)
- Attitude: Nature, formations and its influence on human behavior.
- Attitudinal change: Learning and dissonance theories of attitude change.
- Public opinion and prejudice: Formation, factors and change. Role of publicity and propaganda in formation and change of public opinion and prejudice.
2 - Personality: Concept, definitions, and nature.
- Brief discussion of the theories of personality and its implications on social work practice, such as psychodynamic (Freudian and Adler), behavioral (Classical and Instrumental conditioning), humanism (Rogers and Maslow) .
3 - Attention: Concept and nature.
- Learning: Meaning and nature
- Memory: Nature and types
- Forgetting: Meaning and nature
- Collective behaviour: Concept and meaning, crowd behaviour, audience and mob.
- Theories of collective behaviour.
4 - Intelligence: Definition, nature, uses and assessment.
- Creativity: Nature and use of creative thinking in social work practice.
- Emotional intelligence: Definition, nature, components and assessment of emotional intelligence.
- Personality problems: Assessment of personality and relevance of Rorschach and TAT in assessment of personality.
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