Psychology Class 12 Syllabus

The syllabus consists of seven units. The duration of the exam is 3 Hours and Maximum Marks are 70.

Exam Structure

Unit I: Variations in Psychological Attributes

1. Introduction
2. Individual Differences in Human Functioning
3. Assessment of Psychological Attributes
4. Intelligence
5. Theories of Intelligence
   • Theory of Multiple Intelligences
   • Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
   • Planning, Attention-arousal, and Simultaneous successive Model of Intelligence
6. Individual Differences in Intelligence
   • Variations of Intelligence
7. Culture and Intelligence
8. Emotional Intelligence
9. Special Abilities
   • Aptitude: Nature and Measurement
10. Creativity

Unit II: Self and Personality

1. Introduction
2. Self and Personality
3. Concept of Self
4. Cognitive and Behavioural Aspects of Self
   • Self-esteem, Self-efficacy and Self-regulation
5. Culture and Self
6. Concept of Personality
7. Major Approaches to the Study of Personality
   • Type Approaches
   • Trait Approaches
   • Psychodynamic Approach
   • Behavioural Approach
   • Cultural Approach
   • Humanistic Approach
8. Assessment of Personality
   • Self-report Measures
   • Projective Techniques
   • Behavioural Analysis

Unit III: Meeting Life Challenges

1. Introduction
2. Nature, Types and Sources of Stress
3. Effects of Stress on Psychological Functioning and Health
   • Stress and Health
   • General Adaptation Syndrome
   • Stress and Immune System
   • Lifestyle
4. Coping with Stress
   
   • Stress Management Techniques
5. Promoting Positive Health and Well-being
   
   • Life Skills
   • Positive Health

Unit IV: Psychological Disorders

1. Introduction
2. Concepts of abnormality and psychological Disorders
   • Historical Background
3. Classification of Psychological Disorders
4. Factors Underlying Abnormal Behaviour
5. Major Psychological Disorders
   • Anxiety Disorders
   • Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
   • Trauma-and Stressor-Related Disorders
   • Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
   • Dissociative Disorders
   • Depressive Disorder
   • Bipolar and Related Disorders
   • Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
   • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
   • Disruptive, Impulse-Control and Conduct Disorders
   • Feeding and Eating Disorders
   • Substance Related and Addictive Disorders

Unit V: Therapeutic Approaches

1. Nature and process of psychotherapy
   • Therapeutic relationship
2. Types of Therapies
   • Psychodynamic Therapy
   • Behaviour Therapy
   • Cognitive Therapy
   • Humanistic-existential Therapy
   • Biomedical Therapy
   • Alternative Therapies
3. Rehabilitation of the Mentally III

Unit VI: Attitude and Social Cognition

1. Introduction
2. Explaining Social Behaviour
3. Nature and Components of Attitudes
4. Attitude Formation and Change
   • Attitude Formation
   • Attitude Change
   • Attitude-Behaviour Relationship
5. Prejudice and Discrimination
6. Strategies for Handling Prejudice

Unit VII: Social Influence and Group Processes

1. Introduction
2. Nature and Formation of Groups
3. Type of Groups
4. Influence of Group on Individual Behaviour
   • Social Loafing
   • Group Polarisation