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Introduction to Psychology Syllabus

This document outlines the course details for an Introduction to Psychology course offered at the Indian Institute of Technology. The course is offered in the spring semester for 2 credits and has no prerequisites. Over 14 contact hours, students will be introduced to key topics in psychology including sensation and perception, learning, memory, personality, and motivation. Assessment will include classwork, mid-term exams, and an end-term exam. Suggested textbooks are also provided.

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Introduction to Psychology Syllabus

This document outlines the course details for an Introduction to Psychology course offered at the Indian Institute of Technology. The course is offered in the spring semester for 2 credits and has no prerequisites. Over 14 contact hours, students will be introduced to key topics in psychology including sensation and perception, learning, memory, personality, and motivation. Assessment will include classwork, mid-term exams, and an end-term exam. Suggested textbooks are also provided.

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES

1. Subject Code: HSN-002. Course Title: Introduction to Psychology


2. Contact Hours: L: 01; T: 01; P: 0
3. Examination Duration (Hrs.): Theory 01 Tutorial 01

4. Relative Weightage: CWS 20-30 MTE 20-30 ETE 40-50

5. Credits: 02

6. Semester: Spring X Autumn YES Both X

7. Pre-requisite: Nil
8. Subject Area: Psychology
9. Objective of the Course: To introduce and sensitize students to various psychological processes
including human values & ethics. This would help the students to understand and analyze
their own as well as other’s behavior.
10. Details of Course
SNo. Particulars Contact Chapters
Hours
1. Introduction to psychology: Origin, concept and definition of psychology; Ch. 1
Branches of psychology; Application of psychology in different fields. 02

2 Sensation & Perception: Concept and processes; Principles of perception; Ch. 3


Illusion and delusion; Thresholds, Role of motivation, social and cultural 02
factors in perception.
3 Learning: Concept and theories of learning; Classical and operant Ch. 5
conditioning & their differences; Extinction, discrimination and 02
generalization; Types and the schedules of reinforcement.
4 Memory and Forgetting: Components of memory – Encoding, Recall, Ch. 6
Recognition; Types of memory - Short term, Long-term, Sensory memory, 03
Echoic memory; Metamemory; Amnesia; Theories of forgetting.
5. Personality: Definition and concept of personality; Freud’s Ch. 12
03
Psychoanalytical theory, Jung’s theory.
6. Motivation: Motivational process; Difference among Drive, Need, and Ch. 10
02
motive; Theories of motivation (Maslow’s need hierarchy, Herzberg’s two
factor, Alderfer’s ERG).
Total 14

11. Suggested Books:


Sl. Name of Books/Authors Year of
No. Publication
1. Baron, R.A. Psychology (5th ed). Pearson 2002
2. Coon, D., & Mitterer, J. O. . Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and 2010
Behavior (Twelfth Ed). Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
3. Morgan, C.T., King, R.A., Weisz, J.R., Schopler, J. Introduction to Psychology 2007
(7th Edition), Tata-McGraw-Hill
4. Myers, D. G., DeWall, C. N. Psychology (Twelfth Ed). Worth Publisher. 2018
5. Shafer-Landau, Russ. The Fundamentals of Ethics (4th Edition), Oxford university 2017
press

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