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This document outlines the units of study for a 1st year psychology course for post-basic BSc nursing students. The units cover topics such as sensation, attention, perception, motivation, emotions, personality, psychological aspects of nursing, individual differences, intelligence, abilities, learning, memory, attitudes, and mental hygiene and health. The goal is to help nursing students understand psychological concepts and their relevance to patient health, sickness, and nursing care.

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Psychology For Post Basic B.SC

This document outlines the units of study for a 1st year psychology course for post-basic BSc nursing students. The units cover topics such as sensation, attention, perception, motivation, emotions, personality, psychological aspects of nursing, individual differences, intelligence, abilities, learning, memory, attitudes, and mental hygiene and health. The goal is to help nursing students understand psychological concepts and their relevance to patient health, sickness, and nursing care.

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PSYCHOLOGY FOR POST BASIC B.SC.

(NURSING) 1ST YEAR


UNIT-I
1. Introduction: Definition of psychology, scope and methods of
psychology.
2. Relationship with other subjects.
UNIT-II
1. Sensation, Attention and Perception: Definitions.
2. Sensory processes: Normal and abnormal.
3. Attention and distraction: contributory factors.
4. Characteristics of perception, Perception: normal and abnormal.
UNIT-III
1. Motivation: Definition and nature of motivation.
2. Biological and social motives.
3. Frustration and conflicts.
4. Self-actualization.
UNIT-IV
1. Emotions: Definition of emotions, Expression and perception .
2. Emotions in sickness.
UNIT-V
1. Personality: Definition, Constituents of personality .
2. Personality in sickness and nursing.
UNIT-VI
1. Psychological aspects of nursing.
2. Behaviour and sickness. Psychological needs of :
(a) Child and adolescents
(b) Adult
(c) Aged
(d) Attendants
(e) Chronically ill individual
UNIT-VII
1. Individual differences.
2. Significance of individual differences.
3. Heredity and environment.
4. Role of individual differences both in health and sickness.
5. Implications of individual differences in nursing.
UNIT-VIII
1. Intelligence and Abilities: Definition.

2. Intelligence and abilities during sickness.


3. Measurement of intelligence and abilities.
UNIT-IX
1. Learning: Definition, Conditions of learning.
2. Laws of learning.
3. Learning during health and sickness.
UNIT-X
1. Memory and forgetting: Definition and nature of memory .
2. Memory during health and sickness.
3. Forgetting during health and sickness.
UNIT-XI
1. Attitudes: Definition, Development and modification.
2. Role of attitudes in health and sickness.
UNIT-XII
1. Concept of mental hygiene & mental health.
2. Characteristics of a mentally healthy person.
3. Defense mechanisms.
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