V.B. S.

Purvanchal University, Jaunpur

Syllabus
M.A.
Psychology
M.A. (Previous) (From-2019-2020)
Theoretical/Practical/ Maximum Duration
Sr. Name of the Papers Viva- Marks (hours)
voce/Assignment
1. Cognitive Psychology Theoretical 100 3.00
2. Advanced Psychopathology Theoretical 100 3.00
3. Research Methodology Theoretical 100 3.00
4. Advanced Social Psychology Theoretical 100 3.00
5. Practical File 20
Written 30 100 1.00
Viva 50
Total Marks=500

M.A. (Final) (From-2020-2021)

Theoretical/Practi Maximum Duration
Sr. Name of the Papers cal/ Viva- Marks (hours)
voce/Assignment

1. Psychometric Methods Theoretical 100 3.00

(i)Guidance and Counselling Or
2. Theoretical 100 3.00
(ii)Advanced Physiological Psychology
(i)Clinical Psychology Or
3. Theoretical 100 3.00
(ii)Educational Psychology

(i)Psychology of Organizational
4. Behaviour Or Theoretical 100 3.00
(ii)Sports Psychology
Project / Tour 30
File 15
5. Practical
Written 25 100 1.00
Viva 30
Total Marks=500

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 VBS PURVANCHAL UNIVERSITY JAUNPUR
PSYCHOLOGY
M.A. / M.Sc. (Previous)

Paper-I Cognitive Psychology

1. Cognitive Psychology: Meaning, origin, methods & current trends in cognitive

psychology.

2. Perception: Meaning & process. Perceptual Threshold, Signal detection theory,

Approaches to Perception - Top-down & Bottom-up, Object recognition; Theories of
object recognition, Distance Perception, perceptual constancy; cognitive &
motivational influences on perception.

3. Attention: Meaning and determinants. Theories of attention: Bottleneck and filter

theories.

4. Memory: Meaning and types: working memory, episodic, procedural eyewitness,

flash bulb, Models of Memory- Atkinson- Schiffrin & Craik – Lockhart Models,
Semantic Memory. Type – Network & Set structures features comparison,
reconstruction in memory & schemas.

5. Concept formation – Meaning and conceptual rules, procedure and strategies, ill-
defined and well-defined concepts, Theories – Associative and Hypothesis testing.

6. Creativity: Meaning & measurement of creativity, determinants & fostering

creativity.

7. Language Processes – Language acquisition, models and language comprehension,

language production, language and thought. Thinking, Decision making & Problem
solving – Meaning & models, Human problem solving, Heuristics & algorithmic.

Books recommended:

 Anderson, John R. (2004). Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications (6th ed.). Worth
Publishers.

 Gallotti, K. M. (2004). Cognitive Psychology. Thompson- Wadsworth.

 Sternberg, R. J. (2009). Applied Cognitive Psychology. Cengage Learning.

 Salro, R. L. (2001). Cognitive Psychology. Pearson Education.

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 Paper-II: Advanced Psychopathology

1. Psychopathology: Meaning, Approaches: Biological-Neurophysiological,

Neurochemical, Genetic; Psychological-Psychodynamic, Behavioural, Cognitive,
Socio-cultural approaches.

2. Nosological System: History of ICD and DSM classification, ICD-10-CM, DSM-5.

3. Anxiety Disorders: Etiology and symptomology of Generalized Anxiety Disorder,

Social Anxiety Disorder.

4. Obsessive- Compulsive; Somatic Symptom Disorders: Symptom and etiology of

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Conversion Disorder,
Anxiety Disorder.

5. Schizophrenia Spectrum and other Psychotic Disorders: Key features that define the
psychotic disorders, Delusional disorder, Schizophrenia.

6. Depressive and Biopolar Disorders : Major depressive Disorder, Persistant

Depressive (Dysthymia) Disorder, Premenstrual Dsyphoric Disorder, Bipolar-I
Disorder, Bipolar-II Disorder; Cyclothymic Disorder.

7. Neurodevelopment Disorders: Intellectual Disabilities, Attention

deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Language Disorder, Speech Sound Disorder,
Childhood-onset fluency Disorder (Stuttering).

Books recommended:
1. Carson, R. C., Butcher, J. N. & Mineka, S. (2000). Abnormal Psychology and Modern
Life. Pearson Education.
2. Sarason, B. R. & Sarason, I. G. (2002). Abnormal Psychology.
3. American Psychiatric Association. (2013). DSM – 5.
4. Barlow, D. M. & Durand, V. M. (2005). Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach.
Thomson Wadsworth.
5. Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., Ruiz, D. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Synopsis
of Psychiatry. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

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 Paper -III Research Methodology

Note. Students are allowed calculators and statistical table in examination:-

1. Psychological research: Meaning and scientific approach. Types of Research.

2. Problem and hypothesis – Origin, source and features. Experimentation in

psychology: purpose, nature of variables, techniques of experimental manipulation.
Impact and control in experiment, sources of bias, Ethical issues in Psychological
Research.

3. Sampling: Meaning and purpose, Probability and non-probability sampling.

4. Research Design: Meaning, purpose, criteria and conceptual foundation,

Experimental, Non Experimental design and Quasi experimental design.

5. Between group design: Randomized group design Randomized block design,

Matched group design, Factorial design. Within group design: single and two
factors repeated measures design.

6. Methods of data collection – Observation, Interview and Interview schedule,

Semantic differential, Rating methods, Q-short technique.

7. Statistical methods – Parametric statistics: t test, ANOVA one way. Non parametric
statistics: Kruskal – Wallis test, Chi-square test, U Test.

Books Recommended:
1. Karlinger F.N. (1983). Foundations of Behavioural Research, Surjeet Publication, Delhi.
2. McGuigan, F.J. (1968). Experimental Psychology – A Methodological Approach, Prentice Hall,
N.J.
3. Brown C.W. & Ghiselli, E.E. (1965). Scientific Methods in Psychology, McGraw-Hill, N.Y.
4. Black, T.R. (1988). Quantitative Research Designs for Social Science. Thousand Oaks:Sage.
5. Edwards, A.L. (1976). Experimental Design in Psychological Research, Amerind Publication,
New Delhi.
6. Newman, W.L. (1991). Social Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods,
Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
7. Tripathi, L.B. (1985). Psychological Research Methods, Har Prasad Bhargav, Agra.
8. Broota, K.D. (1992). Experimental Design in Behavioural Research, Wiley Eastern, New Delhi.
9. Heman, G.W. (1995). Research Methods in Psychology, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston,
Illinois, New Jersy.
10. Winer, B.J. (1961). Experimental Design in Psychological Research, McGraw Hill

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 Paper—IV Advanced Social Psychology

1. Social Psychology – Growth of Social Psychology as modern discipline, nature,

levels of analysis and approaches.

2. Social Influence: meaning and elements, Behaving contrary to attitudes, Dissonance

and Advocacy theory, Social facilitation.

3. Communication: Meaning & Types: target person, process of resistance to change,

mass communication, function of group in communication process, group as an
agent for resistance to change, group as an agent of change.

4. Interpersonal attraction: Dyadic interaction, determinants of attraction, theories –

Balance, Reinforcement, equity and exchange theory, intimate relationship,
development, relationship issues coping after a relationship ends.

5. Altruism and Prosocial behaviour: meaning, determinants and theories – aggression

theory, social learning theory, factors investigating and controlling aggression.

6. Intergroup relation – Conflict and social identity approaches, Dynamics of

intergroup behaviour, social harmony, Types of social conflict, conflict resolution.

7. Applied Social Psychology: Current social problems, poverty, population growth,

gender issues, Evironmental Attitudes, Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour.
Book recommended –
1. Baron, R.A. & Byrne, D.P. (1987). Social Psychology. Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall (India): New
Delhi.
2. Feldman, R.S. (1985). Social Psychology : Theory, Research and Applications, McGraw Hill:
New Delhi.
3. Donerstein, M.B. & Donerstein, E. 1. (1984). Social Psychology.
4. Roy, F. Baumeister and Brad Bushman (2009). Fundamentals of social psychology. CENGAGE
Learning, Delhi.
5. John D. Delamater & Daniel J. Myers (2009). Text book of social psychology. CENGAGE
Learning, Delhi.
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 PAPER V

Practical’s: M.A. Previous (Any eight of the following):- MM-100

1. Environmental awareness

2. Inter-personal attraction

3. Group Cohesiveness

4. Measurement of altruism.

5. Reconstruction in Memory.

6. Measurement of creativity.

7. Reasoning ability/Problem solving.

8. STM

9. Language comprehension

10. Correlational study

11. Study based on one way ANOVA.

12. Measurement of depression.

13. Subjective well-being inventory.

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 Psychology M.A. /M.Sc. (Final)

Compulsory Paper
Paper- I Psychometric Methods

1. Psychometrics: - Meanings, Scaling: Fundamental issues with numbers, scales of

measurement, uni-dimensional and multidimensional scaling.

2. Test theory: - Classical test theory – obtained score, true score, and error component;
Domain Sampling theory, meaning and types of test score.

3. Test construction: - Item writing, item analysis, standardization and norms.

4. Reliability: - Test-retest reliability Alternate form reliability, internal consistency reliability,

reliability of raters (inter-rater).

5. Validity:- Concept, Aspect of validity : content—related validity, criterion related validity,

construct-related validity, relationship between reliability and validity, cross validity.

6. Factor Analysis: Examining the dimensionality of a test :- (i) Exploratory Factor Analysis.
(ii) Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Frequency and roles of EFA and CFA.

7. Cross-cultural factors in Psychometric test; cross-cultural adaptation of tests.

Books recommended:

1. Fur, R. M. (2014). Psychometrics: An Introduction. Sage.

2. Nunnaly, J. C. & Bernstein, I. H. (1994). Psychometric Theory. McGraw-Hill

3. Chadha, N. K. (2009). Applied Psychometry. Sage

4. Anastasi, A. & Urbina, S. (2002). Psychometrical Testing. Pearson Education.

5. Gregory, R. J. (2004). Psychological Testing. Pearson Education.

6. Kaplan, R. M. & Saccuzzo, D. P. (2013). Psychological Assessment and Theory. Cengage

Leaning.

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 Optional Papers
There shall be thee optional paper, one from each group, are to be opted by the
students.
GROUP A
Paper- II
(I) Guidance & Counselling -
1. Guidance: Concepts, Historical development, Function and Scope.

2. Counselling: Meaning, aims and expectations of counselling, qualities of counsellor,

role of counsellor at school level.

3. Approaches to counselling: Psychoanalytic, Person centered and existential,

Cognitive, Behavioural and Rational Emotive.

4. Counselling in Indian Context: Nature of Counselling, need and availability services

in India. Indian techniques of counselling-Yoga, Meditation and Buddhist approach.

5. Counselling for special population: Drug addicts, Marital & family counseling, HIV,
AIDS.

6. Stress- Meanings, types, models, stress and health, coping with stress.

7. Mental Health: Meaning and importance, Models of Mental Health, Improving

Mental Health, Determinants of mental health.
Books recommended:
1. Feltham, C. & Morton, (2000). Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Sage
publications, New Delhi.
2. Wolfs, R. & Dryden, W. (1998). Handbook of counselling psychology. Sage
Publications, London.
3. Brown, S.D., & Lent, R.W. (2002): Handbook of Counselling Psychology. New York:
John Wiley & Sons.
4. Rao, S.N., & Sahajpal, P. (2013). Counseling and Guidance. Tata McGraw Hill.
5. Bhatia, K.K. (2002). Principles of Guidance and Counselling. Kalyani Publications.
6. Jacobs, Ed. (1992). Creative counseling techniques. Psychological assessment
resources.USA.
7. Bhatnagar, A & Gupta, N. (1999). Guidance and Counseling. Vikash publishing house
pvt ltd. New delhi.
8. Corey, G. (2001). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy. Thomson
learning.
9. Seligman, L. & Reichenberg, L. W. (2010). Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
PHI Learning.
10. Alam, S. (2011). Modern Concept of Guidance and Counselling. Gayananda Prakashan,
Ansari Road, New Delhi.

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 (II) Advanced Physiological Psychology
1. Physiological Psychology: Fields of Study; Methods and Techniques of Research: Invasive,
Non-invasive and Behavioural Methods.
2. Neuron – Structure and Function; Human Nervous System: Structure and Functions – Central,
Peripheral and Autonomic Nervous System, Lateralization of Brain Functions.
3. Neuron Physiology: Neural conduction and Synaptic Transmission. Neurotransmitters,
Mechanism of Chemical Neurotransmission through Synapse.
4. Sensory Processes: Vision-- Structure and Function of Eye, Retina and Photoreceptors; Colour
Blindness. Theories of Colour Vision; Audition -- Structure and Function of Ear,
5. Endocrine Glands and Hormones: Pituitary, Pineal, Thyroid, Thymus, Adrenal Glands, Pancreas
and Gonads (Ovaries and Testis)
6. Emotion- automatic and endocrine effects, neural mechanism of emotion, stress: its hormones:
role of Hypothalamus and cortex.
7. Learning and memory: locus of memory trace, changes at the synapse in learning, neural
structures involved in learning and memory, biochemical basis of memory.

Books Recommended:
1- Carlson, N. R. (2005). Foundations of Physiological Psychology. 6th Edition, Pearson
Education.
2- Pinel, J.P. (2006). Biopsychology. 6th Edition, Pearson Education.
3- Leukal, F. (1976). Introduction to Physiological Psychology. C.V. Mosby Co.
4- Levinthal, C.F. (1990). Introduction to Physiological Psychology. 3rd Edition, PrenticeHall.
5- Morgan, C.T. (1985). Introduction to Physiological Psychology. McGraw-Hill
6- Levitt, P.C. (1980). Physiological Psychology.
7- Kalat, J. W. (2010). Biopsychology. Cengage Learning India Pvt. Ltd.
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Group - B
PAPER III

Any one of the following:-

(I) Clinical Psychology

1. Clinical Psychology: Meaning, historical background and current issues.

2. Clinical assessment: Case study; mental status examination, intake, crisis and
diagnostic interviewing.

3. Intelligence [S-B-5, WAIS-IV, WISc-V, WPPSI-III] testing, projective test (Rorschach),

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 MMPI-2-RF, Neuropsychological: Bender Gestalt.

4. Psychodynamic therapy: Freudian psychoanalysis.

5. Behaviour therapy: Systematic desensitization, aversion therapy, modeling,

assertive therapy.

6. Cognitive behaviour therapy: Rational Emotive Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour

Therapy.

7. Person Centered Therapy, Gestat therapy. Interpersonal and Group Therapy:

Marital Therapy, family therapy, Psychodrama.

Books recommended:
1. Korchin, S.J. (1976). Modern Clinical Psychology. CBS Publication, Delhi.
2. Weiner, I.B. (1974), Clinical Methods in Psychology.
3. Goldenbern. H. (1983). Contemporary Clinical Psychology (2nd Ed.) New York.
4. Wolman, B.B. (1978). Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders : A Handbook. N.Y. Plenum.

5. Nietzel, M.T. Bernstein, D.A. & Misich, R (1998). Introduction of Clinical Psychology (5th Ed.).
New Jersey : Prentice Hall.

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(III) Educational Psychology

1. Educational Psychology: Meaning, scope, brief history.

2. Human diversity and education: Cultural differences in learning style, Readiness

and classroom Achievement; Multiculturalism and Education; Social class
differences, Poverty, Disadvantaged and education. Individual and group
differences in Intelligence, Theories of intelligence.

3. Effective Teaching and Classroom Management: planning and setting, Objectives

for teaching Characteristics of effective teachers. Teaching methods. Ecology of
Classrooms & Classroom management, Disciplining and communication. Teaching
small group: The Discussion Method and Cooperative Learning Computer Assisted
Instruction.

4. Exceptionality and Special Education. Categories of exceptionality; Labeling and

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 educational relevance. Physically challenged students. Students with cognitive
Disabilities or brain dysfunction and communication disorders.

5. Educational Assessment: - Measurement and Evaluation (Norm-referenced and

Criterion-referenced tests), Test Scores—meaning, Types and interpretation;
Classroom Assessment and grading; Diversity/ Cultural Differences and
Assessment.
Books recommended:
1- Anita, W. (2017). Educational Psychology. Pearson Education.

2- Mangal, S. K. (2009). Essentials of Educational Psychology. PHI Learning.

3- Ormrod, J. E. (2015). Educational Psychology. Pearson Education.

4- Dandapani, S. (2016). Advanced Educational Psychology. Anmol Publication.

5- Kelly, B., Woolfson, L. & Boyle, J. (2016). Framworks for Practice in Educational Psychology.
Jessica Kingsley Publication.

6- Santrock, J. W. (2009). Educational Psychology. McGraw- Hill.

7- Anderson, R. (2015). The Illusion of Education. The Moving Quill Publishing Co.

Group-c

Paper-IV

Any one of the following

(I) Psychology of Organization Behaviour

1. Nature of organizational behaviour (O.B.): Models and approaches to O.B.,

challenges & opportunities for O.B.

2. Motivation and Work: Meaning & process, and Theories of employee motivation;
theories Alderfer, McClleland, Goal setting, Expectancy, OB Mod.

3. Organizational leadership: Meaning and theories – Trait, behavioural and

contingency theories – Fiedler, Hersey and Blanchard, current issues in leadership,
Organizational implications.

4. Organizational structure: Definition, types, informal organizations, Communication

in organizations, patterns, grapevine system significance.

5. Work stress: Definition, source and consequences, stress management strategies; Job
burnout; Significance.

6. Organizational climate: Meaning, determinants, Power & politics in organizations –

Bases & effects; managerial implications.

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 7. Organizational change and development: Change process and characteristics,
approaches; Lewin’s Model, Action research, organizational development – OD;
values, interventions.

Books Recommended:
1. Gilmer, B.V.H. (1971). Industrial and Organizational Psychology, McGraw-Hill.
2. Katz, D. and Kahn, R.K. (1980). The Social Psychology of Organization, Wiley.
3. Robbins, S.P. (1980). Organizational Behaviour, Prentice Hall, New Delhi.
4. Luthans, F. (1997). Organizational Behaviour, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
5. Arnold, H.J. and Feldman, D.C. (1986). Organizational Behaviour, McGraw-Hill.
6. Dwivedi, R.S. (2001). Human Relationship and Organization Behaviour, McMillan, New Delhi.
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(ii) Sports psychology

1. Nature and historical and recent perspective on sports psychology.
2. The role of stress, arousal, anxiety and attention in the performance of individual
and team sports.
3. Motivation, skills and performance. Personality profiles of successful sports
persons.
4. Cognitive and social psychological dimensions of individual and team sports.
5. Training/coaching techniques. Cognitive and behavioural interventions. The role of
sports psychologists.

Books recommended:
1- Cox, R. H. (2006). Sport Psychology: Concepts and Application. McGraw- Hill.
2- Weinberg, R. S. & Gould. D. (2006). Fundamental of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Human
Kinetics Publishers.
3- Houghtan, P. & Worroll, J. (2016). Play the Forest School Why. Watkins Publishing.
4- Perry, J. (2016). Sport Psychology: A Complete introduction. Teach Yourself.
5- Cotterill, S., Weston, N. & Breslin (2016). Sport and Exercise Psychology: Practitioner case
studies. Weley. Blackwell.
6- Franz, T. M. (2018). Group Dynamics and Team Intervention. Weley.
7- Luiselli, J. K., & Reed, D. D. (2011). Behavioral Sport Psychology. Springer.

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 Practicals
Paper-V
M.M.-100

Note: There shall be two parts in this paper.

(i) The final year students of Psychology would submit an academic tour or Project
report. It carries 30 marks.

(ii) Six practical are to be conducted selecting two from each of the papers opted by
the students. This part carries 70 marks.

(i) Psychometric Methods

(a) Development of a test up to item analysis.

(b) Computation of reliability using test retest and spit-half

(c) Cross validation of a scale

(e) S-B or WAIS.

(ii) Guidance and Counselling -

(a) Subjective well-being.

(b) Aptitude test.

(c) Marital Adjustment

(d) Achievement Motive

(iii) Clinical Psychology -

(a) Rorschach Test

(b) Dysfunctional Analysis Questionnaire

(c) Assertiveness Scale

(d) Bender-Gestalt test

(iv) Educational Psychology

(a) SES and academic achievement

(b) Teaching Style

(c) Attitude towards Teaching

(d) Effects of Bilingualism

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(iv) Psychology of Organizational Behaviour

(a) Organizational climate and organizational commitment.

(b) Job involvement

(c) Leadership style (LPC) and Motive patterns

(d) Job Satisfaction and gender.

(vi) Sport Psychology

(a) Completive Anxiety.

(b) LOC

(c) Level of aspiration.

(d) Team spirit assessment.

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