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Clinical Psychologist Syllabus :
Unit I :
Human Development
**Development Process – Nature, Principles and related concepts – maturation, experience Factors in development : Biogenic, Psychogenic, sociogenic
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** Stages of development
** Theories of development – Psychoanalytic, behavioristic and cognitive Aspects of development – sensorimotor, cognitive, language, emotional, social and moral
Unit II :
Perceptual Process
** Sensation, Attention and Perception
** Approaches to the study of perception – Gestalt and physiological approaches
** Perceptual organization – Gestalt, Figure and Ground, Laws of Organization
** Perceptual Constancies – Size, Shape and Brightness. Illusion, Perception of depth and movement .
** Perceptual vigilance and perceptual defence. Role of motivation and learning in perception
Unit III :
Learning
** Definition of learning:Role of maturation and experience in learning
** Classical conditioning: Procedure, Phenomena and related issues
** Operant conditioning: Phenomena, Paradigms and related issues
** Reinforcement: Basic variables and schedules
** Theories of learning – Hull, Tolman, Skinner and Bandura
** Verbal learning – Methods and materals, organizational processes
** Application of learning principles – behavior modification, shaping, discrimination learning
Unit IV :
Memory and Forgetting
** Memory processes – encoding, storage and retrieval
** Sensory, short term and long term memories
** Models of memory – Atkinson and Shiffrin, Craik and Lockhart and Tulving
** Types of memory – Semantic, Iconic, Episodic, Flashbulb, Autobiographical and Eyewitness
** Biological bases of memory – Engram, PET scan, biochemical factors in memory
** Measurement of memory – recall, recognition and relearning
** Improving memory – strageties
** Theories of Forgetting – Decay, Interference, Motivated
** Organization of long term memory – contribution of Ebbinghaus, Bartlet and Tulvig
Unit V :
Thinking, Creativity and Problem Solving
** Nature, types and tools of thinking
** Theories of thought processes – Associationism, Gestalt, Information Processing
** Concept formation – Rules and Strategies
** Nature and stages in creative thinking
** Measurement of creativity
** Problem solving –stages, types and strategies. Algorythms and Heuristics
** Barriers to problem solving
Unit VI :
Motivation and Emotion
** Basic motivational concepts – Instincts, Needs, Drives, Incentives, motivational cycle
** Approaches to study of motivation – Psychoanalytic, ethological, S-R, Cognitive and Humanistic
** Types of motives – biological, psychological and social. Meta needs
** Cross cultural perspectives of Achievement motivation
** Nature and components of emotions
** Neural mechanisms of emotions
** Theories of emotions – James-Lange, Canon-Bard and Schachter and Singer
** Measurement of emotions – Physiological, expressive and cognitive measures
Unit VII :
Human Abilities
** Nature of intelligence. Determinants of intelligence – biological, social and environmental
** Theories of intelligence – Spearman, Thurstone, Guilford, Sternberg, Gardner
** Individual and group differences: Extent and Causes
** Intelligence and creativity relationship
** Ability, Aptitude and Achievement
** Measurement of intelligence
Unit VIII :
Personality
** Definition, nature and significance
** Determinants of personality – biological, psychological and sociocultural
** Theoretical approaches to study personality – psychoanalytic, neo-Freudian, trait and type, cognitive, humanistic, existential, transpersonal and Indian
** Personality assessment – psychometric, projective and behavioural measures