CBSE Class 11th(Arts) Psychology Syllabus 2020-21

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

   • Stress Resistant Personality

   • 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

7. Social Cognition

8. Schemas and Stereotypes

9. Impression Formation and Explaining

10. Behaviour of Others through Attributions

    • Behaviour of Others through Attributions

    • Impression Formation

    • Attribution of Causality

11. Behaviour in the Presence of Others

12. Pro-social Behaviour

    • Factors Affecting Pro-social Behaviour

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

5. Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience

6. Cooperation and Competition

   • Determinants of Cooperation and Competition

7. Social Identity

8. Intergroup Conflict: Nature and Causes

9. Conflict Resolution Strategies

Unit VIII: Psychology and Life

1. Introduction

2. Human-Environment Relationship

   • Different Views of the Human-Environment Relationship

3. Environmental Effects on Human Behaviour

   • Human Influence on the Environment

   • Noise

   • Pollution

   • Crowding

   • Natural Disasters

4. Promoting Pro-environmental Behaviour

5. Psychology and Social Concerns

   • Poverty and Discrimination

   • Aggression, Violence, and Peace

   • Mahatma Gandhi on Non-violence

   • Health

   • Impact of Television on Behaviour

Unit IX: Developing Psychological Skills

1. Introduction

2. Developing as an effective Psychologist

3. General Skills

4. Observational Skills

5. Specific Skills

   • Communication Skills

   • Psychological Testing Skills

6. Interviewing Skills

7. Counselling Skills