B.A. (HONOURS) APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY , (Three Year Full Time Programme) COURSE CONTENTS (Effective from the Academic Year 2011-2012 onwards) DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ,UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

SEMESTER-II

Paper 5: Psychology & its Application – II

UNIT I: Cognition – Thinking, Concepts and Categorization, Problem Solving,
Application
UNIT II: Intelligence – Nature, Theories, Application
UNIT III: Personality – Nature, Theories, Application
UNIT IV: Assessment of cognition, intelligence, personality and their application

Reading List:
Atkinson, R. L., Atkinson, R. C., Smith, E. E., Bem, D. J. & Hilgard, E. R. (1990).
Introduction to Psychology. New York: H. B. J. Inc.
Ciccarelli,S. K., Meyer, G. E. & Misra, G. (2010). Psychology: South Asian Edition.

New Delhi: Pearson Education.
Sternberg, R. J. (2010). Cognitive Psychology. New York: Cengage Learning
Passer, M.W. & Smith, R.E. (2010). Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour.
New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill

Paper 6: Research Methodology & Statistics- II

UNIT I:
 Sampling
 Probability: simple random, stratified & cluster
 Non- probability: accidental, quota, purposive

UNIT II:
 Qualitative research: define, differentiate from quantitative research
 Scale construction: Likert, Thurstone, Guttman & semantic differential.

UNIT III:
 Hypothesis testing: single & double (dependent & independent) means Z and
student’s t.

 Type I & II errors, power of a test

UNIT IV:
 Hypothesis testing for more than two means: one way ANOVA
 Introduction to non parametrics: Chi square.

Reading List:
Aron, A., Aron, E.N., & Coups, E.J. (2007).Statistics for Psychology. (4thEd.) India:
Pearson Education, Prentice Hall.
King, B.M. & Minium, E.W. (2007).Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences.
(5th Ed.) USA: John Wiley.

Paper 7: Practicum based on Paper 4

One from each of the following:

i) Intelligence – using a test battery
ii) Personality – Any one test (16 PF, MBTI, MMPI etc.)
iii) Critical Thinking / Problem solving & reasoning using any test.