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✅ 3.5 months online course

✅ Commencement Date: 3 November 2025

✅ Total 40-45 online sessions of 1.5 hours each will be conducted to cover up whole syllabus.

✅ Classes will be held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday only.

✅ Mock tests will also be conducted.

✅ Timing: 8:30PM-10:00PM

✅ Mode of communication: Hindi-English Mixed

SYLLABUS FOR CUET (PG) PSYCHOLOGY -2025

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY -1
1. Introduction – Concept of psychology, Goals of psychology, Methods of psychology,
Branches of psychology, Major historical events in evolution of psychology
2. Schools of Psychology – Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalysis, Gestalt psychology,
Behaviorism, Humanistic psychology, Cognitive psychology, Transpersonal psychology
3. Sensation and Perception – Sensation, Transduction, Sensory threshold: Absolute
threshold, Differential threshold, Weber’s law; Sensory system: Visual, Auditory, Gustatory,
Olfactory, Somatosensory, Vestibular, Kinesthesia; Perceptual processing: Bottom-up and
Top-down processing; Gestalt laws of perceptual organization, Perceptual constancy, Depth
perception, Illusion, Attention and its theories
4. Learning – E.L. Thorndike’s laws of learning; I Pavlov’s classical conditioning; J. B.
Watson’s little Albert experiment; Clark Hull’s law of primary reinforcement; B.F. Skinner’s
operant conditioning; Cognitive approach in learning: Tolman’s latent learning and Kohler’s
insight learning; Bandura’s Observational learning
5. Memory- Three major processes of memory: Encoding, Storage and Retrieval; Models of
memory: Craik and Lockhart’s model, Atkinson and Shiffrin’s model, Working memory
model; Types of long-term memory; Semantic network model; Theories of forgetting,
Forgetting curve; Flashbulb memory, Autobiographical memory, Serial position effect

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY -2
1. Motivation- Basic motivational concepts, Motivational cycle, Types of motivation, Instinct
theory of motivation, Drive reduction theory, Arousal theory, Yerkes-Dodson law, Maslow’s
need hierarchy, McClleland approach, Herzberg theory of motivation
2. Emotion – Three elements of emotion; Basic Emotions: Paul Ekman and Robert Plutchik,
Theories of emotion: James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer, Cognitive appraisal
theory, Facial feedback hypothesis, Physiological correlates
3. Intelligence – Concept, Measuring intelligence, Nature vs. Nurture, Spearman’s two factor
theory, Thurstone’s primary mental abilities theory, Cattell’s theory, Gardner’s theory of
multiple intelligence, Sternberg’s triarchic theory, Guilford’s SI model, Jensen theory, PASS
theory, Goleman model of emotional intelligence
4. Personality – Determinants of personality, Trait & type approach, Hippocrates, Sheldon,
Friedman and Rosenman, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Gorden Allport, R.B.
Cattell, Hans Eysenck, Robert McCrae and Paul Costa, Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow.
5. Stress & Coping- Types of stress, Source of stress, GAS model, Problem focused and
emotion focused coping styles, Learned helplessness.

BIOPSYCHOLOGY
1. Methods of biopsychology- Non-Invasive Methods: Cerebral angiography, Positron Emission
Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fMRI, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Transcranial
Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, Electroencephalography,
Electromyography, Skin Conductance Response, Invasive Methods: Stereotaxic Surgery,
Lesion methods; Aspiration lesions, Radio frequency lesions, Knife cuts, Reversible lesions
2. Neuron- Structure, functions and types of neuron; Neural conduction & Synaptic
transmission; Neurotransmitters
3. Nervous system- Central Nervous System: Brain and Spinal cord & Peripheral Nervous
System: Somatic and Autonomic nervous system: Structure & function; Neuroplasticity
4. Endocrine system- Glands: Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Pineal, Thyroid, Parathyroid, Thymus,
Pancreas, Adrenal, Gonads; Endocrine disorders: Acromegaly, Gigantism, Dwarfism, Cushing’s
syndrome, Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism, Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes Insipidus,
PCOS/PCOD, Addison’s Disease, Graves Disease, Hashimoto’s Disease
5. Other topics: Neuroglial cells or Glia, Meninges, Ventricles, Sleep Stages and Sleep
Disorders, Chromosomal Abnormalities

RESEARCH METHODS & STATISTICS
1. Research: Steps of research, Types of research, Methods of research
2. Problem & Hypothesis: Formulating a research problem, Characteristics of a good
research problem, Hypothesis & its types, Characteristics of a good hypothesis
3. Sampling & Variables: Probability and Non-probability Sampling, Variables and its types
4. Basics of Statistics: Descriptive and Inferential statistics, Scales of measurement
5. Central Tendency and Variability: Mean, Median, Mode, Range, Quartile Deviation,
Average Deviation, Standard Deviation, Normal Probability Curve (NPC), Parametric test
vs. Non-parametric test
6. Correlation: Pearson’s Correlation and Spearman’s Correlation, Regression
7. Psychometric Testing: Reliability, Validity, Norms, Important psychometric test: Rorschach,
TAT, MMPI, NEO-PI, MBTI, 16PF, Binet-Simon Intelligence Test, WAIS, WISC, WPPSI,
Raven’s Progressive Matrices

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY
1. Abnormal psychology: 4 Ds of abnormality, Models of abnormality, Neurosis vs.
Psychosis, Mental Status Examination, Brief about DSM IV-TR, Changes from DSM IV-TR
to DSM -5, Changes from DSM 5 to DSM 5-TR
2. Neurodevelopmental disorders: Intellectual disability, Autism spectrum disorder, ADHD,
Specific learning disorder
3. Schizophrenia spectrum and others psychotic disorders: Schizophrenia,
Schizophreniform disorder, Catatonia
4. Bipolar and related disorders: Bipolar I Disorder, Bipolar II Disorder, Cyclothymic
Disorder
5. Depressive disorders: Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymia
6. Anxiety disorders: Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia), Panic
Disorder, Agoraphobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
7. Obsessive-Compulsive and related disorders: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Body
Dysmorphic Disorder, Hoarding Disorder, Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder),
Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder
8. Trauma- and stressor-related disorders: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress
Disorder
9. Dissociative disorders: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Amnesia,
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
10. Somatic symptom and related disorders: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Conversion
Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)
11. Feeding and eating disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Eating
Disorder
12. Gender dysphoria: Gender Dysphoria
13. Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders: Oppositional Defiant Disorder,
Conduct Disorder, Pyromania, Kleptomania
14. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: Substance Use Disorders, SubstanceInduced Disorders- Substance Intoxication and Withdrawal
15. Personality Disorders: Cluster A Personality Disorders – Paranoid Personality Disorder,
Schizoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder; Cluster B Personality
Disorders: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic
Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Cluster C Personality Disorders:
Avoidant Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive
Personality Disorder
16. Psychotherapeutic approaches: Psychoanalytical therapy, Behavioral therapy, Cognitive
behavioral therapy, Rational emotive behavioral therapy, Dialectical behavioral therapy,
Client centered therapy, Existential therapy, Gestalt therapy, Biomedical therapies Psychopharmacotherapy, ECT, Psychosurgery

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Basics, Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Freud, Bronfenbrenner, Kohlberg’s moral development,
Basics of language development, Noam Chomsky, B.F. Skinner