Psychology: Meaning and definitions-Educational psychology: Meaning, scope and significance - Dimensions of human growth and development: Physical, cognitive, emotional, social, moral and language – Phases of developmental and development tasks - Infancy, childhood and adolescence.

Attention: Meaning, nature and determinants of attention – Sensation and perception – Laws of perception - Errors in perception: Illusion and hallucination - Memory: Meaning, types of memory and Strategies for improving memory.

Motivation: Meaning and definitions - Maslow’s theory of motivation and its educational implications – Level of aspiration – Learning: Theories of learning and its educational implications –Cognitive Theory: Jean Piajet, - Behaviourist Theory- Pavlov’s Classical, Conditioning, Skinner’s Operant Conditioning and Thorndike Connectionism – Constructivist Theory: John Dewey – Humanistic Theory – Carl Rogers.

Intelligence: Meaning, definitions and types - Theories of Intelligence: Two factor, Thurston’s Group factor, Thorndike’s Multi-factor, Guilford’s Structure of Intellect, and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence - Intelligence Quotient (IQ) - Assessment of Intelligence – Creativity: Concept, factors and process - Strategies for fostering creativity.

Personality: Meaning, definitions, and determinants of personality - Theories of Personality: Type, trait, and psychoanalytic - Assessment of personality: Projective and non-projective techniques