Class 11 Psychology Syllabus | NCERT | CBSE | English
Class 11 Psychology Syllabus
Chapter 1: What is Psychology?
Part - 2: Evolution of Psychology
Part 3: Development of Psychology in India
Part 4: Branches of Psychology
Part 5: Themes of research and applications
part 6: Psychology and other disciplines
Chapter 2: Methods of enquiry in Psychology
part 1: Goals of Psychological Enquiry
part 4: Correlational method and survey research
part 5: Psychological Testing and Case Study
part 6: Analysis of data, Limitations of Psychological Enquiry, Ethical Issues
Chapter 3: The bases of human behaviour
part 1: Evolutionary Perspective, Biological and Cultural Roots
part 3: The Endocrine System and Heredity
part 5: Socialization and Acculturation
Chapter 4: Human development
part 2: Context of Development and Developmental Stages
part 3: Prenatal Stage and Infancy
part 5: Challenges of Adolescence
Chapter 5: Sensory, attentional and perceptual processes
Part 5: Themes of research and applications
- Chapter 6: Learning
- Nature of learning
- Paradigms of learning
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Observational learning
- Cognitive learning
- Verbal learning
- Concept learning
- Skill learning
- Transfer of learning
- Factors facilitating learning
- Learning styles
- Learning disabilities
- Applications of learning principles
- Chapter 7: Human memory
- Nature of memory
- Information processing approach: the stage model
- Memory systems: short term and long term memories
- Working memory
- Types of long term memory
- Long term memory: declarative and procedural, episodic and semantic
- Long term memory classification
- Knowledge representation and organization in memory
- Memory as a constructive process
- Nature and causes of forgetting
- Enhancing memory
Chapter 8: Thinking
- Nature of thinking
- Processes of thinking
- Problem solving
- Reasoning
- Decision making
- Creative thinking
- Thought and language
- Development of language
Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
- Nature of motivation
- Types of motives: biological motives and psychological motives
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Nature of emotions
- Physiological bases of emotions
- Cognitive bases of emotions
- Cultural bases of emotions
- Expression of emotions
- Managing negative emotions
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Management of examination anxiety
- Enhancing positive emotions
- Emotional intelligence
Class 11 Psychology Syllabus
Chapter 1: What is Psychology?
Part - 2: Evolution of Psychology
Part 3: Development of Psychology in India
Part 4: Branches of Psychology
Part 5: Themes of research and applications
part 6: Psychology and other disciplines
Chapter 2: Methods of enquiry in Psychology
part 1: Goals of Psychological Enquiry
part 4: Correlational method and survey research
part 5: Psychological Testing and Case Study
part 6: Analysis of data, Limitations of Psychological Enquiry, Ethical Issues
Chapter 3: The bases of human behaviour
part 1: Evolutionary Perspective, Biological and Cultural Roots
part 3: The Endocrine System and Heredity
part 5: Socialization and Acculturation
Chapter 4: Human development
part 2: Context of Development and Developmental Stages
part 3: Prenatal Stage and Infancy
part 5: Challenges of Adolescence
Chapter 5: Sensory, attentional and perceptual processes
Part 5: Themes of research and applications
- Chapter 6: Learning
- Nature of learning
- Paradigms of learning
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Observational learning
- Cognitive learning
- Verbal learning
- Concept learning
- Skill learning
- Transfer of learning
- Factors facilitating learning
- Learning styles
- Learning disabilities
- Applications of learning principles
- Chapter 7: Human memory
- Nature of memory
- Information processing approach: the stage model
- Memory systems: short term and long term memories
- Working memory
- Types of long term memory
- Long term memory: declarative and procedural, episodic and semantic
- Long term memory classification
- Knowledge representation and organization in memory
- Memory as a constructive process
- Nature and causes of forgetting
- Enhancing memory
Chapter 8: Thinking
- Nature of thinking
- Processes of thinking
- Problem solving
- Reasoning
- Decision making
- Creative thinking
- Thought and language
- Development of language
Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
- Nature of motivation
- Types of motives: biological motives and psychological motives
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Nature of emotions
- Physiological bases of emotions
- Cognitive bases of emotions
- Cultural bases of emotions
- Expression of emotions
- Managing negative emotions
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Management of examination anxiety
- Enhancing positive emotions
- Emotional intelligence
