LearnWave
Learn it. Master it.
All books

Class 11

Psychology: Introduction to Psychology

32 lessons in 8 chapters, explained in plain words.

What is Psychology?

  1. What psychology studies
  2. Mind and common sense
  3. How psychology evolved
  4. Branches and uses

Methods of Enquiry in Psychology

  1. How psychologists study behaviour
  2. Observation and experiment
  3. Correlation, survey, tests and case study
  4. Analysis, limits and ethics

Human Development

  1. Development and its influences
  2. Prenatal stage and infancy
  3. Childhood
  4. Adolescence, adulthood and old age

Sensory, Attentional and Perceptual Processes

  1. Senses and thresholds
  2. Attention
  3. Perception and organisation
  4. Depth, constancy, illusions and culture

Learning

  1. What learning is
  2. Conditioning
  3. Observational, cognitive, verbal and skill learning
  4. Factors and disabilities

Human Memory

  1. What memory is
  2. Memory systems and levels
  3. Types of long-term memory
  4. Forgetting and enhancing memory

Thinking

  1. Nature of thinking
  2. Problem solving, reasoning and decisions
  3. Creative thinking
  4. Thought and language

Motivation and Emotion

  1. What moves behaviour
  2. Psychosocial motives and Maslow
  3. Emotions and their expression
  4. Managing emotions