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Class 12

Psychology

35 lessons in 7 chapters, explained in plain words.

Variations in Psychological Attributes

  1. Individual differences and assessment
  2. Theories of intelligence
  3. Measuring intelligence
  4. Culture and emotional intelligence
  5. Aptitude and creativity

Self and Personality

  1. The self
  2. Personality: types and traits
  3. The psychodynamic approach
  4. Behavioural, cultural and humanistic approaches
  5. Assessing personality

Meeting Life Challenges

  1. The nature of stress
  2. Types and sources of stress
  3. Effects of stress on mind and body
  4. Coping with stress
  5. Positive health and life skills

Psychological Disorders

  1. What is abnormal?
  2. Why disorders develop
  3. Anxiety, obsessive, trauma, somatic and dissociative disorders
  4. Mood disorders, suicide and schizophrenia
  5. Developmental, conduct, eating and substance disorders

Therapeutic Approaches

  1. Psychotherapy and the therapeutic relationship
  2. Types of therapy and clinical formulation
  3. Behaviour therapy
  4. Cognitive and humanistic-existential therapies
  5. Healing, ethics, alternative therapies and rehabilitation

Attitude and Social Cognition

  1. What attitudes are
  2. How attitudes are formed
  3. How attitudes change
  4. What makes attitudes change, and do they predict behaviour?
  5. Prejudice and discrimination

Social Influence and Group Processes

  1. What is a group?
  2. Why and how groups form
  3. Group structure and types of groups
  4. Ingroups and outgroups
  5. How groups influence individuals