PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

Paper Code: 
BPT 106
Credits: 
2
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • Understand the importance of psychological status of the person in Health &disease, environmental &emotional influence on the mind & personality.
  • Define the term Psychology& its importance in the Health delivery System & will gain knowledge of Psychological maturation during human Development & growth & alterations during aging process.
  • Acquire the Knowledge as to how to deal with the patients.

 

Unit I: 
General Psychology
  1. Definition of  Psychology:Science of mind consciousness and behavior and Scope and branches of Psychology
  2. Development and growth of behavior in infancy and childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.
  3. Heredity and Environment
  1. Relative importance of heredity and environment
  2. Nature vs. nurture controversy

 

Unit II: 
Theories of Learning, Memory and Perception

1)      Learning: meaning, nature, Types of Learning

a.             Trial and error

b.            Classical Learning

c.             Instrumental Learning

d.            Insight for Learning

2)      Memory:

a.             Step of memory

b.            Measurement of memory

c.             Definition, nature and theories of forgetting

d.            Concept of STM and LTM

3)      Perceptual process

a.                Nature of perceptual process

b.               Structural and function factors in perception

Illusion and Hallucination   

Unit III: 
Psychology of Motivation, Emotion, Intelligence and personality
  1. Motivation
  1. Nature and types of motivation.
  2. Theories of motivation.

 

  1. Emotion
  1. Nature and types of emotion
  2. Theories of emotion (James – Lange and cannon – Bard)

 

  1. Intelligence: Definitions, theory and assessment

 

10) Personality: Definition, Types and theories of personality.

 

 

Unit IV: 
Introduction of Sociology
  1. Definition of sociology. Sociology as a science, uses of study of Sociology,
  2. Factors affecting Disease and Illness, application of knowledge of sociology in Occupation Therapy.
  3. Meaning of socialization, gender, relationship between gender and society, influence
  4. Concepts of social group health and sickness and its types, the role of primary groups and secondary group in the hospital and rehabilitation setting
  5. Influence of family on human personality, discussion of changes in the function of a family, influence of family on the individual’s family and psychosomatic disease, human values.

 

Unit V: 
Social problems of the disabled
  1. Population explosion
  2. Poverty and unemployment
  3. Beggary
  4. Juvenile delinquency
  5. Prostitution
  6. Alcoholism & Problems of women in employment

 

References: 
  1. S.K Mangal- General Psychology
  2. Foundation of psychology- Weld- Publishing house, Bombay.
  3. Introduction to social psychology- Akolkar- Oxford publishing house.
  4. Psychology and sociology – Applied to Medicine – Porter & Alder – W.B.Saunders.
  5. Behavioral Science for Medical - undergraduates –Manju Mehta – Jaypee Brothers
  6. Elementary Psychology –Mohsin Moti Lal Banarsi Dass, Delhi.
  7. Introduction to psychology- Mums- I.D.P. Co.
  8. Introduction to social psychology- Akolkar- Oxford publishing house.
  9. Psychology and sociology – Applied to Medicine – Porter & Alder – W.B.Saunders.
  10. Behavioral Science for Medical - undergraduates –Manju Mehta – Jaypee Brothers
  11. Dibyendunarayan bid – sociology for Physiotherapists

 

Academic Year: 
2023-24
Unit VI: 
Family & Family Issues
Unit VI Description: 
12. Family 13. Family Planning
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