Latest CBSE Syllabus of Psychology for Class 12th
Unit I: Variations in Psychological Attributes
The topics in this unit are
1. Introduction
2. Individual Differences in Human Functioning
3. Assessment of Psychological Attributes
4. Intelligence
5. Psychometric Theories of Intelligence, Information Processing Theory: Planning, Attention-Arousal, and Simultaneous successive model of intelligence, triarchic theory of intelligence, and theory of multiple intelligences.
6. Individual Differences in Intelligence
7. Culture and Intelligence
8. Emotional Intelligence
9. Special Abilities: Aptitude: Nature and Measurement
10. Creativity
Unit II: Self and Personality
The topics in this unit are
1. Introduction
2. Self and Personality
3. Concept of Self
4. Cognitive and Behavioral Aspects of Self
5. Culture and Self
6. Concept of Personality
7. Major Approaches to the Study of Personality
- Type Approaches
- Trait Approaches
- Psychodynamic Approach and Post-Freudian Approaches
- Behavioral Approach
- Cultural Approach
- Humanistic Approach
8. Assessment of Personality
- Self-report Measures
- Projective Techniques
- Behavioral Analysis
Unit III: Meeting Life Challenges
The topics in this unit are
1. Introduction
2. Nature, Types, and Sources of Stress
3. Effects of Stress on Psychological Functioning and Health
- Stress and Health
- General Adaptation Syndrome
- Stress and the Immune System
- Lifestyle
4. Coping with Stress
- Stress Management Techniques
5. Promoting Positive Health and Well-being
- Life Skills
- Positive Health
Unit IV: Psychological Disorders
The topics in this unit are
1. Introduction
2. Concepts of Abnormality and Psychological Disorders
- Historical Background
3. Classification of Psychological Disorders
4. Factors Underlying Abnormal Behavior
5. Major Psychological Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
- Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders
- Depressive Disorder
- Bipolar and Related Disorders
- Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
- Feeding and Eating Disorders
- Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Unit V: Therapeutic Approaches
The topics in this unit are
1. Nature and Process of Psychotherapy
- Therapeutic relationship
2. Types of Therapies
- Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive Therapy
- Humanistic-Existential Therapy
- Alternative Therapies
- Factors contributing to healing in psychotherapy
- Ethics in Psychotherapy
3. Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill
Unit VI: Attitude and Social Cognition
The topics in this unit are
1. Introduction
2. Explaining Social Behavior
3. Nature and Components of Attitudes
4. Attitude Formation and Change
- Attitude Formation
- Attitude Change
- Attitude-Behavior Relationship
5. Prejudice and Discrimination
6. Strategies for Handling Prejudice
Unit VII Social Influence and Group Processes
The topics in this unit are
1. Introduction
2. Nature and Formation of Groups
3. Type of Groups
4. Influence of Group on Individual Behavior
- Social Loafing
- Group Polarization
