CBSE Class 12 Psychology Syllabus 2021-2022

CBSE Class 12 Psychology Syllabus 2021-2022 Course Structure

TERM – I 

Unit-I: Variations in Psychological Attributes

1. Introduction
2. Individual Differences in Human Functioning
3. Assessment of Psychological Attributes
4. Intelligence
5. Theories of Intelligence
   • Theory of Multiple Intelligences
   • Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
   • Planning, Attention-arousal, and Simultaneous successive
   • Model of Intelligence
6. Individual Differences in Intelligence
   • Variations of Intelligence
7. Culture and Intelligence
8. Emotional Intelligence
9. Special Abilities
   • Aptitude: Nature and Measurement
10. Creativity

Unit-II: Self and Personality

1. Introduction
2. Self and Personality
3. Concept of Self
4. Cognitive and Behavioural Aspects of Self
   • Self-esteem, Self-efficacy and Self-regulation
5. Culture and Self
6. Concept of Personality
7. Major Approaches to the Study of Personality
   • Type Approaches
   • Trait Approaches
   • Psychodynamic Approach
   • Behavioural Approach
   • Cultural Approach
   • Humanistic Approach
8. Assessment of Personality
   • Self-report Measures
   • Projective Techniques
   • Behavioural Analysis

Unit-III: Meeting Life Challenges

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 Immune System
   • Lifestyle
4. Coping with Stress
   • Adaptation and Adjustments (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)
   • Stress Management Techniques
5. Promoting Positive Health and Well-being
   • Life Skills
   • Human Strengths and Virtues From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

Unit-IV: Psychological Disorders

1. Introduction
2. Concepts of abnormality and psychological Disorders
3. Classification of Psychological Disorders
4. Factors Underlying Abnormal Behaviour
5. Major Psychological Disorders
   • Anxiety Disorders
   • Somatoform Disorders
   • Dissociative Disorders
   • Mood Disorders
   • Schizophrenic Disorders
   • Behavioural and Developmental Disorders
   • Substance-use Disorders

Unit-V: Therapeutic Approaches

1. Nature and process of psychotherapy
   • Therapeutic relationship
2. Types of therapies
   • Psychodynamic Therapy
   • Behaviour Therapy
   • Cognitive Therapy
   • Humanistic-existential Therapy
   • Biomedical Therapy
   • Alternative Therapies
   • Zen (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)
   • Counselling (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)
3. Rehabilitation of the Mentally III

TERM – II

Unit-VI: Attitude And Social Cognition

1. Introduction
2. Explaining Social Behaviour
3. Nature and Components of Attitudes
4. Attitude Formation and Change
   • Attitude Formation
   • Attitude Change
   • Attitude-Behaviour Relationship
5. Prejudice and Discrimination
6. Strategies for Handling Prejudice
7. Social Cognition
8. Schemas and Stereotypes
9. Impression Formation and Explaining
10. Behaviour of Others through Attributions
    • Impression Formation
    • Attribution of Causality
11. Behaviour in the Presence of Others
12. Pro-social Behaviour
    • Factors Affecting Pro-social Behaviour

Unit-VII: Social Influence And Group Processes

1. Introduction
2. Nature and Formation of Groups
3. Type of Groups
4. Influence of Group on Individual Behaviour
   • Social Loafing
   • Group Polarisation
5. Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
6. Cooperation and Competition
   • Determinants of Cooperation and Competition
7. Social Identity
8. Intergroup Conflict: Nature and Causes
9. Conflict Resolution Strategies

Unit-VIII: Psychology and Life 

1. Introduction
2. Human-Environment Relationship
   • Different Views of the Human-Environment Relationship
3. Environmental Effects on Human Behaviour
   • Human Influence on the Environment
   • Noise
   • Pollution
   • Crowding
   • Natural Disasters
4. Promoting Pro-environmental Behaviour
5. Psychology and Social Concerns
   • Poverty and Discrimination
   • Aggression, Violence, and Peace
   • Mahatma Gandhi on Non-violence
   • Health
   • Impact of Television on Behaviour
   • Media and Human Values (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)
   • Human Rights (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)
   • Citizenship (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)
   • Promotion of Peace (From the CBSE Supplementary Reading Material)

Unit-IX: Developing Psychological Skills

1. Introduction
2. Developing as an effective Psychologist
3. General Skills
   • Intellectual and Personal Skills; Sensitivity to Diversity
4. Observational Skills
5. Specific Skills
   • Communication Skills
   • Psychological Testing Skills
6. Interviewing Skills
7. Counselling Skills