I.

Definition and Scope of Psychology

II. Schools of thought in Psychology and its corresponding behavioural theories
1. Structuralism
2. Functionalism
3. Behaviorism
a.Classical Conditioning by Ivan Pavlov
b.John Watson’s Theory of Behaviorism
c. Law of effect
d.Theory of operant conditioning by BF Skinner
 Positive and Negative Reinforcement
 Schedules of reinforcement
4. Cognitivism
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
 4 stages of Cognitive Development
5. Psychoanalytic
6. Gestalt
a.Gestalt Laws of Perpetual Organization
 The Law of Similarity
 The Law of Proximity
 The Law of Pragnanz
 The Law of Continuity
 The Law of Closure
III. The Individual: Theory of needs and Motivation
1. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
2. McClelland’s Human Motivation Theory
3. Frederick Herzberg’s Theories of Motivation in the workplace
IV. Definitions and Scope of Social Psychology
V. The Individual: Interacting with Other Individuals and Groups
1. Social Cognition
2. Attitudes
a.The ABC Model of Attitudes
b.3 ways how attitudes form
c. 4 Functions of Attitude according to Daniel Katz(1960)
3. Heuristics
 Types of Heuristics
4. Social Relations
a.Prejudice
b.Aggression
 3 Biological influences on aggression
 4 psychological factors that influence aggression
c. Conflict
 d.Attraction
 5 factors of attraction
e.Altruism
 Norms for Helping(Social exchange theory)
f. Peacemaking
VI. The Individual as part of the group
1. 3 areas of social influence
a.conformity
 2 reasons for conformity
 Factors affecting conformity according to Asch
b.Compliance
c. Obedience
 Factors that affect
obedience(https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html)
d.Social Facilitation
e.Social loafing
f. Deindividuation