💭 CUET Psychology (Section II)

Chapters

1. Individual Differences and Theories of Intelligence
   No two people think, feel or act alike, and psychology begins its study of people by asking how those differences can be described and measured. This chapter sets out…
2. Measuring Intelligence — IQ, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, Aptitude and Creativity
   Theories say what intelligence is; tests say how much of it a person shows. This chapter starts with the first test and the idea of mental age, works through the IQ…
3. The Self, and the Type and Trait Approaches to Personality
   Before psychology describes what makes people different, it asks how each person understands himself or herself. This chapter begins with the self — as knower and as…
4. Approaches to Personality — Psychodynamic, Behavioural, Cultural and Humanistic — and Its Assessment
   Types and traits describe personality; the approaches in this chapter try to explain it. Freud looked beneath awareness for conflict between instinct and conscience, and…
5. Meeting Life Challenges — Stress, Coping and Positive Health
   Examinations, a move to a new city, an illness in the family, a long commute every day — life keeps making demands, and whether a demand becomes stress depends on how a…
6. Psychological Disorders — Concepts, Causes, and Anxiety-Related Disorders
   Everyone feels anxious, sad or unsettled at times; a psychological disorder is something more persistent and more disabling. This chapter asks how psychologists decide…
7. Major Psychological Disorders — Mood, Schizophrenia, Neurodevelopmental, Conduct, Eating and Substance-Related
   This chapter completes the book's survey of disorders. It begins with disorders of mood — depression and bipolar disorder — and with what the book says about suicide,…
8. Therapeutic Approaches — Psychotherapy, Its Kinds, and Rehabilitation
   If the last two chapters described what goes wrong, this one describes how people are helped. Psychotherapy is a voluntary relationship between a person seeking help and…
9. Attitude and Social Cognition
   Social psychology studies how our thoughts, feelings and behaviour are shaped by the actual, imagined or implied presence of other people. This chapter takes two of its…
10. Social Influence and Group Processes
    Much of life is lived in groups — family, class, team, community — and groups change how people behave. This chapter explains what makes a collection of people a group,…

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