C. Psychology with Reference to CWSN ( 5 marks)
- Approaches to Human Development – Theoretical Approaches to Development, The Early Years, and Adolescence stages- Transition into Adulthood.
- Psychosocial Aspects and Disability- family issues
- Psychology and Learning – Intelligence- Educational Psychology Relevance and scope Basic principles of learning -Thorndike, Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura, Piaget and Vygotsky.
- Learning styles and Types of learners, Motivation.
- Socio-cultural factors affecting learning, Implications for children with special needs
- Psychological processes and their implications for children with different disabilities
- Attention: Concept and factors affecting attention in classroom
- Perception: Concept and factors affecting perception
- Memory: Types and strategies to enhance memory of children
- Intelligence: Definition, meaning and significance of IQ, Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences
- Motivation: Intrinsic, Extrinsic, factors affecting motivation
- Applied Behavioral analysis- Types, Strategies, Management