Why this course?

Description

• Determinants of personality: Biological and socio-cultural
• Approaches to the study of personality: Psychoanalytical, Neo-Freudian, Social learning, Trait and Type, Cognitive, Humanistic, Existential, Transpersonal psychology.
• Other theories: Rotter’s Locus of Control, Seligman’s Explanatory styles, Kohlberg’s theory of Moral development.
• Basic motivational concepts: Instincts, Needs, Drives, Arousal, Incentives, Motivational Cycle.
• Approaches to the study of motivation: Psychoanalytical, Ethological, S-R Cognitive, Humanistic
• Exploratory behavior and curiosity
• Zuckerman’s Sensation seeking
• Achievement, Affiliation, and Power
• Motivational Competence
• Self-regulation
• Flow
• Emotions: Physiological correlates
• Theories of emotions: James-Lange, Canon-Bard, Schachter and Singer, Lazarus, Lindsley.
• Emotion regulation
• Conflicts: Sources and types
• Stress and Coping: Concept, Models, Type A, B, C, D behaviors, Stress management strategies [Biofeedback, Music therapy, Breathing exercises, Progressive Muscular Relaxation, Guided Imagery, Mindfulness, Meditation, Yogasana, Stress Inoculation Training].