UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester III - Core VI - Experimental Psychology (Practicals)

Historical background of Experimental Psychology and relationship with other sciences; Scope of Experimental Psychology and its Methods List of experiments (Any 15)

1. Distraction
2. Span
3. Division
4. Muller Lyer Illusion
5. Horizontal vertical Illusion
5. Organization in perception
6. Set in Perception
7. Motor learning
8. Insight & Trial & Error Learning
9. Transfer of learning- Habit Interference
10. Retroactive Inhibition & Proactive inhibition
11. Memory for names & faces
12. Paired Associate Learning
13. Facial expressions (group experiment)
14. Student stress Scale
15. Anger Expression
16. Knowledge of results
17. Level of Aspiration

REFERENCE

Chaube. S.P.(1985): Experimental Psychology, Laxmi Narain Publishers