A course of four two-hour periods per week„ with practical work throughout the year. No correspondence courses are given.
SYLLАВus. (Lectures and discussion classes.)
A. General Social Psychology. Scientific method applied to social behaviour.
Attitudes and their measurement. Formation and change of attitudes.
Prejudice. Effects of group membership. Behaviour in small groups.
Leadership. Social structure and culture. Status and role behaviour.
В. Social Psychology applied to Education. Educational Institutions and Roles. Communication, motivation and social conditions for learning.
Interpersonal relationships and social adjustment. Sociometry in the classroom. Principles and techniques in vocational guidance. Special prob- lems of individual children in group situations.
C. Social Psychology applied to Industry. Industrial Institutions and Roles.
Problems of the transition to work. Principles and techniques in vocational guidance and personnel selection. Motivation and morale. Job satisfaction.
Social factors related to productivity and dissatisfaction at work. Com- munication of instructions and information. Consumer research.
PRACTICAL WØк. One hundred and fifty hours during the year on observa- tional, survey and experimental methods and on field work relating to the above course.
NOTE. All students take Part A of this course in the first half of the year, then either Part B or Part C in the second half.
Воокs. (a) Prescribed text-books:
Asch, S. E.—Social Psychology. (Prentice-Hall, 1952.)
Oеser, O. A., and Emery, F. E.—Social Structure and Personality in a Rural Community. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954.)
Oeser, O. A., and Hammond, S. В. (eds.)—Social Structure and Personality in a City. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954.)
Swanson, G. E., .Newcomb, T. M., and Hartley, E. L. (eds.)—Readings in Social Psychology. (2nd ed., Holt, 1952.)
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A (b) Recommended for reference:Cartwright, D., and Zander, A.—Group Dynamics. (Tavistock, 1953.) ' Festinger, L., and Katz, D. Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences.
(Dryden, 1953.)
Jahoda, M., Deutsch, M., and Cook, S. W.—Research Methods in Social Relations. (Dryden, 1951.)
Lewin, K.—Field Theory in Social Science. (Harper, 1951.) 125
Lindzey, G. (ed.)—Handbook of Social Psychology, Vol. II. (Addison Wesley, 1954.)
Newcomb, T. M.—Social Psychology. (Dryden, 1950.) Part B
Fleming, C. M.—Adolescence, Its Social Psychology. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1948.)
Oeser, O. A. (ed.)—Teacher, Pupil and Task. (Tavistock, 1955.)
Ottaway, A. K. C. Education and Society. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.)
Warner, W. L., Havighurst, R. L, and Loeb, M. B.—Who Shall be Educated. (Harper, 1944.)
Part Ć
Ghiselli,
Е.
E., and Brown, C. W. Personnel and Industrial Psychology.(2nd ed., McGraw-Hill.)
Jaques, E.—The Changing Culture of a Factory. (Tavistock, 1951.) Maier, N. R. F. Principles of Human Relations. (Wiley, 1952.)
• Miller, D. C., and Form, W. H. Industrial Sociology. (Harper, 1951.) Smith, Н. C. Psychology of Industrial Behaviour. (McGraw-Hill, 1956.) Whyte, W. F.—Human Relations in the Restaurant Industry. (McGraw-
Hill, 1948.)
ЕхАМхNАТюx. Two 3-hour papers. Candidates must submit satisfactory labora- tory and field notebooks. Honour candidates will be expected to attain a higher standard throughout their course and in the examinations.
PSYCHOLOGY PART IIB (General Experimental Psychology)
A course of four 2-hour sessions and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLAВus. The course provides training in some experimental techniques and theoretical foundations of psychology with special reference to the cognitive processes (perception, learning and thinking). Training in psychometric methods is included.
(a) Experimental work. One half of the course will be devoted to practical work. This will include experiments on perception, learning, thinking and allied subjects. The experiments will range from demonstrations to independent work. Facilities for work with animal subjects are available.
(b) Lectures. The lectures will provide an introduction to theories of per- ception, learning and thinking. They will include material concerning the
• foundations of mental measurement.
Booкs. The main references for the course are:
Cronbach, L. J. Essentials of Psychological Testing. (Harpers, 1949.)
*Guilford, J. P. Psychometric Methods. (2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1954.) Hilgard, E. R.—Theories of Learning. (2nd ed., Appleton-Century-Crofts,
1956. )
McNemar, Q.—Psychological Statistics. (2nd ed., Wiley, 1954.)
Morgan, C. T., and Stellar, E. Physiological Psychology. (McGraw-Hill, 1951.)
Osgood, C. E. Method and Theory in Experimental Psychology. (l.U.P., 1953.)
Stevens, S. S.—Handbook of Experimental Psychology. (Wiley, 1951.)
*Woodworth, R. S., and Schlosberg, H.—Experimental Psychology. (Methuen, 1955.)
Еxn5ІNАТrox. Two 3-hour papers. Satisfactory laboratory notebooks must be submitted. Honour candidates will be expected to attain a higher standard through- out the course and in the examinations.
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class per week, together with practical work and discussion classes. No correspondence courses are given. No evening
classes are held. .
SvLгΡa1us. Theories of emotional development, mechanisms of adjustment, and symptom formation. Introduction to the theory and practice of clinical psycho- logical procedures. Classification of behaviour disorders. The social importance of psychological disorders. An introduction to the professional function of the clinical psychologist.
PRACTICAL Wоaк. One hundred and fifty hours during the year on the practice of psychological testing, experimentation with projective techniques,. etc. Students will be allocated to psychiatric and psychological clinics and will attend lecture- demonstrations in mental hospitals.
Boons.
There are no prescribed text-books. Frequent reference is made to the follow- ing Asch, S.
E.-Social Psychology.
(Prentice-Hall, 1952.)Bowlby,
J.-Maternal Care and Mental Health.
(World Health Organization, 1952.)Cameron, N.
A.-The Psychology of Behaviour Disorders.
(Houghton-Mifflin, 1947.)
Cameron, N. A., and lageret, G.
A.-Behaviour Pathology.
(Houghton Mifflin, 1951.)Carmichael, L.
(ed.)-Manual of Child Psychology.
(2nd ed., Wiley, 1954.) Cronbach, L. J. Essentialsof Psychological Testing.
(Harper, 1949.) Dollard, J. and Miller,N. E.-Personality and Psychotherapy.
(McGraw-Hill, 1950.)
Erikson, E.
1.-Childhood and Society.
(Norton, 1950.)Eysenck, H.
J.-Uses and Abuses of Psychology. (Pelican,
1953.)Eysenck, H.
J.-The Scientific Study . of Personality.
(Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1946.)Fenichel,
O.-The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis.
(Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1946.)Ford, C. S., and Beach, F.
A. Patterns of Sexual Behaviour.
(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952.)Freud,
A.-The Ego and the Mechanism of Defence.
(Hogarth, 1937.) Freud,S.-Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
Authorized trans. byJ. Strachey. (Imago Publishing Co., 1949.)
Freud,
S. Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
Authorized English ed., with Intro. by A. A. Brill. (Pelican, 1939.)Freud,
S.-New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis.
(3rd ed., Hogarth, 1946.)Freud, S. Aп
Outline of Psychoanalysis.
(Hogarth, 1949.) Freud, S. AnAutobiographical Study.
(Hogarth, 1946.) Freud,S.-The Problem of Anxiety.
(Norton, 1936.) 'Friedlander,
K.-The Psychoanalytic Approach to Juvenile Delinquency.
(International Universities' Press, 1947.)
Hall, C. s. -A
Primer of Freudian Psychology.
(Allen and Unwin, 1956.) Hartley, E. L., Newcomb, T., and Swanson, G.E.-Readings in Social
Psychology.
(Holt, 1952, Rev. ed.)Healy, W., Brinier, A. F., and Bowers, A.
M.-The Structures and Meaning of Psychoanalysis.
(Knopf, 1930.)Hebb, D.
O.-Organization of Behaviour.
(Wiley, 1949.)Hendrick,
„-Facts and Theories of Psychoanalysis.
(2nd ed., Knopf, 1939.) Hollitscher,W.-Sigmund Freud-an Introduction.
(Routledge and KeganPaul, 1947.)
Horst, P.
(ed)-The Prediction of Personal Adjustment.
(Social Science Research Council, 1941.)Hunt, J. McV.
(ed.)-Personality and the Behaviour Disorders.
(2 vols.) (Ronald, 1944.)Kinsey, A. C.
(et al.)-Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female. (Saunders,
1949.)
Kinsey, A. C.
(et al.)-Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male.
(Saunders, 1948.)Kluckhohn, C., and Murray, H.
A.=Personality-i, Nature, Society and
Culture.
(2nd ed., Jonathan Cape, 1953.) .Kubie,
L. Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Psychoanalysis.
(Inter-national Universities' Press, 1950.)
Levy, D.
M. Maternal Overprotection.
(Columbia Univ. Press, 1943.) Marx, M. Н.Psychological Theory.
(Macmillan, 1951.)May, R.
R.—The Meaning of Anxiety.
(Ronald, 1950.) Sarason, S.B.—The Clinical Interaction.
(Harper, 1954.)Sears,
R.—Survey of Objective Studies of Psychoanalytic Concepts.
(SocialScience Research Council, 1943.) -
Seward, H.
S.—Sex and the Social Order.
(Pelican, 1954.)Shaffer, G. W., and Lazarus, R.
S. Fundamental Concepts in Clinical Psychology. (McGraw-Hill,
1952.)Stafford-Clark,
D. Psychiatry Today.
(Pelican, 1952.)Thompson,
C.-Psychoanalysis: Evolution and Development.
(Hermitage House, 1950.)Tompkins, S. S.
(ed.) —Contemporary Psychopathology.
(HarvardUniv.
Press, 1947.)
Wechsler,
D.—The Measurement of Adult Intelligence.
(3rd ed., Williams and Wilkins, 1944.)EXAMINATION, Two 3-hour papers and an oral examination for Pass and Honours combined. Candidates must submit satisfactory notebooks and demon- strate satisfactory competence in practical work and show that they have attained an adequate standard in individual testing.