a) Definition, nature and scope of
psychology
b) Importance of psychology for Nurses

a) Conscious, pre-conscious
b) Id, ego and super ego

Psychology of Human Behaviour
a) Basic human needs, dynamics of
behaviour, motivation drives
b) Body mind relationship, mental health,
characteristics of mentally healthy
person, emotional control, psychological
problems of patients and relatives.

c) Stress and conflicts, natural sources and
types of stress and conflicts, dealing with
stress and conflict, frustration – sources
and overcoming frustration
d) Mental mechanism their uses and
importance
e) Attitudes – meaning, development
changes in attitude, effects of attitudes on
behavior, importance of positive attitude
for the nurse.
f) Habits-meaning and formation.
g) Breaking of bad habits, importance of
good habit formation for the nurse

a) Nature, types and laws of learning,
b) Factors affecting learning, memory and
forgetting.
Thinking and Reasoning

• Nature and types of thinking, reasoning,
  problem solving, importance of creative
  thinking for nurse.
  Observation and Perception
• Attention, perception, laws of perception,
  factors affecting attention and perception,
  and errors in perception

a) Meaning, nature and development, types
of personality
b) Assessment of personality importance of
knowledge of personality for the nurse.
c) Characteristics of various age groups –
child adolescent, adult and aged
d) Will and character

a) Definition, Meaning, individual
differences in intelligence
b) Mental ability, nature of intelligence and
development
c) Assessment of intelligence