CBSE Class 11 Psychology Syllabus 2026-27

The topics in this unit are:

1. Introduction
2. Nature of Psychology:
   • Psychology as a Discipline
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   • Psychology as a Natural Science
   • Psychology as a Social Science
3. Understanding Mind and Behaviour
4. Popular Notions about the Discipline of Psychology
5. Evolution of Psychology
6. Development of Psychology in India
7. Branches of Psychology
8. Psychology and Other Disciplines
9. Psychology in Everyday Life

The topics in this unit are:

1. Introduction
2. Goals of Psychological Enquiry
   • Steps in Conducting Scientific Research
   • Alternative Paradigms of Research
3. Nature of Psychological Data

4. Some Important Methods in Psychology
   • Observational Method
   • Experimental Method
   • Correlational Research
   • Survey Research
   • Psychological Testing
   • Case Study
5. Analysis of Data
   • Quantitative Method
   • Qualitative Method
6. Limitations of Psychological Enquiry
7. Ethical Issues

The topics in this unit are:

1. Introduction
2. Meaning of Development
   • Life-Span Perspective on Development
3. Factors Influencing Development
4. Context of Development
5. Overview of Developmental Stages
   • Prenatal Stage
   • Infancy
   • Childhood
   • Challenges of Adolescence
   • Adulthood and Old Age

The topics in this unit are:

1. Introduction
2. Knowing the world
3. Nature and varieties of Stimulus
4. Sense Modalities
   • Functional limitation of sense organs
5. Attentional Processes
   • Selective Attention
   • Sustained Attention
6. Perceptual Processes
   • Processing Approaches in Perception
7. The Perceiver
8. Principles of Perceptual Organisation
9. Perception of Space, Depth and Distance
   • Monocular Cues and Binocular Cues
10. Perceptual Constancies
11. Illusions
12. Socio-Cultural Influences on Perception

The topics in this unit are:

1. Introduction
2. Nature of Learning
3. Paradigms of Learning
4. Classical Conditioning
   • Determinants of Classical Conditioning
5. Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
   • Determinants of Operant Conditioning
   • Key Learning Processes
6. Observational Learning
7. Cognitive Learning
8. Verbal Learning
9. Skill Learning
10. Factors Facilitating Learning
11. Learning Disabilities

The topics in this unit are:

1. Introduction
2. Nature of memory
3. Information Processing Approach : The Stage Model
4. Memory Systems : Sensory, Short-term and Long-term Memories
5. Levels of Processing
6. Types of Long-term Memory
   • Declarative and Procedural; Episodic and Semantic
7. Nature and Causes of Forgetting
   • Forgetting due to Trace Decay, Interference and Retrieval Failure
8. Enhancing Memory
   • Mnemonics using Images and Organisation

The topics in this unit are:

1. Introduction
2. Nature of Thinking
• Building Blocks of Thought

3. The Processes of Thinking
4. Problem Solving
5. Reasoning
6. Decision-making
7. Nature and Process of Creative Thinking
   • Nature of Creative Thinking
   • Process and strategies of Creative Thinking
8. Thought and Language
9. Development of Language and Language Use

The topics in this unit are:

1. Introduction
2. Nature of Motivation
3. Types of Motives
   • Biological Motives
   • Psychosocial Motives
4. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
5. Nature of Emotions
6. Expression of Emotions
   • Culture and Emotional Expression
   • Culture and Emotional Labeling
7. Managing Negative Emotions
8. Enhancing Positive Emotions