Unit VI of the CBSE Class 12 Psychology paper carries 8 marks out of 70. The A-B-C components, the four features of an attitude, the three models of attitude change and the sources of prejudice are the reliable answers; social cognition and pro-social behaviour usually supply the short ones.
What is inside
- Chapter at a glance — a one-page mind map covering all twelve syllabus topics
- Complete topic-by-topic notes, NCERT-aligned, in CBSE’s own topic order
- The A-B-C components — affective, behavioural and cognitive — and all four features of an attitude: valence, extremeness, simplicity or complexity, and centrality
- Attitude, belief and value separated properly, which is the distinction students most often blur
- How attitudes form: learning by association, reward and punishment, modelling, group and cultural norms, and the role of family, school, reference groups and media
- All three models of attitude change — Heider’s P-O-X balance, Festinger’s cognitive dissonance and Mohsin’s two-step concept — plus the source, message and target factors
- LaPiere’s study and the honest answer to when behaviour actually follows attitude, since usually it does not
- Prejudice and discrimination in full: stereotype, dislike and discrimination as the three components; every source — learning, ingroup bias, scapegoating, the kernel of truth and the self-fulfilling prophecy — and every strategy against it
- Social cognition: schema, category and prototype; stereotypes as schemas; impression formation through selection, organisation and inference; and the primacy and halo effects
- Attribution of causality — internal versus external — and the fundamental attribution error
- Behaviour in the presence of others: social facilitation and social loafing; and pro-social behaviour and altruism
- A 52-term glossary of every definition the paper can ask for
- 14 board-pattern questions with full model answers, written the way they should be written in the exam
- A revision tracker to tick off each topic as read, practised and revised
Written for the 2026-27 syllabus
Every topic in this file is on CBSE’s list for Chapter 6. Nothing more has been added to pad the page count. Psychology and Life and Developing Psychological Skills are not covered anywhere in these notes, because CBSE has removed both from the syllabus — you will not spend a minute on material the paper cannot ask.
Details
- Format: PDF, A4 — works on a phone and prints cleanly
- Length: 22 pages plus cover
- Delivery: instant download link after payment, plus a copy by email
- Free updates: if CBSE changes the syllabus or a correction goes in, the updated file is sent to you at no cost. You never pay twice for the same chapter.
By Aditi Ojha (Savvy Ma’am) — Founder and educator, The Savvy Humanities. Teaching Humanities on YouTube since 2023. These notes pair with the free chapter video; QR codes inside the file link to it.
