There are facial expressions, body movements and actions, which indicate to others how a person feels. Frowns, smiles and sad expressions combine with hand gestures, the turning of one's body and spoken words to produce an understanding of emotion. People fight, run, kiss and yell along with countless other actions stemming from emotions they feel. Facial expression can vary across different cultures, although some aspects of facial expression seem to be universal. Charles Darwin (1898) was one of the first to theorize that emotions were product of evolution and therefore, universal that is, all human beings, no matter what their culture, would show the same facial expression because the facial muscles evolved to communicate specific information to onlookers. Although Darwins ideas were not in line with the behaviourist movement of the early and middle twentieth century, which promoted environment rather than heredity as the cause of behaviour, other researchers have since found evidence that there is a universal nature to at least seven basic emotions. Even children who are blind from birth can produce the appropriate facial expression as others, which strongly supports the idea that emotional expressions have their basis in biology rather than in learning. Although the emotions and the related facial expressions appear to be universal, exactly when, where and how an emotion is expressed may be determined by the culture. There are display rules that can vary from culture to culture.


1. Do you think that facial feedback hypothesis is a key to understanding basic emotions

2. What brain factors are involved in expression of emotions

3. To what extent cerebral hemisphere has an impact upon the nature and emergence of emotions

4. Does reading facial expression always lead to the correct judgement about emotions

5. How is emotion related to a motivated behaviour

6. Describe the concurrent schedules of reinforcement and the matching law.

7. How does organism ignore some sensations

8. Why is visual Perception considered as a hierchichal process

9. Make distinction between declarative and non-declarative memory.

10. What methods are used by the people to solve problems

11. Discuss the role of algorithms in problem solving.

12. Describe the major features of S-D-theory of motivation.

13. How do various major theories of intelligence differ from each other

14. Explain the acronym OCEAN in psychology.

15. Discuss Hofstede's dimensions of Cultural personality.

16. What is the difference between linear and curvilinear correlation in terms of how they appear in scatter Diagram

17. Describe the meaning of acquiescence

18. What are the major purposes of psychological scaling

19. Make distinction between osmometric and volumetric thirst.
20. Point out the role of NPY in hunger


specialisations. The candidate has to choose only one elective specialisation and answer all the five questions from it.
21. Discuss in what ways social Psychology seeks to understand the causes of social Behavior and Thought.

22. Discuss Heuristics as mental shortcuts in social cognition.

23. Discuss Foot in the door and Door f in the face techniques of compliance.

24. 'Some victims are more likely to receive help than others'. Discuss.

25. Explain how environmental factors affect-human behavior and vice-versa.

21. How do various cognitive theorists explain human development Are there limitations in their explanation

22. Explain the major issues over which child development theorists take a stand.

23. Trace the development of morally relevant self control from early childhood to adolescence taking into account its implications of individual differences for cognitive and Social Competencies.

24. Describe the course of phonological development taking various individual differences into account.

25. Do you consider temperament as a predictor of children's behaviour. Discuss the goodness-of-fit Model in this connection

21. Discuss the role of information Technology (L.T.) And market forces in Teaching Effectiveness.

22. Compare the contribution of intellectual and emotional factors in academic achievement.

23. Discuss problems and perspectives of Guidance and Counselling in schools.

24. How do you relate motivation and culture with learning

25. Human development is a function of individual differences in socio-cultural context. Discuss.


21. Describing the social impact theory, examine its impact on social loafing.


22. Showing your familiarity with content and process theories of work motivation explain the role of expectancy theory in determining employee's behaviour.

23. Defining the concept of industrial Psychology, describe how it served as an impetus in the emergence of organisational psychology.

24. Defining the concept of job Specification and job analysis, explain its relevance in selection process.

25. Assessing the training needs, explain the merits and limitations of on-the job and off the job training.

21. Following DSM-LV-TR, What are the different types of psychological disorders
22. How do dissociative disorders develop

23. Present historical perspective of Mental Retardation.

24. Discuss the major ingredients of psychotherapy.

25. How effective are group approaches to psychotherapy

26. Neuropsychological bases of Human Behavior

27. Positive Psychology and wellbeing

28. Nonparametric statistics in Psychological Research

29. Development indicators, Millennium Goals Psyschology.