1. Why humanistic approach in psychology could not find a major place in main stream
psychology Discuss


2. What ethical issues are involved in conducting experiments on human subjects How they can be taken care-of

3. Discuss Psycho-Social aspects of health oriented behaviour.



4. Discuss the arguments on Nurture Nature controversy. Why it cannot be resolved


5. What psychological methods can be employed to enhance pro-environment behaviour

6. Discuss the psychological effects of yielding to power.

7. Citing Festinger and Carlsmith's study, examine the cognitive consequences of forced compliance.

8. What is Life-span development Describe principles of Life-span development.

9. Define the key concepts of Piagetian theory and four stages of development described by Piaget.

10. Describe the developmental course of peer interaction and define key concepts such as cliques and crowds.

11. Discuss various non-intellectual correlates of academic under-achievement. What special efforts are needed to overcome their ill-effects

12. Discuss important characteristics of directive counselling with its advantages and disadvantages for college students.

13. Explain nature and special benefits of case study as a technique of guidance. Prepare a proforma of case study of under-achieving girl student.

14. Discuss the psychological aspects of industrial selection and performance appraisal.

15. Discuss processes and strategies to enhance organizational success through transactional leadership.

16. Compare the motivational models of Herzberg and Vroom.


17. Explain biological causes of Schizophrenia.

18. Describe the rationale behind Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and discuss its usefulness in treating drug addiction.

19. What are the advantages and limitations of classification.



20. Critically evaluate Gestalt Theory of Perception.

21. Describe briefly the cognitive approach to learning.

22. Enumerate in brief various biochemical factors associated with memory.

23. Differentiate between convergent and divergent thinking.

24. What do you understand by the term threshold hypothesis



25.Describe categories of scoring Rorschach's Ink blot test responses.


26. What is a matched group design

27. Describe Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgement.

28. Explain how endocrine glands work as interlocking system with each other as well as with neural system.


29. Read the paragraph carefully and answer the questions given below
Non-experimental designs known as correlational methods, are research designs in which neither the random assignment of subjects to condition nor the use of a control group are employed. The goal is to know the potential relationship among variables or set of variables. But correlational research designs do not allow the researcher to say anything about the causal relationship between the variables. It simply tells us the co-variation between the variables and not whether one variable causes the other. For example, it is difficult to ascertain whether intelligence causes the development of social skills, or reverse is true i.e. social skills may cause intelligence, or whether the two constructs are caused by some other common factor. A correlation between two variables could be caused by the presence of a third variable, which is responsible for the relationship between two variables. One way in which researchers can deal with the issue of a interference of third variable is to statistically control the variable by including measures of that variable and apply partial correlation.

Explain the meaning and interpretation of correlation.

What are the limitations of correlational studies

Why non-experimental designs use correlation method

Why correlation cannot depict causal relations

How should any researcher control the third variable problems