PAPER-III

PSYCHOLOGY


Note This section consists of two essay type questions of twenty marks each, to be answered in about five hundred words each. ×20 40 marks)

1. Cognitive Psychology paradigm has made full inroads into all fields of Psychology. Discuss.

2. Self theories have made major contribution in the understanding of psychopathology and its prognosis. Discuss.

3. How can the understanding of Psychology help to overcome the challenges faced by disadvantaged

4. Has the research in Psychology been able to assimilate properly the competing methodologies




Note This section contains three questions. From each of the electives/specializations, the candidate has to choose only one elective/specialization and answer all the three questions contained therein. Each question carries fifteen marks and is to be answered in about three hundred words. ×15 45 Marks)


5. How do compliance and obedience regulate social life

6. Discuss the effectiveness of heuristics in social problems of everyday life.

7. Are ethnic prejudices contributing to the social unrest in India

8. Put up a synthesis of biogenic, psychogenic and sociogenic factors for the development of behaviour.

9. Critically evaluate psychoanalytic theory of development of behaviour.

10. How do children acquire and use language in multilingual context

11. How would you enhance the motivational level of students reducing the dropouts from schools in India

12. What are the skills required of a counsellor dealing with primary school children in India

13. How would you categorize social factors in education

14. With reference to John Holland's postulations discuss the role of personality attributes in determining 'Person-Job' fit.

15. Delineate stepwise the way an organization can be developed as a 'learning organization'.

16. In what way 360° performance appraisal technique does help to check the deterioration of performance

17. How would you appreciate the eclectic approach as a technique of Psychotherapy

18. Schizophrenia is mostly having biological roots over social or psychological influences. Examine critically.

19. Examine the influence of hostility feeling as risk for Coronary Heart Disease.

Note This section contains nine questions of ten marks each, each to be answered in about fifty words. ×10 90 Marks)


20. Describe briefly the electrophy siological correlates of learning.

21. Characterize various stages of sleep.

22. Differentiate between psychosexual and psycho-social development of personality.

23. Briefly describe through Spearman's Theory of Intelligence.

24. In what way does ecology influence the perceptual styles

25. Describe briefly the basic techniques of controlling the extraneous variables in experiment.

26. What are the stages to reach to solution to a problem

27. Describe common dimensions of attribution style.

28. Characterize Craik and Lockhart's model of 'depth of processing'.

Note This section contains five questions of five marks each based on the following passage. Each question should be answered in about thirty words. ×
5 25 Marks)


29. Read the paragraph carefully and answer the questions given below

Abraham Maslow was first attracted to behaviourism and carried out studies of primate sexuality and dominance. He was already moving away from behaviourism when his first child was born, after which he remarked that anyone who observes a baby cannot be a behaviourist. He was influenced by Psychoanalysis but eventually became critical of its theory of motivation and developed his own theory. Specifically, he proposed that there is a hierarchy of needs, ascending from the basic biological needs to the more complex psychological motivations that become important only after the basic needs have been satisfied.
The needs at one level must be at least partially satisfied before those at the next level become important motivators of action. When food and safety are difficult to obtain, efforts to satisfy those needs will dominate a person's actions and higher motives will have little significance. Only when basic needs can be satisfied easily will the individual have the time and energy to devote to aesthetic and intellectual interests. Artistic and scientific endeavours do not flourish in societies in which people must struggle for food, shelter and safety. The highest motive self-actualization can be fulfilled only after all other needs have been satisfied. Maslow decided to study self-actualizers men and women who had made extraordinary use of their potential.

Does motivation come from within a person or is it a result of the situation

30. Many people experience what Maslow called peak experiences. Comment.

31. Explain the distinguishing characteristics of self-actualizers.

32. Does behaviour lead to self-actualization

33. What exactly means self actualization