IAS Mains Psychology Papers 1985
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IAS Mains Psychology 1985
Paper I
Section A
- Answer any three of the following in about 200 words each:
- Discuss the advantages and limitations of quantification and measurement of human behaviour. Illustrate your answer with examples.
- Examine the implications of ‘experiment or effect’ in laboratory experiments. Explain whether you can control such effects.
- How is endocrine system related to emotional syndrome? Can it explain the whole process of emotional arousal and control?
- Two children of same parents happen to be different in mental equipment and behaviour patterns. Can you explain this phenomenon on the basis of polygenic model of inheritance?
- Discuss the principal functional properties of drive both innate and acquired. Analyse the motivational components underlying acquired drives with illustrations. Do acquired drives have any relevance in social planning?
- How does classical psychophysics differ from modern psychophysics? Differentiating between the two, discuss Steven՚s power law.
- Examine the physiological and physical mechanism of colour vision. Critically evaluate the various theories of colour perception.
Section B
- Answer any three of the following in about 200 words each:
- What is the factorial theory of intelligence? Do measuring techniques also vary depending on the implications of this theory?
- Discuss the issues of racial and cultural differences in the intelligence.
- What is the role of modelling in learning? Is any imitation a part of modelling mechanism?
- What is information processing analysis of thinking? Cite recent experimental evidences in this context.
- How does Pavlovian conditioning differ from the Skinnerian type? What is the nature and role of reinforcement in both the types of conditioning?
- Explain the processes and principles of reconstruction in remembering with experimental evidence. Can you understand better by some of your day-to-day intriguing experiences in the light of this theory? Illustrate your answer.
- Discuss the measurement techniques of abilities, aptitudes and achievement. How do you assure reliability and validity of these tests?
Paper II
Section A
- Attempt any three of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words) :
- Freudians and the neo-Freudians are similar in approach but differ in points of emphasis. Discuss.
- Field theory has given to Psychology certain concepts that are very valuable in analysing human behaviour. Comment
- Explain the essential differences between traditional behaviourism and non-behaviourism.
- Psychology in India has become more problem oriented and gradually finding its own identity. Discuss.
- Explain the culture personality approach and discuss the role of child rearing practices in personality formation.
- Unbalanced cognitive systems tend to shift towards a state of balance. Discuss in the context of attitude or cognition.
- Bring out the essential features of projective tests of personality and discuss their relative merits and shortcomings over psychometric tests.
Section B
- Attempt any three of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words) :
- Is there a motivational syndrome associated with agro-economic development? Discuss.
- Job satisfaction and dissatisfaction are not two poles of the same continuum but constitute separate dimensions. Discuss.
- Deeply rooted in learning theories, behaviour therapy uses principles of reinforcement in changing maladaptive behaviour. Discuss.
- Discuss the educational problems of socio culturally disadvantaged children.
- Discuss whether mental health is to be considered only as an absence of mental disease. In this context, explain with suitable examples what is meant by psychosomatic diseases.
- Giving suitable illustrations, discuss different bases of social power.
- Discuss school as a social system. In this context, indicate how interactions within the classroom affect children՚s performance.