Important Long Answer Questions in Psychology IAS & State PSCs, CBSE, ICSE etc.
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Long Answer Questions (10001500 Words) -
- Assess the role of culture in socialization of men. Do you think culture is more important than genetic traits in shaping the values and perception of men?
- How does learning ability of children in school set up may be improved? Give some case studies and theoretical evidences in this favor.
- Define the concept of memory and assess the process of chunking, encoding, and retrieval in long-term memory.
- How does motivation and emotions affect behavior? Suggest some program of action to motivate the emotionally disturbed persons.
- Describe the concept and characteristics of attitudes. How attitude does formulate and affects the behaviors?
- Explain the various stages of language development. How the language and communication of mentally retarded persons does may be improved.
- What are the basic components of the clinical method in psychology? Critically evaluate the applicability to various psychological problems of the society.
- “Intelligence as conceptualized by Thurstone, Spearman & Cattell is procedurally similar but conceptually different.” Discuss this statement with suitable illustrations & highlighting the recent developments.
- What are attitudes? How are they formed? Discuss the mechanisms underlying their change with special reference to the role played by source, message, and receiver characteristics.
- “Casteism & communalism represent unintegrated social fabric of India.” Discuss the above statement & suggest psychological measures to promote social integration. -
- Discuss the various issues of discrimination against women in Indian society. How are these issues being addressed in contemporary society through women education and economic independence?
- What is the role of leadership in community consciousness & devising actions for handling social problems? Illustrate with examples.
- Discuss the rational and emotive models of decision-making & explain how framing influences our choice behavior.
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- Discuss the initial and contemporary trends in creativity & explain the role played by intelligence, aptitude, & personality in the expression of creativity.
- “The theories of language given by Chomsky & Skinner are polemical but their integration finds an application in educational set up.” Discuss.
- How has behavior been defined in psychology? Critically analyze the role of genetics and environment in determination of behavior.
- What do you mean by the concept of learning? Compare the process of reinforcement, discrimination, generalization, and stimulus response in Pavlov and Skinner՚s experiments.
- What are the psychological factors involved in decision-making and judgment process?
- How do you motivate the personnel of an organization? Explain the process in the context of motivation.
- What are cross-cultural therapies? Evaluate one Indian therapy for stress management.
- Can we sustain the statement that much of our behavior is the result of operant conditioning?
- Human resource Development is a continuous process to develop human capabilities and potentialities to achieve personal and organizational goals. Give your comments.
- Explain the causes of forgetting. Is it a necessary aspect of learning? Justify your answers with examples.
- Discuss the need hierarchy theory and comment on its relevance and utility in understanding human behavior.
- Does organizational man lead to alienation in comparison to humanistic man?
- What do you mean by attired state of consciousness? Describe the best ways in which it can be acquired.
- Describe Beck՚s cognitive behavior therapy for the treatment of depression.
- It is said that Indian society is resistant to changes. If so, discuss the factors responsible for it and the methods to combat it.
- What are the components of dynamic social integration? Describe the various psychosocial factors, which hamper proper social integration in India. Suggest some remedial measures. -
- What are the major components of prejudice? Discuss the factors that generate and strengthen prejudice with special reference to India.
- What is meant by socialization? Comment on the view that school is the best agent of socialization.
- Is there any relation between the process of socialization and social learning theory of personality?
- Why is psychological experiment described as observation under controlled conditions? Explain with illustrations the difference between control groups and within subjects՚ designs of experiment.
- Giving an account of the Piaget՚s theory of cognitive development bring out differences in the modes of thinking at different stages of development.
- Elucidate the main features of Chomsky and Skinner՚s theory of language development and indicate their applications.
- Elucidate Freud՚s conceptualization of human personality; discuss its implications for counseling therapy.
- Citing experimental evidences discuss how social learning, social comparison, and genetic factors influence formation of attitudes. Also, explain how cognitive dissonance can be reduced.
- “The level at which information is processed has a bearing on the recall of that particular information” . Discuss the relevance of this statement in the light of experimental studies.
- What is working memory? How has the concept working memory has overcome the limitations imposed that constrained STM concept of multistore model? -
- How far the PASS model of intelligence has represents an improvement over Luria՚s neurophysiological approach? How this model has been used in the treatment of learning disability?
- How has information-processing approach contributed to our understanding of human behavior by describing the process of learning, memory, thinking, and perception? Illustrate with examples.
- Discuss the relevance of traditional and modern participative management techniques in the Indian industry.
- Discuss the different types of psychological tests. Are the results obtained at different areas of testing equally scientific and dependable? Suggest measures for ensuring their reliability and accuracy.
- Discuss the types of group at work situations. How can group work be measured?
- Critically evaluate McDolland՚s achievement motivation theory with reference to Indian women entrepreneurs.
- Discuss the psychosocial factors contributing terrorism in India. Suggest strategies to eliminate terrorism. -
- Highlight the problems of alcoholism and drug addiction.