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    WBCS Main 2018 Optional Psychology Question Paper- Paper I

    GROUP – A

    1)Define attention.Narrate the determinates of attention.What is meant by ‘Fluctuation of Attention’?Is it Natural? Comment.Why does it occur?

    2)Define learning .In what way learning by operant conditions differs from learning from classic conditions?Compare the underlyining physiological process of these two kinds of learning.

    3)What is sensation? Vailidate. ’’Phychophysics  deals with relationship between simulation of sense organs and corresponding physiological experience’’.In this content discuss what you know about-

    a)Fechners law

    b)Webers law

    c)webers ratio along with mathematical and formula and appropriate diagrams

    4)Explain the words ‘’Memory’’ and ‘’Memory traces’’.How messages from internal and esternal are stored and how their retrival occurs.Deliniate the theories of Forgetting.

    5)a)What do you mean by intelligence?

    b)Write what do you know about the different categories of intelligence?

    c)Explain the concept of  IQ  and how is it measured by Standford Binnet test of Intellegence.In this content briefly describe mentally challenged children.

    6)State how emotions effect childrens personal and social adjustments.Define briefly the different aspects of emotional development of children?

    7)What is motivation?Distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.Give an comparative account of Masllow’s and MCCLelland’s theories of motivation?

    8)What is meant by the term attitude?How does it differ from belief  and prejudices?

    9)Define Morality.How does it differ from Ethics? Distinguish between Moral ,Immoral,and Unmoral behaviors enumerate in this context how morality is learned?

    10)What is growth sprout? By what factors from birth to adolescence physical development is governed  in humans ?Decipher the Impact of visible/prominent aberrations physique during the growing age upon psychological well being of child.

    WBCS Main 2018 Optional Psychology Question Paper- Paper II

    1)Critically evaluate the development of personality as conceptionalised by Erikson.Compare his theoretical position with that of Sigmund Freud.

    2)What are the major clinical features of Schizophrenia.Critically discuss its etiological factors with the help of suitable research evidences.

    3)Define a group.What are the major types of group?Discuss the structure and function of a group.

    4)Who is delinquent? What are the major causes of delinquency? what remedical measures can be taken up to manage the social evil of delinquency.

    5)Write short notes on –

    a)Criterion of adjustment

    b) Client centered therapy

    c)Psychological test construction

    d)Occupational health hazard

    6)What is the need of adequate personnel selection in an organization?Discuss the different methods of personnel selection.How can organizational climate in India be improved?

    7)Explain the concept of individual differences in a classroom.

    8)What are research variables?Discusss their different types and explain the concept of confounding.How can confounding of research be prevented?

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