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UGC NET Exam Psychology syllabus

Paper II

1. Perceptual Processes

Approaches to the Study of Perception : Gestalt and physiological approaches.
Perceptual Organization : Gestalt, Figure and Ground, Laws of Organization.
Perceptual Constancy : Size, Shape and Brightness, Illusion; Perception of Depth and Movements.
Role of motivation and learning in perception.

2. Learning Process

Classical conditioning : Procedure, Phenomena and related issues.
Instrumental learning : Phenomena, Paradigms and theoretical issues.
Reinforcement: Basic variables and schedules.
Verbal learning : Methods and materials, organizational processes.

3. Memory and forgetting

Memory Processes : Encoding, Storage, Retrieval.
Stages of Memory : Sensory memory, Short term Memory ( STM ) and Long term Memory ( LTM ).
Episodic and Semantic memory.
Theories of Forgetting : Interference, decay, retrieval.

4. Thinking and Problem Solving

Theories of thought processes : Associationism, Gestalt, Information processing.
Concept formation : Rules and strategies.
Reasoning : Deductive and inductive.
Problem Solving : Type and strategies.
Role of concepts in thinking.

5. Motivation and Emotion

Basic Motivational Concepts : Instincts, needs, drives, incentives, motivational cycle.
Approaches to the Study of Motivation : Psychoanalytical, ethological, S R Cognitive, humanistic.
Biological Motives : Hunger, thirst, sleep and sex.
Social Motives : Achievement, affiliation, approval
Exploratory behaviour and curiosity
Physiological correlates of emotions.
Theories of emotions : James Lange, Canon Bard, Schachter and Singer.
Conflicts : Sources and types.

6. Human Abilities

Intelligence : Biological, Social, Eco cultural determinants.
Theories of intelligence : Spearman, Thurston, Guilford.
Individual and group differences : Extent and causes.
Measurement of human abilities.

7. Personality

Determinants of personality : Biological and socio cultural.
Approaches to the study of personality : Psychoanalytic, neo freudian, social learning, trait and type, cognitive.
Personality Assessment : Psychometric and projective tests.
Self Concept : Origin and development.

8. Research Methodology

Research problems, hypothesis, variables and their operationalization
Types of psychological research.
Methods of Psychological Research : Experimental, Quasi experimental, case studies, field studies and cross cultural studies.
Methods of data collection : Observation, interview, questionnaire, tests and scales. Non parametric tests

9. Measurement and Testing

UGC NET Test Construction : Item writing, item analysis.
UGC NET Test Standardization : Reliability, validity and norms.
Types of Tests : Intelligence, aptitude, personality characteristics and important examples.
Attitude scales and interest inventories.
Educational measurement and evaluation.

10. Biological Basis of Behaviour

Receptors, effectors and adjuster mechanisms.
Neural impulse : Origin, conduction and measurement.
Sensory system : Vision and Audition.
Human nervous system : Structure and functions.

Paper III ( A ) [ Core Group ]

Unit I

Signal detection theory, subliminal perception and related factors, information processing approach to perception, culture and perception, perceptual styles. Ecological perspective on perception.

Unit II

Learning theories : Hull, Tolman, Skinner.
Cognitive approaches in learning: Latent learning, observational learning.
Experimental analysis of behaviour : Behaviour modification, shaping Discrimination learning.
Neurophysiology of learning.

Unit III

Models of memory : Atkinson and Shiffrin, Craik and Lockhart, Tulving.
Semantic memory : Episodic, trace model and network model.
Long term memory : Retrieval cues, flashbulb memory, constructive processes in memory, eyewitness testimony, autobiographical memory.
Biological basis of memory : The search for the engram, PET scan, and biochemical factors in memory.
Improving memory : Strategies.

Unit IV

Cognitive Strategies : Algorhythms and heuristics.
Convergent and divergent thinking.
Decision making; impediments to problem solving.
Creative thinking and problem solving.
Language and thought.

Unit V

Historical antecedents of motivation from Mechanism to Cognition.
Cognitive bases of motivation : Intrinsic motivation, Attribution, Competence.
Measurement of motives : Issues and techniques.
Cross cultural perspectives of motivation : Achievement, Aggression.
Components of Emotion : Physiological, expressive and cognitive.
Neural mechanism of emotion : Central and peripheral.
Measurent of Emotions : Physiological, expressive and cognitive measures.
Current theories of emotions and facial feedback hypothesis.
Stress and coping : Reactions to stress, outcomes of stress.

Unit VI

Theories of intelligence : Cattell, Jensen, Sternberg Goleman.
Creativity : Views of Torrance, Getzels, Guilford.
Intelligence and creativity : Relationship.
Abilities and achievement : Concept and role of emotional intelligence.

Unit VII

Clinical and growth approaches to personality.
Existential and humanistic theories of personality : Frankl, Rollo May, Maslow, Rogers.
Personality assessment : Projective, psychometric and behavioural measures.
Psychology of self : Western and Eastern perspectives, measurement of self.

Unit VIII

Research designs : Correlational, factorial, randomized block, matched group, quasi experimental, time series design.
ANOVA : Randomized and repeated.
Correlational analysis : Partial, multiple and regression analysis.
Factor analysis : Assumptions, methods, rotation and interpretation.

Unit IX

Psychological scaling : Purpose and methods.
Sources of bias in psychological testing.
Ethical issues in psychological testing.
Application of factor analysis in standardization of tests with Important illustrations.

Unit X

Methods of Physiological psychology : Lesion and Brain Stimulation.
Sleep and waking : Stages of sleep, Disorders of sleep and Physiological mechanisms of sleep and waking.
Ingestive Behaviour : Drinking and its neural mechanism; hunger and its neural mechanism.
Endocrine System : Chemical and glandular.

Paper III ( B ) [ Elective / Optional ]

Elective I

Current trends in Social Psychology.
Social cognition.
Social influence.
Prosocial behaviour.
Applied social psychology : Health, Environment and Law.

Elective II

Development processes : Nature, Principles and related.
concepts maturity, experience factors in development : Biogenic, Psychogenic and Sociogenic.
Stages of Development : Theories of Development : Psychoanalytic, Behaviouristic and cognitive.
Various aspects of development : Sensory motor, cognitive, language, emotional, social and moral.

Elective III

Human development and individual differences.
Motivation and learning.
Factors in educational achievement.
Social psychology of education.
Teacher effectiveness.
Guidance in schools : Needs, organizational set up and techniques.
Counselling : Process and areas.

Elective IV

Development of industrial and organizational psychology.
Selection processes in organization.
Organizational training.
Performance appraisal.
Motivation and work.
Leadership.
Work environment.
Organizational behaviour : Theories, socialization, effectiveness.

Elective V

Psychopathology : Concepts, classification and causes : clinical diagnostics.
Common clinical disorders.
Mental Retardation.
Mental Health : Intervention models and psychotherapies.