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Psychology — Model Syllabus Roadmap

22 Official 2024 Lecturer Disciplines — Syllabus Directory · Subjects 12–22

Useful for: SSB Lecturer (Degree Colleges)

Overview

Psychology covers schools of thought, research methods, biological bases, learning, cognition, development, personality, social and abnormal psychology.

Key points

  • Schools: structuralism (Wundt’s laboratory, Leipzig, 1879), functionalism (James), behaviourism (Watson), psychoanalysis (Freud), Gestalt, humanistic, cognitive.
  • Research methods: experiments, surveys, case studies, statistics.
  • Biological bases: neurons, brain, hormones.
  • Learning and cognition: conditioning, memory, thinking.
  • Development and personality theories.
  • Abnormal psychology: classification (DSM-5, 2013), therapy approaches.

Explanation

  • Counselling and psychological testing are applied areas.
  • Ethics in research protects participants.
  • Social psychology studies attitudes and groups.
  • Positive psychology studies well-being.

Step by step

  1. Place the question in its unit of the syllabus.
  2. Recall the theory, thinker, law or work involved.
  3. Eliminate options from other schools, periods or units.

Examples

  • First psychology laboratory → Wundt, Leipzig (1879).
  • Founder of behaviourism → John B. Watson.
  • DSM-5 published → 2013.

Traps and advanced points

  • Trap: Mixing schools.
  • Trap: Wrong dates.
  • Trap: Ignoring methods.

Quick revision

  • Wundt 1879.
  • Major schools.
  • DSM-5 2013.

Practice MCQs

  1. The first psychology laboratory was set up in 1879 by

    1. William James
    2. Wilhelm Wundt
    3. Sigmund Freud
    4. John Watson

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    Answer: (b) Wilhelm Wundt. It was at Leipzig.

  2. Classical conditioning was demonstrated by

    1. Edward Thorndike
    2. B. F. Skinner
    3. Ivan Pavlov
    4. Albert Bandura

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    Answer: (c) Ivan Pavlov. He worked with dogs.

  3. The hierarchy of needs was proposed by

    1. Erik Erikson
    2. Carl Rogers
    3. Abraham Maslow
    4. Jean Piaget

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    Answer: (c) Abraham Maslow. Self-actualisation is at the top.

  4. The stages of cognitive development (sensorimotor to formal operational) were described by

    1. Sigmund Freud
    2. Lev Vygotsky
    3. Jean Piaget
    4. Lawrence Kohlberg

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    Answer: (c) Jean Piaget. There are four stages.

  5. The id, ego and superego are concepts of

    1. Sigmund Freud
    2. B. F. Skinner
    3. Wolfgang Köhler
    4. Gordon Allport

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    Answer: (a) Sigmund Freud. They belong to psychoanalytic theory.

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