Civil Services Mains-2013 Psychology Paper-1

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SECTION-A

Q1: Answer the following, each in not more than 150 words: 10x 5

Q1 (a) Critically evaluate the cognitive approach to the study of psychological

phenomena. 10

Q1 (b) What is ethnocentrism? How is it reflected in psychological research?

Q1 ( c) what factors contribute to the encoding of information in to LTM 10

Q1 (d) How do genes affect development? 10

Q1 ( e) Describe different reinforcement schedules and indicate their effects on the

strength of learning. 10

Q2: Answer the following, each in not more than 250 words

(15+20+15 = 50)

Q2 (a) What do you understand by ‘effect size’ and ‘statistical power’? Explain their

significance 15

Q2 (b) Discuss the importance of early relationship for developmental outcomes in

the light of researches by Bowlby and Anisworth. 20

Q2 (c ) Compare template matching and feature detection accounts of pattern

recognition 15

Q3. Answer the following, each in not more than 400 words: 25 x 2=50

Q 3(a) The discipline of psychology has grown and developed through debate

between those who held that it should be modelled on natural science and those

subscribed to the view that it has to follow the model of social science. What

arguments you envision for or against these views? What position you would like to

endorse and why? 25

Q 3(b) Bring out the key developmental challenges faced by adolescents in the

cognitive and social domains 25

Q4. Answer the following, each in not more than 250 words: 15+20+15=50

Q4(a) Why our representations of the external world are not entirely accurate? 15

Q4(b) describe and evaluate the modal model of short term memory. 20

Q4 ( c) describe the basic elements of observation and bring out the implications of

the dimension of participation in observational research. 15

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SECTION – B

Q5. Answer the following, each in not more than 150 words: 10x5=50

Q5(a) What is the situationalist critique of trait psychology? 10

Q5(b) Explicate Sternberg’s view of intelligence and bring out its implications for

schooling 10

Q5(c ) “Every function in the child’s development appears twice: First on social

level and later, on the individual level” – Vygotsky. Discuss the above statement

and indicate your own position on this proposition 10

Q5(d) What are the processes of language production? 10

Q5(e ) How do novices differ from experts? 10

Q6. Answer the following, each in not more than 250 words: 15+20+15=50

Q6(a) Bring out the role of left and right hemispheres in emotional experience 15

Q6(b) What is intrinsic motivation? Why it gets reduced if the person gets external

reward for undertaking a task that he or she loves? 20

Q6(c ) Explain correspondence bias. Is it universal or culturally variable? 15

Q7. Answer the following, each in not more than 400 words: 25x2=50

Q7 (a) What is the role of social categorisation in the formation of prejudice?

Suggest some strategies to reduce prejudice. 25

Q7 (b) How the psychoanalytic view differs from physiological or cognitive view of

dream? 25

Q8. Answer the following, each in not more than 250 words 15+20+15=50

Q8(a) What are the requirements to be met by psychological assessment tools for

offering accurate and useful measure of psychological constructs? 15

Q8 (b) What makes a persuasive attempt effective ? Discuss. 20

Q8 (c ) Describe the Indian approach to personality as reflected in the principle of

three Gunas. 15