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NTA (UGC) NET June-December 2019 Syllabus for Psychology

NTA (UGC) NET Psychology Syllabus 2012

Code No: 04

Subject: Psychology

Note:

There will be two question papers, NTA (UGC) NET Psychology Paper II and Paper III.

Paper II will consist of 50 questions worth 2 mark each.

Paper III will consist of 75 questions worth 2 mark each.

NTA (UGC) NET Psychology Paper II

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.

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.

Memory and forgetting

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Personality

Determinants of personality: Biological and socio-cultural.

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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.

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

Measurement and Testing

NTA (UGC) NET Test Construction: Item writing, item analysis.

NTA (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.

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.

NTA (UGC) NET Psychology Paper III-A Core

Unit 1
Signal detection theory, subliminal perception and related factors, information processing
approach to perception, culture and perception, perceptual styles. Ecological perspective on
perception.

Unit 2
Learning theories: Hull, Tolman, Skinner.
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Cognitive approaches in learning: Latent learning, observational learning.

Experimental analysis of behaviour: Behaviour modification, shaping Discrimination

learning.

Neurophysiology of learning.

Unit 3
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 4
Cognitive Strategies: Algorhythms and heuristics.

Convergent and divergent thinking.

Decision-making; impediments to problem-solving.

Creative thinking and problem-solving.

Language and thought.

Unit 5
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.

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Unit 6
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 7
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 8
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 9
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 10
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.

NTA (UGC) NET Psychology Paper III-B

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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.

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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.

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Discussions & Questions

i want to crack net in pschology ( - sh...@ on 07-Aug-2018)

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For NET Psychology preparation practice MCQs at

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- Examrace on 12-Aug-2018

Is the syllabus of ugc net remain same throughout years? and papers are of objective type or
subjective type? ( - ka...@ on 05-Oct-2017)

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The current trend is objective for Paper 1, 2 and 3 as of 2017. Future changes if any will be
updated on the website.
- Examrace on 06-Oct-2017

kya har saal syllabus badalta rahta hai. ( - al...@ on 17-May-2017)

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No, it has changed in Jan 2019 after many years. Most of the content is same, there are
minor additions in the syllabus.

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