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UGC NET Paper 2 — Psychology

  • 100 questions
  • 200 marks
  • 120 minutes
  • +2 per right answer
  • no negative marking
  • Unit 1 — Emergence of Psychology10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 2 — Research Methodology and Statistics10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 3 — Psychological testing10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 4 — Biological basis of behavior10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 5 — Attention, Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 6 — Thinking, Intelligence and Creativity10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 7 — Personality, Motivation, emotion, stress and coping10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 8 — Social Psychology10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 9 — Human Development and Interventions10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 10 — Emerging Areas10 Qs · 20 marks

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From the chapter: Emergence of Psychology I: Psychological Thought in the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Sufism and Integral Yoga, and Academic Psychology in India

In the Bhagavad Gita, the person of steady wisdom who remains unshaken in sorrow and free of craving in pleasure is called:

Show the answer and why

Answer: A.

The sthitaprajna is described in Chapter 2 of the Gita as one whose wisdom is steady — equanimous in pleasure and pain, beyond attachment, fear and anger. A murid is a Sufi disciple and a bodhisattva is a Mahayana Buddhist ideal.

Syllabus

UGC NET Psychology syllabus, unit by unit

Open a unit to see its chapters. The course’s free chapter is Paper 1’s first.

Unit 1 — Emergence of Psychology3 chapters
  1. Emergence of Psychology I: Psychological Thought in the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Sufism and Integral Yoga, and Academic Psychology in India
  2. Emergence of Psychology II: The Western Heritage, the Schools from Structuralism to Multiculturalism, the Four Founding Paths, and the Crisis of the Experimental Paradigm
  3. Emergence of Psychology III: Knowledge Paradigms — Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology; Western Paradigms from Positivism to Co-operative Enquiry; Indian Paradigms, Vidya and Avidya, and the Primacy of Self-Knowledge
Unit 2 — Research Methodology and Statistics4 chapters
  1. Research Methodology I: Meaning, Purpose and Dimensions of Research; Problems, Variables, Operational Definitions, Hypotheses and Sampling; Ethics; Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Paradigms; and the Methods of Psychological Research
  2. Research Methodology II: Central Tendency and Dispersion, the Normal Probability Curve, the t-Test and the Non-Parametric Tests, Power Analysis and Effect Size — Worked
  3. Research Methodology III: Product-Moment, Rank-Order, Partial and Multiple Correlation; the Special Correlations — Biserial, Point-Biserial, Tetrachoric and Phi; Simple and Multiple Regression; and Factor Analysis — Worked
  4. Research Methodology IV: Experimental Designs — Validity and its Threats, One-Way and Factorial ANOVA, Randomized Block, Repeated Measures and Latin Square Designs, Cohort and Time-Series Studies, MANOVA, ANCOVA and Single-Subject Designs
Unit 3 — Psychological testing2 chapters
  1. Psychological Testing I: Types of Tests, Item Writing and Item Analysis, and Standardization — Reliability, Validity and Norms, Worked
  2. Psychological Testing II: Areas of Testing — Intelligence, Creativity, Neuropsychological, Aptitude, Personality and Interest; Attitude Scales; Computer-Based Testing; and Applications in Clinical, Organizational, Educational, Counselling and Military Settings
Unit 4 — Biological basis of behavior2 chapters
  1. Biological Basis of Behavior I: Sensory Systems, Neurons and the Neural Impulse, Synaptic Transmission and Neurotransmitters, the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems, Neuroplasticity, and the Methods of Physiological Psychology
  2. Biological Basis of Behavior II: Muscles and Glands; the Biology of Hunger, Thirst, Sleep and Sex; the Limbic System and Hormonal Regulation of Emotion; and Genetics — Chromosomal Anomalies, Twin and Adoption Studies
Unit 5 — Attention, Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting5 chapters
  1. Attention and Perception I: Forms and Models of Attention; the Gestalt and Physiological Approaches to Perception; and Perceptual Organization — Figure and Ground and the Laws of Organization
  2. Perception II: Constancy and Illusions; Form, Depth and Movement; Motivation and Learning in Perception; Signal Detection Theory; Subliminal Perception, Information Processing, Culture, Perceptual Styles, Pattern Recognition and the Ecological Perspective
  3. Learning I: The Fundamental Theories of Thorndike, Guthrie and Hull, and Classical Conditioning — Procedure, Phenomena and Related Issues
  4. Learning II: Instrumental Learning — Phenomena, Paradigms and Theoretical Issues; Reinforcement Variables and Schedules; Behaviour Modification; Latent and Observational Learning; Discrimination Learning; and the Neurophysiology of Learning
  5. Verbal Learning, Memory and Forgetting: Ebbinghaus and the Verbal-Learning Tradition; Encoding, Storage and Retrieval; Sensory, Short-Term (Working) and Long-Term Memory; and the Theories of Forgetting
Unit 6 — Thinking, Intelligence and Creativity2 chapters
  1. Thinking: Associationist, Gestalt, Information-Processing and Feature-Integration Perspectives; Concept Formation; Reasoning; Language and Thought; Problem Solving; Decision-Making; and Metacognition
  2. Intelligence and Creativity: Spearman, Thurstone, Jensen, Cattell, Gardner, Sternberg, Goleman and the PASS Model of Das, Kar and Parrila; Creativity after Torrance, Getzels and Jackson, Guilford, and Wallach and Kogan; and the Intelligence–Creativity Relationship
Unit 7 — Personality, Motivation, emotion, stress and coping3 chapters
  1. Personality: Biological and Socio-Cultural Determinants; the Psychoanalytic, Neo-Freudian, Social-Learning, Trait and Type, Cognitive, Humanistic, Existential and Transpersonal Approaches; Rotter's Locus of Control, Seligman's Explanatory Styles and Kohlberg's Moral Development
  2. Motivation: Instincts, Needs, Drives, Arousal, Incentives and the Motivational Cycle; Psychoanalytic, Ethological, S–R, Cognitive and Humanistic Approaches; Curiosity, Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking, Achievement, Affiliation and Power, Motivational Competence, Self-Regulation and Flow
  3. Emotion, Conflict, Stress and Coping: Physiological Correlates; the Theories of James–Lange, Cannon–Bard, Schachter and Singer, Lazarus and Lindsley; Emotion Regulation; Conflicts; Models of Stress, Type A, B, C and D Behaviour, and Stress-Management Strategies
Unit 8 — Social Psychology2 chapters
  1. Social Psychology I: Nature, Scope and History; Field Theory, Cognitive Dissonance, Sociobiology, Psychodynamic Approaches and Social Cognition; Social Perception — Communication and Attribution; Attitudes and their Change in Cultural Context; and Prosocial Behaviour
  2. Social Psychology II: Social Facilitation and Loafing; Conformity, Peer Pressure, Persuasion, Compliance, Obedience, Social Power and Reactance; Aggression; Group Dynamics and Leadership; Theories of Intergroup Relations; and Applied Social Psychology
Unit 9 — Human Development and Interventions3 chapters
  1. Human Development: Nature, Principles, Factors and Stages; Successful Aging; Psychoanalytic, Behaviouristic and Cognitive Theories; and Sensory-Motor, Cognitive, Language, Emotional, Social and Moral Development
  2. Psychopathology and Psychotherapies: the Concept of Abnormality, the Mental Status Examination, Classification in DSM-5-TR and ICD-11, Causes, and Sixteen Therapies from Psychoanalysis to Family Therapy
  3. Psychology in the School: Applying Theories of Motivation and Learning, Factors in Educational Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Guidance in Schools — Needs, Organisational Set-Up and Techniques — and Counselling Process, Skills and Techniques
Unit 10 — Emerging Areas2 chapters
  1. Emerging Areas I: Gender, Poverty, Disability and Migration; Cultural Bias and Discrimination; Stigma, Marginalisation and Social Suffering; Child Abuse and Domestic Violence; and Peace Psychology
  2. Emerging Areas II: Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing, Character Strengths, Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth; Health Behaviours, Lifestyle and Chronic Disease, and Psychoneuroimmunology; and the Psychology–Technology Interface

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What does the UGC NET Psychology course cost?

The first chapter of the UGC NET course is free. All 28 chapters of this subject, in English and Hindi, unlock with the UGC NET plan — ₹29 a month, less than ₹1 a day, cancel anytime — with scored practice, the Paper-2 mock test and spaced revision. Premium adds the AI mentor.

Does it cover the whole Psychology syllabus?

All 10 units of the NTA syllabus (subject code 04) are written, in 28 chapters, from the official document unit by unit.

What is the UGC NET Paper 2 exam pattern for Psychology?

100 questions for 200 marks, with no negative marking. Paper 1 and Paper 2 are taken in one sitting of three hours; the mock test here rehearses Paper 2 in 120 minutes.

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