WBCS EXAMINATION—2010
PSYCHOLOGY
PAPER—I
Time Allowed : 3 Hours Full Marks : 100
If the questions attempted are in excess of the prescribed number, only the questions attempted first up to the prescribed number small be valued and the remaining ones ignored.
Answers may be written either in English or in Bengali but all answers must be in one and the same language.
Group—A
Answer any four questions.
1. Briefly discuss different schools of psychology with respect to their viewpoints. 16
2. What is perceptual organisation ? Discuss some of the important principles of perceptual organisation. 16
3. Define retention. Explain the principal methods of measuring retention. 16
4. What is intelligence ? Explain the structure and nature of intelligence in the context of some classical approaches. 16
5. Define motivation. Explain the processes and mechanism of motivation which motivates human behaviour. 16
6. What is forgetfulness and what are its causes ? Explain Ebbinghan's curve of forgetting. 16
7. Write short notes on any two of the following :
(a) Recent trend in contemporary psychology.
(b) Evolutionary perspective.
(c) Experimental methods of psychology.
(d) Attitude. 8 x 2
Group—B
Answer any two questions.
8. Explain some important phenomenon of classical conditioning of learning. How it implicates in our day to day life ? 18
9. Discuss different stages of creative thinking. Suggest some of the important strategies that can improve creativity. 18
10. Discuss Carl Jung's theory of personality. Give your critical comments of Jung's two types of personality. 18
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