In B P T, essential question for Psychology by S.Lakshmanan Psychologist
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The document consists of a comprehensive outline of essential psychology topics, focusing on various units such as the definition, branches, and methods of psychology, as well as important concepts like heredity, intelligence, motivation, emotion, personality, learning, and stress management. It includes both essay-type questions and short notes on topics like defense mechanisms, communication, and historical schools of thought in psychology. This material is intended for students of the Bachelor of Physiotherapy (B.P.T) course and serves as a guide for examination preparation.
In B P T, essential question for Psychology by S.Lakshmanan Psychologist
- 1. 1 Bachelor of Physiotherapy (B.P.T) Course Psychology (Essential Questions in the Various University Examinations) Essay Type Question General Psychology Unit I: Introduction 1. Define psychology and explain the various branches of Psychology 2. Define psychology .describe the scope and methods of psychology. 3. Define psychology. Explain the various methods of psychology 4. Explain the contribution of each school in historical development of psychology 5. Explain the chief tenets of Behaviourism 6. Discuss to the various schools of psychology 7. What are the significant contributions of different schools of psychology in the understanding of human behavior? Briefly mention its application to physical medicine 8. Explain the earlier schools of psychology Unit II: Hereditary and Environment 9. Explain the mechanism of heredity and environment on human behaviors 10. Define heredity. Explain heredity and environment related to one personality development 11. What is nature-nurture controversy? Discuss the relative importance of hereditary and environment. 12. Discuss the role of genetics in behavior. 13. Describe the role of heredity and environment in relation to physical characteristics, intelligence and personality Unit III: Development and growth Behaviour 14. Describe the psychological development and psychological needs of children. 15. Write in detail about the development and growth behavior of a person during infancy, adolescence and old age. 16. Adolescence is a period of crisis 17. Discuss the physical, social, psychological and emotional problems of the aged. 18. Bring out the role of the physiotherapist in handling patients belonging to middle age and old age.
- 2. 2 Unit IV: Intelligence 19. Discuss the various intelligence tests. 20. Describe few tests of intelligence. 21. Write in detail the intelligence quotient. List of various intelligence tests. 22. Describe about various types of intelligence tests. 23. What is intelligence? Describe the methods to calculate mental age and intelligence quotient and what is Bhatia’s Performance test? 24. What is meant by individual difference? Explain intelligence. How it is measured? How does intelligence affect our life? Unit V: Motivation 25. Define motivation. Describe the secondary motives with suitable examples. 26. Describe the primary motives. 27. Write about primary and secondary motives. 28. Define motivation. Briefly describe the biological motives. 29. What are motives and drives? Explain primary needs and psychological needs? 30. Define motivation. Explain the role of primary motives and secondary motives in motivation. 31. Discuss Maslow’s theory of motivation Unit VI: Emotion 32. Define emotion. Explain range of emotion. Mention their physiological implication. What is emotional maturity? 33. Describe the physiological changes of emotion 34. Define emotion and differentiate from feeling explain how sympathetic nervous system cerebral cortex influences emotions. Unit VII: Personality 35. How is personality classified? What are the factors in the development of personality? Mention few methods of assessing personality 36. What is personality? Describe the development of personality in terms of physical and psychological variables. 37. Discuss Freud’s concept of personality Development 38. Explain the basic Concepts of personality according to Freud. 39. Write down the different components of personality. Describe in detail the influence of heredity and environment in personality development 40. Define “Personality”. Analyze the various components of personality. 41. What is personality? How is personality assessed?
- 3. 3 Unit VIII: Learning 42. Explain about the law of learning 43. Discuss the effective ways of learning 44. What is operant conditioning? Discuss with examples how you would utilize reinforce in shapping behaviors. 45. Define learning. Briefly explain Pavlov’s classical conditioning with suitable experiment? 46. Define learning. Explain theories of learning. 47. Compare between classical an operant conditioning. 48. Explain the basics of operant learning. 49. Elucidate the chief factors influencing efficient learning. 50. Describe and differentiate classical and operant conditioning. 51. Define learning. Explain the types of learning and the effective ways to learn. Unite IX: Thinking 52. List the characteristics of creative people. 53. Outline the steps in creative thinking Unit X: Frustration 54. Define frustration. What are their sources? How will you solve frustrations 55. What in frustration? Discuss the types of conflicts with suitable examples. 56. Define frustration and conflict. Explain the different sources of frustration and the different types of conflicts and it is solutions. Unit XI: Sensation, Attention & Perception 57. Illustrate the factors that determine attention 58. Define illusion and hallucination. List visual, auditory, cutaneous, gustatory and olfactory hallucination. 59. What are the general properties of the sense? 60. Discuss the principles of perception. 61. Define sensation and perception? What are the factors that influence perception? Unit XII: Leadership 62. How will you differentiate democratic leadership from authoritarian leadership? Explain clearly the qualities of leadership. 63. Discuss the qualities of leadership Unit XIII: Defence Mechanism 64. What ia a defence mechanism of ego? Describe any five of them with suitable example 65. Illustrate the various defence mechanism of ego.
- 4. 4 66. Highlights the various defense mechanisms with suitable examples II Health Psychology Unit III: Stress 1. What is stress? Detail about the physiological and psychological changes during stress and brief about the relaxation methods. Unit IV: Communication 2. How to develop the effective Communication Short note type Questions 1. History of psychology 2. Methods of psychology 3. Merits and demerits of case study 4. Discuss in detail the two types of chromosomal disorders. 5. Role of environment 6. Importance of Heredity and environment 7. Functions of sympathetic nervous system 8. Meaning of the term behaviors 9. Body-mind relationship 10. Glands 11. Twins 12. Attention 13. Determinants of attentions 14. External factors of attention 15. Type of attention 16. Attention and its types 17. Type of sensation 18. Characteristic of perception 19. Principles of perception 20. Hallucination and illusion 21. Role of reinforces in beharioural changes 22. Law of learning 23. Classical conditioning 24. Introspection method 25. Operant conditioning 26. Four type of learning 27. Trial and error learning 28. Intelligence
- 5. 5 29. Intelligent quotient 30. I.Q 31. Test of intelligence 32. WAIS 33. Stages involved in creative thinking 34. Primary motives 35. Secondary motives 36. Social motives 37. Maslow’s theory of motivation 38. Self-actualization 39. Psychological changes in emotions 40. Psychological changes during emotion 41. Emotion and felling 42. Role of emotions in health and illness 43. Emotion and feeling 44. Theories of emotion 45. Physical changes of emotion 46. Explain any two theories of emotions 47. Conflicts 48. Conflicts and attention 49. Conflicts and its solutions 50. Control of Anger, fear and anxiety 51. Type of conflict 52. Frustrations 53. Reactions to frustration 54. Stress management techniques 55. Attitude formation and modification 56. Change of attitude 57. Formation of attitudes 58. Personality and Personality theories 59. Alcoholism 60. Basic concept of Freud 61. Factors influencing personality development 62. Type approach 63. Types of personality 64. Erickson’s theory of personality 65. ID,EGO,SUPEREGO 66. Mental age 67. Physical and psychological changes during stress 68. Personality assessment 69. Projective tests 70. Ink blot test 71. Rationalization and projection 72. Infancy 73. Adolescence
- 6. 6 74. Misconception about mental illness 75. Defense mechanism 76. Type of communication 77. Geriatric psychology 78. Delusions 79. Relaxation method 80. Community psychology 81. Social psychology 82. Health psychology 83. Frustration and conflict 84. Psychological needs 85. Stages of creativity 86. Health enhancing behavior 87. Pediatric psychology 88. Reaction to loss 89. Various senses and their function 90. Define source and solution of frustration 91. Role of language in learning 92. Health behaviour in smoking and alcoholism 93. Type of leadership 94. Quality of creative thinker 95. Quality of leadership 96. Change of attitudes 97. Conflict solution 98. Gestalt Psychology 99. Introspection 100. Objective factors of attention 101. Mass Vs speed learning 102. Reinforcement 103. Hypothalamus 104. Emotions and feelings 105. Type of conflict 106. Psychology and Physiotherapy 107. Any two physiological needs 108. Anger 109. Intelligence testing 110. Addiction 111. Behaviour modification 112. Explain guidance and counseling and differentiate. 113. Characteristics of a good counselor 114. Guidance and counseling 115. Counseling 116. Principle of counseling 117. Types of counseling 118. Compliance
- 7. 7 119. Emotional response of chronic illness 120. Bhatia’s performance test 121. Extensive Research of Elisabeth Kubler Ross ****************** Others 1. Goals of Psychology 2. Any five branch in psychology 3. Any five methods in psychology. 4. Write the meaning of introspection method. 5. Name the two types of twins 6. Biological inheritance 7. Expand DNA and RNA 8. Attention 9. Mention any four factors influencing attention. 10. Types of attention 11. Define ‘perception’ 12. What are the types of “Error Perception”? 13. Define insight learning 14. Classical conditioning 15. Write two types of conditioning learning. 16. Name the major laws of learning 17. Explain transfer of learning 18. Name any two types of intelligence test. 19. Name any four intelligence tests 20. Expand WAIS 21. Concept of IQ 22. What is the formula of I.Q? 23. Mention four factors influencing intelligence 24. Raven’s progressive matrices 25. Mention any four traits of creative thinker 26. Mention the concept of motivation. 27. Industry vs inferior 28. Self-actualization 29. Motivational cycle 30. Define ‘incentive’ 31. Name four schedules of reinforcement 32. List four psychosocial motives 33. Write two source of frustration 34. Mention the type of conflict 35. Attitude 36. Write and explain the definition of personality 37. What is the most important component of personality 38. Sigmund Freud 39. Unconsciousness 40. Psychosexual stages. 41. List out the psycho sexual stages
- 8. 8 42. Write Freud’s components of Personality structure. 43. Repression 44. Rationalization 45. What is sublimation 46. Mention four different mechanism 47. Mention any four types of bodily changes during emotion. 48. Who was the proponent of ‘eight stages developmental theory of personality? 49. Name two types of Projective technique 50. Explain Projective tests. 51. Expand TAT 52. Guidance and counseling 53. Mental Health 54. Mention four traits of mentally healthy patients 55. Expand:- MMPI,WAIS,WISC ********** Prepared by: S.Lakshmanan, Psychologist