Which of the following statements is not correct ?
Socio-cognitive perspective focuses on past experiences with direct and indirect rewards and punishments.
Evolutionary perspective — accurate: it explains behaviour in terms of adaptations shaped by natural selection because they helped ancestors survive and reproduce.
Socio-cultural perspective — accurate: it examines how group-level factors such as culture, social class, ethnicity and nationality shape behaviour and thought.
Socio-cognitive perspective — inaccurate as stated. A focus on past experience with direct and indirect rewards and punishments describes the behavioural (learning) perspective. The social-cognitive perspective (Bandura, Mischel) emphasises how people think about, interpret and expect events: observational learning, self-efficacy, expectancies and reciprocal determinism between person, behaviour and environment.
Psychoanalytic perspective — accurate: Freud's structural model explains behaviour by the dynamic interaction and conflict among id, ego and superego.
Hence, the answer is Socio-cognitive perspective focuses on past experiences with direct and indirect rewards and punishments.
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(I) People compare their abilities and beliefs with others.
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(a) (b) (c) (d)
Which approach to personality see personality as something which is measurable ?
(1) Ideographic
(2) Nomothetic
(3) Social-radical
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Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :
List I (Theorists) List II (Concepts) (a) Jung (1) Hypercompetitiveness (b) Adler (2) Epigenetic principle (c) Horney (3) Archetypes (d) Erikson (4) Social interest Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Which among the following schools emphasized on Introspection as a method of study ?
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Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :
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(a) (b) (c) (d)
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List I (Concepts) List II (Theories) (a) Oedipus (1) Analytical Psychology (b) Mandela (2) Psychoanalysis (c) Fictional Finalism (3) Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology (d) Crisis (4) Individual Psychology Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Important Questions from Various Psychological Theories - Teaching
Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer by choosing from code given below :
List - I
(Concept)List - II
(Explanation)(a) Life Space (i) Unlearned, fixed stereotyped pattern of activity. (b) Instinctual Behaviour (ii) Psychological reality depicting the totality of facts that determine behaviour at a moment in true. It counts of environment as perceived by the person. (c) Vacuum Behaviour (iii) Tendency to resume the previously unfinished task during intervening period. (d) Task Resumption (iv) Behaviour patterns that appear when the sign stimulus is not identifiable.
Code :- Which of the following concept/s is/are not found in Freudian Psychoanalysis ?
(a) Unconscious motivation
(b) Collective unconscious
(c) Striving for superiority
(d) Instincts
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List - I
(Psychologist)List - II
(Concept)(a) Bruner (i) Conservation (b) Vygotsky (ii) Iconic mode of representation (c) Sternberg (iii) Scaffolding (d) Piaget (iv) Componential Analysis
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List - I
(Psychologist)List - II
(Concept)(a) Thorndike (i) Equipotentiality premise (b) Pavlov (ii) Cortical Mosaic (c) Wertheimer (iii) Neural Bond (d) Seligman (iv) Isomorphism
Code- Many psychologists played pivotal role in the emergence of the field of Social Psychology. Arrange them in correct chronological sequence.
