The Public Service Commission, West Bengal or PSCWB is the state agency authorized to conduct the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments to the various Civil Services of state of West Bengal in India. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for WBPSC Mains Optional Paper - Psychology.
West Bengal PSC Syllabus
WBPSC Optional Paper - Psychology
Paper – I
- Basic psychological processes and development
Scope and Methods of Psychology - Biological basis of behaviour
- Cognitive Processes:
A) Sensation: attributes of sensation, psychophysics (weber-Fechner Law), Methods of Pscychophysics
B) Attention: determinants of attention, fluctuation of attention, selectivity of attention
C) Perception: Movement, space, depth and time perception, perceptual organization, Gestalt View
- Learning:
Conditions of Learning
- Theory of classical conditioning
- Theory of operant conditioning
- Trial and error theory
- Theory of insight learning
- Programmed learning
- Memory: Encoding, storage, retrieval
- Types of Memory (STM & LTM, ICONIC, Echoic & Procedural)
- Forgetting curve
- Theories of forgetting
- Motivation and Emotion: Physiological and psychological basis of motivation and emotion
- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation - factors influencing intrinsic motivation
- Theories of motivation - Maslow, Mcclelland
- Theories of Emotion - James-Lange Theory, Canon-Bard and Schachter-Singer Theory
- Effects of Motivation and emotion on behaviour
- Intelligence
- Spearman's two factor theory
- Thurstone' s theory
- Guilford's structure of intellect
- Gardner's theory
- Measurement of intelligence - IQ & deviation IQ, Tests of intelligence - Stanford Binet
- Types of intelligence - Social, abstract, concrete, emotional, artificial, spiritual
- Gifted and mentally challenged children
- Thinking
- Piaget's theory of cognitive development ~ Problem solving
- Creative thinking - Nature and stages
- Attitude, Values and Interest
- Definition of attitude, values and interests
- Value - concept, development and measurement
- Attitude - formation, measurement and change concept
- Stereotype, prejudice, discrimination
- Measurement, reduction of prejudice
- Interest - concept and measurement
- Development of behaviour: From birth to adolescence
- Physical development
- Emotional development
- Moral development
- Social development
Paper – II
- Personality
- Theories of personality - Freud, Erikson, Eysenck and Rogers
- Individual Difference: Nature - Nurture controversy
- Nature - nurture controversy
- Character and construction of standardized psychological tests, types of tests
- Mental health & adjustment - concept of mental health & wellbeing
- Stress & health - nature, types, causes and consequence of stress
- Adjustment - criteria of adjustment
- Management of stress
- Psychological Disorders
- Causes of abnormal behaviour
- Anxiety disorders Mood disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Substance abuse disorders
- Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalysis
- Cognitive Behaviour therapy
- Client centered therapy
- Organizational psychology
- Personal selection, job analysis methods
- Job Satisfaction
- Theories of motivation, Herzberg, Alderfer
- Conflict in organization - sources, types
- Organizational culture and climate
- Occupational health hazards
- Group
- Types of group
- Group versus team - Influence of primary and secondary group on society
- Structure and functions of group
- Leadership - Characteristics of a good leader with special reference to trans actual and transformational leadership
- Social problems
- Problems of social integration caste, class and religion
- Delinquency and crime
- Psychosocial problems related to old age
- Application of Psychology to different fields
- Rehabilitation - concept, primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
- Education - Psychology, principles underlying effective teaching-learning
- Motivating and training people for entrepreneurship and economic development
- Psychology and Methodology
- Normal probability curve
- Parametric and non-parametric statistics - characteristics
- Hypothesis formation
- Research variables and their control
- Techniques of sampling
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