This document provides 170 questions across various topics in psychology that could be used for university examinations. The questions cover 5 units: introduction to psychology, anxiety disorders, stress, learning, and therapeutic techniques. They include long essay questions, short essay questions, and short answer questions. The questions assess knowledge of key concepts, theories, experiments, symptoms and treatments related to different areas of psychology.

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Important Questions for Psychology paper in
B.Sc & Diploma Courses of Allied Health Science
Psychology
(Essential Questions for the University Examinations)
Long Essay Type Question
Unit I: - Introduction
1. Define psychology. Describe the evolution of modern Psychology
2. Define psychology. Describe the various schools of Psychology
3. Behaviorism and psychoanalysis.
4. Define psychology. Describe the scope of psychology.
5. Describe to the various branches of psychology Briefly explain the branches of applied
psychology
6. Importance of psychology in the allied Health science courses
7. Define Abnormal psychology and write briefly about the aims and scope of Abnormal
psychology.
8. Describe the concept of normal and abnormal psychology
Unit II: - Anxiety Disorder
9. Explain the mechanism of heredity and environment on human behaviors
10. Define heredity. Explain heredity and environment related to one’s personality
development
11. Discuss to the various causes of Behavioral disorder
12. Psychopathology
13. Discuss the current classification of psychological disorder
14. Explain to the sign and symptoms of anxiety disorder and management
15. Explain to the sign and symptoms of Generalized anxiety Disorder (GAD)
16. Give the detail study about to the Panic disorder (PD) and management
17. Give the detail study about to the Phobia and available treatments’?
18. What do you understand about to the post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and
management?
19. What do you understand about to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and
available treatments?
Unit III: - Stress
20. Briefly explain the various sources and solution for frustration

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21. What in frustration? Discuss the types of conflicts with suitable examples
22. Define frustration and conflict. Explain the different sources of frustration and the
different types of conflicts and it is solutions.
23. Explain the Hans Selye model of stress (General Adaptation Syndrome GAS)
24. Lazarus and Folkman model of stress
25. Discuss the source of stress
26. Coping with stress
27. Distinguish between healthy behavior and impairing behavior making by stress
28. What is stress? Detail about the physiological and psychological changes during stress
and brief about the relaxation methods
29. Explain to the various methods of stress management techniques.
30. Coping with stress
Unit IV: - Learning
31. Define learning. Briefly explain the law of learning.
32. Explain the stages of cognitive development by Piaget
33. Stage of learning explain
34. Discuss the trial and error learning theory with suitable example.
35. Explain about the law of learning
36. What is operant conditioning? Discuss with examples how you would utilize reinforce in
shapping behaviors.
37. Define learning. Briefly explain Pavlov’s classical conditioning with suitable experiment?
38. Define learning. Explain theories of learning.
39. Compare between classical an operant conditioning.
40. Elucidate the chief factors influencing efficient learning.
41. Define learning. Explain the types of learning and the effective ways to learn
42. Effective techniques to enhance learning
43. Describe the types reinforcements in behavior modification
44. Explain Albert Bandura’s social learning theory with example.
45. Explain the application of psychology in speech and hearing
46. Define thinking. Explain steps in creative thinking and characteristics of creative person.
47. Give an account of learning theories of stuttering.
Unit V: - Therapeutic Technique
48. Define counseling and describe the various method of counseling.
49. Explain the types of counseling with an example.
50. What is psychotherapy
51. Explain in detail the guidelines for a good relationship between therapists and patients
52. Gestalt therapy
53. Exposure Techniques
54. Operant Techniques
55. Prompting and Shaping

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56. Cuing, fading, chaining and graded change in behavioral therapy
57. Behavior Modification Therapies
58. Social skill Training
59. Explain the Cognitive behavior therapy
60. How does yoga gives peaceful mind in a stressed situation
61. Mindfulness meditation
62. Explain in detail, role of yoga and meditation in counseling technique
63. Explain the psychoanalytic theory of Freud.
64. Explain in detail about psycho-analytical approach
65. Explain family counseling and school counseling in detail
66. What is mal-adjustment? Explain its cause
67. Advantage and disadvantage of group counseling
68. Characteristic of mentally healthy person
69. Cognitive approach in counseling
70. Crises management counseling
71. Explain the strategies for counseling the family and a child who is identified as normal
non fluency
Short Essay type Questions
1. Modern definition of psychology
2. History of psychology
3. Methods of psychology
4. Merits and demerits of case study
5. Counseling psychology
6. Clinical and counseling psychology
7. Counseling and abnormal psychology
8. Clinical and health psychology
9. Who is the founder of clinical psychology?
10. Psychology and allied health science
11. Hereditary
12. Discuss in detail the two types of chromosomal disorders.
13. Role of environment
14. Classification of environment.
15. Heredity and environment
16. Functions of sympathetic nervous system
17. Meaning of the term behaviors
18. Body-mind relationship
19. Role of reticular activating system
20. Endocrine glands
21. Twins
22. Down’s Syndrome

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23. Hydrocephalus
24. Cerebral Palsy
25. Attention
26. Determinants of attentions
27. Principles of perception
28. Hallucination and illusion
29. Sign and symptoms of Anxiety Disorder
30. Sign and symptoms of Panic Disorder
31. Sign and symptoms of Generalised Anxiety Disorder
32. Sign and symptoms of PTSD
33. Sign and symptoms of Phobia
34. Sign and symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
35. Mental Retardation
36. Learning Disabilities
37. Cause of delirium
38. Infantile autism
39. Bulimia nervosa
40. Anorexia nervosa
41. Nocturnal enuresis
42. Pica
43. Rumination Disorder
44. Encopresis
45. Enuresis
46. Dyscalculia
47. Dyslexia
48. Aphasia
49. Anomic Aphasia (Anomia)
50. Agraphia
51. Apraxic Agraphia
52. Agnosia
53. Gerstmann’s Syndrome
54. Strephosymbolia
55. Dysphemia
56. Stuttering
57. stammering
58. Dementia
59. Role of reinforces in beharioural changes
60. Thorndik’s law of learning
61. Law of learning
62. Classical conditioning
63. Introspection method
64. Operant conditioning
65. Token Economy in psychology
66. Mechanism used in vicarious reinforcement
67. Four type of learning
68. Trial and error learning

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69. stages of Piaget theory
70. Discuss the factors influencing learning
71. Learning how to swim and drive is motor learning form of learning
72. B.F Skinner differed from Ivan Pavlov by applying.
73. Influence of play in learning speech
74. Characteristics of learning by insight
75. Intelligence
76. Intelligent quotient
77. I.Q
78. Test of intelligence
79. WAIS
80. Introspection
81. Stages involved in creative thinking
82. Primary motives
83. Secondary motives
84. Social motives
85. Maslow’s theory of motivation
86. Self-actualization
87. Psychological changes in emotions
88. Psychological changes during emotion
89. Emotion and feeling
90. Role of emotions in health and illness
91. Conflicts
92. Conflicts and attention
93. Conflicts and its solutions
94. Type of conflict
95. Frustrations
96. Reactions to frustration
97. Stress management techniques
98. Personality
99. Hippocrates classification of personality type
100. Sheldon’s type personality
101. Kretschmer’s type personality
102. Basic concept of Freud
103. Factors influencing personality development
104. Type approach
105. Types of personality
106. Erickson’s theory of personality
107. What is topography of mind?
108. Psycho dynamics of Personality
109. ID,EGO,SUPEREGO
110. Mental age
111. Personality assessment
112. Projective tests
113. Ink blot test
114. Rationalization and projection

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115. Infancy
116. Adolescence
117. Misconception about mental illness
118. Characteristics of mentally healthy person
119. What the characteristics of mentally healthy individuals?
120. Defense mechanism
121. Mental health
122. Explain guidance and counseling and differentiate.
123. Characteristics of a good counselor
124. Guidance and counseling
125. What is rapport?
126. What is empathy?
127. Write two factors of counseling environment
128. State limitation of counselor
129. What is transfer?
130. Counseling
131. Directive counseling
132. Non directive counseling
133. Family Counseling
134. Individual psychotherapy
135. Group therapy
136. Parental counseling
137. Principle of counseling
138. Types of counseling
139. Type of psychological tests
140. Uses of psychological testing
141. Flooding therapy
142. Aversion therapy
143. Desensitization technique
144. Systematic Desensitization method
145. Empty chair technique (Two chairs method)
146. Topdog - underdog dialogue
147. Gestalt therapy
148. Hypnosis
149. Relax method
150. Operant Conditioning Technique
151. Classical Conditioning Technique
152. Modeling Techniques
153. Response Prevention
154. Role play and ventilation
155. Cognitive Techniques (Cognitive Behavioral therapy)
156. Play therapy
157. Drama therapy
158. Ellis’s Rational Emotive Therapy
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Short Answer Questions
1. Goals of Psychology
2. What is I O psychology?
3. Write two uses of studying psychology in allied health science
4. Write any four subject related to psychology
5. Any five branch in psychology
6. What is the main difference between Clinical psychology and counseling psychology?
7. Write the meaning of introspection method.
8. J.B. Watson
9. Max Wertheimer
10. Wolfgang Köhler
11. Ivan Pavlov
12. Carl Rogar
13. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
14. “Interpretation of Dreams” and “totem and taboo”. Who wrote these books?
15. Who wrote the book “on Death and Dying”?
16. What is the Little Robert experiment was conducted by J.B. Watson?
17. What is Harry Harlow’s experiment on monkey?
18. What we called that the abnormality of genetics as X0 and XXY chromosomes?
19. Name the two types of twins
20. Cretinism
21. Phenylketonuria (fen-ul-key-toe-NU-ree-uh), also called PKU
22. Biological inheritance
23. What are causes involved in Microcephaly, Anencephaly, Hemicephaly, Acrania and
Holocranial?
24. Name the chemical senses
25. Attention
26. Mention any four factors influencing attention.
27. Drive
28. Law of learning
29. Define insight learning
30. Classical conditioning
31. Write two types of conditioning learning.
32. Name the major laws of learning
33. Explain transfer of learning
34. Write types of memory
35. Short-term memory
36. Mnemonics
37. Name any two types of intelligence test.
38. Name any four intelligence tests
39. Expand WAIS and RPM
40. Concept of IQ
41. What is the formula of I.Q?
42. Mention four factors influencing intelligence
43. Raven’s progressive matrices
44. Mention any four traits of creative thinker
45. Explain the level of thinking
46. One of the determinants of attention in novelty? What is the meaning of ‘novelty’?
47. Mention the concept of motivation.

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48. Industry vs inferior
49. Self-actualization
50. Motivational cycle
51. Define ‘incentive’
52. Name four schedules of reinforcement
53. List four psychosocial motives
54. Types of conflict
55. Write two source of frustration
56. Mention the type of conflict
57. Write and explain the definition of personality
58. What is the most important component of personality
59. What is Id in Sigmund Freud Concept?
60. Sigmund Freud
61. Unconsciousness
62. Write the three classification of mind
63. Psychosexual stages.
64. List out the psycho sexual stages
65. Write Freud’s components of Personality structure.
66. What is claustrophobia?
67. What is acrophobia?
68. Is it difference with acrophobia and acarophobia?
69. Is it difference with aptitude and attitude
70. Repression
71. Rationalization
72. What is sublimation
73. Mention four different mechanism
74. What are the two personality of type ‘A’ personality
75. What is the meaning of word of inventory
76. Mention any four types of bodily changes during emotion.
77. Our behaviour is responsible for our emotions and not vice-verse. Who has proposed
this theory of emotion?
78. Who was the proponent of ‘eight stages developmental theory of personality?
79. Name two types of Projective technique
80. Explain Projective tests.
81. What are the roots of mental health?
82. Guidance and counseling
83. Mental Health
84. Mention four traits of mentally healthy person
85. Explain any two defence mechanism
86. Expand:- OCD, PTSD
87. Expand GAS, GAD
88. Expand LD, ASD
89. Expand ADHD, DT
90. Expand ACTH, CRF
91. Expand TM, RET
92. Expand CBT and Eric Berne’s T.A
93. Bell adjustment inventory
94. Psychosis
95. Neurosis
96. Hypochondrias
97. Kleptomania
98. Pyromania

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99. Pure psychology
100. Applied psychology
101. Antisocial Personality disorder
102. Paranoid Personality disorder
103. Histrionic Personality disorder
104. What does Fugue mean in psychology
105. Sadism
106. Masochism
107. Voyeurism
108. Exhibitionism
109. Fetishism
110. Paraphilia
111. Hallucination
112. Delusion
113. Echolalia
114. Coprolalia
115. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
116. In which type of mental disorder commonly occurs in disorientation of time date
and place?
117. Delirium tremens (DTs)
118. What is DSM 5?
119. Kubler-Ross Model
120. Machine learning Algorithms in Data Science
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Prepared by:
S.Lakshmanan, M.Phil.(Psy), M.A.(Psy), PGDBA., DCL.,
Consultant Psychologist