PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO
THE POSTS OF PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE-2021
SUBJECT: PSYCHOLOGY (PAPER-I)
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAX MARKS: 100
NOTE: 1 All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
2 Write Q. No. In the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q. Paper.
3 No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
4 Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.
Attempt FIVE Questions in All. Attempt in Urdu or English
Q1. (a) Define psychology, discuss its scope, latest trends, and emerging fields of psychology?
(b) What is the scientific method? What are the goals of science? How Psychology is a science?
Q2. The central tenet of Gestalt Psychology is that the whole is different from the sum of its parts. What does this mean in the context of perception?
Q3. What is a perceptual illusion? Discuss perception of movement and depth in detail.
Q4. What are different types of learning? How classical conditioning is different from operant conditioning?
Q5. Differentiate between self-esteem and self-efficacy. Describe the Five-Factor Model of personality.
Q6. How do you define motivation? What are primary and secondary motives? How does motivation increase productivity (in light of theories of motivation)?
Q7. What do we mean by the cognitive development of a child? Explain in detail all the stages of cognitive development as per Piaget’, theory?
Q8. Write notes on the following:
(i) Physiological changes during emotion (ii) Functions of human ears
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