Psychology syllabus

General knowledge (detailed breakdown not specified in notification — indicative)

• Indian history and freedom movement
• Geography of India and Uttar Pradesh
• Indian constitution and polity
• Basic Indian economy
• General science and everyday science
• Environment and ecology
• Uttar Pradesh special — geography history culture and administration
• Current national and international events
• Current affairs of the education sector
• Sports awards and books-authors

Introduction and methods

• Meaning and definition of psychology
• Subject matter and utility
• Experimental method
• Observational method
• Theoretical approaches

Motivation emotion perception attention

• Meaning and importance of motivation
• Factors influencing motivation
• Motives of behaviour
• Social motives
• Emotion normal and complex states
• Emotion and physiological changes
• Theories of emotion
• Nature of perception Gestalt principles
• Laws of perceptual organisation
• Nature and characteristics of attention
• Determinants of selective attention

Memory learning personality testing

• Basic processes of memory
• Measurement of memory
• Factors affecting forgetting
• Types of memory
• Meaning of learning and influencing factors
• Age maturity and learning
• Classical conditioning
• Operant conditioning
• Trial-and-error learning
• Insight learning
• Habit formation and factors
• Nature and determinants of personality
• Stages of personality development
• Verbal performance individual group tests
• Precautions in psychological testing

Guidance mental health industry

• Guidance in Indian environment
• Educational guidance
• Vocational guidance
• Personal guidance
• Improving guidance services in UP
• Mental health meaning utility measures
• Mental disorders causes prevention
• Institutional measures for mental health
• Prevention of abnormal behaviour
• Group tension causes and effects
• Casteism communalism linguistic tension analysis
• Measures for reducing group tension
• Industrial psychology nature and management
• Employee selection standards and errors
• Psychological basis of work analysis
• Strikes lockouts causes prevention