DOPT
Q1. Discuss the Vedantic View of Consciousness.
Discuss the Yogic View of consciousness.
Elaborate and evaluate the psychological insights inherent in Patanjali’s Yogic tradition.
Discuss the non-dualistic view of Shankar’s Advaita Vedanta. Identify similarities between yoga and Vedanta. (7,8)
Elaborate on the Yogic views of consciousness and briefly highlight the differences between Yogic and Vedant views.
Or
Briefly discuss how do the classical schools of structuralism, functionalism, and gestalt differ with respect to
methodological concerns and their views on consciousness.
Give a brief account of the notion of consciousness within the classical schools of Structuralism and Functionalism.
Examine the methodological concerns in the development of psychology. (5,10)
Elucidate the contribution of gestalt approach to study the psychological phenomena.
Discuss the contributions of Structuralism towards the evolution of psychology as a discipline. How structuralism
differs from functionalism? (7,8)
Or
Discuss the Western view of consciousness with respect to behaviourism and psychoanalysis.
Q2. Examine Skinner’s contribution to behaviourism (15)
Discuss the Watson’s contribution in behvaiourism (15)
Discuss the basic principles of behaviourism. Contrast approach adopted by Skinner and Tolan for understanding
behaviour. (5,10)
Discuss the key ideas of Watson’s behaviourism. How did his ideas pave the way towards neobehaviorism? Elucidate.
Examine Watson’s robotic conception of behaviour. Highlight the key differences between the views of Watson and
Skinner. (5,10)
Or
Examine the developments of behaviourism and neobehaviourism. (7.5,7.5)
Compare the contribution of classical behaviourism and neobehaviourism
Delineate the developments within neo-behaviourism that shaped the emergence of cognitive psychology.
Or
What do you understand by Cognitive Revolution? Discuss the Information Processing Model and its applications.
(7,8)
Q3. Give a brief outline of Freud’s psychoanalysis. Comment on the sociological shift in psychoanalysis.
Discuss Freud’s psychosexual stages of development. In what way did Jung’s ideas differ with Freud? (10,5)
What factors contributed to Jung’s breaking away from Freud? Discuss Jung’s Analytical Psychology.
Critically evaluate the contributions of Freud to understand human behvaiour (15)
Trace the emergence of the socio-psychoanalytic thought. Discuss the limitations of Classical Psychoanalysis (9,6)
How does Freud’s psychoanalytic theory help us in understanding the personality of an individual? (15)
Or
Highlighting the key themes within humanism or existentialism discuss the ways in which the humanistic or
existential perspective has enriched out understanding of human experience.
Humanism emerged as a third force within psychology. Discuss. Examine the key ideas of any one humanistic
thinker. (5,10)
Discuss the importance of humanistic approach. Briefly discuss the Maslow need theory of humanistic psychology.
(7,8)
Discuss the basic principles of Humanistic psychology. Discuss the contributions of Rogers in understanding human
personality (6,9)
Discuss the existential thought and its basic tenets.
Or
Discuss vital differences between Humanistic and Existential Psychology. Briefly describe contributions of Skinner.
Or
Comment on the sociological shift in psychoanalysis. Elaborate on the Erikson’s contribution to theory development.
Q4. Briefly discuss the notion of social construction of reality. In what way did social constructionist ideas address
the deadlock within mainstream psychology? (5,10)
What do you understand by the social constructionism? In what way does social constructionism address the early
impasse in social psychology? (5,10)
What is social constructionism? Discuss the contribution of social constructionism in psychology. (7,8)
What is social constructionism? Elaborate how this perspective has facilitated our understanding of social reality.
(10,5)
Briefly discuss the nature of knowledge in Social Constructionism and highlight its contributions to Psychology.
Comment on the nature and construction of knowledge from the social constructionist perspective. Discuss the
contribution of Social Constructionism to the discipline of Psychology
Or
Discuss some key concerns within Feminist Psychology. In what way has it served to revise therapeutic practice.
(5,10)
Discuss how feminist leanings in psychology have influenced theory and research in the discipline.
What do you understand by feminism? Discuss the significance of feminism in contemporary context. (8,7)
Trace the evolution of feminist thought in psychology. Discuss their position with respect to gender issues. (9,6)
Q5.
Unit 1
Free Will vs Determinism
Structuralism
Prakriti and Purush in Sankhya
Sankhya Darshan
Empiricism
Unit 2
Cognitive Psychology
Hull’s Hypothetico-deductive method
Functional analysis of behaviour
Unit 3
Archetypes
Major Themes in Existentialism
Collective unconsciousness
Cultural Psychoanalysis (2)
Existential
Maslow’s Need Hierarchy
Roger’s conception of self
Unit 4
