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UPSC MainsPsychology (Optional)28 questions

Science and Technology: UPSC Mains Psychology (Optional) questions

28 practice questions on Science and Technology, each with a model answer, an approach note, key facts and links to the previous year questions on the same theme.

  1. 1Assumptions and Methods in Cognitive Neuropsychology
  2. 2Classical Conditioning: Contiguity and Contingency Roles
  3. 3Conditions for Using Factor Analysis
  4. 4Critical Evaluation of Problem Solving Methods
  5. 5Critical Period Hypothesis and Biological Predisposition
  6. 6Dimensions of Thought Processes and Concepts
  7. 7Disruption of Memory Retrieval: Anxiety, Context, and Repression
  8. 8Dissociation of Explicit and Implicit Memory in Amnesia
  9. 9Dreams: Wish Fulfilment, Meaning, and Psychological Functions
  10. 10Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Problem Solving
  11. 11General Strategies Versus Domain Specific Procedures in Problem Solving
  12. 12Human versus Computerised Problem Solving
  13. 13Inattentional Blindness and Subliminal Perception
  14. 14Influence of Knowledge on Deductive Reasoning
  15. 15Leaky Bucket versus Working Memory Models
  16. 16Modal Model of Short-Term Memory
  17. 17Multiple Regression versus Simple Linear Regression
  18. 18Opponent-Process Model of Sleep-Wake Regulation
  19. 19Psychological and Physiological Basis of Emotion
  20. 20Reconstructive Nature of Human Memory
  21. 21Role of Artificial Intelligence in Psychology
  22. 22Role of Cognition in Emotional Experience
  23. 23Rules of Language and Critical Period Hypothesis
  24. 24Sampling Bias and Data Analysis in Research
  25. 25Scientific Status and Methodological Nature of Psychology
  26. 26Surface and Deep Structure and Language Hierarchy
  27. 27Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processing in Perception
  28. 28Types of Long-Term Memory and Serial-Position Effect