MPC 004 PREVIOUS QUESTIONS


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JUNE 21       FEB 21

JUNE 20       DEC 20

 Advanced Social Psychology

10-MARK QUESTIONS (SECTION A) CLICK HERE FOR ANSWERS

  1. Discuss the applications of social psychology in population, health, environment and industry.

  2. Discuss the methods of analysis / research methods / experimental and quasi-experimental methods in social psychology; explain threats to validity.

  3. Explain the nature, types and causes of aggression; describe ways of measuring aggression.

  4. Discuss the factors affecting attitude formation and the types of attitude change.

  5. Explain the concept, causes and effects of conflict and the methods of conflict resolution.

  6. Discuss the concept, characteristics, development and maintenance of prejudice; describe methods to reduce prejudice and discrimination.

  7. Discuss the concept and relevance of group dynamics; explain the role of communication in group dynamics.

  8. Describe the concept of prosocial / helping behaviour and explain the factors affecting helping behaviour.

  9. Trace the historical development of social psychology and emergence of modern social psychology.

  10. Explain the concept, characteristics and development of stereotypes; differentiate from prejudice.

  11. Discuss the concept of conformity and the factors increasing conformity with reference to Asch’s experiment.

  12. Define crowd / group behaviour; discuss the concept and theories of crowd behaviour.

  13. Explain the theories of attitude organisation (e.g., balance theory, cognitive algebra).

  14. Explain interpersonal attraction with the help of similarity and reciprocity-of-liking rule / evolutionary theories.

  15. Discuss the characteristics of competition and differentiate it from types of cooperation.

  16. Discuss the current trends in social psychology.


🟨 6-MARK QUESTIONS (SECTION B) CLICK HERE FOR ANSWERS

  1. Discuss the ethical issues involved in social-psychological research.

  2. Explain the attribution theory and its errors / applications.

  3. Define group; explain its important features and characteristics.

  4. Explain the role of communication in group dynamics.

  5. Discuss the factors affecting attitude change.

  6. Explain Bem’s self-perception theory.

  7. Describe the characteristics, development and maintenance of stereotypes.

  8. Describe the methods of reducing prejudice and discrimination.

  9. Explain the concept and causes of conflict; discuss effects and resolution.

  10. Describe the steps and characteristics of the ethnographic method.

  11. Discuss the factors responsible for interpersonal attraction.

  12. Explain the types and role of cooperation.

  13. Discuss the errors in attribution and ways to minimise them.


🟦 3-MARK QUESTIONS (SECTION C – Short Notes) CLICK HERE FOR ANSWERS

  1. Mass psychology

  2. Fundamental attribution error

  3. Reciprocity-of-liking rule

  4. Primacy vs recency effect

  5. Cultural patterning

  6. Low-ball technique

  7. Characteristics of attitude

  8. Characteristics of group

  9. Manifestations / characteristics of prejudice or stereotypes

  10. Cognitive algebra / Heider’s balance theory

  11. Normative social influence

  12. Halo effect / Self-esteem / Correlational method (occasional topics)

✅ Most repeated core areas across all papers:

Aggression | Prejudice | Conflict | Group Dynamics | Attribution | Attitude | Conformity | Interpersonal Attraction | Ethics in Research.

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