PSYCHOLOGY
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
FOR BSC NURSING 2024
LONG ESSAYS
- Define psychology. Explain the scope and methods of psychology
- What is a motive? Explain biological and social motives in detail
- Define learning? Explain theory of operant conditioning in detail
- Define learning. Discuss the theory of classical conditioning
- Define perception. Explain errors of perception in detail
- Define psychology. Discuss relevance of psychology in detail
- Define psychology. Explain the scope and methods of psychology
- Define emotions and explain the theories of emotions
- Define memory. Explain the types of memory with examples
- Define psychology and explain its nature and scope with special reference to nursing
- What is frustration? Distinguish between task-oriented and defense-oriented reactions
- Define personality. Discuss the various methods of assessing personality
- Define psychology? Explain its nature and scope with reference to nursing
- Discuss endocrine system and its influence on development of behavior
- Define memory. Explain the types of memory with examples
- Define psychology. Explain the various methods in psychology
- What is motivation? Explain the theories of motivation
- Explain the theories of intelligence is measured
- Define personality. Explain the theories of personality
- What is defense mechanism? Explain any five defense mechanism
- Discuss the role of heredity and environment in the development of human behavior
- Define psychology. Explain the scope of psychology in relation to nursing
- Discuss the behavioral changes and psychological needs of different age groups and chronically ill individuals
- How does frustration and conflict cause stress? briefly discuss the types of conflict
- Our behavior is controlled by our nervous system. Discuss
- Discuss the meaning of perception and explain prescribe perceptual organization
- What is intelligence? How it is measured? Name few tests of intelligence
- Explain the concept of mental health. discuss the characteristics of a mentally healthy person
- How frustration and conflict causes stress? briefly discuss the types of conflict and role of a nurse in stress management
- Define learning. Bring out the laws of learning. And their implication in nursing
- Define Psychology. How does psychology differ from sociology, biology and psychiatry?
- Explain the concept of intelligence quotient. How intelligence is measured?
- What are the nature and causes of Individual differences?
- Critically examine the definitions of psychology. Discuss the scope of psychology in relation to nursing
- Define emotion. Discuss the expression of emotion and the effect of emotion on the health of the individual
- Discuss the psychological needs of different age group and chronically ill individual
- What is ego defense mechanism? Illustrate any four with its purposes
- Define personality. Explain the nature and factors influencing the growth and development of personality of an individual
- Describe attention. Discuss the factors affect attention. What should be done to improve the accuracy of observation by a nurse?
- Explain the role of heredity and environment in causing individual differences
- What is forgetting? Explain forgetting during health and sickness
- Explain the characteristics of a mentally healthy person
SHORT ESSAYS
- Introspection method
- Factors influencing attention
- Conflicts
- Emotions in sickness
- Constituents of personality
- Psychological needs of aged people
- Significance of individual differences
- Measurement of intelligence
- Characteristics of perception
- Characteristics of mentally healthy person
- Explain the steps of problem solving
- Explain varieties of attention
- Discuss individual differences
- Laws of learning
- Explain methods of improving memory
- Explain the factors affecting mental health
- What are the types of thinking
- Types of intelligence tests
- Define personality. Discuss the personality development
- Distinguish sensation and perception
- Explain learning by conditioning
- Concept of mental hygiene
- Define attitudes? Discuss the characteristics of attitude
- Explain types of reasoning
- Discuss the principles of perception
- Explain factors influencing attention
- Discuss tools of evaluation
- Types of memory
- Heredity and environment
- Trial and error learning
- Types of intelligence tests
- Stages of development in thinking
- Modification of attitudes
- Physiological changes during emotions
- Laws of learning
- Discuss measurement of emotions
- Describe types of conflicts
- Write about tools of evaluations
- What is extra sensory perception
- Explain trial and error learning
- What is forgetting? Explain the organic causes of forgetting
- Discuss the steps of problem solving
- Deductive reasoning processes
- What are habits? How are they formed
- Discuss the theories of forgetting
- Projective techniques
- Factors influencing perception
- Conditioning learning
- Explain the factors affecting mental health
- Uses of psychology
- Principles of heredity
- Explain any two theories of emotion
- Discuss how thinking is developed
- Describe factors of perception
- Theories of intelligence
- Discuss the factors influencing creativity
- Scope of psychology
- Classify motives
- Measurement of attitudes
- Theories of emotions
- Define forgetting. Discuss biological causes of forgetting
- Define conflicts. Explain the types of conflicts
- Observation method
- Explain the physiological changes during emotions
- Concept of mental health
- Write a short note on ‘types of intelligence tests”
- Organization of perception
- Different ways to improve memory
- Briefly discuss various types of learning
- Heredity and environment
- Factors influencing attention and concentration
- Describe merits and demerits of experimental method
- Discuss twin and family studies in relation to development of behavior
- Enumerate theories of emotions
- Elaborate perceptual illusions
- What are the determinants of attention?
- Discuss Freud’s theory of psycho-sexual development
- Define creative thinking? Discuss stages of creative thinking
- Define attitudes? Name some characteristics of attitude
- What is problem solving? What role mental set plays in problem solving
- Experimental method
- Why psychology is regarded as sciences?
- What method would you use in studying the behavior of your patients.
- Distinguish between biological and social motives
- Analyse emotional experience and bring out its chief characteristics
- Write short notes of different types of intelligence tests
- Forgetting during sickness
- Errors in perception
- Social motives
- Self actualization
- Behavior
- Uses of personality assessment
- Hypersthesia
- Attitude in health and science
- Distribution of intelligence in the population
- Define memory
- Rationalization
- Hallucination
- Twins
- Discuss the causes of forgetting
- How attitudes are formed?
- Physiological drives that determine our daily behavior
- Methods of improving memory
- Nature of learning
- Principles of perception
- How does visual and auditory disorder effect learning?
- Explain the personality traits and nurse should develop
- Role of endocrine gland in determining behavior
- Factors influencing perception
- Describe abnormal sensations
- Uses of intelligence tests
- Forgetting during health and sickness
- Methods of assessing personality
- Discuss various conditions of learning
- Mention the types of learning. What should be done to improve the accuracy of observation?
- Discuss the principles of heredity
- Observations method
- How knowledge of psychology helps nurse to adjust in profession?
- Possible hazards to the mental health of a growing individual
- Discuss the role of environment in causing individual difference
- Internal and external changes during emotion
- Role of a nurse in change in attitude of her patients
- Effect of acute illness on personality
- Factors influencing memory
- Laws of learning
- Abnormalities in sensory perception
- Observational method
- Self actualization
- Factors influencing personality
- Behavior and sickness
- Types of memory
- Modification of attitudes
- Distribution of intelligence
- Laws of learning
SHORT ANSWERS
- Survey method
- Illusion
- Frustration
- Introvert
- Heredity
- Law of use and disuse
- Amnesia
- Attitude
- Mental hygiene
- Rationalization
- Aptitude test
- Introspection
- Conflict
- Rationalization
- Attitudes
- Define emotion
- Personality
- Transfer of learning
- Ivan Pavlov
- Social motives
- Principle of closure
- Errors in thinking
- Hallucination
- Motivation
- Self-actualization
- Id
- Reward and punishment
- Conflict
- Trail and error learning
- Intelligence
- Variables
- Psycho sexual stages of development
- Genius
- Uses of psychological tests
- Organization of perception
- Forgetting
- Hypothesis
- Chromosomes
- Aptitude tests
- Definition of motivation
- Survey method
- Emotions and health
- Span of attention
- Psychoanalysis
- Factors influencing perception
- Insightful learning
- Nature of attitude
- Levels of thinking
- Psychosocial development
- Types of conflict
- Introvert and extrovert
- Concept of I Q
- Attitude
- Super EGO
- Transfer of learning
- Sensation
- Steps of creativity
- Introspection
- Identical and Fraternal twins
- Projective Techniques
- Types of Intelligence
- Rating scales
- Frustration
- Attention
- Clinical Psychology
- Promotion of mental health
- Psychological needs of children
- Hypothesis
- Case-study method
- Extrovert
- Mental hygiene
- Id
- Reward and punishment
- Forgetting
- Rationalization
- Span of attention
- Sensory disorders
- Pure Psychology
- Naturalistic observation
- Emotional imbalance
- Principles of grouping
- Ponzo illusions
- Reinforcement
- Evaluation
- Types of reasoning
- Laws of learning
- Conflicts
- Verbal Test
- Define conflict
- What is sensory memory?
- Nature of attention
- Extra sensory perception
- Recitation method in memorizing
- Amnesia
- Significance of Individual differences
- Introspection method
- Abnormal psychology
- Division of attention
- Define conflict
- Personality
- Sensory disorders
- Drive reduction
- Individual difference in health and sickness
- Define the concept of mental health
- Define mechanisms
- Effective nursing
- Psychoneurosis
- Conflict in motives
- Mental retardation
- Neuro transmitters
- Trial and error method
- Adjustment mechanism
- Chromosomes
- List the branches of psychology
- Performance test
- Constituents of personality
- Sensation
- Para psychology
- Division of attention
- Needs
- Conflicts
- Emotions
- Genes
- Intelligence quotient
- Frustration
- Memory
- Mental health
BSC NURSING
TWO MARKS QUESTIONS
1. Para Psychology.
2. Division of attention.
3. Needs.
4. Conflicts
5. Emotions
6. Genes
7. Intelligence quotent (IQ)
8. Frustration
9. Memory
10. Mental Health
11. Mental Retardation
12. Trial and Error method in learning
13. Adjustment mechanisms
14. Performance test
15. Constituents of personality/structure
16. Sensation
17. Fluctuation of attention
18. Types of thinking
19. Behaviour
20. Motivational cycle
21. Hallucination
22. Drive
23. Types of learning
24. Observation
25. Heredity
26. Insight
27. Perception
28. Pyscho sexual stages of development
29. Questionanzing
30. Super ego
31. Ego
32. Personality
33. ID
34. Mnemonies
35. Rationalization
36. Motive
37. Extra sensory perception
38. Case study
39. Motivation
40. Sublimation
41. Stress
42. Introspection
43. Thinking
44. Homeostasis
45. Psycho analysis
46. Individual difference
47. Intelligence
48. Tools of thinking
49. Types of conflict
50. Introvert and extrovert
51. Attitude
52. Aptitude
53. Transper of learning
54. Projection
55. James – Lange theory of emotion
56. Case history method
57. Errors in thinking
58. Educational psychology
59. Reasoning
60. Environment
61. Interview method
62. Abstract thinking
63. Maturation and learning
64. Survey method.
65. Span of attention
66. Psycho social development
67. Mental hygiene
68. Self actualization
69. Body mind relation
70. Steps involved in creating thinking
71. Illusion
5 MARKS QUESTION
1. observational method
2. Self actualization
3. Factors influencing personality
4. Behaviour and sickness
5. Types of memory
6. Insight theory of learning
7. Development and motivation of attitude
8. Distribution of intelligence
9. Laws of learning
10. Causes for individual differences
11. Internal and external changes during emotion
12. Factors influencing memory
13. Abnormalities in sensory perception
14. Projective tests or technique
15. Steps in creative thinking
16. Factors influencing perception
17. Uses of intelligence test
18. Types of attention
19. Theories of personality
20. Trial and error method of learning
21. Experimental method merits and demerits
22. Various types of learning
23. Explain the factors influencing the personality of individual
24. Different types of intelligence
25. Use of psychology in the field of nursing profession
26. Characteristics of mentally healthy person
27. Types of thinking
28. Heredity and environment
29. Theories of forgetting (interference, repressing, decay (fading) theory of forgetting.
30. James – Lange theory of emotion
31. Types of conflict
32. Factors affecting perception
33. Individual difference
34. Principles of perceptual organization
35. Types of personality
36. Meaning ‘I’ nature of attitude
37. Meaning ‘I’ types of transfer of learning
38. Factors influencing intelligence
39. What is stress and frustation
40. Explain the source of stress and frustation
41. Describe or explain internal or external change during emotions.
42. Methods of memorization
43. Laws of learning
44. Types of conflict
45. Trial and error theory of learning
46. Discuss the steps of problem solving
47. What is habit? How are they formed?
48. Types of intelligence test
49. Insightful learning
50. Methods to improve memory
51. Observational methods
10 MARKS QUESTIONS
1. Define psychology. Explain its nature and scope.
2. Define memory. Explain types of memory.
3. Define personality. Explain theories of personality
4. Explain the theories of intelligence
5. Explain the role of heredity and environment in causing individual differences
6. Explain the defense mechanism
7. Explain personality and define personality. Explain the nature and factors influencing role and development personality of an individual.
8. Discuss the psychological needs of different age group and chronically ill individual.
9. Explain theories of emotions.
10. Define learning and explain classical conditioning theory of learning.
11. Define personality.
12. Explain types of personality.
13. Explain measurement and assessment of personality.
14. What is motivation
15. Explain the theories of motivation
16. Define learning and explain methods of memorizing
17. Define perception. Explain the perceptual organization.
18. Define emotion. Describe theories of emotions.
19. Explain different types of personality.
