UGC NET Psychology — Paper 2, subject code 04

All ten units are written, in 28 chapters: five for Unit 5, Attention, Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting (the densest unit — two for perception, two for learning, one for memory with verbal learning); four for Unit 2, Research Methodology and Statistics, whose statistics are examined with numbers and are worked here (effect size, the non-parametric replacements, the special correlations, regression, factor analysis, reliability and item analysis); three each for Unit 1, Emergence of Psychology, Unit 7, Personality, Motivation, emotion, stress and coping, and Unit 9, Human Development and Interventions; and two for every other unit. Six units touch material this platform already teaches elsewhere — Unit 2 (research methods and statistics, against NET Paper-1's research-aptitude unit, NET Education's research chapters and NET Sociology's methods), Unit 3 (the basics of testing, against NET Education's assessment chapters), Unit 5 (learning theories), Unit 6 (intelligence theories), Unit 7 (Kohlberg), and Unit 9 (development theories, school applications, guidance and counselling) — against the child-development and pedagogy chapters of the TET and CTET courses and NET Education's Learner and Learning Process unit. Each was checked against those chapters and written independently at postgraduate depth from this document's own list: Thorndike, Guthrie and Hull as learning theorists with Hull's equations; reinforcement schedules with the response patterns they produce and the matching law; Jensen's Level I and Level II abilities and the PASS model of Das, Kar and Parrila; the Rescorla–Wagner model; worked psychometrics and inferential statistics; Egan's and Williamson's counselling models. Nothing is adapted or reworded. Units 1, 4 and 8, and most of Units 5, 7 and 10, are postgraduate psychology with nothing equivalent anywhere else on this platform. The official document carries misprints, which are quoted as printed wherever this platform quotes it and taught in their correct form: "Stenberg" is taught as Robert J. Sternberg; "Canon-Bard" as the Cannon–Bard theory; "Staples" in the list of attitude scales as the Stapel scale; "Eudemonic" as eudaimonic wellbeing; "Dialectic behavior therapy" as dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT); and "Acceptance Commitment Therapy" as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).