Amity University Haryana

Ph.D Coursework Examinations, February 2022

Programme: Ph.D in Psychology

Course Title: Psychology

Course Code: PSY5002

Exam Dept. Ref.: jn792h
Time: 2 Hours Maximum Marks: 70
Note: This question paper has two sections : Section A and Section B.
Attempt i) Any Three out of Four from Section A.
ii) Section B is Compulsory.

Section –A (Attempt any three questions) 42 Marks

Each question carries (7+7) 14 marks

1. (A) Tania falls out of bed, and her mother insists that Tania is given a bandage for her sore
head. Describe the role of cognitive development in this situation.
(B) Give the description of concept of parental attitude in childhood.

2. (A) How could more talented graduate students and scholars be attracted to studying
strengths, positive emotions, and strong institutions?
(B) As a child, Manish was a bit clumsy and inactive. He became overweight. Now that he is
eighteen, He enjoys playing sports and is fit and active a lot of the time. Describe the role of
parents in his development in this situation.

3. Think of your experiences during the last 2-3 years and answer the following question:
(A) Did you have confrontations with your parents? What were the main problems?
(B) How did you solve your problems, and whose help did you seek?

4. Answer the following questions based on your understanding of psychology:

(A) A healthy physical development is a focal point of measurement of human development.
What factors should be consider pertaining to this aspect?
(B) What are the primary critiques of positive psychology and what evidence
supports/refutes those critiques?

Section B (Compulsory) 28 Marks

Each question carries (7+7)14 marks

5. Imagine you are trying to memorize a list of items you need to pick up at the grocery store.
During the intervening time, you also happen to read a new recipe on your favorite cooking

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 website. Later at the grocery store, you find yourself struggling to remember the items from
your shopping list. The competing memory of the new recipe’s ingredients interferes with
your memory of what you need at the store.

A. What type on interference is being discussed under this case? Explain in detail.
B. What could be the possible techniques to improve memory in similar cases?

6. Jagriti is a 31-year old woman who comes to you for treatment. She states that the reason she
is there is to get her anger under control, and that in her last several relationships with men,
she has been guilty of hitting her boyfriends and/or throwing things at them. She states that
she doesn't know why she does this because she 'really loved all of them.' During the course
of your conversation, you discover that she has been married and divorced three times, and in
the last year, has had 4 'serious' relationships. Also, she tells you that she has had two past
suicide attempts (pill overdoses) in response to 'bad breakups' with various boyfriends and
husbands. Jagriti is also both a compulsive shopper and compulsive eater. She has been
known to max out her credit cards on shopping binges, and she has a habit of binging and
purging. She states that she mostly engages in these kinds of behavior when her relationships
are 'getting bad.' She tells you that when she is in a relationship, it's very intense and that her
whole world looks brighter, yet when the relationship begins to crumble, she goes through
periods of intense depression and suicidal thoughts and has even resorted, more than once, to
falsely telling her husband/boyfriend that she was pregnant in order to try to salvage the
relationship. She states that she has two goals in therapy: to get a handle on her anger issues
and to try to resolve these feelings of intense emptiness she has.
Attempt any Two:
(A) If given the choice, would you apply Freud's, Erikson's, Adler's, or Jung's theory of
personality to describe this patient? Why? Which theory do you feel fits best?
(B) What about sexual identity traits?
(C) Which prominent personality traits does this patient appear to exhibit?

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