UGC NET Psycology Emerging Areas Syllabus

Emerging Areas syllabus — full chapter and topic list

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1. 1

   Issues of Gender, Poverty, Disability, and Migration

   3 topics

   • Cultural bias and discrimination
   • Stigma, Marginalization, and Social Suffering
   • Child Abuse and Domestic violence
2. 2

   Peace Psychology

   3 topics

   • Violence and non-violence
   • Conflict resolution at macro level
   • Role of media in conflict resolution
3. 3

   Wellbeing and Self-Growth

   3 topics

   • Types of Wellbeing (Hedonic and Eudemonic)
   • Character Strengths
   • Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth
4. 4

   Health

   3 topics

   • Health promoting and health compromising behaviors
   • Lifestyle and Chronic diseases (Diabetes, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease)
   • Psychoneuroimmunology (Cancer, HIV/AIDS)
5. 5

   Psychology and Technology Interface

   5 topics

   • Digital learning
   • Digital etiquette
   • Cyber bullying
   • Cyber pornography: Consumption and implications
   • Parental mediation of Digital Usage

Emerging Areas flashcards for UGC NET Psycology

18 of 51 cards from the Emerging Areas deck — real questions with worked answers.

1. What is cultural bias in psychological assessment and research?

   The tendency to interpret and judge phenomena by the standards of one's own culture, leading to tests, theories, or evaluations that favor one cultural group over another and produce inaccurate conclusions about other groups.

2. Distinguish between prejudice, stereotype, and discrimination.

   A stereotype is a cognitive belief/generalization about a group; prejudice is a negative affective attitude toward a group; discrimination is the behavioral act of treating people unfairly based on group membership.

3. What is the difference between individual and institutional (structural) discrimination?

   Individual discrimination is unfair treatment by one person toward another; institutional discrimination is built into the policies, laws, and practices of organizations and society, producing systematic disadvantage even without individual intent.

4. Define stigma according to Erving Goffman.

   Stigma is an attribute that is deeply discrediting, reducing the bearer 'from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one'; Goffman classified it into abominations of the body, blemishes of character, and tribal stigma (race, nation, religion).

5. Differentiate enacted stigma, felt (perceived) stigma, and self-stigma.

   Enacted stigma is actual discrimination experienced; felt/perceived stigma is the fear or expectation of being discriminated against; self-stigma is internalization of negative stereotypes, leading to reduced self-esteem and self-efficacy.

6. What is social suffering?

   A concept (Kleinman, Das, Lock) referring to the human distress and damage caused by the exercise of political, economic, and institutional power, encompassing how social forces inflict harm and how those forces shape responses to suffering.

7. What is marginalization?

   The social process by which individuals or groups are pushed to the edge of society, denied full participation and access to resources, rights, and opportunities, on the basis of identity such as caste, class, gender, ethnicity, or disability.

8. List the major types of child abuse.

   Physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional/psychological abuse, and neglect (which can be physical, emotional, educational, or medical).

9. What is the cycle of violence (cycle of abuse) described by Lenore Walker in domestic violence?

   A three-phase repeating pattern: (1) tension-building phase, (2) acute battering/explosion incident, and (3) honeymoon/reconciliation phase, after which tension rebuilds and the cycle repeats.

10. What is the intergenerational transmission of violence?

    The tendency for children exposed to abuse or domestic violence to become abusers or victims as adults, learned through modeling and social learning, perpetuating violence across generations.

11. Define domestic (intimate partner) violence.

    A pattern of coercive behavior used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner, including physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and psychological abuse.

12. What is the distinction between proactive (instrumental) and reactive (hostile) aggression?

    Proactive/instrumental aggression is planned, goal-directed, and unprovoked, used to obtain a reward; reactive/hostile aggression is an impulsive, angry response to a perceived provocation or threat.

13. What did Galtung mean by direct, structural, and cultural violence?

    Direct violence is physical/visible harm by an actor; structural violence is harm built into social structures (poverty, inequality) without a clear actor; cultural violence is aspects of culture (religion, ideology) used to legitimize direct and structural violence.

14. What is the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa) as articulated by Gandhi?

    Ahimsa is the refusal to harm any living being; Gandhi's Satyagraha combined nonviolence with 'truth-force,' using active, courageous resistance to injustice without retaliation to convert the opponent rather than coerce.

15. What is negative peace versus positive peace (Galtung)?

    Negative peace is the mere absence of direct violence or war; positive peace is the presence of social justice, equity, and absence of structural and cultural violence.

16. What is conflict resolution at the macro level?

    Resolving large-scale conflicts between nations, ethnic groups, or communities through methods such as diplomacy, negotiation, mediation, peacekeeping, treaties, and addressing root structural causes.

17. Differentiate negotiation, mediation, and arbitration in conflict resolution.

    Negotiation is direct dialogue between parties to reach agreement; mediation involves a neutral third party who facilitates but does not impose a solution; arbitration involves a third party who hears both sides and makes a binding decision.

18. What is Track Two (citizen) diplomacy in macro-level conflict resolution?

    Unofficial, informal interaction between members of adversary groups (academics, NGOs, civil society) aimed at building relationships and problem-solving, complementing official Track One government diplomacy.

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