Optionals IAS Mains Psychology: Questions 164 - 170 of 269

Language Development

• Language development is a higher level cognitive skill involving audition and oral abilities in humans to communicate verbally individuals wants and needs.
• Language development is an important aspect in psychology. Many psychologists tried to develop theories on development of language. Noam Chomsky and Skinner are some among the…

Psychological Test

• A psychological test is an objective proc for sampling and quantifying human behavior to make an inference about a particular psychological construct using standardize stimuli, and methods of administration.
• There are different types of psychological tests.
• For example, intelligence tests, personality tests, aptitude tests etc.
• There…

Competency Mapping and Human Resource Development

• Competency Mapping is a process to identify key competencies for an organization and/or a job and incorporating those competencies throughout the various processes (i.e.. job evaluation, training, recruitment) of the organization.
• It is not just a skill or ability more than that it is a behavior invol…

Bandura՚S Social Learning Theory

• Social learning theory is a theory of learning process and social behavior which proposes that new behaviours can be acquired by observing and imitating others. Albert Bandura is a prominent psychologist who explained about observational learning.
• Observational learning is a concept explained by Albert Bandura through…

Human Engineering

• Human engineering is the science of human behavior and capability, applied to the design and operation of systems and technology.
• It mainly deals with relationship between man and machine. It can be put to use in devising instruments that are used by the defence personnel in the border areas. It is discussed below.

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Role of Socio-Cultural Factors in Promotion of Well-Being

• There are a number of factors that can influence a person՚s well-being.
• It can be termed as the determinants of well-being.
• There are different socio-cultural factors in promotion of well-being across major stages of life span.

They are explained as follows:

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Motivation

• Motivation is the basic concept related to human behaviour. Motivation is the process of stimulating people to actions to accomplish the goals.
  • There are different theories about motivation from different perspectives. Drive reduction theory is one among them.
  • It is considered as the homeostatic model, which explains about motivational conc…