Optionals IAS Mains Psychology: Questions 179 - 184 of 269

Need for Affiliation and Way of Economic Development of Tribal People

• The need for affiliation describes a person՚s need to feel a sense of involvement and “belonging” within a social group.
• It is a positive concept proposed by David McClelland.
• Henry Murray initially explained about psychological human needs.
• McClelland was influenced by his concepts.
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Sports and Sports Persons

• Sports need both physical and mental competence at the highest level. Even though there are different factors that affect the performance of sports person both cognitive and behavioural aspects are more important.
• They may be facing different problems in their life. These problems may affect their mental health, hence their …

Key Characteristics of Within-Group and Between-Groups Designs

• The design of experiment or experimental design is the design of any task that aims to describe or explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation.
• The discipline like psychology conducts experiments for the scientific study and objecti…

Role of Social Agencies in Rehabilitation of Mentally and Socially Challenged

• Rehabilitation is the process of helping a person who has suffered an illness or injury restore lost skills and so regain maximum self-sufficiency. It helps for the wellbeing of both mentally and physically challenged persons.
• Social agencies play an important role in the r…

Crowding and Mental Health

• Crowding, is a psychological construct wherein the amount of space available is less than desired and purely physical indices of physical space such as density.
• Crowding results in psychological, social, and physical problems among people. The impact of crowding on mental health is discussed below:

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Subliminal Perception

• Perception is an important concept in psychology. Subliminal perceptions, also known as subliminal messages, are messages, either visual or auditory, that are presented just beyond the threshold of human perception.
• It has been found that, the messages from the subliminal perception might not be audible enough to register in the…