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MP SET (Psychology) Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern
MP SET Psychology Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2026
Detail Information about Madhya Pradesh State Eligibility Test has published notification 2026 for the notification of SET (Psychology) vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Entrance Exam with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam
MP SET 2026 Highlights
| Exam Name | MP SET 2026 |
| MP SET Full-Form | Madhya Pradesh State Eligibility Test |
| Organizing Body | Madhya Pradesh Public Service commission |
| Type of Exam | State Eligibility Test |
| Mode of Application | Online |
| Mode of Exam | Offline Mode (PPT) |
| Category | Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Online | Mode |
| Official Website | http://www.mppsc.nic.in/ |
MP SET Psychology Syllabus 2026
1. Emergence of Psychology
i. Psychological thought in some major Eastern Systems: Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Sufism and Integral Yoga. Academic psychology in India: Preindependence era; post-independence era; 1970s: The move to addressing social issues; 1980s: Indigenization; 1990s: Paradigmatic concerns, disciplinary identity crisis; 2000s: Emergence of Indian psychology in academia. Issues: The colonial encounter; Post colonialism and psychology; Lack of distinct disciplinary identity.
ii. Western: Greek heritage, medieval period and modern period. Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalytical, Gestalt, Behaviorism, HumanisticExistential, Transpersonal, Cognitive revolution, Multiculturalism. Four founding paths of academic psychology - Wundt, Freud, James, Dilthey. Issues: Crisis in psychology due to strict adherence to experimentalanalytical paradigm (logical empiricism). Indic influences on modern psychology.
iii. Essential aspects of knowledge paradigms: Ontology, epistemology, and methodology. Paradigms of Western Psychology: Positivism, Post-Positivism, Critical perspective, Social Constructionism, Existential Phenomenology, and Co-operative Enquiry. Paradigmatic Controversies. Significant Indian paradigms on psychological knowledge: Yoga, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Sufism, and Integral Yoga. Science and spirituality (avidya and vidya). The primacy of self-knowledge in Indian psychology.
2. Research Methodology and Statistics
i. Research: Meaning, Purpose, and Dimensions.
ii. Research problems, Variables and Operational Definitions, Hypothesis, Sampling.
iii. Ethics in conducting and reporting research
iv. Paradigms of research: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed methods approach Methods of research: Observation, Survey [Interview, Questionnaires], Experimental, Quasi-experimental, Field studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, Phenomenology, Grounded theory, Focus groups, Narratives, Case studies, Ethnography
v. Statistics in Psychology: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion. Normal Probability Curve. Parametric [t-test] and Non-parametric tests [Sign Test, Wilcoxon Signed rank test, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Friedman]. Power analysis. Effect size.
vi. Correlational Analysis: Correlation [Product Moment, Rank Order], Partial correlation, multiple correlation.
vii. Special Correlation Methods: Biserial, Point biserial, tetrachoric, phicoefficient.
viii. Regression: Simple linear regression, Multiple regression.
ix. Factor analysis: Assumptions, Methods, Rotation and Interpretation.
x. Experimental Designs: ANOVA [One-way, Factorial], Randomized Block Designs, Repeated Measures Design, Latin Square, Cohort studies, Time series, MANOVA, ANCOVA. Single subject designs.
3. Psychological testing
i. Types of tests
ii. Test construction: Item writing, item analysis
iii. Test standardization: Reliability, validity and Norms
iv. Areas of testing: Intelligence, creativity, neuropsychological tests, aptitude, Personality assessment, interest inventories
v. Attitude scales – Semantic differential, Staples, Likert scale.
vi. Computer-based psychological testing
vii. Applications of psychological testing in various settings: Clinical, Organizational and business, Education, Counseling, Military. Career guidance.
4. Biological basis of behavior
i. Sensory systems: General and specific sensations, receptors and processes
ii. Neurons: Structure, functions, types, neural impulse, synaptic transmission.
iii. Neurotransmitters.
iv. The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems – Structure and functions.
v. Neuroplasticity.
vi. Methods of Physiological Psychology: Invasive methods – Anatomical methods, degeneration techniques, lesion techniques, chemical methods, microelectrode studies. Non-invasive methods – EEG, Scanning methods.
vii. Muscular and Glandular system: Types and functions
viii. Biological basis of Motivation: Hunger, Thirst, Sleep and Sex.
ix. Biological basis of emotion: The Limbic system, Hormonal regulation of behavior.
x. Genetics and behavior: Chromosomal anomalies; Nature-Nurture controversy [Twin studies and adoption studies]
5. Attention, Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting
Attention: Forms of attention, Models of attention
Perception:
i. Perceptual Organization: Gestalt, Figure and Ground, Law of Organization
ii. Perceptual Constancy: Size, Shape, and Color; Illusions
iii. Perception of Form, Depth and Movement
iv. Role of motivation and learning in perception
v. Signal detection theory: Assumptions and applications
vi. Subliminal perception and related factors, information processing approach to perception, culture and perception, perceptual styles, Pattern recognition, Ecological perspective on perception.
vii. Approaches to the Study of Perception: Gestalt and physiological approaches
Learning Process:
i. Fundamental theories: Thorndike, Guthrie, Hull
ii. Classical Conditioning: Procedure, phenomena and related issues
iii. Instrumental learning: Phenomena, Paradigms and theoretical issues; Reinforcement: Basic variables and schedules; Behaviour modification and its applications
iv. Cognitive approaches in learning: Latent learning, observational learning.
v. Verbal learning and Discrimination learning
vi. Recent trends in learning: Neurophysiology of learning
Memory and Forgetting
i. Memory processes: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
ii. Stages of memory: Sensory memory, Short-term memory (Working memory), Long-term Memory (Declarative – Episodic and Semantic; Procedural)
iii. Theories of Forgetting: Interference, Retrieval Failure, Decay, Motivated forgetting
6. Thinking, Intelligence and Creativity
i. Theoretical perspectives on thought processes: Associationism, Gestalt, Information processing, Feature integration model
ii. Concept formation: Rules, Types, and Strategies; Role of concepts in thinking Types of Reasoning
iii. Language and thought
iv. Problem solving: Type, Strategies, and Obstacles
v. Decision-making: Types and models
vi. Metacognition: Metacognitive knowledge and Metacognitive regulation
vii. Intelligence: Spearman; Thurstone; Jensen; Cattell; Gardner; Stenberg; Goleman; Das, Kar & Parrila
viii. Creativity: Torrance, Getzels & Jackson, Guilford, Wallach & Kogan
ix. Relationship between Intelligence and Creativity
7. Personality, Motivation, emotion, stress and coping
i. Determinants of personality: Biological and socio-cultural Approaches to the study of personality: Psychoanalytical, Neo-Freudian, Social learning, Trait and Type, Cognitive, Humanistic, Existential, Transpersonal psychology.
ii. Other theories: Rotter's Locus of Control, Seligman's Explanatory styles, Kohlberg’s theory of Moral development.
iii. Basic motivational concepts: Instincts, Needs, Drives, Arousal, Incentives, Motivational Cycle.
iv. Approaches to the study of motivation: Psychoanalytical, Ethological, S-R Cognitive, Humanistic
v. Exploratory behavior and curiosity
vi. Zuckerman's Sensation seeking
vii. Achievement, Affiliation and Power
viii. Motivational Competence
ix. Self-regulation
x. Flow
xi. Emotions: Physiological correlates
xii. Theories of emotions: James-Lange, Canon-Bard, Schachter and Singer, Lazarus, Lindsley.
xiii. Emotion regulation
xiv. Conflicts: Sources and types
xv. Stress and Coping: Concept, Models, Type A, B, C, D behaviors, Stress management strategies [Biofeedback, Music therapy, Breathing exercises, Progressive Muscular Relaxation, Guided Imagery, Mindfulness, Meditation, Yogasana, Stress Inoculation Training].
8. Social Psychology
i. Nature, scope and history of social psychology
ii. Traditional theoretical perspectives: Field theory, Cognitive Dissonance, Sociobiology, Psychodynamic Approaches, Social Cognition.
iii. Social perception [Communication, Attributions]; attitude and its change within cultural context; prosocial behavior
iv. Group and Social influence [Social Facilitation; Social loafing]; Social influence [Conformity, Peer Pressure, Persuasion, Compliance, Obedience, Social Power, Reactance]. Aggression. Group dynamics, leadership style and effectiveness. Theories of intergroup relations [Minimal Group Experiment and Social Identity Theory, Relative Deprivation Theory, Realistic Conflict Theory, Balance Theories, Equity Theory, Social Exchange Theory]
v. Applied social psychology: Health, Environment and Law; Personal space, crowding, and territoriality.
9. Human Development and Interventions
i. Developmental processes: Nature, Principles, Factors in development, Stages of Development. Successful aging.
ii. Theories of development: Psychoanalytical, Behavioristic, and Cognitive Various aspects of development: Sensory-motor, cognitive, language, emotional, social and moral.
iii. Psychopathology: Concept, Mental Status Examination, Classification, Causes
iv. Psychotherapies: Psychoanalysis, Person-centered, Gestalt, Existential, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Behavior therapy, REBT, CBT, MBCT, Play therapy, Positive psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis, Dialectic behavior therapy, Art therapy, Performing Art Therapy, Family therapy.
v. Applications of theories of motivation and learning in School
vi. Factors in educational achievement
vii. Teacher effectiveness
viii. Guidance in schools: Needs, organizational set up and techniques
ix. Counselling: Process, skills, and techniques
10. Emerging Areas
i. Issues of Gender, Poverty, Disability, and Migration: Cultural bias and discrimination. Stigma, Marginalization, and Social Suffering; Child Abuse and Domestic violence.
ii. Peace psychology: Violence, non-violence, conflict resolution at macro level, role of media in conflict resolution.
iii. Wellbeing and self-growth: Types of wellbeing [Hedonic and Eudemonic], Character strengths, Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth.
iv. Health: Health promoting and health compromising behaviors, Life style and Chronic diseases [Diabetes, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease], Psychoneuroimmunology [Cancer, HIV/AIDS]
v. Psychology and technology interface: Digital learning; Digital etiquette: Cyber bullying; Cyber pornography: Consumption, implications; Parental mediation of Digital Usage
MP SET Psychology Exam Pattern 2026
Duration : 120 Minutes
| S.No | Subject | No.of Question | Marks |
| 1 | Psychology | 100 | 200 |
| Total | 100 | 200 |
MP SET Exam Date : Notified Soon
Starting Date of Application Form : Notified Soon
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