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UPESSC Assistant Professor (Psychology) Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern

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Detail Information about UPESSC has published notification 2026 for the recruitment of Assistant Professor (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 Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.
 
UPESSC Assistant Professor Syllabus 2026 - Overview
 
Name of Department Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission (UPESSC)
Posts Name Assistant Professor (Psychology)
Total No of Posts 72
Apply Mode Online
UPESSC Exam Date 2026 19th & 20th November 2026
Job Location Uttar Pradesh
Category Syllabus and Exam Pattern
Official Website www.upessc.up.gov.in
 
UPESSC Assistant Professor (Psychology) Syllabus 2026
 
Part I:
General Knowledge : 
Unit-1 : Current Affairs :
1. Major events & Current Affairs : National/International
2. Personalities in News
3. Sports News
4. Current Research in the field of Science.
Unit-2 : Teaching and Research Aptitude :
1. Teaching : Nature, Objectives, Need, Methods Evaluation and Factor Affecting Teaching
2. Research : Meaning and Methods
3. Data : Source, Collection and Analysis
4. Role of UGC in Qualitative Development in Higher Education.
Unit-3 : Information and Communication Technology (ICT) :
1. ICT : Meaning, Advantages and Disadvantages
2. Basics of Internet & E-mailing
3. General Abbreviation and Terminology.
Unit-4 : People and Environment :
1. People & Environment Interaction
2. Environmental Depredation : cause & Solution
3. National and International affairs for better Environment
4. Environmental Control.
Unit-5 : Indian History and Geography :
1. Salient Features of Indian Culture
2. Indian National Movement (1857-1950)
3. Origin of Universe and Solar System
4. Indian Geography (General).
Unit-6 : Indian Constitution and Economy :
1. Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
2. Indian political system : Legislative Executive and Judiciary
3. Election Commission and Public Service Commission
4. Population, Poverty, Unemployment; Planning and Development; Income Tax
5. Agriculture, Industry, Trade; Money, Currency, Banking and Capital Market. 

Part II-Optional Subject :-
Psychology :

UNIT 1: Foundations of Psychology
Historical roots of psychology: Schools of psychology-Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalytic, Behaviouristic, Gestalt.
Approaches to Psychology: Behaviouristic, Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Cognitive, & Humanistic.
Western and Indian Paradigms and Perspectives: Positivism, Post positivism and Social Constructionism; Concept of Self and Personality in the UpaniSads, Sämkhya-Yoga, Bhagavad Gitä, Ayurveda and Buddhism.
Development of Modern Psychology in India: Pre independence and Post independence.
UNIT 2: Research Methodology and Statistics
Research: Meaning, and Purpose; Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed methods Research methodology
Methods of Research: Experimental, Correlational, Observation, Quasi-experimental
Research Problems, Variables, Hypothesis
Sampling: Concept and Types
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]
Correlation and Regression: Correlation [Product Moment, Rank Order], Partial correlation, Multiple Correlation. Special Correlation Methods: Biserial, Point biserial, Tetrachoric, Phi coefficient; Simple Linear Regression,
Multivariate Statistics: Multiple Regression: Assumptions, and interpretation of results. Factor analysis: Assumptions, Methods, Steps, Rotation, and Interpretation.
Experimental Designs: Randomized Group Design: ANOVA [One-way, Factorial], Randomized Block Designs, Repeated Measures Design, Single-subject designs.
Qualitative Research Methods: Theoretical foundations; Grounded theory, Narrative analysis, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Discursive method, Discourse analysis
Ethics in conducting and reporting research
UNIT 3: Psychometrics & Psychological testing
Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory
Approaches of test construction: rationale, empirical and factor analytic.
Test construction: Item writing, Item analysis
Test standardization: Reliability, Validity and Norms
Types of psychological tests
Areas of testing: Intelligence, Aptitude, Creativity, Personality, Interest, Attitude.
Neuropsychological tests and batteries neuropsychological battery) (Luria-Nebraska, AIIMS
Projective techniques: nature and types
Applications of psychological testing in various settings: Clinical, Organizational, Education, Counselling, Military, Career guidance.
UNIT 4: Biological bases of Behaviour, Attention, Perception
Sensory systems: General and specific sensations, receptors and processes;
Neurons: Structure, functions, types, neural impulse, synaptic transmission. Neurotransmitters.
The Central and Peripheral Nervous System: Structure and functions.
Neurophysiological methods: EEG, PET, MRI, & fMRI.
Endocrine system and human behaviour.
Attention: Concept, types of attention (selective, divided, and sustained). Attentional Automaticity, Theories of selective and sustained attention
Approaches to the Study of Perception: Gestalt approach (Figure and Ground, Law of perceptual Organization); Information processing approach to perception (Pattern recognition and its models)
Perception of Form, Depth and Movement
Role of motivation and learning in Perception
Subliminal Perception
Culture and Perception
UNIT 5: Learning, Memory, Forgetting
Fundamental theories of learning: Thorndike, Guthrie, Hull, Tolman
Classical Conditioning: Procedure, phenomen, and related issues
Instrumental learning: Procedure, phenomena, and theoretical issues; Reinforcement and reinforcement schedules.
Cognitive approaches in learning: Latent learning, Observational learning.
Verbal learning and Discrimination learning
Memory processes: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
Types of Memory: Sensory Memory, Short-term Memory (Working memory), Long-term Memory (Declarative - Episodic and Semantic; Procedural).
Models of Memory
Theories of Forgetting: Interference, Retrieval Failure, Decay, Motivated forgetting
Biological bases of Learning and Memory
UNIT 6: Thinking, Intelligence, Creativity
Problem solving: Types of problem, Problem solving strategies (Heuristics and Algorithms), Barriers in problem solving
Language and thought: Language comprehension; Fundamentals aspects and Speech Perception; Semantics and Syntax, Phrase structures; Universal Grammar (Contribution of Chomsky) I
Decision-making: Types and models; Heuristics of Decision Making
Intelligence: Concept; Theories: Spearman, Thurstone, Guilford, Jensen, Cattell.
Gardner, Stenberg, Das, Kar & Parrila
Emotional Intelligence: Concept and Models
Creativity: Concept; Theories: Torrance, Getzels & Jackson, Guilford, Wallach & Kogan
Relationship between Intelligence and Creativity
UNIT 7: Personality, Motivation, Emotion
Personality: Concept; Approaches: Trait and Type; Determinants: Biological and Socio-cultural
Theories of Personality: Psychoanalytical, Neo-Freudian, Social learning, Cognitive, Humanistic, Existential.
Basic motivational concepts: Instincts, Needs, Drives, Arousal, Incentives; Motivational Cycle.
Approaches to the study of motivation: Psychoanalytical, Ethological, S-R, Cognitive, Humanistic
Social motives: Achievement, Affiliation and Power
Motivational Competence and Self-regulation
Biological bases of motivation
Emotions: Concept and components; Physiological correlates
Theories of Emotions: James-Lange, Canon-Bard, Schachter and Singer, Lazarus, Lindsley, Facial-feedback hypothesis of emotion; Emotion regulation
Biological bases of emotions. 
Social nature of Emotion
UNIT 8: Social Psychology
Theoretical perspectives: Field theory, Cognitive, Sociobiological, Psychodynamic,
Evolutionary, Social neuroscience
Social cognition: Schema and Schematic processing
Person perception: Impression formation and its theories
Attribution and its theories.
Attitude: Nature and determinants; Theories of attitude formation and change;
Implicit attitude
Group dynamics and Group Influence Processes (Social Facilitation; Social loafing; Group Think; Deindividuation)
Social Influence Processes: Conformity, Compliance, Obedience
Aggression: Concept and Theories
Intergroup relations: Minimal Group Experiment, Social Identity Theory, Relative Deprivation Theory, Realistic Conflict Theory, Balance Theories, Equity Theory, Social Exchange Theory
Helping Behaviour: Concept, Determinants and theories
Interpersonal Attraction: Determinants and theories
UNIT 9: Life-span Human Development, Abnormal Psychology
Developmental processes: Nature, Principles, Factors in development, Life span and life course perspective, Ecological theory
Stages of Development: Pre-natal, Infancy and early childhood, Adolescence and
Young Adulthood, Late adulthood, Old age
Theories of development: Psychoanalytical, Behaviouristic, and Cognitive
Various aspects of development: Sensory-motor, cognitive, language, emotional, social and moral.
Specific theories of development: Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Vygosky, Kohlberg,
Bandura
Historical and contemporary views of abnormal behaviour
Risk factors and causes of abnormal behaviour
Classification system: DSM-5
Panic, Anxiety, Obsessions and their disorders
Mood disorders and Suicide
Dissociative Disorders
Schizophrenia: Types and Symptoms
UNIT 10: Applications of Psychology
Health Psychology: Bio-psycho-social models of health; Theories of Health Behavior; Stress: Concept and Appraisal; Coping with Stress; Psychological Moderators of Stress; Health promoting and health compromising behaviours, Chronic diseases [Diabetes, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease], Psychoneuroimmunology [Cancer, HIV/AIDS]
Positive Psychology: Assumptions and Goals; Eastern and Western Perspectives on Positive Psychology; Concept of Mindfulness in Buddhism; Happiness: Eudemonics and Hedonistic View; Authentic Happiness; Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing: Concept, and Components; Character Strength
Clinical Psychology: Psychotherapies- Psychoanalytic; Person-cantered; Gestalt; Existential; Behaviour therapy; Cognitive therapy: REBT, CBT, MBCT; Play therapy; Transactional Analysis, Group and Family therapy.
Guidance and Counselling: Needs, organizational set up, and techniques of guidance and counselling; Counselling process and skills.
Organizational Behavior (OB): Historical developments; structural characteristics of organizations; organizational designs; Organizational Attitude: Job Satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Organizational Commitment; Organizational culture; Organizational Change; Meaning and process of organizational communication and communication barriers.

 
UPESSC Assistant Professor (Psychology) Exam Pattern 2026
 
Duration : 120 Minutes
Negative Marking : 01

 
S.No Subject No.of Question Marks
1. General Knowledge 30 90
2. Optional Subject (Psychology) 90 270
  Total 120 360
 
Exam Date 2026 : 19th & 20th November 2026
Starting Date of Application Form : 08th September 2026
Last Date of Application Form : 07th October 2026
Total Post : 72

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