PMS Psychology Past Paper 2026 PDF
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2025
For Recruitment to the Posts of Provincial Management Service (PMS)
SUBJECT: Psychology (Paper-I)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions in all. Attempt in Urdu or English.
Q. No. 1 Define Psychology. Explain briefly different schools of thought of Psychology. How structuralism is different from functionalism? (3+12+5=20 Marks)
Q. No. 2 Define Perceptual Constancy and its types. Discuss different cues (monocular and binocular) in Depth Perception. (10+10=20 Marks)
Q. No. 3 How does a Neutral Stimulus become a Conditioned Stimulus? Explain with examples. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 4 Define the Nervous System. Also explain the role of the parasympathetic nervous system in human behavior. (4+16=20 Marks)
Q. No. 5 Describe Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development and explain the concepts that are mastered in each stage. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 6 Define motivation, and discuss instincts, needs, drives and incentives that explain motivated behavior. (5+15=20 Marks)
Q. No. 7 Discuss briefly the theories of emotions. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 8 Define learning and conditioning? What are the processes involved in classical and operant conditioning? How do these processes influence our everyday learning experiences? (5+10+5=20 Marks)
SUBJECT: Psychology (Paper-II)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions in all. Attempt in Urdu or English.
Q.No.1: Explain stress and elaborate on physiological and psychological reactions to stress.
Q.No.2: Explain the major differences between psychoanalytical theory and social learning theory.
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Q.No.3: According to Carl Rogers, what are the barriers to psychological health? Discuss in detail.
Q.No.4: If an individual suppresses automatic stereotypes, what consequences might he face? Discuss its effect and why it occurs.
Q.No.5: Briefly discuss one of Fromm’s needs, the one that you think fits reality the best. Illustrate how it has been manifested in your own experience.
Q.No.6: What is a confounding variable & how can we control it? What is the difference between confounding and an extraneous variable & how can we control it?
Q.No.7: Provide suggestions for how a clinical psychologist might ethically deal with the current difficulties that the profession is facing.
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Q.No.8: Define “harm” as a potential risk to participants and identify the strategies for determining its level of acceptability within a research project.
