Domain paper 324

CUET Psychology

CUET Psychology (paper 324) follows the seven chapters of the NCERT Class 12 Psychology textbook almost exactly, so the book is your syllabus. Each official unit below lines up with one chapter. Questions reward precise recall of named theorists, stages, classifications and techniques, and they often test them through short cases, match-the-following lists and assertion–reason pairs. The heaviest units are intelligence, personality and psychological disorders, where small distinctions decide the answer. Read each chapter closely, learn the boxed summaries, and practise telling apart look-alike terms.

7 units
50 questions · 60 min
+5 / −1 marking
NCERT Class 12 Psychology
26,345 appeared in 2026

What to study in each unit

Based on the official NTA 2026 syllabus, mapped to NCERT chapters.

Unit	What to study	NCERT
Unit 1: Psychological attributes	Individual differences and methods of psychological assessment (tests, interview, case study, observation, self-report) Theories: Binet, Spearman's g and s, Thurstone's seven primary abilities, Jensen's Level I/II, Guilford's 180-cell structure-of-intellect Gardner's multiple intelligences, Sternberg's triarchic theory and the PASS model of Das, Naglieri and Kirby IQ = MA ÷ CA × 100 and the IQ classification table; intellectual disability and giftedness Culture and intelligence (technological vs integral, buddhi), emotional intelligence (Salovey and Mayer) Aptitude tests (independent vs multiple batteries such as DAT) and creativity g-factor Mental age PASS model Emotional quotient	Ch 1
Unit 2: Self and personality	Personal and social identity, self-esteem, Bandura's self-efficacy, self-regulation and culture and self Type approaches: tridosha and triguna, Sheldon's body types, Jung's introvert/extravert, Friedman and Rosenman's Type-A/B Trait approaches: Allport's cardinal, central and secondary traits, Cattell's 16 source traits, Eysenck's dimensions, the Big Five Freud's levels of consciousness, id-ego-superego and defence mechanisms; post-Freudians (Jung, Horney, Adler, Fromm, Erikson) Behavioural, cultural and humanistic (Rogers, Maslow) approaches Assessment: MMPI, EPQ, 16 PF, projective tests (Rorschach, TAT, sentence completion, draw-a-person) and behavioural analysis Self-efficacy Cardinal traits Reaction formation Projective technique	Ch 2
Unit 3: Life challenges	Eustress and distress; Lazarus's primary and secondary appraisal Physical, environmental, psychological and social stress; frustration, conflict and pressures; life events and daily hassles Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome: alarm reaction, resistance, exhaustion; psychoneuroimmunology Endler and Parker's task-, emotion- and avoidance-oriented coping; relaxation, meditation, biofeedback, creative visualisation Kobasa's hardiness (commitment, control, challenge), life skills, resilience and positive health General Adaptation Syndrome Hardiness Biofeedback	Ch 3
Unit 4: Psychological disorders	The four Ds (deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger); DSM-5 and ICD-10 classification Biological, psychological and sociocultural factors; the diathesis-stress model Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, trauma-related (PTSD), somatic symptom and dissociative disorders Depressive and bipolar disorders; schizophrenia's positive, negative and psychomotor symptoms Neurodevelopmental (ADHD, autism, intellectual disability), disruptive/conduct, eating and substance-related disorders Diathesis-stress model Dissociative fugue Avolition Conversion disorder	Ch 4
Unit 5: Therapeutic approaches	Therapeutic alliance, empathy, unconditional positive regard and confidentiality Behaviour therapy: antecedent and consequent operations, aversive conditioning, token economy, Wolpe's systematic desensitisation, modelling Cognitive therapy: Ellis's rational emotive therapy (ABC analysis), Beck's core schemas; CBT Humanistic-existential: Frankl's logotherapy, Rogers's client-centred therapy, Perls's gestalt therapy Healing factors (catharsis, non-specific factors), ethics, yoga and meditation, and rehabilitation Reciprocal inhibition ABC analysis Logotherapy	Ch 5
Unit 6: Attitude and social cognition	ABC components of attitude and its features: valence, extremeness, simplicity/complexity, centrality Attitude formation through association, reward, modelling, group norms and exposure to information Attitude change: Heider's balance (P-O-X), Festinger's cognitive dissonance, Mohsin's two-step concept Prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination; sources such as scapegoating, kernel of truth and self-fulfilling prophecy Handling prejudice: education, intergroup contact under the right conditions, highlighting individual identity P-O-X triangle Cognitive dissonance Scapegoating	Ch 6
Unit 7: Social influence and groups	Group features and why people join groups; Tuckman's forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning Primary vs secondary, formal vs informal, ingroup vs outgroup; groupthink (Janis) Social loafing: causes and ways to reduce it Group polarisation: new arguments, bandwagon effect and ingroup identification Social loafing Group polarisation Groupthink	Ch 7

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Official reference: NTA CUET UG 2026 Psychology syllabus (paper 324, Psychology) · Checked 4 Nov 2026 · Read the official PDF (opens in a new tab) · Study notes draw on: NTA CUET (UG) 2026 syllabus: Psychology (324) (opens in a new tab), NCERT Class 12 Psychology textbook (rationalised, reprint 2026-27) (opens in a new tab). This is the 2026 syllabus, not a confirmed 2027 syllabus.