Instructions for Q. 71 to 75: Read the following paragraph and answer the five questions that follow : A personality psychologist wanted to factor analyze the important personal ity traits. He selected personality scales of 78 important personality traits, presumed to cover most of the important characteristics. These scales were administered to a sample of eight hundred and fifty respondents. The inter-correlations among the 78 traits were computed and the 78 × 78 correlation matrix was obtained. Retaining unities in the diagonal spaces of the correlation matrix, un-rotated factors were extracted. Cattell's scree plot favoured fifteen factor solutions. The fifteen factors together condensed 72 percent of variance. The first factor condensed 18 percent variance. The 15 factors were rotated and the interfactor correlations were examined. Since some of the inter – factor correlations were substantial, the psychologist decided to carry out the second order factor analysis71. Which one of the following method of factor extraction has been, most likely, employed in the above study?

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The UGC NET Psychology exam (paper 2) will have 100 questions and the total duration will be two hours. Each question carries 2 marks, so the exam will be worth 200 marks.

NTA UGC NET Psychology Syllabus:

1. Perceptual Processes :
2. Learning Process :
3. Memory and forgetting : 
4. Thinking and Problem Solving :
5. Motivation and Emotion : 
6. Human Abilities :
7. Personality :
8. Research Methodology : 
9. Measurement and Testing : 
10. Biological Basis of Behaviour :