Instructions for Questions 71 to 75 : Read the following paragraph and answer the five questions which follow : Scaling in psychology can be classified into two categories – psychophysical scaling and psychological scaling. Although psychological scaling had its origin in Fechner's method of first choices and the work on colour preference, the major work in psychological scaling began in 1920's in the context of attitude measurement. Bogardus Social Distance Scale (1925) is one of such first attempts. A major breakthrough in attitude scaling occurred when Thurstone developed his Law of Comparative Judgement (LCJ) and also proposed the three scaling methods-paired comparison, equal appearing intervals, and successive intervals. In the paired comparison, every statement/stimulus is paired with every other statement/stimulus. The computational methods of paired comparison are most extensively developed, some of them using Thurstone's LCJ directly for this purpose. Such pairing of statements/stimuli is not involved in methods of Equal Appearing Intervals (EAI) and Successive Intervals (SI). Moreover, the distributions of the categories, assigned by the judges to each attitude statement in EAI and SI need not be normal; in fact the distributions for several statements are skewed. This situation requires some computational precautions. Moreover, the method of successive intervals was computationally quite laborious in precomputer era and hence it was not so popular. In the classical scaling tradition Guttmann developed the scalogram technique and Edwards developed the scale discrimination technique. Likert's development of summated ratings represent an important landmark in attitude measurement. It follows the traditional psychometric model. Aiken and Groth-Marnatt (2009) concluded that other scaling techniques, less frequently used for attitude measurement, include Osgood's semantic differential, Q-sort, expectancy value rating, magnitude estimation, multidimensional scaling etc.71. The scale values of the attitude statements, obtained by analyzing paired comparison data following Thurstone's LCJ, would yield

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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 :