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Humanities are abstract subjects — that means that sometimes, the written text has dimensions and meanings beyond what you can see. So you have to extrapolate them to the life and culture around you and then with that knowledge, find out the solutions to contemporary problems. Here is the point where the understanding of Psychology differs from person to person.

This is not science — where everything is objective — here, even the fundamental dimension of looking at something can differ between people.

These differences are what we put on paper. Asking for a booklist is pretty much redundant therefore, because for the same books, the level of imagination and use of local contexts is going to make all the difference.

When you read this book, make sure that you learn not only the content, but also how he has converted the content into flowcharts so beautifully. You must learn this ability, given that the paper is lengthy.

Develop an ability to write a lot in less time — picturing your thoughts in a flowchart helps. But, ultimately, you are your saviour.

Teachers can push you, facilitate you and guide you but you need to walk on the path yourself and feel the pain in your feet. Nobody will ever feel that pain for you.

But you also get to see beautiful sights on the path, and then, that path becomes truly and only yours. This is only and only your journey, and that is scary in a way, but exciting in another. Choose to look at the exciting, always. The colour of your goggles makes all the difference! Reach me at theupscexam gmail. Please ask me a specific query and give me a while to answer it. Thank you. I will also be writing articles at inklingsofaspecialcommonwoman. Please stay connected there. My best wishes to everyone who takes up this wonderful subject.

Allow it to make you a better person. However, I am sharing my notes and a few Psychology books here. Hopefully, they will help to get an idea about things in general. Please feel free to ask me — should you have any more doubts. So how does Psychology help? Psychology — in the simplest manner — will help you make sense of so many portions of Ethics paper. Because Ethics is an abstract paper, Psychology fine tunes your abstract understanding and takes away the fear of writing answers in that paper.

For example — last year in GS4, there was a question on Swachh Bharat that I could answer with a flowchart only because of my reading of Applied Psychology. Psychology helps to provide a perspective on the social life around us as well as globally.

So many times, I could have a better perspective of the exam because I understood Motivation, Emotions and even practical things like Memory in a more nuanced way. But, largest of all, why Psychology fascinated me most was because the only medium between an institution and the people it reaches are the people who operate those institutions.

How cool would it be to know how their minds work! It is something on which the world rests, if you think about it. Imagine solving crimes with graffiti! A popular experiment in Psychology.

How to study Psychology? But Dr Bloom is a very engaging teacher, and you will definitely learn a thing or two about how to understand things from him. Open course by MIT university — Not as engaging as the first, but illustrations and everything that is deleted is added by a separate link. I would, however, advise that you watch this once you are done with one reading of Psychology, at least paper 1. Since this is not too much in depth, this will help you consolidate important topics.

Use these contexts to give an indigenous touch to your answers. Textbook of Psychology Indian adaptation by Robert Baron — This was my primary textbook and I made notes out of this too.

Revised it multiple times. For concepts that I could not understand, I used to read from internet, or watch a video. Textbook of Psychology by Morgan and King — Added up some topics from here. Eg, the chapter on Attitude is given very nicely in this book. Social Psychology textbook by Baron and Branscombe — Thin, little book. Simultaneously kept referring previous year questions. Here is a sample page from my notes:. I enriched my notes from NCERT stuff — Adding topics that were not covered earlier in Baron, some extra topics, India specific examples, some flowcharts etc.

October — Opened Mukul Pathaks notes — did not find them useful — Did not read more than 15 — 20 random pages — Made no addition to my notes and never referred Mukul Pathak again. All the topics can be easily prepared from the standard books. Wrote few mock answers — just to revise and do some answer writing practice. November — Made notes from Smarak Swain — For paper 2. I think this one book is enough for paper 2. I could not complete it — As got caught up with other urgent issues that needed my attention.

December — Rumor mills of pattern change. Stopped my psychology preparation and revised whatever I had prepared notes — I had plans to cover Atkinson and Hilgard in the month of Feb — Once the notification for CSE gets published. Atkinson is a good book for quoting relevant experiments and researches. Pattern changed — My tryst with psychology also came to an end.

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