PSYCHOLOGY- PAGE 7
Psychology MCQs
1:-Match the following
(a) probaility sample (1) stratum of population drawn non randomly
(b) Non probability sample (2) Area sampling
(c) Cluster sample (3) Simple random sampling
(d) Quota sample (4) Purposive sampling
A: a-2,b-4,c-3,d-1
B: a-4,b-1,c-2,d-3
C: a-3,b-4,c-2,d-1
D: a-3,b-1,c-4,d-2
Ans: C
2:-Read the following
Assertion (A) : Randomising, matching and counterbalancing eliminate extraneous variance
Reason (R) Research design act as a control mechanism which enable the researcher to control unwanted variances
A: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of A
B: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of A
C: (A) is true but (R) is false
D: (A) is false but (R) is true
Ans: A
3:-The fear to presence of crowds and difficulty to escape to a safe place is more likely a symptom of
A: Acrophobia
B: Agoraphobia
C: Social phobia
D: Panic disorder
Ans: B
4:-Which of the following is not a necessary diagnostic criteria for Dementia in Alzheimer's disease with early onset?
A: Rapid progression of symptoms
B: Multiple disorders of higher cortical function
C: Family history of Alzheimer's disease
D: Onset before the age of 65 years
Ans: C
5:-Which of the following is not a symptom of catatonic schizophernia?
A: Hyperkinesis
B: Automatic obedience
C: Negativism
D: Absence of violent excitement
Ans: D
6:-A persistent instability of mood, involving numerous periods of mild depression and mild elation is a symptom of
A: Dysthymia
B: Cyclothymia
C: Bipolar affective disorder
D: Hypomania
Ans: B
7:-The type of conduct disorder characteristically seen in children below age of 9 or 10 years is
A: Antisocial personality disorder
B: Deliquency
C: Oppositional defiant disorder
D: Hyperkinetic disorder
Ans: C
8:-Match the following
(a) Paranoid personality (1) self-dramatization
(b) Schizoid personality (2) perfectionism
(c) Histrionic personality (3) High sensitiveness to setbacks
(d) Anankastic personality (4) Emotional coldness
A: a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
B: a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
C: a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
D: a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
Ans: C
9:-Read the following
Assertion (A) : Pervasive developmental disorder is defined by abnormal functioning in social interaction, communication and restricted, repetitive behaviour
Reason (B) : The disorder manifest after the age of three years and occurs in girls three to four times more often than in boys
A: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of A
B: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of A
C: (A) is true but (R) is false
D: (A) is false but (R) is true
Ans: C
10:-An early method of changing behaviour through unstructured group interaction
A: Sociometry
B: Sensitivity training
C: Process feedback
D: Intergroup development
Ans: B
11:-Read the following
Assertion (A) : 360 degree feedback rely on feedback from co-workers, customers, and subordinates hoping to give every one a sense of participation in the review process and gain
more accurate readings on employee performance but evidence on effectiveness of 360 degree feedback in organisations is mixed
Reason (R) : 360 degree feedback provides employees with a wider perpective on their performance, but many organizations don't spend the time to train evaluators in giving
constructive criticism
A: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of A
B: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of A
C: (A) is true but (R) is false
D: (A) is false but (R) is true
Ans: A
12:-The therapy technique used for dealing with both positively reinforced maladaptive behaviours and also avoidance behaviours
A: Systematic desensitization
B: A version therapy
C: Assertiveness therapy
D: Extinction
Ans: D
13:-Which of the following is not true with regard to Biofeedback technique?
A: Measure involuntary physiological response
B: Use classical conditioning
C: Use operant conditioning
D: Effects easily generalized to outside lab settings
Ans: D
14:-According to Health belief Model belief in health threat does not include
A: General health values
B: Specific beliefs about vulnerability
C: Perceived behavioural control
D: Beliefs about severity of disorder
Ans: C
15:-Highly stressed but healthy professional have a multifaced personality style called hardiness which does not include
A: Commitment
B: Confidence
C: Challenge
D: Control
Ans: B
16:-Match the following
(a) Forensic Psychology (1) Energy management
(b) Environmental psychology (2) Quality of life
(c) Positive psychology (3) Disaster management
(d) sports psychology (4) Brain mapping
A: a-4, b-3, c-2,d-1
B: a-3, b-4, c-1,d-2
C: a-3, b-1, c-4,d-2
D: a-4, b-1, c-2,d-3
Ans: A
17:-According to social identity theory self is organized around which of the following
A: Social identity and work identity
B: Social identity and personal identity
C: Social identity and group identity
D: Social identity and dynamic identity
Ans: B
18:-Which of the following is not true with regard to high social moniters?
A: Blend to social situations
B: Attend to social cues
C: Easily resist persuation
D: Weak relation between attitude and behaviour
Ans: C
19:-Giving people a chance to develop a resistance to persuasion by reminding them that they might someday receive a persuative message, and allowing them to practice
how they will respond to influence attempts is known as
A: Subliminal warning
B: Forewarning
C: Inoculation
D: Psychological reactance
Ans: B
20:-TAT is which type of projective test?
A: Constitutive
B: Interpretative
C: refractive
D: Cathartic
Ans: B
21:-What are the four components of observational learning?
A: Attention, retention, Imitation, reproduction
B: Attention, Motivation, Reproduction,Action
C: Attention,Retention, Reproduction, Motivation
D: Attention, Reproduction, Reprocessing, Motivation
Ans: C
22:-The concept of emotional intelligence was first introduced by whom?
A: Howard Gardner
B: Danial Goleman
C: Antonakis and Roberts
D: Salovey and Mayer
Ans: D
23:-Radha enjoys oil painting. She often spends hours making beautiful paintings. her enjoyment in the task is her own. She does all those for her own happiness and not for
money or approval. We can call this type of motivation as
A: Drive reduction
B: Intrinsic
C: Extrinsic
D: Expectancy
Ans: B
24:-Alcohol abuse over a period can result in brain damage and memory disorder due to Vitamin B deficiency. The medical condition is known as
A: Alcohol withdrawal
B: Psychogenic forgetting
C: Anterograde amnesia
D: Korsakoff's syndrome
Ans: D
25:-Which of the following is not an example of problem-solving methods?
(i) Heuristics
(ii) Algorithms
(iii) Working Backward
(iv) Functional fixedness
(v) Subgoals
A: (iii) only
B: (iii) and (iv) only
C: (iv) only
D: (i) and (v) only
Ans: C
26:-'Aha experience' is commonly associated with which type of learning?
A: Sign learning
B: Latent learning
C: Operant conditioning
D: Insight learning
Ans: D
27:-Choose the TRUE statement
A: g-factor theory was proposed by Thurstone
B: Jerome Bruner's intelligence theory is process oriented
C: Analytic, creative, practical intelligence are the three components in Spearman's Triarchic theory
D: Fluid intelligence and crystalized intelligence was proposed by Gardner
Ans: B
28:-According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory which one of the following relies on primary process?
A: Ego
B: Id
C: Super Ego
D: Ego ideal
Ans: B
29:-What is the method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful?
A: Maintenance rehearsal
B: Elaborative rehearsal
C: Shallow processing
D: Sensory processing
Ans: B
30:-Which of the following statements are TRUE
(i) Learned helplessness was proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(ii) Learned helplessness is the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeat failure in the past
(iii) Concept learned helpless can explain depression
(iv) learned helplessness is due to a higher-level region of brain vmPFC which helps subjects determine what is controllable.
A: (i), (ii), (iii)
B: (ii), (iii), (iv)
C: (i), (iii), (iv)
D: (i), (ii), (iv)
Ans: B
31:-What type of intelligence, according to Howard Gardner would be most likely to be present in psychologists characterized by the ability to understand other and social
interactions?
A: Naturalistic
B: Existentialist
C: Interpersonal
D: Intrapersonal
Ans: C
32:-Name the step involves estimating the resources available to the person for coping with the threat in cognitive mediation theory of Lazarus?
A: Primary Appraisal
B: Secondary Appraisal
C: Tertiary Appraisal
D: Quaternary Appraisal
Ans: B
33:-Who proposed the Frustration-Aggression hypothesis?
A: Mc Clelland
B: Edward B Tolman
C: Sclosberg
D: John Dollard
Ans: D
34:-Select the correct answer
(i) Habituation is the decrease of a behavioural response to a stimulus after repeated stimulation
(ii) Sensitization is an increase in response to mild stimuli as exposure to more intense stimuli
(iii) In pruning unnecessary neural connections in the CNS are discarded
(iv) Long term potentiation appears to be one form of Hebbian learning
A: Only (i), (ii), (iii) are true
B: Only (ii), (iii), (iv) are true
C: Only (i), (iii), (iv) are true
D: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) are true
Ans: D
35:-"I am trembling. therefore, I am afraid". Which theory best explain this statement?
A: Cannon-Bard Theory
B: James-Lange Theory
C: Opponent process Theory
D: Schachter Singer Theory
Ans: B
36:-Item writing should not include which of the following guide lines
A: Use stereo typed words
B: Items must not be too easy
C: Avoid non functional words
D: Avoid interlocking items
Ans: A
37:-Index of difficulty is high for an item indicate
A: Item answered by 90%
B: High discrimination
C: Low discrimination
D: Item answered by 50%
Ans: B
38:-Which of the following is not a characteristic of random errors
A: Inflates score
B: Depress score
C: Work in negative direction
D: Never tend to cancel each other
Ans: D
39:-Every thing with regard to construct validity is true except
A: Complex and difficult
B: Same as factorial validity
C: Established by convergent validation
D: Not established by discriminant validation
Ans: D
(a) probaility sample (1) stratum of population drawn non randomly
(b) Non probability sample (2) Area sampling
(c) Cluster sample (3) Simple random sampling
(d) Quota sample (4) Purposive sampling
A: a-2,b-4,c-3,d-1
B: a-4,b-1,c-2,d-3
C: a-3,b-4,c-2,d-1
D: a-3,b-1,c-4,d-2
Ans: C
2:-Read the following
Assertion (A) : Randomising, matching and counterbalancing eliminate extraneous variance
Reason (R) Research design act as a control mechanism which enable the researcher to control unwanted variances
A: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of A
B: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of A
C: (A) is true but (R) is false
D: (A) is false but (R) is true
Ans: A
3:-The fear to presence of crowds and difficulty to escape to a safe place is more likely a symptom of
A: Acrophobia
B: Agoraphobia
C: Social phobia
D: Panic disorder
Ans: B
4:-Which of the following is not a necessary diagnostic criteria for Dementia in Alzheimer's disease with early onset?
A: Rapid progression of symptoms
B: Multiple disorders of higher cortical function
C: Family history of Alzheimer's disease
D: Onset before the age of 65 years
Ans: C
5:-Which of the following is not a symptom of catatonic schizophernia?
A: Hyperkinesis
B: Automatic obedience
C: Negativism
D: Absence of violent excitement
Ans: D
6:-A persistent instability of mood, involving numerous periods of mild depression and mild elation is a symptom of
A: Dysthymia
B: Cyclothymia
C: Bipolar affective disorder
D: Hypomania
Ans: B
7:-The type of conduct disorder characteristically seen in children below age of 9 or 10 years is
A: Antisocial personality disorder
B: Deliquency
C: Oppositional defiant disorder
D: Hyperkinetic disorder
Ans: C
8:-Match the following
(a) Paranoid personality (1) self-dramatization
(b) Schizoid personality (2) perfectionism
(c) Histrionic personality (3) High sensitiveness to setbacks
(d) Anankastic personality (4) Emotional coldness
A: a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
B: a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
C: a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
D: a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
Ans: C
9:-Read the following
Assertion (A) : Pervasive developmental disorder is defined by abnormal functioning in social interaction, communication and restricted, repetitive behaviour
Reason (B) : The disorder manifest after the age of three years and occurs in girls three to four times more often than in boys
A: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of A
B: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of A
C: (A) is true but (R) is false
D: (A) is false but (R) is true
Ans: C
10:-An early method of changing behaviour through unstructured group interaction
A: Sociometry
B: Sensitivity training
C: Process feedback
D: Intergroup development
Ans: B
11:-Read the following
Assertion (A) : 360 degree feedback rely on feedback from co-workers, customers, and subordinates hoping to give every one a sense of participation in the review process and gain
more accurate readings on employee performance but evidence on effectiveness of 360 degree feedback in organisations is mixed
Reason (R) : 360 degree feedback provides employees with a wider perpective on their performance, but many organizations don't spend the time to train evaluators in giving
constructive criticism
A: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of A
B: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of A
C: (A) is true but (R) is false
D: (A) is false but (R) is true
Ans: A
12:-The therapy technique used for dealing with both positively reinforced maladaptive behaviours and also avoidance behaviours
A: Systematic desensitization
B: A version therapy
C: Assertiveness therapy
D: Extinction
Ans: D
13:-Which of the following is not true with regard to Biofeedback technique?
A: Measure involuntary physiological response
B: Use classical conditioning
C: Use operant conditioning
D: Effects easily generalized to outside lab settings
Ans: D
14:-According to Health belief Model belief in health threat does not include
A: General health values
B: Specific beliefs about vulnerability
C: Perceived behavioural control
D: Beliefs about severity of disorder
Ans: C
15:-Highly stressed but healthy professional have a multifaced personality style called hardiness which does not include
A: Commitment
B: Confidence
C: Challenge
D: Control
Ans: B
16:-Match the following
(a) Forensic Psychology (1) Energy management
(b) Environmental psychology (2) Quality of life
(c) Positive psychology (3) Disaster management
(d) sports psychology (4) Brain mapping
A: a-4, b-3, c-2,d-1
B: a-3, b-4, c-1,d-2
C: a-3, b-1, c-4,d-2
D: a-4, b-1, c-2,d-3
Ans: A
17:-According to social identity theory self is organized around which of the following
A: Social identity and work identity
B: Social identity and personal identity
C: Social identity and group identity
D: Social identity and dynamic identity
Ans: B
18:-Which of the following is not true with regard to high social moniters?
A: Blend to social situations
B: Attend to social cues
C: Easily resist persuation
D: Weak relation between attitude and behaviour
Ans: C
19:-Giving people a chance to develop a resistance to persuasion by reminding them that they might someday receive a persuative message, and allowing them to practice
how they will respond to influence attempts is known as
A: Subliminal warning
B: Forewarning
C: Inoculation
D: Psychological reactance
Ans: B
20:-TAT is which type of projective test?
A: Constitutive
B: Interpretative
C: refractive
D: Cathartic
Ans: B
21:-What are the four components of observational learning?
A: Attention, retention, Imitation, reproduction
B: Attention, Motivation, Reproduction,Action
C: Attention,Retention, Reproduction, Motivation
D: Attention, Reproduction, Reprocessing, Motivation
Ans: C
22:-The concept of emotional intelligence was first introduced by whom?
A: Howard Gardner
B: Danial Goleman
C: Antonakis and Roberts
D: Salovey and Mayer
Ans: D
23:-Radha enjoys oil painting. She often spends hours making beautiful paintings. her enjoyment in the task is her own. She does all those for her own happiness and not for
money or approval. We can call this type of motivation as
A: Drive reduction
B: Intrinsic
C: Extrinsic
D: Expectancy
Ans: B
24:-Alcohol abuse over a period can result in brain damage and memory disorder due to Vitamin B deficiency. The medical condition is known as
A: Alcohol withdrawal
B: Psychogenic forgetting
C: Anterograde amnesia
D: Korsakoff's syndrome
Ans: D
25:-Which of the following is not an example of problem-solving methods?
(i) Heuristics
(ii) Algorithms
(iii) Working Backward
(iv) Functional fixedness
(v) Subgoals
A: (iii) only
B: (iii) and (iv) only
C: (iv) only
D: (i) and (v) only
Ans: C
26:-'Aha experience' is commonly associated with which type of learning?
A: Sign learning
B: Latent learning
C: Operant conditioning
D: Insight learning
Ans: D
27:-Choose the TRUE statement
A: g-factor theory was proposed by Thurstone
B: Jerome Bruner's intelligence theory is process oriented
C: Analytic, creative, practical intelligence are the three components in Spearman's Triarchic theory
D: Fluid intelligence and crystalized intelligence was proposed by Gardner
Ans: B
28:-According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory which one of the following relies on primary process?
A: Ego
B: Id
C: Super Ego
D: Ego ideal
Ans: B
29:-What is the method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful?
A: Maintenance rehearsal
B: Elaborative rehearsal
C: Shallow processing
D: Sensory processing
Ans: B
30:-Which of the following statements are TRUE
(i) Learned helplessness was proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(ii) Learned helplessness is the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeat failure in the past
(iii) Concept learned helpless can explain depression
(iv) learned helplessness is due to a higher-level region of brain vmPFC which helps subjects determine what is controllable.
A: (i), (ii), (iii)
B: (ii), (iii), (iv)
C: (i), (iii), (iv)
D: (i), (ii), (iv)
Ans: B
31:-What type of intelligence, according to Howard Gardner would be most likely to be present in psychologists characterized by the ability to understand other and social
interactions?
A: Naturalistic
B: Existentialist
C: Interpersonal
D: Intrapersonal
Ans: C
32:-Name the step involves estimating the resources available to the person for coping with the threat in cognitive mediation theory of Lazarus?
A: Primary Appraisal
B: Secondary Appraisal
C: Tertiary Appraisal
D: Quaternary Appraisal
Ans: B
33:-Who proposed the Frustration-Aggression hypothesis?
A: Mc Clelland
B: Edward B Tolman
C: Sclosberg
D: John Dollard
Ans: D
34:-Select the correct answer
(i) Habituation is the decrease of a behavioural response to a stimulus after repeated stimulation
(ii) Sensitization is an increase in response to mild stimuli as exposure to more intense stimuli
(iii) In pruning unnecessary neural connections in the CNS are discarded
(iv) Long term potentiation appears to be one form of Hebbian learning
A: Only (i), (ii), (iii) are true
B: Only (ii), (iii), (iv) are true
C: Only (i), (iii), (iv) are true
D: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) are true
Ans: D
35:-"I am trembling. therefore, I am afraid". Which theory best explain this statement?
A: Cannon-Bard Theory
B: James-Lange Theory
C: Opponent process Theory
D: Schachter Singer Theory
Ans: B
36:-Item writing should not include which of the following guide lines
A: Use stereo typed words
B: Items must not be too easy
C: Avoid non functional words
D: Avoid interlocking items
Ans: A
37:-Index of difficulty is high for an item indicate
A: Item answered by 90%
B: High discrimination
C: Low discrimination
D: Item answered by 50%
Ans: B
38:-Which of the following is not a characteristic of random errors
A: Inflates score
B: Depress score
C: Work in negative direction
D: Never tend to cancel each other
Ans: D
39:-Every thing with regard to construct validity is true except
A: Complex and difficult
B: Same as factorial validity
C: Established by convergent validation
D: Not established by discriminant validation
Ans: D