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Education Question Bank

358 MCQs on
"Psychological
Foundations of
Education" Part 4
by Deepti Verma
358 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers on Psychological
Foundations of Education for Education Students Part 4:
301. The primary aim of educational psychology is
(a) To contribute to an understanding of sound educational practices.
(b) To provide the teacher with a greater appreciation of his role in the education
of the child.
(c) To provide the academic background essential for effective teaching.
(d) To provide a theoretical framework for educational research.
302. According to Psychology, all education is
(a) Deliberate.
(b) Functional.
(c) Purposive.
(d) Self -education.
303. The best definition of Educational Psychology is a study of teaching
and learning has been given by

(a) W. Kolesnik.
(b) James Ross.
(c) Charles E. Skinner.
(d) N.L. Munn.
304. Who said this, The boundaries of Educational Psychology are
unlimited and changing?
(a) William James
(b) Gates
(c) Hurlock
(d) None of these.
305. General Psychology and Educational Psychology are dissimilar, in that
educational psychology
(a) Is concerned with the child and not with the adult.
(b) Is concerned with the various aspects of learning.
(c) Deals only with the applications and not with the theory.
(d) Selects and emphasise certain data from general field.
306. The major contribution educational psychology might be expected to
make towards modern education lies in area of
(a) A clarification of the goals of modern education.
(b) A re-evaluation of the principles of progressivism.
(c) A reconsideration of educational experiences from the stand point of their
contribution to pupil growth.

(d) A refinement of the research techniques through which educational problems


might be solved.
307. Educational Psychology is branch of Psychology. Psychology is a
science. Who is the father of experimental Psychology?
(a) Boring
(b) Hull
(c) Wundt
(d) Tolman.
308. Where was first Experimental psychology Laboratory set up?
(a) Berlin
(b) Boston
(c) Frankfurt
(d) Leipzig.
309. Which method has made educational psychology a science?
(a) Observation method
(b) Clinical method
(c) Survey method
(d) Experimental method.
310. The oldest method in psychology is
(a) Introspection.
(b) Observation,
(c) Case study.

(d) Clinical method.


311. Introspection as a method stands rejected by
(a) Functional school.
(b) Behaviourists.
(c) Psychoanalysts.
(d) Gesralt.
312. Name the method which deals with only one person at a time and
promotes his adjustment
(a) Case study.
(b) Questionnaire.
(c) Clinical method.
(d) Experimental method.
313. Educational psychology is concerned with
(a) The learner.
(b) The learning process.
(c) The learning situation.
(d) All of these.
314. Some authors classify methods of educational psychology as
(a) Distal method.
(b) Proximal method.
(c) A and b are true.

(d) Neither a nor b are true.


315. The content of educational psychology includes
(a) Special items concerning teaching and learning.
(b) Wide ranging items concerning human motivation and learning.
(c) Special items concerning processes of education in particular.
(d) None of these.
316. Which of the following is not a function of educational psychology?
(a) To discover techniques by means of which educational goals can be attained
effectively
(b) To define the goals for which education is to strive
(c) To promote a greater understanding of the learning process
(d) To promote a greater understanding of the learner.
317. Which of the following is primary concern to educational
psychologist?
(a) The formulation of hypothesis
(b) The discovery of practical solutions to educational problems
(c) The development of professional insights into the principles underlying the
teaching art
(d) The discovery of teaching procedures of maximum effectiveness.
318. Educational psychology should provide prospective teachers with
(a) Insight into the various aspects of modern education.
(b) Principles, insights and attitudes as points of departure for effective teaching.

(c) Research procedures by means of which to evaluate correct teaching


procedures.
(d) Validate procedures to use in their teachings.
319. The primary task of the teacher is
(a) To teach the prescribed curriculum.
(b) To stimulate and guide student learning.
(c) To promote habits of conformity to adults demands and expectations.
(d) To provide diagnostic and remedial aid wherever indicated.
320. Which of the following teacher traits and procedures is most often
given by children as the reasons for not liking the teacher?
(a) Irritable and bad temperament
(b) Ignorance of the subject matter
(c) Unfairness and favouritism.
(d) Unreasonable demands on the children.
321. In an experiment there are variables. Variable is
(a) Independent.
(b) Dependent,
(c) Organismic.
(d) All of these.
322. In an experiment, there is only one independent variable
(a) True
(b) False

(c) Neither True nor False.


323. The first step in conducting an experiment is
(a) To collect data.
(b) To setup a laboratory.
(c) To formulate a hypothesis.
(d) To interpret data.
324. The first book of .psychology was written by
(a) Kohler.
(b) Wrlliam James,(c) Clark Hull.
(d) Plato.
325. The first book on Psychology titled Principal Psychology was
published in
(a) 1879.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1905.
326. An emotionally person is one who
(a) Does not express his emotions.
(b) Is boastful.
(c) Has lack of patience.
(d) Has proper emotion at proper time and expresses it in proper quantity in a
proper way.

327. Which of the following is the most important factor underlying the
success of beginning teacher?
(a) His personality and ability to relate to the class
(b) His attitudes and outlook on life
(c) His verbal facility and organizational ability
(d) His scholarship and intellectual ability.
328. The greatest single cause of failure in beginning teachers lies in the
area of
(a) General culture.
(b) General scholarship.
(c) Subject matter background.
(d) Inter-personal relations.
329. Which of the following is most likely to be characterized the ineffective teacher?
(a) Emphasis upon standards
(b) Emphasis upon pupil discussion in the clarification of group goals
(c) Emphasis upon the control of the immediate situation
(d) Refusal to help children until they have helped themselves.
330. The teachers major contribution towards the maximum self realization
of the child is best effected through
(a) Constant fulfillment of the childs needs.
(b) Strict control of class-room activities.

(c) Sensitivity pupil needs goals and purposes.


(d) Strict reinforcement of academic standards.
331. The field of education is permeated by conflicts and misconceptions
largely because
(a) The problems encountered in teaching call for subjectivity of interpretation.
(b) There are no best teaching methods and procedures.
(c) The problem encountered in teaching are not amenable to rigorous scientific
investigation.
(d) Education has first to be practical and only secondarily to be scientific.
332. Which method of research contributes most to the advancement of
educational psychology as a science?
(a) Clinical method
(b) Experimental method
(c) Historical method
(d) Survey method.
333. The basic characteristic of the experimental method in education is
(a) Its isolation from the influence of one after the other factors inherent in total
situation.
(b) Its centre of relevant extraneous factors.
(c) Its complete analysis.
(d) The applicability of its outcome to relatively unlimited population.
334. Experimental method has many designs such as

(a) Single group.


(b) Control group,
(c) Rotation group,
(d) All of these.
335. The basic foundations of physical, mental and personality
development are laid in the period of
(a) Adulthood.
(b) Adolescence,
(c) Childhood.
(d) Infancy.
336. The span of years during which boys and girls move from childhood to
adulthood mentally, emotionally, socially and physically is called
(a) Late Childhood,
(b) Infancy,
(c) Adolescence.
(d) Adult years.
337. Which is Why age?
(a) Early childhood
(b) Late childhood
(c) Puberty
(d) Late adolescence.

338. Later childhood is also known as


(a) Age of curiosity.
(b) Spontaneous age.
(c) Age of mental development.
(d) Gang age.
339. Can we predict development?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Dont knows.
340. The real carriers of heredity are
(a) The chromosomes.
(b) The genes.
(c) The nucleus of the cell.
(d) The X and Y chromosomes.
341. Human development is determined
(a) Almost solely by the genetic makeup of the individual.
(b) Turning by individual resources over which the individual has no control.
(c) By a complex of inherited and environmental force.
(d) The factors vary from individual to individual.
342. Which of the following alternatives describes infant behaviour?
(a) Differentiated

(b) Undifferentiated or generalised


(c) Innate
(d) Specialized.
343. Changes in behaviour remit from
(a) Learning alone.
(b) Maturation alone.
(c) Learning and maturation, both in important amounts.
(d) Maturation primarily.
344. Which of the following aspects of individuals development is most
clearly defined by heredity?
(a) The direction
(b) The limits
(c) The level
(d) The rate.
345. Which of the following is not characteristic of maturation?
(a) Directional tendencies
(b) Uniformity of sequence
(c) Increasing specificity of behaviour
(d) Uniformity in rate.
346. In which of the following areas are sex differences around age 11
greatest?
(a) Physical strength

(b) Fine muscular co-ordination


(c) Personality development
(d) Height and weight.
347. The concept of readiness of the learner is one of the fundamental
importances to the teachers of
(a) K.G Class primarily.
(b) Grade I.
(c) Any new activity.
(d) Children with academic difficulties.
348. An emotion is best defined as
(a) Individuals response to situation.
(b) A reaction to emotional stimuli,
(c) An excited state arising in response to a stimuli for which the individual has no
adequate ready-made reactions,
(d) The display of excessive behaviour as a result of intense stimuli.
349. Emotional experiences are
(a) Objective.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Impersonal.
(d) Not Known.
350. Emotions rise abruptly but die
(a) Suddenly

(b) Slowly,
(c) Quickly
(d) Never
351. Which is the Master emotion?
(a) Happiness
(b) Worry
(c) Fear
(d) Anger
352. If a child is afraid of school, he becomes
(a) Punctual.
(b) Regular.
(c) Obedient.
(d) Truant.
353. Which is the age in which a child laughs less and smiles more i.e. he
has learnt to control his emotions?
(a) Babyhood
(b) Early Childhood
(c) Later Childhood
(d) Adolescence.
354. Moods are formed during
(a) Infancy.

(b) Adolescence,
(c) Adulthood.
(d) Childhood.
355. The period of heightened emotionality, elation and depression,
formulation of moods and sentiments is known as
(a) Old age.
(b) Early childhood,
(c) Babyhood.
(d) Adolescence.
356. The overprotected child will tend to display
(a) Aggressiveness.
(b) Defensiveness.
(c) Immaturity.
(d) Negativisim.
357. A teacher confronted with frequent emotional outbursts on the part of
pupil should
(a) Consider the suitability of demands made upon them.
(b) Allow them to release tensions in this way.
(c) Let them express this outside the class.
(d) None of these.
358. Emotions are the backbone of all development. Do you agree?
(a) Yes

(b) No
(c) Cant say
(d) Not sure.

Answers
301. (a) 302. (d) 303. (c) 304. (b) 305. (d) 306. (d) 307. (c) 308. (d) 309. (d) 310.
(a) 311.(b) 312. (c) 313. (d) 314. (c) 315. (b) 316. (b) 317. (d) 318. (a) 319. (b)
320. (a)321. (d) 322. (a) 323. (c) 324. (b) 325. (b) 326. (d) 327. (a) 328. (d) 329.
(c) 330. (c) 331. (c) 332. (b) 333. (d) 334. (d) 335. (c) 336. (c) 337. (a) 338. (d)
339. (a) 340. (b) 341. (c) 342. (b) 343. (c) 344. (b) 345. (c) 346. (b) 347. (c) 348.
(c) 349. (b) 350. (b) 351. (c) 352. (d) 353. (c) 354. (b) 355. (d) 356. (a) 357. (a)
358. (a)

Psychology Question
Bank 556 MCQs on
"Behaviour" Part 5
by Raghavendra Prasad
556 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers on Behaviour for
Psychology Students Part 5:
401. Forgetting selective type of events or incidents in dissociative
reactions is known as:
(a) Localized Amnesia
(b) Fugue

(c) Systematized Amnesia


(d) Somnabulism
(e) Conversion Hysteria
402. When a hysteric patient suddenly becomes aware of his loss of
memory, he is supposed to suffer from:
(a) Fugue
(b) Somnabulism
(c) Localized Amnesia
(d) Conversion Hysteria
(e) Phobia
403. When a patient forgets each successive event as it occurs, he is
supposed to suffer from:
(a) Systematized Amnesia
(b) Localized Amnesia
(c) Conversion Hysteria
(d) Continuous Amnesia
(e) Somnabulism
404. When dissociative reactions involve repression, it takes place in:
(a) Unconscious level
(b) Conscious level
(c) Subconscious level

(d) Both in Conscious and Unconscious level


405. Kanzer reported a case where a married woman asked the policeman
to take her home as she could not say who she was. But application of
hypnosis and sedative drugs revealed her marital unhappiness and love for
another man. In her unconscious level, she wanted to forget home in which
she was living as it was very unpleasant to her. This is a case of:
(a) Fugue
(b) Amnesia
(c) Somnabulism
(d) Multiple Personality
(e) Dual Personality
406. The example of Sally, the saint, the woman and the devil illustrated by
Morton Prince reveal the case of:
(a) Amnesia
(b) Multiple Personality
(c) Dual personality
(d) Fugue
(e) None of the above
407. The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide reveals the case of:
(a) Dual Personality
(b) Somnabulism
(c) Multiple Personality

(d) Fugue
(e) None of the above
408. Who viewed that multiple personality may develop as an escape from
the monotony, strains, drudgery and responsibilities of life?
(a) Goddard
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) C.G. Jung
(d) G. W. Allport
(e) None of the above
409. In which type of hysteric reactions a physical incapacity appears
without any physical basis?
(a) Fugue
(b) Conversion Hysteria
(c) Amnesia
(d) Dissociative Hysteria
(e) None of the above
410. Conversion reactions are generally found among:
(a) Adolescents and young adults
(b) Old men and women
(c) Children
(d) Men

(e) None of the above


411. The most primary diagnostic signs of hysterical neurosis is :
(a) Hyposthenia
(b) Anaesthesia
(c) Paresthesia
(d) Hypersthenia
(e) None of the above
412. The most prominent symptom which was found in many soldiers
during second world war was:
(a) Tactual Anaesthesia
(b) Hyposthenia
(c) Paresthesia
(d) Aphonia
(e) Amnesia
413. When a hysteric patient cannot write but can use the same muscles for
knitting or playing musical instrument, it is popularly known as:
(a) Writers Cramp
(b) Hyposthenia
(c) Analgesia
(d) Amnesia
414. The inability to stand and walk is known as:
(a) Hysterical fits

(b) Hyposthenia
(c) Astasia-abasia
(d) Amnesia
(e) None of the above
415. A forty year old woman felt badly treated and neglected by her
husband. This has been particularly aggravated following the separation of
two grown up children from home. After a number of quarrels and agree
scenes with her husband, she suddenly developed disturbance in speech
which is known as:
(a) Amnesia
(b) Aphonia
(c) Anaesthesia
(d) Astasia-abasia
(e) Hypersthenia
416. Hysterical fits and convulsions always take place:
(a) In the presence of other people
(b) In the absence of other people
(c) At anytime and in any place
(d) Particularly when the patient is in home
(e) None of the above
417. Pseudo Cyesis or Phantom pregnancy is a common example of:
(a) Autonomic Conversion

(b) Dissociative Reaction


(c) Tremers
(d) Tics
(e) None of the above
418. In conversion reaction, vomiting signifies:
(a) Regression
(b) Projection
(c) Repressed Disgust
(d) Identification
(e) Displacement
419. Anrexia Nervosa where the dysfunction occurs in eating behaviour is a
symptom of:
(a) Autonomic Conversion
(b) Dissociative Reaction
(c) Amnesia
(d) Phobia
(e) None of the above
420. The vascomotor disturbances of hysterically paralysed limbs are
otherwise known as:
(a) Tropic Symptoms
(b) Annexia Nervosa

(c) Astasia-abasia
(d) Amnesia
(e) Paresthesia
421. Who has emphasized on the role of emotion in the causation of
hysteria?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Dejerine
(c) Janet
(d) G. W. Allport
(e) Alfred Adler
422. Hysterical symptoms are memory traces of sexual traumata the
hysteric suffers from reminiscences Who believed in the above fact?
(a) Janet
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) C.G. Jung
(d) Alfred Adler
(e) G. W. Allport
423. Who held that hysteria is a malady of the synthesis of personality?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Janet
(c) G. W. Allport

(d) Alfred Adler


(e) C. G Jung
424. In conversion hysteria, the repressed wishes are converted into a
symptom in such a way that:
(a) Unconscious conflict is avoided or reduced
(b) Conscious conflict is avoided or reduced
(c) Subconscious conflict is avoided or reduced
(d) Anxiety and tension are reduced
(e) None of the above
425. It is true that a hysteric patient gains sympathy from the family
members and friends and he does not have to face the real life situation
and solve varied problems of life. Thus, this helps in:
(a) The escape from reality
(b) Inviting conflicts
(c) Developing personality problems
(d) Developing secondary personality
(e) None of the above
426. Amnesia can be cured by:
(a) Chemotherapy
(b) Hypnosis
(c) Methodological questioning
(d) Behaviour therapy

(e) None of above


427. A personality disorder characterised by immaturity, self-dramatisation,
seductiveness and attention seeking is popularly known as:
(a) Histrionic personality disorder
(b) Schizophrenia
(c) Manic-depressive Psychosis
(d) Phobia
(e) Anxiety Neurosis
428. A persons desire to be in other persons company is called:
(a) Extroversion
(b) Affiliation
(c) Socialization
(d) Introversion
(e) None of the above
429. The concept of Adaptation Syndrome was introduced by the Canadian
physiologist:
(a) Hans Selye in 1936
(b) Sigmund Freud in 1910
(c) Alfred Adler in 1907
(d) C. G. Jung in 1906
(e) None of the above

430. Automatic repetition of another persons words is known as:


(a) Ecopraxia
(b) Echolalia
(c) Homeostasis
(d) Aphonia
(e) Phobia
431. The theory that behaviour is aimed at attainment of pleasure and
avoidance of pain is known as:
(a) Field theory
(b) Psychoanalytic theory
(c) Hedonism
(d) Hallo Effect
(e) None of the above
432. A general impression about the way a persons actions and personal
qualities are perceived under shortage of information about that person is
called:
(a) Hallo Effect
(b) Hedonism
(c) Hallucination
(d) Habituation
(e) None of the above
433. Inability to walk due to impairment in motor coordination is known as:

(a) Abasia
(b) Amnesia
(c) Phobia
(d) Aphonia
(e) None of the above
434. The discharge of tension by words, feelings and action as a traumatic
experience is called:
(a) Absorption
(b) Abreaction
(c) Abasia
(d) Amnesia
(e) None of the above
435. The state of preoccupation or high degree of attention to one object or
activity is called:
(a) Astasia-Abasia
(b) Amnesia
(c) Absorption
(d) Abreaction
(e) None of the above
436. The trend in psychoanalysis that developed in response to orthodox
Freudianism is popularly known as:
(a) Military Psychology

(b) Individual Psychology


(c) Analytical Psychology
(d) Ego Psychology
(e) None of the above
437. Comprehension of the emotional states of another person through
common emotional experience is called:
(a) Empathy
(b) Trauma
(c) Egocentrism
(c) Egoism
(e) Eidetism
438. The doctrine according to which psyche plays no active role in the life
and activity of man is known as:
(a) Epiphenomenalism
(b) Equilibrium
(c) Individualism
(d) Behaviourism
(e) Collectivism
439. The state of complacency and unconcern that runs counter to
objective circumstances and is found to involve mimic and general
locomotor animation is popularly known as :
(a) Euphoria

(b) Excitation
(c) Ethology
(d) Epiphenomenalism
(e) Ergonomics
440. The method suggested by Ludwig Bins- wanger for analysing
personality in the totality and uniqueness of his/her existence is called:
(a) Field Research
(b) Existential analysis
(c) Forensic Psychology
(d) Freudo-Marxism
(e) None of the above
441. The psychological state arising because of some real or imaginary
obstacle to achieve a goal is called:
(a) Frustration
(b) Anxiety
(c) Conflict
(d) Emotional Strain
(e) None of the above
442. A trend which studies consciousness processes from the view point of
their functions in adapting the body to the environment is known as:
(a) Analytical Psychology
(b) Individual Psychology

(c) Functional Psychology


(d) Gestalt Psychology
(e) None of the above
443. The highest level of development of mans abilities, both of general
(intellectual) and specified ones is called:
(a) Genotype
(b) Geniality
(c) Creativity
(d) Intelligence
(e) Capacity
444. The sumtotal of all the genes localized in the chromosomes of a given
organism is called:
(a) Creativity
(b) Heredity
(c) Endocrinology
(d) Geotype
(e) None of the above
445. The realised image of an anticipated result to whose achievement
human action is directed is called:
(a) Motive
(b) Goal
(c) Drive

(d) Need
(e) None of the above
446. The process due to which the subject is individually represented in the
life of other people and can come out in social life as a personality is
known as:
(a) Personalisation
(b) Socialization
(c) Affiliation
(d) Gregariousness
(e) None of the above
447. The act of ascribing human properties of animals, plants, abstract
concepts, intimate objects and natural phenomena is known as:
(a) Personification
(b) Personality orientation
(c) Persuability
(d) Personalization
(e) None of the above
448. The psychological defence whereby one individual unconsciously
ascribes to another persons motivations, features and properties inherent
in his own personality is popularly known as:
(a) Projection
(b) Personification

(c) Identification
(d) Reaction Formation
(e) Psychodrama
449. The selective disposition of an individual towards a given activity and
inducing him to engage in that activity is otherwise called:
(a) Propensity
(b) Psychogenetics
(c) Psychobiography
(d) Psychodiagnosis
(e) Psychic state
450. A form of group psychotherapy in which patients take turns as actors
and spectators is popularly known as:
(a) Psychodrama
(b) Chemotherapy
(c) Psychoprophylaxis
(d) Psycholinguistics
(e) Psychogenics
451. In early days, Hysteria was believed as a disease of the:
(a) Brain
(b) Hand
(c) Womb

(d) Spinal Cord


(e) None of the above
452. Hysteria may be regarded as:
(a) Speech Disorder
(b) Brain Disorder
(c) Personality Disorder
(d) Endocrine Disorder
(e) None of the above
453. Which neurotic disorder may be compared with a sewing machine
which has gone out of order needing just cleaning and not like a machine
which has broken and cannot be put into order by cleaning?
(a) Hysteria
(b) Manic Depressive Psychosis
(c) Phobia
(d) Anxiety Neurosis
(e) None of the above
454. The neurotic syndrome that comprises conversion reactions and
dissociative reactions is known as:
(a) Manic Depressive Psychosis
(b) Schozophrenia
(c) Hysteria
(d) Phobia

(e) None of the above


455. The type of Neurosis characterised by involuntary psychogenic of
motor or sensory function is called:
(a) Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis
(b) Phobia
(c) Anxiety Neurosis
(d) Hysterical Neurosis
(e) None of the above
456. A mild degree of excessive elaton is called:
(a) Hypoergasia
(b) Hypoesthesia
(c) Hypoanalysis
(d) Hypomania
(e) Hypothesis
457. Decreased sensitivity to stimuli is known as:
(a) Hypnotherapy
(b) Hypnophobia
(c) Hypoesthesia
(d) Hypochondria
(e) Hypomania

458. Use of hypnosis in psychoanalytic therapy to facilitate uncovering of


unconscious material is known as:
(a) Hypnophobia
(b) Hypoanalysis
(c) Hypochondira
(d) Hypomania
(e) Hypovolenia
459. Sleep learning is otherwise known as:
(a) Hypochondria
(b) Hypoesthesia
(c) Hypnopaedia
(d) Hypomania
(e) Hypovolemia
460. Temporary state of consciousness characterised by sharp decrease of
its span and concentration on the content of suggestion is known as:
(a) Hypothesis
(b) Hypnosis
(c) Hyperfunction
(d) Hypomania
(e) None of the above
461. Treatment of illness by hypotism is called:
(a) Psychotherapy

(b) Hypotherapy
(c) Physiotherapy
(d) Chemotherapy
(e) None of the above
462. Excessive motor restlessness is otherwise known as :
(a) Hypomania
(b) Hypnosis
(c) Hypoxia
(d) Hyperkinesis
(e) None of the above
463. Unusual and pathological sharpening of memorising, retention and
recall is called:
(a) Hyperamnesia
(b) Hypomania
(c) Hypoxia
(d) Hypnosis
(e) None of the above
464. The dram like state of highetened suggestibility induced in a subject
by a hypnosist is called:
(a) Hypertonic
(b) Hypoxia

(c) Hypnotic Trance


(d) Hypomania
(e) None of the above
465. A condition of over activity in children is known as:
(a) Hypomania
(b) Hypoxia
(c) Hyperkinesis
(d) Hysteria
(e) None of the above
466. Fear of sleep is otherwise known as:
(a) Zoophobia
(b) Hypnobhobia
(c) Hypomania
(d) Hyper function
(e) Hygrophobia
467. Impaired sensitivity to pain is called:
(a) Hypalgesia
(b) Hypomania
(c) Hylophobia
(d) Hypegiaphobia

(e) None of the above


468. When there is a violent contraction of a group of muscles of a wide
area produced by the action of the Central Nervous System, it is called:
(a) Amnesia
(b) Tic
(c) Anosmia
(d) Convulsion
(e) Aphonia
469. A quick and sudden spasm like voluntary movements is known as:
(a) Contraction
(b) Tic
(c) Conversion
(d) Convulsion
(e) Cramps
470. Violent contraction of some nerves is known as:
(a) Cramps
(b) Conversion
(c) Tic
(d) Amnesia
(e) Hypnomania

471. Lack of mental synthesis, integration and adjustment is otherwise


called:
(a) Disorder
(b) Dissociation
(c) Convulsion
(d) Conversion
(e) Amnesia
472. Dissociative hysterical neuroses are of four types, namely:
(a) Amnesia, figure, somnabulsim and multiple personality
(b) Conversion, projection, amnesia and phobia
(c) Convulsion, phobia, amnesia and fugue
(d) Fugue, Dual personality, Amnesia and Phobia
(e) None of the above
473. Hypesthesia is generally found in:
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Phobia
(c) Conversion Hysteria
(d) Dissociative Hysteria
(e) None of the above
474. Blurred vision is a general symptom in:
(a) Schizophrenia

(b) Phobia
(c) Manic Depressive Psychosis
(d) Conversion Hysteria
(e) None of the above
475. Writers Cramp is a symptom in:
(a) Phobia
(b) Schizophrenia
(c) Conversion Hysteria
(d) Dissociative Hysteria
(e) None of the above
476. When a person cannot write but is able to use the same muscles for
other activities, for example, to shuffle a pack of cards or to play a musical
instrument, he suffers from:
(a) Tics
(b) Tremors
(c) Writers Cramp
(d) Aphonia
(e) None of the above
477. Muscular shakings or tremblings are otherwise known as:
(a) Tremors
(b) Tics

(c) Aphonia
(d) Amnesia
(e) None of the above
478. Localised muscular twitches are called:
(a) Tics
(b) Tremors
(c) Nausea
(d) Ganser Syndrome
(e) None of the above
479. When a person speaks only in whispers, it seems that he suffers from:
(a) Acute Apendicitis
(b) Mutism
(c) Aphonia
(d) Nausea
(e) Belching
480. Escapism from reality protects the patient from anxiety in:
(a) Conversion Hysteria
(b) Dissociative Hysteria
(c) Schozophrenia
(d) Manic Depressive Psychosis

(e) Phobic Reactions


481. Amnesia involves:
(a) Loss of speech
(b) Loss of memory
(c) Loss of Sensation
(d) Loss of Vision
(e) None of the above
482. Somnabulism is popularly known as:
(a) Hand Washing
(b) Repeated Bathing
(c) Repeated Belching
(d) Sleepwalking
(e) None of the above
483. History reveals that during World War I & II, many soldiers were
suffering from:
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Conversion Hysteria
(c) Manic Depressive Psychosis
(d) Phobia
(e) Mental Retardation
484. Dissociative hysterical reactions are defined as:

(a) Departures from normal states of consciousness


(b) Departures from abnormal states
(c) Day to day frustrations
(d) Irrational fears
(e) None of the above
485. When a person flees from his usual surroundings frequently moving to
a new geographic location to start an entirely new life suffers from:
(a) Phobia
(b) Amnesia
(c) Fugue
(d) Dual personality
(e) None of the above
486. C. G. Jung called human personality as:
(a) The complexes
(b) The Psyche
(c) The collective unconscious
(d) The persona
(e) The shadow
487. Who was formulated the concepts of Introversion and Extroversion?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) C. G. Jung

(c) Alfred Adler


(d) Eysenk
(e) Cattell
488. Who was the inventor of Sixteen Personality Factor Test (16 P.F. Test)?
(a) C.G. Jung
(b) Alfred Adler
(c) Cattell
(d) Eysenk
(e) Sigmund Freud
489. Personality is the sum total of the actual or potential behaviour
patterns of an organism as determined by heredity and environment
Who has given the above definition of Personality?
(a) Eysenk
(b) C.G. Jung
(c) Alfred adler
(d) G. W. Allport
(e) None of the above
490. Who was the founder of the International Psychoanalytical
Foundation?
(a) Cattell
(b) C.G. Jung
(c) Sigmund Freud

(d) Alfred Adler


(e) G. W. Allport
491. Who developed the concept of Collective Unconscious?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) C. G. Jung
(c) Alfred Adler
(d) G. W. Allport
(e) Cattell
492. Psychoneuroses usually arise out of:
(a) Morbid fears and anxieties
(b) Emotional disturbances
(c) Hereditary principles
(d) Complex patterns of behaviour
(e) Brain disorders
493. Who opined that many reactions which we should look as neurotic in
our culture are considered quite normal in other cultures and behaviour
types which we consider quite usual would be considered neurotic at
sometimes and in some places?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) C. G. Jung
(c) G. W. Allport
(d) Karen Horney

(e) None of the above


494. Who viewed that fear is the most important aspect of neurotic
behaviour and it is gradually generalized to other aspects of behaviour?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Wolpe
(c) C.G. Jung
(d) Duke and Nowicki (1979)
(e) None of the above
495. The central dynamic factor in neurosis is:
(a) Repression
(b) Regression
(c) Displacement
(d) Identification
(e) Sublimation
496. Repressed hostility is generally found in:
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Neuroses
(c) Mental Retardation
(d) Psychoses
(e) None of the above

497. Ancient Greeks and Hippocrates believed that hysteria is a disorder


restricted to:
(a) Women
(b) Both women and men
(c) Men
(d) Children
(e) Girls and boys
498. Who told that the basis of hysterical personality includes a child like
immaturity, self centredness, poor insight, a notably weak psychic,
integration and an extraordinarily high degree of suggestibility?
(a) Coleman (1981)
(b) Mc Call (1963)
(c) Skinner (1948)
(d) Rachmann (1972)
(e) Janet 91925)
499. Hysterical neuroses can be divided into two general types, namely:
(a) Convulsion and Regression
(b) Dissociative and Conversion
(c) Repression and Regression
(d) Illusion and Delusion
(e) None of the above

500. Who defined hysteria as a neurotic defence in which symptoms of


some physical illness appear without any organic pathology?
(a) Janet (1925)
(b) Coleman (1981)
(c) Enderson (1935)
(d) Lewis (1935)

Answers
401. (c) 402. (c) 403. (d) 404. (a) 405. (b) 406. (b) 407. (a) 408. (a) 409. (b) 410.
(a) 411. (b) 412. (a) 413. (a) 414. (c) 415. (b) 416. (a) 417. (a) 418. (c) 419. (a)
420. (a) 421. (b) 422. (b) 423. (b) 424. (a) 425. (a) 426. (c) 427. (a) 428. (b) 429.
(a) 430. (b) 431. (c) 432. (a) 433. (a) 434. (b) 435. (c) 436. (a) 437. (a) 438. (a)
439. (a) 440. (b) 441. (a) 442. (c) 443. (b) 444. (d) 445. (a) 446. (a) 447. (a) 448.
(a) 449. (a) 450. (a) 451. (c) 452. (c) 453. (a) 454. (c) 455. (d) 456. (d) 457. (c)
458. (b) 459. (c) 460. (b) 461. (b) 462. (d) 463. (a) 464. (c) 465. (c) 466. (b) 467.
(a) 468. (d) 469. (b) 470. (a) 471. (b) 472. (a) 473. (c) 474. (d) 475. (c) 476. (c)
477. (a) 478. (a) 479. (c) 480. (a) 481. (b) 482. (d) 483. (b) 484. (a) 485. (c) 486.
(b) 487. (b) 488. (c) 489. (a) 490. (c) 491. (b) 492. (a) 493. (d) 494. (b) 495. (a)
496. (b) 497. (a) 498. (b) 499. (b) 500. (b)

Psychology Question
Bank 59 MCQs on

"Experimental
Psychology"
by Raghavendra Prasad
59 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers on Experimental
Psychology for Psychology Students:

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1. The importance of classical conditioning as a mechanism for attitude


formation lies in the fact that through classical conditioning, people may
come to have powerful attitudinal reactions to social objects even in the :
(a) Absence of firsthand experience
(b) Absence of past experience
(c) Absence of motives
(d) Absence of emotional stimuli
(e) None of the above
2. By vicarious learning, the individual learns something through:
(a) Introspection
(b) The observation of others
(c) Self-reporting
(d) Imitation
(e) Identification
3. The notion that people acquire attitudes vicariously was well
documented by :
(a) Greenspoon (1955)
(b) Doob (1947)
(c) Festinger (1957)
(d) Bandura (1977)
(e) Jennings (1968)

4. Cognitive consistency approaches start with:


(a) The absence of an attitude:
(b) Social learning
(c) Social distance
(d) An existing attitude
(e) Social cognition
5. Cognitive consistency theories view human beings:
(a) As active information processors
(b) As passive information processors
(c) As stimulants
(d) As perceivers
(e) None of the above
6. The grandfather of all the cognitive consistency theories is Fritz
Heiders:
(a) Balance theory
(b) Social Distance Theory
(c) Cognitive Dissonance Theory
(d) Cognitive Consonance Theory
(e) None of the above
7. Heiders balance theory reveals how we make our attitudes regarding
people and an attitudinal object:
(a) Consistent

(b) Dynamic
(c) Positive
(d) Negative
(e) None of the above
8. According to Heider, the stable cognitive state which is comfortable to
the perceiver is called:
(a) Standard
(b) Norm
(c) Reference
(d) Balance
(c) None of the above
9. When a person holds two cognitions simultaneously that contradict one
another, the person experiences a state of:
(a) Cognitive Dissonance
(b) Cognitive Consonance
(c) Cognitive Response
(d) Social Distance
(e) None of the above
10. A smoker knows that smoking leads to lung cancer. The cognition I am
a smoker does not fit with the cognition that smoking causes lung
cancer, thereby creating:
(a) A state of consonance

(b) A state of social distance


(c) A state of dissonance
(d) A state of cognitive response
(e) None of the above
11. Dissonance produces a state of:
(a) Psychological Tension
(b) Anxiety
(c) Conflict
(d) Emotional Trauma
(e) None of the above
12. The book A theory of cognitive Dissonance was written by Leon
Festinger in:
(a) 1950
(b) 1954
(c) 1957
(d) 1951
(e) 1952
13. Berns theory of self perception reveals that people form and develop
attitudes by observing there:
(a) Own behaviour
(b) Cognitive world

(c) Cognitive Dissonance


(d) Self-reporting documents
(e) None of the above
14. The theory of self perception was advanced by:
(a) Daryl Bern (1972)
(b) Festinger (1957)
(c) Terkel (1980)
(d) Hoveland (1949)
(e) Smith (1982)
15. Self-perception theory suggests that subjects act as:
(a) Introspectors
(b) Perceivers
(c) Problem solvers
(d) Observers
(e) None of the above
16. Berns theory of self-perception provides the best explanation when
behaviour is only slightly discrepant from:
(a) Existing attitudes
(b) Future attitudes
(c) Positive attitudes
(d) Negative attitudes

(e) None of the above


17. After twenty years of the advocation of cognitive dissonance theory,
Greenwald and Ronis reviewed that dissonance theory has been an
extremely stimulating force within and beyond:
(a) Experimental Psychology
(b) Industrial psychology
(c) Social Psychology
(d) Educational Psychology
(e) Abnormal Psychology
18. Recent work on dissonance theory has begun to investigate the:
(a) Physiological aspect of dissonance
(b) Psychological aspect of dissonance
(c) Physical aspect of dissonance
(d) Psychophysical aspect of dissonance
(e) None of the above
19. Croyle and Cooper have shown that dissonance reduction may occur in
ways other than modifying:
(a) Affective elements
(b) Social motives
(c) Biological needs
(d) Cognitive elements
(e) Psychological motives

20. A very interesting finding of Critchlow revealed that alcohol acts to


reduce:
(a) The aversive affects of dissonance
(b) The aversive affects of consonance
(c) The positive effects of consonance
(d) The positive effects of dissonance
(e) None of the above
21. Individuals who are low in credibility are less likely to produce:
(a) Beliefs
(b) Stereotypes
(c) Prejudices
(d) Attitude change
(e) None of the above
22. The phenomenon that the persons low in credibility are less likely to
produce attitude change is popularly known as:
(a) Cognitive Response Analysis
(b) Prestige Suggestion
(c) Sleeper Effect
(d) Defensive Avoidance
(e) None of the above
23. The sleeper effect (Hovland and Weiss, 1951) is an increase in the
persuasive impact of a message from low credibility source that occurs:

(a) Over time


(b) Frequently
(c) Very often
(d) With time intervals
(e) None of the above
24. Sleeper effects have been explained by:
(a) Discounting cue Hypothesis
(b) Cognitive Dissonance
(c) Cognitive Consonance
(d) Social Distance
(e) None of the above
25. Leventhal (1970) suggests that high fear- arousing messages are
effective only if they are accompanied by precise recommendations for
actions:
(a) To avoid criticism
(b) To avoid distance
(c) To avoid social learning
(d) To avoid the danger
(e) None of the above
26. Peripheral route persuation occurs when the recipient is in a state of:
(a) Unconscious

(b) Consciousness
(c) Emotion
(d) Mindlessness
(e) None of the above
27. The most persistent and lasting persuation occurs in the:
(a) Central route
(b) Peripheral route
(c) Central-Peripheral route
(d) Sympathetic route
(e) Parasympathetic route
28. Central and Peripheral routes to persuation were advocated by:
(a) Petty and Cacioppo (1984)
(b) Demboroski (1978)
(c) Chaiken (1979)
(d) Sheffield (1949)
(e) Hovland (1949)
29. The study of La Piere (1934) suggested that attitude and behaviour are:
(a) Related
(b) Opposite to each other
(c) Unrelated

(d) Two sides of a coin


(e) None of the above
30. Berns theory of self-perception (Bern, 1972) reveals that:
(a) Behaviour may determine attitude
(b) Personality may determine attitude
(c) Motivation may determine attitude
(d) Creativity may determine attitude
(e) Intelligence may determine attitude
31. After a careful and influential review, the eminent Social Psychologist
Wicker (1969) concluded that correlations between attitude and behaviour
were:
(a) Rarely above 0.50
(b) Rarely above 0.30
(c) Rarely below 0.00
(d) Rarely above 0.90
(e) Rarely above 0.80
32. High degree of congruence between attitude and behaviour was found
by the recent studies conducted by:
(a) Schuman and Johnson (1976)
(b) Sheffield (1949)
(c) Demboraski (1978)
(d) Hovland (1949)

(e) Chaikan (1979)


33. Public opinion (attitude) is a familiar example of one of the methods of
measuring attitudes. What is the name of this method?
(a) Social Distance Method
(b) Self-report method
(c) Method of equal-appearing intervals
(d) Method of summated ratings
(e) Method of Scalogram analysis
34. The perceived social pressure to carry out the behaviour is termed as:
(a) Subjective Norm
(b) Standard Norm
(c) Objective Norm
(d) Dissonance
(e) Consonance
35. The most acceptable definition of attitude stresses:
(a) Its evaluative aspect
(b) Its affective aspect
(c) Its Conative aspect
(d) Its behavioural aspect
(e) Its cognitive aspect

36. Reinforcement approaches suggest that the acquisition and


maintenance of attitudes are learned through:
(a) Latent Learning
(b) Generalisation
(c) Differentiation
(d) Reward and Punishment
(e) None of the above
37. Learning and reinforcement theories approach attitudes as:
(a) Unlearned responses to stimuli
(b) Rewards
(c) Punishments
(d) Learned responses to stimuli
(e) None of the above
38. When two cognitions that contradict one another are held
simultaneously:
(a) A state of dissonance is experienced
(b) A state of consonance is experienced
(c) A state of distance is experienced
(d) A state of conflict is experienced
(e) None of the above
39. By changing ones attitude to become more congruent with the
behaviour:

(a) Consonance is typically reduced


(b) Distance is typically reduced
(c) Dissonance is typically reduced
(d) Tension is reduced
(e) Anxiety is reduced
40. Which theory suggests that dissonance is not aroused by counter
attitudinal behaviour, rather, attitude change occurs when people view their
own behaviour and attempt to understand the reasons behind it?
(a) Balance Theory
(b) Cognitive Dissonance Theory
(c) Self-perception Theory
(d) Social Learning Theory
(e) None of the above
41. One of the major criticisms of the method of equal-appearing intervals
is that:
(a) The attitudes of the judges may influence their judgements
(b) The attitudes of the Subjects fluctuate
(c) The personalities of the judges are dynamic
(d) The past experiences of the Subjects may influence the judges
(e) None of the above
42. The semantic-differential technique was originally developed to
measure the:

(a) Commutative meaning of concepts


(b) Denotative meaning of concepts
(c) Social learning of the Subjects
(d) Affiliation motive of the Subjects
(e) None of the above
43. The total set of attitudes of an individual is called:
(a) Attitude cluster
(b) Attitude constellation
(c) Attitude grouping
(d) Attitude conglomeration
(e) None of the above
44. A survey interview question form which permits the respondent to
answer freely in his own words is popularly known as:
(a) Critical question
(b) Close-end question
(c) Free question item
(d) Open-end question
(e) None of the above
45. Guttman has used a statistic to indicate the proportional accuracy with
which responses to the individual statements in a set of statements can be
reproduced from the total scores, what is it?
(a) Coefficient of proportion

(b) Coefficient of proportional accuracy


(c) Coefficient of correlation
(d) Coefficient of reproducibility
(e) None of the above
46. An Indian Psychologist has done several studies to measure attitude
towards family planning programmes in India. Who is he?
(a) Dr. K. N. Jha (1968)
(b) G. Kundu (1966)
(c) R.N. Rath (1972)
(d) Kamala Gopal Rao (1968)
(e) K. Chowdhury (1953)
47. Two Indian psychologists used the Thurstone and Liken techniques to
develop scales to measure attitude towards family planning on an All India
basis in 1964. Who are they?
(a) K. C. Panda and R. Kanungo
(b) K. Chawdhury and T. Ganguly
(c) T. Ganguly and R. N. Rath
(d) R. N. Rath and B. Kuppuswamy
(e) N. C. S. Rao and K. G. Rao
48. Commenting on the various attempts, one Indian psychologist once
said, considering the importance of attitude scale construction, the work
done in this regard does not seem to be very adequate; and there are not

many well established and widely accepted standardized scales of attitude


available for Indian conditions. Who was that psychologist?
(a) Kamala Gopal Rao (1968)
(b) K. Chowdhury (1953)
(c) T. Ganguly (1958)
(d) R.N. Rath (1972)
(e) K. C. Panda (1964)
49. The aim of KAP studies is to find the relationship between:
(a) Knowledge, attitude and practice
(b) Cognition, emotion and intelligence
(c) Intelligence, attitude and creativity
(d) Personality, creativity and attitude
(e) None of the above
50. Likert scale is a direct method of measuring an individuals evaluation
of an attitudinal object using:
(a) 7-point scale on which degree of agreement is indicated
(b) 8-point scale on which degree of agreement is indicated
(c) 5-point scale on which degree of agreement is indicated
(d) 4-point scale on which degree of agreement is indicated
(e) None of the above
51. The use of coercion to bring about attitude change is known as:
(a) Hypnosis

(b) Stereotype
(c) Prejudice
(d) Brainwashing
(e) None of the above
52. The theories that emphasize how people subjectively understand,
interpret and experience the world are known as:
(a) Consonance Theories
(b) Dissonance Theories
(c) Learning Theories
(d) Cognitive Theories
(e) Consistency Theories
53. A generalized expectation regarding appropriate behaviour in a given
situation is called:
(a) Norm
(b) Standard
(c) Reference
(d) Goal
(e) Incentive
54. In which method of attitude measurement bipolar adjectives are used to
obtain a direct measure of evaluation of an attitudinal object?
(a) Equal appearing intervals
(b) Summated rating

(c) Scalogram analysis


(d) Semantic differential scaling
(e) Social Distance scale
55. The way in which people think about and understand their social world
is known as :
(a) Cognitive Dissonance
(b) Social Cognition
(c) Cognitive Consonance
(d) Social Distance
(e) None of the above
56. A science which seeks to predict and understand social behaviour is
called:
(a) Social Psychology
(b) Anthropology
(c) Political Science
(d) Geology
(e) None of the above
57. The discipline that examines how a persons thoughts, feelings and
actions are affected by others is known as:
(a) Social Psychology
(b) Anthropology
(c) Geology

(d) Sociology
(e) None of the above
58. The learning due to the observation of others receiving rewards and
punishments is called:
(a) Social Learning
(b) Latent learning
(c) Verbal Learning
(d) Vicarious learning
(e) Non-verbal Learning
59. Who has emphatically told that an attitude is the equivalent of a
conditioned response ?
(a) Staats (1975)
(b) Greenwald (1968)
(c) Leon Festinger (1957)
(d) Doob (1947)
(e) Griffitt (1970)

Answers
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (d) 5. (a) 6. (a) 7. (a) 8. (d) 9. (a) 10. (c) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (a)
14. (a) 15. (c) 16 (a) 17. (c) 18. (a) 19. (d) 20. (a) 21. (d) 22. (c) 23. (a) 24. (a) 25.
(d) 26. (d) 27. (a) 28. (a) 29. (c) 30. (a) 31. (b) 32. (a) 33. (b) 34. (a) 35. (a) 36.
(d) 37. (d) 38. (a) 39. (c) 40. (c) 41. (a) 42. (a) 43. (b) 44. (d) 45. (d) 46. (d) 47. (a)

48. (a) 49. (a) 50. (a) 51. (d) 52. (d) 53. (a) 54. (d) 55. (b) 56. (a) 57. (a) 58. (d)
59. (a

Psychology Question
Bank 332 MCQs on
"Perception" Part 3
by Raghavendra Prasad
332 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers on Perception for
Psychology Students Part 3:
201. The extent to which the same behaviour occurs in relation to other
people or stimuli is known as:
(a) Effectiveness
(b) Attribution
(c) Common effects
(d) Distinctiveness
(e) None of the above
202. According to Kelley, when consensus and distinctiveness are low and
consistency is high, we tend to make:
(a) Attributional dispositions
(b) Dispositional attributions
(c) Unchosen actions
(d) Non-common effects

(e) None of the above


203. When consensus, consistency and distinctiveness are all high, we
tend to make attributions to:
(a) External or situational factors
(b) Internal factors
(c) Contradictory Factors
(d) Unchosen Actions
(e) None of the above
204. Sillars developed a major criticism against Kelleys Model of causal
Attribution. He argued that although the theory of causal attributions holds
up when people are presented with concrete, explicit information about
consensus, distinctiveness and consistency, it does not work quite so well
when :
(a) People must infer the information on their own
(b) People differ from each other in their attitudes
(c) People differ from each other in their stereotypes
(d) People differ from each other in their aptitudes
(e) None of the above
205. According to Jones and Keith Devis, we learn the most from
behaviours of others that lead to unique or:
(a) Non-common effects
(b) Self-attributions
(c) Personal attributions

(d) Unchosen action


(e) None of the above
206. The greater the social desirability of an action or behaviour, the more
difficult it will be to draw a correspondent inference between:
(a) Behaviour and Personality
(b) Perception and Sensation
(c) Person Perception and Social
(d) Perception Act and Disposition
(e) None of the above
207. The theory of correspondent inferences examines how behaviour is
attributed to a specific underlying intention, trait or disposition. This theory
was advocated by:
(a) Harold Kelly
(b) T.D. Wilson
(c) I. J. Stone
(d) Edward Jones and Keith devis
(e) None of the above
208. The initial acknowledgement that a person has positive traits is used
to infer other uniformly positive characteristics. Again the observation of a
single negative trait can be used to infer the existence of uniformly
negative traits. This phenomenon is popularly known as:
(a) Common Effects
(b) Halo Effects

(c) Uncommon Effects


(d) Unchosen Actions
(e) None of the above
209. We enjoy being surrounded by a pleasant world and thus we have a
propensity to view people through rose-coloured glasses. This principle is
popularly known as:
(a) Non-common Effects
(b) Unchosen Actions
(c) Pollyanna Principle (Matlin & Stang, 1978)
(d) Consensus information
(e) None of the above
210. You are like me and I am like you. This is a tendency that constitutes
one kind of Attributional bias popularly known as:
(a) Uncommon Effects
(b) Consensus Information
(c) Non-common Effects
(d) Assumed Similarity Bias
(e) None of the above
211. Levine (1942) has made pioneering experiments on the effects of:
(a) Learning on perception
(b) Past experience on perception
(c) Bodily needs on perception

(d) Hereditary principles on perception


(e) None of the above
212. Role of values in perception was emphasized by:
(a) E.E. Jones (1965)
(b) Bruner and Goodman (1947)
(c) Osgood (1957)
(d) Harold Kelley (1967, 1973)
(e) Hamilton (1972)
213. The process by which impressions, opinions or feelings about other
persons are formed is known as:
(a) Person Perception
(b) Social Perception
(c) Phi-phenomenon
(d) Perceptual constancy
(e) Hallucination
214. The stimuli which are not needed by the 0 (Organism) at the moment
and which do not have any value, for the perceiver, are not perceived at all.
Perception may also be delayed in some other cases. In many cases, the
perceiver tries to avoid the perception of the stimulus. This is called:
(a) Perceptual Constancy
(b) Phi-phenomenon
(c) Illusion

(d) Perceptual Defense


(e) Hallucination
215. The findings of Mc Ginnies were interpreted as an anxiety-avoidance
reaction in the form of:
(a) Perceptual Defense Mechanism
(b) Perceptual Constancy
(c) Hallucination
(d) Delusion
(e) None of the above
216. Heider limited the term social perception to:
(a) Perception of objects
(b) Perception of groups
(c) Perception of culture
(d) Perception of people
(e) None of the above
217. The total process of assimilating and interpreting sensory experiences
is known as:
(a) Conation
(b) Affection
(c) Creativity
(d) Cognition

(e) None of the above


218. Cognitive theories of perception have their roots in:
(a) Behaviourism
(b) Structuralism
(c) Gestalt Psychology
(d) Functionalism
(e) Psychoanalysis
219. Cognitive and affective processes are inter-wined in:
(a) Social interaction
(b) Attitudes
(c) War Psychosis
(d) Socialization
(e) None of the above
220. From the following psychologists, who has defined perception as the
construction of a set of organized categories in terms of which stimulus
inputs may be stored, given identity and given more elaborate connotative
meaning?
(a) Kalika
(b) Allport
(c) Sherif and Sherif
(d) Bruner
(e) None of the above

221. The relative accessibility of a given category to a given kind of


stimulus input is called:
(a) Sensory input
(b) Sensory output
(c) Sensory Readiness
(d) Perceptual Readiness
(e) None of the above
222. Perceptual response to a stimulus is essentially:
(a) Objective
(b) Required
(c) Subjective
(d) Not Required
(e) None of the above
223. The mechanism which helps in selective filtering of perceptual input is
called the:
(a) Illusion
(b) Hallucination
(c) Gating Mechanism
(d) Phi-phenomenon
(e) Perceptual Constancy
224. There was a collision of the two cars on the road. Each driver was fully
convinced that the other one was rash and did not obey the traffic signals

and rules. One driver thought that the other one was wrong and
blameworthy. One social psychologist interpreted this as the selectivity of
perceptual experience generated
(a) Gating Mechanism
(b) Perceptual Disorganisation
(c) Phi-penomenon
(d) Illusion
(e) Hallucination
225. The gating process have been labelled leveling, sharpening and
assimilation by:
(a) Newcomb
(b) Kretch and Krutchfield
(c) Kurt Lewin
(d) Allport and Postman
(e) None of the above
226. Selective sharpening of details which are congruent with desires and
expectations are called:
(a) Levlling
(b) Assimilation
(c) Displacement
(d) Sharpening
(e) None of the above

227. The distortion of slight ambiguities in order to maximize congruences


with desires and expectations is called:
(a) Levelling
(b) Assimilation
(c) Displacement
(d) Sharpening
(e) None of the above
228. In a persons daily life, there are many situations in which he is made
more conscious of himself than in others and this often brings about a
change in his perception of himself. Such situations are called:
(a) Self-evolving situations
(b) Critical situations
(c) Conflicting situations
(d) Anxiety states
(e) None of the above
229. The theory which says that our liking of a person or person depends
upon our perceived evaluation of the rewards and the casts he is likely to
bestow on us is popularly known as:
(a) Implicit Personality Theory
(b) Impression Formation Theory
(c) Exchange theory
(d) Cognitive Framework Theory

(e) None of the above


230. The very term Prejudice is commonly used to mean:
(a) A negative evaluation of others by us without any prior experience or basis
(b) A positive evaluation of others by us without any prior experience or basis
(c) Prejudgements generated by placing people in cognitive categories
(d) Rough attitude of a person categories
(e) None of the above
231. Who defined prejudice as an unfavourable attitude towards an object
or person which is emotionally charged and not easily changed by any
contrary information?
(a) Kalika Jha
(b) Allport
(c) Kurt Lewin
(d) Kretch and Crutchfield
(e) Heider
232. The tendency to generalise on the basis of partial information is an
integral part of the process of:
(a) Personal attributes
(b) Social perception
(c) Impression Formation
(d) Concept formation
(e) None of these

233. Cue sensitivity is a very important factor in:


(a) Empathy
(b) Sympathy
(c) Anxiety
(d) Conflict
(e) Frustration
234. Cue sensitivity refers to a sort of set to observe only those cues which
are likely to facilitate an understanding of a target persons mental state
during:
(a) The period of anxiety
(b) Perceptual period
(c) Emotional states
(d) The period of contact
(e) Emotional trauma
235. The inter-personal distance is otherwise known as:
(a) Cognitive framework
(b) Attribution
(c) Stereotype
(d) Proxemics
(e) Prejudice
236. The concept social distance (interpersonal distance or proxemics) was
first developed by:

(a) Fritz Heider (1958)


(b) Hamilton (1972)
(c) Glazebrook (1982)
(d) Bogardus (1925)
(e) Jones & Davis (1965)
237. The physical distance in our interactions with other persons is known
as:
(a) Attribution
(b) Sociability
(c) Proxemics
(d) Stereotype
(e) Prejudice
238. The structural factors of perception was given priority by:
(a) Gestalt Psychologists
(b) Functionalists
(c) Behaviourists
(d) Structuralists
(e) Psychoanalysts
239. Those sensory factors which are independent of the perceiving
individuals needs and personality and which force certain organizations in
his cognitive field are referred to as :
(a) Functional factors in perception

(b) Personal factors in perception


(c) Structural factors in perception
(d) Social factors in perception
(e) Psychological factors in perception
240. The factors which are derived from needs, moods, past experience
and memory of the individual are known as:
(a) Functional factors for perceptual organization
(b) Structural factors for perceptual organization
(c) Social factors for perceptual organization
(d) Psychological factors for perceptual organizational
(e) None of the above
241. Perception is functionally selective. The objects accentuated in
perceptual organizations are usually those which are functionally
significant to the:
(a) Stimuli
(b) Society
(c) Perceiving individual
(d) Culture
(e) Group
242. The classic experiment of Harold Kelley illustrates an early view of:
(a) Social Perception
(b) Perceptual Organization

(c) Person Perception


(d) Personal Attributions
(e) None of the above
243. The notion of central traits was first conceived by:
(a) Solomon Asch (1979)
(b) Groth & Birnbum (1979)
(c) Hamilton (1972)
(d) Fritz Heider (1958)
(e) Keith Davis (1965)
244. Central Traits play a vital role in determining:
(a) Personal attributions
(b) Non-common effects
(c) Valence
(d) A general impression
(e) Self-attribution
245. Central traits to organize the impression and provide a framework for
interpreting information:
(a) Received previously
(b) Received about sensation
(c) Received just a week ago
(d) That is received subsequently

(e) None of the above


246. Which model suggests that we simply add together the bits of
information we have about a person to from a judgement?
(a) Averaging Model
(b) Self-attribution Model
(c) Additive Model
(d) Personal-Attribution Model
(e) None of the above
247. Who, mainly, encourages the dependency behaviour of children?
(a) Fathers
(b) Parents
(c) Brothers
(d) Mothers
(e) Sisters
248. Child-rearing practices pertaining to feeding, weaving and toilet
training are called:
(a) Freudian variables in socialization
(b) Jungian variables in socialization
(c) Adlerian variables in socialization
(d) Eriksons variables in socialization
(e) None of the above

249. From the following, who emphatically told that sucking is not only the
source of obtaining nutrition but is also a source of pleasure?
(a) Carl Jung
(b) Sigmund Frued
(c) Alfred Adler
(d) Otto Rank
(e) Erikson
250. The first stage of psychosexual development of children is known as:
(a) Anal stage
(b) Phallic stage
(c) Oral stage
(d) Genital stage
(e) None of the above
251. In his psychoanalytic theory, Freud said that two psychological
phenomena emerge during any stage of psychosexual development and
these are:
(a) Aggression and Regression
(b) Frustration and Regression
(c) Frustration and Aggression
(d) Fixation and Regression
(e) Fixation and Frustration

252. When excessive frustration occurs in any of the psychosexual stages,


the libidinal energy may remain locked in the erogeneous zone from which
the child obtains pleasure in that particular stage. This is known as:
(a) Aggression
(b) Regression
(c) Projection
(d) Fixation
(e) None of the above
253. To return to an earlier mode of obtaining satisfaction when frustrated
or anxious is known as:
(a) Aggression
(b) Fixation
(c) Regression
(d) Projection
(e) None of the above
254. In which stage of psychosexual development, the pleasure is obtained
from the stimulation of the genital organs?
(a) Phallic stage
(b) Oral stage
(c) Anal stage
(d) Genital stage
(e) None of the above

255. In his study of the three twice-born castes of Rajasthan, Carstairs


has given some information about:
(a) Social learning
(b) Prejudices
(c) Child-rearing practices
(d) Attitude
(e) Social conformity
256. Minturn and Lambert have studied the child- rearing practices in India
as a part of a cross- cultural research and the study was conducted in the
Rajput caste in a village of:
(a) Himalaya Valley
(b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Bihar
(d) Uttar Pradesh
(e) Rajasthan
257. Socialization always involves changing the behaviour patterns of
children from what they are early in their life to the:
(a) Accepted individual pattern
(b) Accepted adult pattern
(c) Unaccepted adult pattern
(d) Accepted child pattern
(e) None of the above

258. Whiting and Child label the early period of children as the:
(a) Period of Intelligence
(b) Period of Social recognition
(c) Period of indulgence
(d) Period of social learning
(e)
Period of socialization
259. Borrowing from Freud, Whiting and Child distinguish two sorts of
reactions that might hamper smooth socialization. These are:
(a) Positive Frustration and Negative Frustration
(b) Positive Aggression and Negative Aggression
(c) Positive Regression and Negative Regression
(d) Positive Fixation and Negative Fixation
(e) None of the above
260. According to Whiting and Child, the negative fixation represents the
creation of so much anxiety over the change in behaviour that the child has
difficulty in making the:
(a) Motor-coordination
(b) Movement
(c) Sensori-coordination
(d) Transition
(e) None of the above

261. The book Childhood and society was written by:


(a) Sigmund Freud (1912)
(b) Alfred Adler (1908)
(c) Erik Erikson (1963)
(d) Otto Rank (1910)
(e) None of the above
262. According to Eriksons Ego Psychology, the first stage of
psychosexual development begins with the childs encounter between his
instincts and the demands of society. This is called:
(a) Latency stage
(b) Muscular-anal stage
(c) Oral-sensory stage
(d) Locomotion-genital stage
(e) Young adulthood
263. According to Piaget, Preoperational period is sometimes referred to as
:
(a) Concrete operations
(b) Formal operations
(c) Preconceptual stage
(d) Sensori-motor period
(e) None of the above
264. Assimilation and accommodation are:

(a) Opposite to each other


(b) Vague concepts
(c) Complimentary to each other
(d) Concepts which have no experimental background
(e) None of the above
265. Egocentrism is a major hinderance to:
(a) The cognitive development of children
(b) The language development of children
(c) The emotional development of children
(d) The intellectual development of children
(e) None of the above
266. Jean Piaget has made the most significant contribution to the field of:
(a) Emotional development
(b) Language development
(c) Prenatal development
(d) Cognitive development
(e) None of the above
267. Centration means the childs habit of attending to one salient aspect
of a problem neglecting other ones, thus distorting:
(a) Imagination
(b) Learning

(c) Imitation
(d) Reasoning
(e) Personality
268. Reversibility means the ability of the child to maintain equivalence in
spite of change in the:
(a) Perceptual field
(b) Intellectual field
(c) Emotional field
(d) Imaginative field
(e) None of the above
269. Who has designed an experiment to demonstrate the formation of
norms in the laboratory?
(a) Richards (1957)
(b) Rogers (1951)
(c) Miller (1958)
(d) Sherif (1936)
(e) Milton (1952)
270. The method of studying social structures based on affection or
attraction is known as:
(a) Social attitude test
(b) Sociogram
(c) Sociometry

(d) Social conformity methods


(e) None of the above
271. Sometimes an individual stands on the boundary between two groups.
He feels uncertain about his status in both. In such circumstances, he is
called a:
(a) Boundary Man
(b) Line Man
(c) Boarderline Man
(d) Marginal Man
(e) None of the above
272. Social role is imposed on the individual by:
(a) The society
(b) The culture
(c) The nation
(d) The group
(e) None of the above
273. Who, from among the following, has studied the process of
socialization on the Wolf children of Bengal?
(a) R. Rath (1959)
(b) K.C.Panda (1971)
(c) J. Singh (1942)
(d) B. Sinha (1957)

(e) Kalika Jha (1968)


274. In which type of socialization, the individual experiences actual
contact with other people and ones behaviour is shaped and transformed
by these people?
(a) Direct Socialization
(b) Indirect Socialization
(c) Latent Socialization
(d) Free Socialization
(e) None of the above
275. In which type of socialization, them is no direct contact but the
influence of society operates through the media like the newspaper,
cinema, books and other agencies?
(a) Direct Socialization
(b) Indirect Socialization
(c) Free Socialization
(d) Latent Socialization
(e) None of the above
276. Whenever an imitation is successful, the child is rewarded and this
strengthens the childs response. This is called:
(a) Social learning
(b) Social Norm
(c) Social Reinforcement

(d) Eco-cultural crisis


(e) None of the above
277. The situation in which an individual believes that other persons hold
differing and incompatible expectations about how he should perform a
particular role is known as:
(a) Role incompatibility
(b) Group Status
(c) Group Norm
(d) Status incompatibility
(e) None of the above
278. The situation in which an individual is expected to play two roles that
involve responses that are antagonistic is known as:
(a) Status incompatibility
(b) Role conflict
(c) Role incompatibility
(d) Role Division
(e) None of the above
279. The infant is born as:
(a) A social biological being
(b) A social being
(c) A non-social biological being
(d) An antisocial being

(e) None of the above


280. A social value or norm is standardised in the course of human
interaction to those aspects of life that have some consequence in the
scheme of things of the particular group. Who has given the above
statement?
(a) Sherif(1956)
(b) Kelly (1955)
(c) Jackson (1958)
(d) Janis (1953)
(e) Hoffman (1957)
281. Socialization is a product of:
(a) Imitation
(b) Motivation
(c) Intelligence
(d) Learning
(e) None of the above
282. The concept which is of great help in understanding social behaviour
is:
(a) Socialization
(b) Attitude
(c) Prejudice
(d) Social facilitation

(e) Social learning


283. In earlier days, socialization was restricted to:
(a) Procedures of bringing up animals
(b) Procedures of educating children
(c) Procedures of bringing up children
(d) Procedures of taking care of school going children
(e) None of the above
284. The theory of psychoanalysis reveals that the basic driving forces of
behaviour in the social development of the child are assumed to be:
(a) Taught
(b) Learnt
(c) Inherited
(d) Imitated
(e) None of the above
285. Jean Piaget has formulated a theory of:
(a) Play in children
(b) Social development of children
(c) Language development of children
(d) Cognitive development of children
(e) None of the above
286. According to Sears, it is through dependence that the process of:

(a) Indentification develops


(b) Projection develops
(c) Substitution develops
(d) Learning develops
(e) None of the above
287. The child becomes dependent on the mother because:
(a) She satisfies his social needs
(b) She satisfies his psychological needs
(c) She satisfies his affiliative motive
(d) She satisfies his biological needs
(e) None of the above
288. With the growth of the child, the socializing process is increasingly
affected by the action of the persons outside:
(a) The family
(b) The school
(c) The society
(d) The culture
(e) None of the above
289. The transmission of massages from one person to another is known
as:
(a) Interpersonal communication

(b) Personal correspondence


(c) Personal transaction
(d) Symbolic representation
(e) None of the above
290. The latent content of the communicative process refers to:
(a) Social perception
(b) The attitudes and motivation
(c) Social perception and social learning
(d) Social obligation
(e) None of the above
291. The system of Transactional analysis was first developed by:
(a) Henry and Helson
(b) Hebb and Heither
(c) Kelley and Kelman
(d) Berne and Harris
(e) King and Kelman
292. The system of transactional analysis assumes that each person has
three components in his personality, the personality, the parent, the child,
the adult and that each of these three components influences are:
(a) Daily transaction
(b) Daily routine

(c) Daily work


(d) Daily correspondence
(e) None of the above
293. The sole agent of socialization of a child in the early childhood is:
(a) Society
(b) Culture
(c) Family
(d) School
(e) Peer group
294. Clinically thumb sucking is taken as a sign of maladjustment in the
child. But its seriousness depends on:
(a) The age of the child
(b) The height of the child
(c) The weight of the child
(d) The family of the child
(e) The culture in which the child lives
295. The child-rearing practices may have:
(a) Some short-term effects on children behaviour
(b) Some long-term effects on children behaviour
(c) No effect on personality development
(d) No effect on socialization

(e) None of the above


296. The theory of Psychosexual development of children was advanced
by:
(a) Carl Jung
(b) Alfred Adler
(c) Otto Rank
(d) Sigmund Freud
(e) None of the above
297. Sigmund Freud emphasized the crucial importance of toilet training to
the development of:
(a) Childs personality
(b) Childs socialization
(c) Childs intelligence
(d) Childs learning
(e) Childs emotion
298. Case studies of children referred to child guidance clinic show that in
nearly half of the children bladder and bowel training had started:
(a) In the late childhood
(b) In adulthood
(c) In school going stage
(d) Prematurely
(e) None of the above

299. The behaviour of toilet training like other behaviours of children


depends on:
(a) Motor co-ordination
(b) Sensori-motor co-ordination 306.
(c) Neuro-muscular maturation
(d) Sensory organs
(e) Motor organs
300. Research evidences of Sears et.al. (1957) have revealed that in 87
percent of the case studies, the mothers started bowel training by the time
the child was:
(a) 20 months old
(b) 10 months old
(c) 5 months old
(d) 3 months old
(e) 12 months old
301. As the child grows older, overt aggression:
(a) Increases
(b) Becomes haphazard
(c) Becomes systematic
(d) Decreases
(e) Vanishes
302. Frustration-aggression hypothesis was developed by:

(a) Carter and his co-workers


(b) Campbell and his co-workers
(c) Dollard and his co-workers
(d) Asch and his co-workers
(e) Barker and his co-workers
303. Frustration-aggression hypothesis was developed by Dollard et al.
(1939) to explain:
(a) The theory of aggression
(b) The theory of regression
(c) The theory of frustration
(d) The theory of repression
(e) None of the above
304. In 1961, Bandura and his co-workers have put forth the hypothesis
that aggression in children may arise because they look upon the parents
as:
(a) Culprit
(b) Democratic persons
(c) Model
(d) Autocratic persons
(e) None of the above
305. To explain aggression, the frustration-aggression hypothesis was
developed by Dollard and his co-workers in the year:

(a) 1940
(b) 1941
(c) 1939
(d) 1938
(e) 1942
306. The most common meaning of dependent behaviour is:
(a) Intellectual Dependence
(b) Social Dependence
(c) Motivational dependence
(d) Emotional Dependence
(e) None of the above
307. Who suggested that hypnotism and suggestion may be helpful for
asthmatic patients having a psychological cause for attack?
(a) Phillip (1971)
(b) Coleman (1981)
(c) Mitchel (1973)
(d) Duke (1979)
308. Peshkin hypothesised a defective parent- child relationship as the
cause of:
(a) Asthma
(b) Hysteria

(c) Epilepsy
(d) Hypertension
309. In a study, a psychiatrist has moved children suffering from Asthma
away from their home and put into a carefully supervised Milieu Therapy.
Ultimately he found that 99% of the Asthmatic children responded to it.
Lastly he concluded that Parent-child relationship is responsible for this
anomaly. Who was this renowed Psychiatrist?
(a) Phillip
(b) Peshkin
(c) Janet
(d) C.G. Jung
310. The superficial inflammation of the skin characterised by redness,
itching, pimples and the formation of crusts is called:
(a) Asthma
(b) Eczema
(c) Hypertension
(d) Peptic ulcer
311. The main cause of Eczema is:
(a) Blood Pressure
(c) Emotional Stress
(d) Heart Beat
(e) Ulcer in the stomach

312. In his pioneering study, who has established a positive relationship


between emotional stress and eczema?
(a) Duke (1979)
(b) Brown (1972)
(c) Mitchell (1973)
(d) Coleman (1981)
313. Putting emphasis on eczema as a psychosomatic disorder, who
commented that eczema might not take ones life, but they could take the
enjoyment out of it?
(a) Shelley and Edson (1973)
(b) Alexander (1952)
(c) Coleman (1981)
(d) Eysenk (1975)
314. For the treatment of colitis:
(a) Psychoanalytic therapy is helpful
(b) Play therapy is helpful
(c) Directive Therapy is helpful
(d) Non-directive Therapy is helpful
315. A psychoanalytic theorist viewed that anger produces gastric acid
which is mainly responsible for:
(a) Migraine Headache
(b) Eczema

(c) Asthma
(d) Peptic Ulcer
316. Chronic conflict within the child is said to be the main cause of:
(a) Enuresis
(b) Psychosis
(c) Neurosis
(d) Epilepsy
317. The menstrual disorder of women is called psychosomatic when it is
related to:
(a) Abdominal Disorder
(b) Emotional Stress
(c) Asthma
(d) Blood Pressure
318. Informations about the autonomic functions like heart rate and brain
waves in the form of signals like sound or light is provided by:
(a) Biofeedback Technique
(b) Imitation
(c) Imprinting
(d) High order Conditioning
319. Alexander (1950) has hypothesized that each kind of
psychophysiologic disorder may be connected to a particular type of:
(a) Conflict

(b) Stress
(c) Frustration
(d) Tension
320. In an interesting study of widowers, Parkes, Benjamin and Fitzerald
(1969) found that during six months span following the death of their wives,
the subjects have shown a death- rate of 40% above the aspired rate. The
incidence of cardiac deaths among these widowers was so high that
investigators called these findings as the:
(a) Downs Syndrome
(b) Broken-heart Syndrome
(c) Peptic Syndrome
(d) Personal Syndrome
321. Excessive flow of the acid containing digestive juices of the stomach
known as gastric secretions destroys the lining of the stomach which is
called duodenum and leaves a crater like wound. This is called:
(a) Clotting
(b) Ulcer
(c) Thombosis
(d) Tumour
322. The classic studies done by Wolff and Wolff support the importance of
repressed hostility and other stressful experiences in the causation of:
(a) Peptic Ulcer
(b) Colitis

(c) Asthma
(d) Eczema
323. The incidence of Migraine headache is high among:
(a) Children
(b) Men
(c) Women
(d) Neonates
324. A typical Migraine Headache involves:
(a) Only one side of the head
(b) Only one side of the heart
(c) Only one side of the body
(d) Two sides of head
325. Migraine headache is otherwise known as:
(a) Vascular Headache
(b) Muscular Headache
(c) Occular Headache
(d) Territorial Headache
326. The persons suffering from Migrain headache generally bear:
(a) Inflexible Personality
(b) Flexible Personality
(c) Dynamic Personality

(d) Static Personality


327. Who described a typical migraine headache victim as a tense,
inflexible personality maintaining a store of bottled up resentments that
can neither be expressed nor resolved?
(a) Kolb (1963)
(b) Kelley (1962)
(c) Zeller (1969)
(d) Phillip (1971)
328. The majority of the simple headaches are known as:
(a) Tension Headaches
(b) Conflict Headaches
(c) Frustration Headache
(d) Stress Headache
329. Behaviour modification technique is a favourite method to cure:
(a) Migraine Headache
(b) Eczema
(c) Epilepsy
(d) Hysteria
330. When airways become restricted, they create beathing difficulty and
the persons suffering from these difficulties generally have:
(a) Hypertension
(b) Migraine Headache

(c) Asthmatic attack


(d) Eczema
331. When a persons suffers from severe attacks of asthma, he fights for
air and has :
(a) Convulsive Caughing
(b) Conversion
(c) Fits
(d) Somnabulism
332. For treatment of Asthma:
(a) Psychotherapy is conducive
(b) Nondirective Therapy is helpful
(c) Dream Analysis is helpful
(d) Play Therapy is helpful

Answers
201. (d) 202. (b) 203. (a) 204. (a) 205. (a) 206. (d) 207. (d) 208. (b) 209. (c) 210.
(d) 211. (c) 212. (b) 213. (a) 214. (d) 215. (a) 216. (d) 217. (d) 218. (c) 219. (a)
220. (d) 221. (d) 222. (c) 223. (c) 224. (a) 225. (d) 226. (d) 227. (b) 228. (a) 229.
(c) 230. (a) 231. (d) 232. (d) 233. (a) 234. (d) 235. (d) 236. (d) 237. (c) 238. (a)
239. (c) 240. (a) 241. (c) 242. (c) 243. (a) 244. (d) 245. (d) 246. (c) 247. (d) 248.
(a) 249. (b) 250. (c) 251. (d) 252. (d) 253. (c) 254. (a) 255. (c) 256. (d) 257. (b)
258. (c) 259. (d) 260. (d) 261. (c) 262. (c) 263. (c) 264. (c) 265. (a) 266. (d) 267.
(d) 268. (a) 269. (d) 270. (c) 271. (d) 272. (d) 273. (c) 274. (a) 275. (b) 276. (c)
277. (a) 278. (b) 279. (c) 280. (a) 281. (d) 282. (a) 283. (c) 284. (c) 285. (d) 286.

(a) 287. (d) 288. (a) 289. (a) 290. (b) 291. (d) 292. (a) 293. (c) 294. (a) 295. (a)
296. (d) 297. (a) 298. (d) 299. (c) 300. (a) 301. (d) 302. (c) 303. (a) 304. (c) 305.
(c) 306. (d) 307. (a) 308. (a) 309. (b) 310. (b) 311. (b) 312. (b) 313. (a) 314. (a)
315. (d) 316. (a) 317. (b) 318. (a) 319. (b) 320. (b) 321. (b) 322. (a) 323. (c) 324.
(a) 325. (a) 326. (a) 327. (a) 328. (a) 329. (a) 330. (c) 331. (a) 332. (a)

Psychology Question
Bank 440 MCQs on
"Motivation and
Emotions" Part 3
by Raghavendra Prasad
440 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers on Motivation and
Emotions for Psychology Students Part 3:
201. When the child runs away from the offending person or object, such
behaviour is called:
(a) Hostile
(b) Sentimental
(c) Disorganized
(d) Impunitive
(e) Opponent
202. From the following, on which factor, the study of Good enough (1932)
has placed emphasis?
(a) Role of Motivation in Emotional Development
(b) Role of Learning in Emotional Development

(c) Role of Maturation in Emotional Development


(d) Role of Perception in Emotional Development
(e) None of the above
203. Who has conducted a classic experiment on Albert to prove that fear
can be conditioned?
(a) Richard Solomon
(b) John Corbit
(c) J.B. Watson
(d) Webb
(e) R. W. Leeper
204. Harvey Carr treats emotion as the part of the:
(a) Foreground of mental life
(b) Future arena of conscious activities
(c) Background of mental life
(d) Motvational Forces
(e) None of the above
205. Emotion is an acute disturbance of an individual, psychological in
origin, involving behaviour, conscious experience and:
(a) Visual Functioning
(b) Auditory Functioning
(c) Visceral functioning

(d) Brain Functioning


(e) None of the above
206. The device for measuring blood pressure is called:
(a) Pupillometrics
(b) Galvanometer
(c) Lie-Detector
(d) Spygnomanometer
(e) None of the above
207. Difference between systollic and distolic is known as:
(a) Blood Pressure
(b) Heart Pressure
(c) Pulse Pressure
(d) Galvanic Skin Response
(e) None of the above
208. Systollic pressure is the maximal pressure reached during the:
(a) Contraction of heart
(b) Cell division
(c) Lie detection
(d) Galvanic skin response
(e) None of the above

209. Disstolic pressure is the least pressure during:


(a) Motivation
(b) Perception
(c) Emotion
(d) Sensation
(e) None of the above
210. Which apparatus is used for measuring the breathing movements of
the chest?
(a) Encephalograph
(b) Galvanometer
(c) Barometer
(d) Pneumograph
(e) Electrocardiograph
211. Changes in resistance to electric current are measured by:
(a) Electroencephalograph
(b) Electrocardiograph
(c) Pupillometrics
(d) Psychogalvanometer
(e) None of the above
212. Lie-detector is otherwise known as:
(a) Pupillometrics

(b) Psychogalvanometer
(c) Electro cardiograph
(d) Polygraph
(e) None of the above
213. Increased skin temperature is normally measured by:
(a) Barometer
(b) Lie-detector
(c) Polygraph
(d) Thermometer
(e) Cardiograph
214. We cry because we are sorry, is the motto of:
(a) Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
(b) James-Lange theory of emotion
(c) Excitation theory of emotion
(d) Motivational theory of emotion
(e) None of the above
215. Cannon-Bard theory of emotion assumes that both behavior and
experience are independently aroused by the activities in the:
(a) Hypothalamus
(b) Thalamus
(c) Cerebellum

(d) Cerebrum
(e) None of the above
216. Cognitive factors in emotion were emphasized by:
(a) Piaget (1957)
(b) Mohsin(1954)
(c) Milton (1959)
(d) Schachter (1959)
(e) Lefford (1946)
217. Which theory of emotion argues that emotions and autonomic
responses occur simultaneously; one is not the cause of the other?
(a) James-Lange Theory
(b) Motivational Theory
(c) Activation Theory
(d) Cannon-Bard Theory
(e) None of the above
218. The cognitive-physiological theory of emotion proposes that
emotional states are a function of the interaction of:
(a) Cognitive factors and physiological arousal
(b) Cognitive growth and physiological defects
(c) Cognitive development and body constitution
(d) Cognitive growth and Autonomic Nervous System

(e) None of the above


219. Continued tension can result in:
(a) Physical Anomalies
(b) Physiological defects
(c) Suicide
(d) Psychophysiological illness
(e) None of the above
220. A son having an autocratic father may become hostile to all superiors.
This is an illustration of:
(a) Generalised Anger
(b) Inhibited Anger
(c) Equalized Anger
(d) Substituted Anger
(e) None of the above
221. Facial expressions of certain primary emotions are:
(a) Complex
(b) Simple
(c) Inexplicable
(d) Innate
(e) None of the above
222. The James-Lange theory identifies the emotion with the:

(a) Perception of motivational changes


(b) Perception of visceral changes
(c) Perception of changes in CNS
(d) Perception of the organic changes
(e) None of the above
223. Who defined as emotion as a hereditary Pattern-reaction involving
profound changes of the bodily mechanism as a whole, but particularly of
the viscera and glandular systems?
(a) J. B. Watson
(b) Sherington
(c) Dunlop
(d) Cannon
(e) James
224. Sympathetic system also causes the discharge of the hormones
epinephrine and norephine in:
(a) Emotion
(b) Motivation
(c) Perception
(d) Learning
(e) None of the above
225. Epinephrine causes the heart:
(a) To stop for ever

(b) To beat harder


(c) To stop for the time being
(d) To stop for a longer interval
(e) None of the above
226. The parasympathetic nervous system tends to be active when we are:
(a) active
(b) Calm and relaxed
(c) Irritated
(d) Asleep
(e) None of the above
227. The hormones epinephrine and norephrine are released from the:
(a) Pituitary gland
(b) Pancreas
(c) Adrenal gland
(d) Gonads
(e) Thyroids
228. Lie detectors:
(a) Detect lies
(b) Do not measure emotional reactions
(c) Measure bodily indicators of arousal

(d) Measure brain waves


(e) None of the above
229. Lie-detectors are often called:
(a) Electro-cardiographs
(b) Electroencephalograph
(c) Galvanometer
(d) Polygraphs
(e) None of the above
230. The EEG changes which indicate arousal are due to the activation of
cells in the part of the higher brain known as:
(a) Cerebellum
(b) Cerebral Cortex
(c) Pons
(d) Reticular Activating System (RAS)
(e) None of the above
231. If a less pleasant stimulus is presented as one of a group of more
pleasant stimuli, its affective value may be enhanced by its inclusion, as
belonging, within the group of more pleasant stimuli. This change is called:
(a) Substitution
(b) Assimilation
(c) Replacement
(d) Displacement

(e) None of the above


232. If the less pleasant stimulus is not assimilated into the group, its may
seem even less pleasant or definitely unpleasant by contrast with the more
pleasant stimuli present. This is called:
(a) Assimilation
(b) Displacement
(c) Replacement
(d) Affective contrast
(e) None of the above
233. The relationship between hedonic tone and learning receives much
attention in:
(a) Social Psychology
(b) Abnormal Psychology
(c) Comparative Psychology
(d) Educational Psychology
(e) None of the above
234. Psychologists and general people use the word feeling to refer to
the:
(a) Motivational behaviour of people
(b) Emotional colouring of many daily activities
(c) Emotional span
(d) Relationship between emotion and motivation

(e) None of the above


235. The philosophy that all lifes activities are directed towards the end of
the gaining pleasure is known as:
(a) Hedonism
(b) Sentiment
(c) Delight
(d) Pupillometrics
(e) None of the above
236. Temper tantrums reach their peak between:
(a) Two and Three Years
(b) Four and Five Years
(c) Three and Four Years
(d) Six and Seven Years
(e) None of the above
237. Who believed that many emotional expressions represent innate
behaviour patterns which have contributed to the survival of the species?
(a) Arnold
(b) Charles Darwin
(c) Grossman
(d) Cannon
(e) William James

238. The sphygmograph is a rubber diaphragm which is fastened tightly


over an:
(a) Artificial Socket
(b) Artificial fluid cylinder
(c) Artificial metal cylinder
(d) Artery
(e) None of the above
239. In sophisticated countries, lie detector is generally used for:
(a) Measuring emotional responses of school students
(b) Assessing emotional behaviour of soldiers
(c) Educating gifted children
(d) Criminal detection
(e) Educating Disadvantage Children
240. The organic and physiological responses of the body are controlled by
the:
(a) Central nervous system
(b) Reticular Activating System
(c) Lymbic System
(d) Autonomic nervous system
(e) None of the above
241. Hypothalamus is regarded as the:
(a) Seat of emotions

(b) Melting emotional point


(c) Point of coglomerating emotional patterns
(d) Point of Irritating
(e) None of the above
242. Groups of related interests and activities centred around an emotional
core are known as:
(a) Traumas
(b) Frustrations
(c) Complexes
(d) Conflicts
(e) None of the above
243. The theory that physiological changes produce the experience of
emotion is called the:
(a) Cannon-Bard Theory
(b) Excitation Theory
(c) Motivational Theory
(d) James-Lange Theory
(e) None of the above
244. According to Arnolds theory of emotion, there are four steps in the
experience of emotion. The first step is:
(a) Perception
(b) Appraisal

(c) Expression
(d) Action
(e) None of the above
245. Depression inventory is a well questionnaire for measuring:
(a) Repression
(b) Aggression
(c) Depression
(d) Regression
(e) None of the above
246. Cannons research on emotion and bodily changes was well
publicized by:
(a) 1931
(b) 1929
(c) 1928
(d) 1925
(e) 1948
247. Facial expressions are one mode of:
(a) Verbal communication
(b) Bilateral communication
(c) Nonverbal communication
(d) Facial Expressions for emotional control

(e) None of the above


248. Recent research on emotion increasingly points to the fact that the:
(a) Experience of emotion depends on how we interpret the situation
(b) Experience of emotion depends on motives
(c) All emotional experiences are innate
(d) All emotional expressions are learned
(e) None of the above
249. Schachter and Singer held that there are two stages in emotional
experience. First, there is a general state of physiological arousal and
second, there is the:
(a) Motivational tinge
(b) Relaxation
(c) Cognitive experience
(d) Glandular Secretion
(e) None of the above
250. A theory of emotion based on cognitive appraisal was proposed by
Arnold in:
(a) 1967
(b) 1960
(c) 1941
(d) 1945
(e) 1965

251. Who said that life without emotion would be virtually a life without
motion?
(a) F. L. Ruch
(b) P.T. Young
(c) J.B. Watson
(d) D. B. Lindsley
(e) D. C. McClelland
252. The famous tridimensional theory of feeling was propounded by:
(a) P.T. Young
(b) Willihelm Wundt
(c) F. L. Ruch
(d) E. B. Titchener
(e) J. B. Watson
253. Emotions are more disturbing than:
(a) Motives
(b) Feeling
(c) Manual work
(d) Abnormal diseases
(e) Psychosomatic disorders
254. Most appropriate definition of emotion so far was given by:
(a) Willihelm Wundt

(b) J.B. Watson


(c) F. L. Ruch
(d) P. T. Young
(e) None of the above
255. Emotion is an acute disturbance of the organism, as a whole
psychological in origin, involving behaviour, conscious experience and
visceral functioning. Who has given the above definition of emotion?
(a) J.B. Watson
(b) P.T. Young
(c) W. Wundt
(d) Sigmund Freud
(e) None of the above
256. The disturbance due to emotion has always:
(a) A physical origin
(b) A physiological origin
(c) A psychophysical origin
(d) A psychological origin
(e) None of the above
257. Emotion is a/an:
(a) Attitude
(b) Conscious experience

(c) Unconscious experience


(d) Subconscious experience
(e) None of the above
258. The person facing the emotion-provoking situation must perceive it
as:
(a) Significant
(b) Insignificant
(c) Stimulus
(d) Response
(e) Norn, of the above
259. The studies of Watson challenged the popular belief that most
emotional patterns are purely:
(a) Physical
(b) Physiological
(c) Psychological
(d) Instinctive
(e) Psychophysiological
260. The definition of emotion as an affective state of organism was given
by:
(a) E. B. Titchener
(b) J. B. Watson
(c) P. T. Young

(d) Sigmund Freud


(e) None of the above
261. Carr (1925) has revealed that emotion is a form of:
(a) Motive
(b) Feeling
(c) Cerebral mobilization
(d) Energy mobilization
(e) None of the above
262. Mc Dougall has considered emotions as:
(a) Attitudes
(b) Instincts
(c) Feelings
(d) Activities
(e) None of the above
263. Logical reasoning blocks:
(a) Feeling
(b) Attitudes
(c) Emotions
(d) Motivation
(e) None of the above

264. After a strong emotional experience, a kind of after feeling effect is left
which is generally called:
(a) Mood
(b) Feeling
(c) Imprinting
(d) Instinct
(e) None of the above
265. Complex performances are:
(a) Impaired by very strong emotions
(b) Impaired by very weak emotions
(c) Blocked by strong emotions
(d) Not affected by emotions
(e) None of the above
266. At birth, the neonate has:
(a) Specific emotions
(b) No emotional experience
(c) No feeling
(d) No specific emotion
(e) None of the above
267. The famous experiment of Watson on Albert shows how:
(a) Fear responses are learned

(b) Anger responses are conditioned


(c) Conditioning of any response takes place
(d) A child learns to play
(e) None of the above
268. Role of maturation in the development of emotion can be studied by
separating the child from the social stimulation:
(a) Six months after birth
(b) One year after birth
(c) Immediately after birth
(d) Sixteen months after birth
(e) None of the above
269. Truly, it is not easily possible to separate a child from his social
environment. So, while studying on the role of maturation in the
development of emotion, Good enough has taken a 10-year old girl who
was:
(a) Blind and deaf from birth
(b) Antisocial
(c) Not sociable
(d) An Extrovert
(e) An Introvert
270. Gessell concluded that maturation is responsible for the development
of emotion. He reached this conclusion after studying a baby:

(a) By dissociation technique


(b) By socialization technique
(c) By social stimulation technique
(d) By isolation technique
(e) None of the above
271. Before the age of five, symbolic fears:
(a) Arise
(b) Sometimes arise
(c) Do not arise
(d) Very often arise
(e) None of the above
272. Jealousy is an outgrowth of:
(a) Fear
(b) Love
(c) Disgust
(d) Anger
(e) None of the above
273. Jealousy is a:
(a) Negative emotion
(b) Positive emotion

(c) Simple emotional response


(d) Complex emotional response
(e) None of the above
274. Sentiments are complex emotional patterns with:
(a) A social background
(b) Reactions to frustration
(c) An intellectual core or foundation
(d) Situational effects
(e) None of the above
275. Sentiments begins to develop:
(a) In the early school life of the child
(b) In the late school life of the child
(c) In adolescence
(d) After marriage
(e) None of the above
276. Sentiments are:
(a) Innate
(b) False moods
(c) Emotional complexes
(d) Learned emotional expressions

(e) None of the above


277. Face is the most expressive organs of the human body. Hence it is
called the:
(a) Mirror of emotion
(b) Reflection of emotion
(c) Barometer of emotion
(d) Emotional Reflex
(e) None of the above
278. Gestures as expressions of bodily changes are, to what extent,
influenced by culture:
(a) Is well known
(b) Is not a question now
(c) Is not known
(d) Is a subject of research now
(e) None of the above
279. The importance of postural reaction in emotional experience has been
emphasized by:
(a) James-Lange theory
(b) Cannon-Bard theory
(c) Activation theory
(d) Excitation theory
(e) None of the above

280. The galvanic skin response is measured with an apparatus called:


(a) Psychogalvanometer
(b) Lie-detector
(c) Electroencephalograph (EEG)
(d) Barometer
(e) None of the above
281. Who rediscovered the facts underlying pupi- llometries during an
incidental observation in 1960?
(a) M. L. Munn
(b) P. T. Young
(c) Wheatley
(d) Eckhard Hess
(e) None of the above
282. Pupillometrics is a novel technique which measures:
(a) The physiological changes during emotion
(b) The facial changes during emotion
(c) The external bodily changes during emotion
(d) The social changes during emotion
(e) None of the above
283. Studies reveal that removal of hypothalamus in cats and dogs:
(a) Activates the emotional area of brain

(b) Brings a full stop to all emotional expressions


(c) Stimulates emotional expressions
(d) Brings out haphazard emotional responses
(e) None of the above.
284. Lesions in the septal area of the lymbic system lead to:
(a) Ceasing emotional expressions
(b) Obliteraing facial expressions during emotion
(c) Stopping all physiological changes during emotions
(d) Heightened emotionality
(e) Only (c) and (d)
285. Cannon-Bard theory of emotion is otherwise known as:
(a) Motivational theory of emotion
(b) Excitation theory of emotion
(c) Thalamic theory of emotion
(d) Emergency theory of emotion
(e) None of the above
286. The excitation theory of emotion was formulated by:
(a) Arnold
(b) Wheatley
(c) Bray and Mauta

(d) Bart
(e) None of the above
287. R. W. Leeper (1948) stated that all emotional behaviour has essentially:
(a) Disorganising effect
(b) Different directions
(c) An organising effect
(d) A direct effect
(e) None of the above
288. The motivational theory of emotion was developed by:
(a) Black Wood (1949)
(b) Bindra (1959)
(c) Popiz (1939)
(d) R. W. Leeper (1948)
(e) Arnold (1950)
289. P. T. Young maintained that emotional behaviour is essentially:
(a) Organised
(b) Motivational
(c) Apathetic
(d) Disorganised
(e) None of the above

290. The Opponent Process theory of Emotion was advanced by:


(a) Richard Solomon and John Corbit (1974)
(b) Arnold (1950)
(c) Mernader (1955)
(d) R. W. Leeper (1948)
(e) Webb (1948)
291. Which theory of emotion can be called as the most attractive
explanation of emotions available at present?
(a) Motivational Theory of emotion
(b) Opponent Process Theory of Emotion
(c) Excitation Theory of Emotion
(d) James-Lange Theory of Emotion
(e) Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
292. Which theory indicated that emotion is an excitatory phenomena
represented in the threefold division of fear, anger and excitement
transmitted over separate cortico- hypothalamic pathways and touching of
different hypothalamic effector system?
(a) James-Lange theory of Emotion
(b) Cannon-Bard theory of Emotion
(c) Motivational theory of Emotion
(d) Excitation theory of Emotion
(e) None of the above

293. The famous experiment of Watson on Albert showed how a baby


learns:
(a) Fear
(b) Anger
(c) Love
(d) Jealousy
(e) Disgust
294. Childrens emotions are:
(a) Permanent
(b) Simple
(c) Temporary
(d) Complex
(e) Defective
295. With age, emotional responses become:
(a) Transitory
(b) Permanent
(c) Complex
(d) Less diffuse and random
(e) None of the above
296. Responses to anger can be roughly divided into two major categories
and these are:
(a) Impulsive and Inhibited

(b) Innate and Acquired


(c) Organized and Disorganized
(d) Restricted and Complex
(e) None of the above
297. What the impulsive responses are usually called as?
(a) Depression
(b) Aggression
(c) Jealousy
(d) Tempertantrum
(e) None of the above
298. The emotional experience is facilitated by the internal secretions of
the:
(a) Exocrine glands
(b) Kidney
(c) Brain
(d) Endocrine glands
(e) None of the above
299. Direct response to jealousy may be expressed in:
(a) Extreme love
(b) Extreme anger
(c) Extreme hostility

(d) Extreme pleasure


(e) Extreme delight
300. Studies on jealousy reveal that girls are:
(a) Less jealous than boys
(b) Equally jealous with boys
(c) Not jealous at all
(d) More jealous than boys
(e) None of the above

Answers
201. (d) 202.(c) 203.(c) 204.(c) 205.(c) 206. (d) 207.(c) 208. (a) 209.(c) 210. (d)
211. (d) 212. (d) 213. (d) 214. (b) 215. (a) 216. (d) 217. (d) 218. (a) 219. (d) 220.
(a) 221. (d) 222. (d) 223 (a) 224 (a) 225. (b) 226. (b) 227. (c) 228. (c) 229. (d)
230. (b) 231. (b) 232. (d) 233. (d) 234. (b) 235. (a) 236. (c) 237. (b) 238. (d) 239.
(d) 240. (d) 241. (a) 242. (c) 243. (d) 244. (a) 245. (c) 246. (b) 247. (c) 248. (a)
249. (c) 250. (b) 251. (a) 252. (b) 253. (b) 254. (d) 255. (b) 256. (d) 257. (b) 258.
(a) 259. (d) 260. (a) 261. (d) 262 (b) 263 (c) 264 (a) 265 (a) 266. (d) 267. (a) 268.
(c) 269. (a) 270. (d) 271. (c) 272. (d) 273. (a) 274. (c)275. (a) 276. (d) 277. (c)
278. (c) 279. (a) 280. (a) 281. (d) 282. (a) 283. (b) 284. (d) 285. (e) 286. (a) 287.
(c) 288. (d) 289. (d) 290. (a) 291. (b) 292. (d) 293. (a) 294. (c) 295. (d) 296. (a)
297. (b). 298. (d). (d) 299. (c) 300. (d)

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