Creativity MCQ

1 “Peripheral theory of thinking” is otherwise known as:

A Motor Theory of Thinking
B Stimulus Response Theory of Thinking
C Affective approach of Thinking
D Cognitive approach of Thinking

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Answer: Motor Theory of Thinking

2 ExperimentalEvidences indicate that thin¬king is accompanied by minute
muscular contractions occurring during thought are called:
A Muscle contractions
B Implicit speech
C Explicit speech
D Spasm

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Answer: Implicit speech

3 When we make use of many experiences and examples for arriving at a
generalized prin-ciple or conclusion, it is known as:
A InductiveReasoning
B Convergent Thinking
C Deductive Reasoning
D Divergent Thinking

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Answer: Inductive Reasoning

4 Somepeople have almost photographic visual imagery. They only look at
some¬thing and recall what they have seen in detail. Such imagery is called:
A EideticImagery
B Verbal Imagination
C Synesthesia
D Memory Image

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Answer: Eidetic Imagery
5 Adisjunctive concept separates objects into a class by reason of their
possession of:
A Any one characteristic
B Any five characteristics
C Any two characteristics
D Any three characteristics

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Answer: Any one characteristic

6 Many studies in thinking have been devoted to find out how we learn or form
concepts. Such studies are popularly known as:
A Studyon Images
B Language Development Studies
C Concept attainment studies
D None of the above

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Answer: Concept attainment studies

7 According to Heidbreder, the ‘number’ and ‘form’ concepts are more difficult to
form that concept of:
A Images
B Words
C Syllables
D Concrete objects
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Answer: Concrete objects

8 “Problem Solving” and “Creative Thinking” are two main forms of:
A Realistic Thinking
B Directed Thinking
C Autistic Thinking
D Image

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Answer: Realistic Thinking

9 Psychologists believe that people have ways of thinking in their peculiar and
more or less in a fixed way. They call these as:
A Fantasies
B Concepts
C Thinking sets
D None of the above

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Answer: Thinking sets

10 We have a tendency to make normal use of certain household articles, but it is
difficult for us to put them to some novel use. Psychologists have named this
tendency as:
A Functional fixedness
B Generalisation
C Concept formation
D Abstraction

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Answer: Functional fixedness

11 English language makes use of:
A 45 phonems approximately
B 35 phonems approximately
C 55 phonems approximately
D 65 phonems approximately

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Answer: 45 phonems approximately

12 The “clause or phrase” is an unit of perception of:
A Concept
B Thought
C Language
D None of the above
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Answer: Language
13 The “Information Processing Theory” ex¬plains language learning by analogy
with:
A Polygraphmodel
B EEG model
C Computer model
D Animal model

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Answer: Computer model

14 The temporal-lobe language region is known as:
A Broca’s Area
B Sherrington’ area
C Wernicke’s Area
D None of the above

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Answer: Wernicke’s Area

15 Wernicke’s area is connected to Broca’s area by a bundle of nerve fibres
called the:
A Arculate fasciulus
B Lateral Sulcus
C Rubrospinal Tract
D Middle Temporal Gyrus

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Answer: Arculate fasciulus

16 Decibel (dB) is the unit to measure the:
A Intensity of sound pressures
B Sensation
C Light movement
D Intelligence

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Answer: Intensity of sound pressures

17 Woodworth has called thinking as:
A Subvocal Talking
B Problem solving behaviour
C Mental Exploration
D None of the above
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Answer: Mental Exploration

18 The “Central Theory of Thinking” holds that we think only with the help of our:
A Peripheral Nervous system
B Brain
C CentralNervous system
D None of the above

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Answer: Brain
19 The“Central theory of thinking,” which holds that we think with our brain only,
was advanced by the:
A Gestalt Psychologists
B Functionalists
C Behaviourists
D Structuralists

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Answer: Gestalt Psychologists

20 J.B. Watson, the founding father of Be¬haviourism, held that thinking is
nothing but:
A Meditation
B Silent talking
C Yoga
D Subvocal talking
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Answer: Subvocal talking

21 Who viewed that thinking is the orga¬nization and reorganization of current

lear¬ning in the present circumstances?
A Vinacke (1968)
B T.G.Andrews (1948)
C G. W. Allport (1924)
D L. F. Shaffer (1936)

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Answer: Vinacke (1968)
22 In reasoning, the association begins with a problem and end with a/an:
A Solution
B Image
C Problem
D Dream

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Answer: Solution
23 “Mental Trial and Error” is otherwise known as:
A Thinking
B Sensation
C Perception
D Learning

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Answer: Thinking
24 Alarger working-memory capacity makes it possible to solve more complex
problems. With the development, there is:
A Imitationof behaviour of parents
B Complexity in the ability to hold information in working memory.
C Understanding of concepts and syllables
D Growth in the ability to hold information in working memory.

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Answer: Growth in the ability to hold information in working memory.

25 Concepts are not static unit of knowledge. These are:
A Highly convertible
B Complex and developing
C Flexible and simple
D Dynamic and constantly changing

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Answer: Dynamic and constantly changing

26 Which term refers to the mental activities involved in the acquisition,
processing, organization and use of knowledge?
A Feeling
B Imagination
C Cognition
D None of the above
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Answer: Cognition
27 In which type of memory, the materials are stored for later retrieval?
A Long-term memory (LTM)
B Sensory memory
C Rote memory
D Short-term memory (STM)

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Answer: Long-term memory (LTM)

28 With development, children’s memory relies more heavily on:
A Symbolic concepts
B Experiences
C Imagination
D Gestures

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Answer: Symbolic concepts

29 Thecurrent Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test is descended from the test
developed by Binet and Simon:
A In early 1600s
B In early 1800s
C In early 1900s
D None of the above

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Answer: In early 1900s

30 The capacity to learn and adapt to the requirements for survival in one’s
culture is called:
A Learning
B Emotion
C Intelligence
D Abstraction
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Answer: Intelligence
31 Who told that mental functioning involves two types of abilities – an associative
ability and a cognitive ability?
A A. R. Jensen
B E. B. Titchener
C J. B. Watson
D Wilhelm Wundt

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Answer: A. R. Jensen
32 Who viewed intelligence as an attribute of the person like any other attribute
such as blood pressure and temperature etc?
A A. R. Jensen
B Carl Spearman
C R. B. Cattell
D None of the above

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Answer: A. R. Jensen
33 According to Spearman, the capacity for activities like reading a novel,
speaking fluently, planning the train route from a map etc. involve:
A Primary mental ability
B The manifestation of specific intelli¬gence in greater degree
C Abstract level of intelligence
D The manifestation of general intelligence in greater degree

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Answer: The manifestation of general intelligence in greater degree

34 Who introduced the term “Intelligence Quo¬tient” (I.Q.)?
A William Stern
B R. B. Cattell
C A. R. Jensen
D E. L. Thorndike

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Answer: William Stern

35 The term “intelligence” is derived from a Latin word, framed by Cicero to
translate a Greek word used by Aristotle to include:
A Specific effective processes
B All effective processes
C Specific cognitive processes
D All cognitive processes

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Answer: All cognitive processes

36 The simultaneous existence of two opposed emotions, motivations or attitudes
e.g. love- hate, approach-avoidance is called:
A Rationalization
B Narcissism
C Instinct
D Ambivalence

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Answer: Ambivalence
37 The proverbial story of milkmaid’s daughter is an illustration of:
A Fantasy
B CreativeThinking
C Divergent Thinking
D Dream

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Answer: Fantasy
38 If
we start visualising that we will go to heaven and start experiencing all the
pleasures therein, this would be:
A Imagination
B Day-dreaming
C Dream
D None of the above
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Answer: Day-dreaming
39 Thedifference between day-dreams and fantasy is that the former are much
more organised and relate to the:
A Subconscious mental activity of the individual
B Unconscious mental activity of the indi¬vidual
C Conscious mental activity of the indi¬vidual
D Both conscious and unconscious acti¬vities of the individual

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Answer: Conscious mental activity of the indi¬vidual

40 Delusions can be classified into two types and these are:
A Transitory and permanent
B Direct and indirect
C Grandeur and persecution
D None of the above

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Answer: Grandeur and persecution

41 Some delusions are there which are brief or fleeting. These are called:
A Delusion of Persecution
B Chronic Delusions
C Delusion of Grandeur
D Transient Delusions

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Answer: Transient Delusions

42 Some delusions are there which are very elaborate and many completely
engulf the individual. These are called:
A Chronic or Systematic Delusions
B Transient Delusions
C Delusion of Grandeur
D Delusion of Persecution

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Answer: Chronic or Systematic Delusions

43 “Sometimes an individual feet’s that he is being harassed, persecuted and
plotted against by everyone. He is obsessed with the idea that everybody around
is out to get him, harm him, kill him and he is a victim of domestic, national and
international conspiracies”. This is an example of:
A Delusion of Persecution
B Systematic Delusions
C Transient Delusions
D Delusion of Grandeur

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Answer: Delusion of Persecution

44 The ideas which were interfering with the solution of the problem tend to fade
in:
A Preparation Period
B Evaluation Period
C Incubation Period
D None of the above

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Answer: Incubation Period

45 Hypochondriacal delusions are concerned with an excessive preoccupation
with imaginary:
A Physical or Mental disease
B Psychoses
C Physical diseases
D Mental diseases

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Answer: Physical or Mental disease

46 Self-condemnatory delusions generally ref¬lect a need for:
A Affection
B Reward
C Punishment
D None of the above
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Answer: Punishment
47 Hypochondriasis is usually interpreted as an escape from life difficulties:
A By a flight into coma stage
B By a flight into disease
C By a flight into unconscious stage
D By a flight into dream
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Answer: By a flight into disease

48 Jean Piaget was a/an:
A Russian Psychologist
B English Psychologist
C Swiss Psychologist
D German Psychologist

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Answer: Swiss Psychologist

49 Jean Piaget used the term “Schemata” to refer to the cognitive structures
underlying organized patterns of:
A Behaviour
B Experience
C Temperament
D None of the above
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Answer: Behaviour
50 In
which development stage, according to Piaget, “Object permanence”
develops?
A Concrete operation period
B Formal operation period
C Preoperational Period
D Sensorimotor Period

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Answer: Sensorimotor Period

51 Piagetspeaks of the “plane of action” in the sensorimotor phase preceding
and being essential for the later development of the:
A Plane of thought
B Personality
C Concept formation
D Image

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Answer: Plane of thought

52 Inwhich substage of Sensorimotor Period, the infant repeats and modifies
actions which initially may have occurred by chance and which the child finds to
be satisfying or pleasurable?
A Primary circular Reaction
B Coordination of secondary schemata
C Tertiary circular Reaction
D None of the above

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Answer: Primary circular Reaction

53 Children actively use trial-and-error methods to learn more about the
properties of objects in the developmental stage of:
A Coordination of secondary schemata
B Primary circular Reactions
C Tertiary circular Reactions
D Secondary circular Reactions

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Answer: Tertiary circular Reactions

54 Themajor characteristic of the preope¬rational phase is the development of
systems of representation, such as language, which Piaget calls the:
A Symbolic function
B Explicit function
C Communicative cues
D Implicit function

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Answer: Symbolic function

55 The child’s habit of attending to one salient aspect of a problem neglecting
other ones, thus distorting reasoning is known as:
A Centration
B Syncretism
C Egocentrism
D Transductive reasoning
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Answer: Centration
56 The child’s cognitive structure reaches maturity during:
A The period of formal operations
B Concrete operational period
C Sensorimotor period
D Preoperational period

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Answer: The period of formal operations

57 When we just start completely agreeing with some deduced results or
principles and try to apply to particular cases, it is known as:
A Convergent Thinking
B Inductive Reasoning
C Divergent Thinking
D Deductive Reasoning

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Answer: Deductive Reasoning

58 Oneschool of psychology attempted to show that thinking without the sensory
images is possible. What is the name of this school?
A Woozberg school
B Gestaltschool
C Behaviouristic school
D None of the above

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Answer: Woozberg school

59 The concept of an automobile is:
A A haphazard concept
B A disjunctive concept
C An image
D A conjuctive concept

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Answer: A conjuctive concept

60 Theconcepts which refer to relationship between two elements in a situation is
known as:
A RelationalConcepts
B Simple concepts
C Conjunctive Concepts
D None of the above
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Answer: Relational Concepts

61 In
which strategy in concept learning, the “S” immediately jumps to the
conclusion?
A Gambler’s approach
B Conservative appraoch
C Wholist approach
D Partist approach

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Answer: Gambler’s approach

62 In
“Conservative Approach”, in the stra¬tegies in concept formation, the “S”
(Sub¬ject) proceeds very cautiously and syste¬matically concentrating on:
A Three features of the card at a time
B Four features of the card at a time
C One feature of the card at a time
D None of the above

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Answer: One feature of the card at a time

63 A German Psychologist, Karl Duncker, first proposed the concept of:
A ImplicitSpeech
B Subvocal talking
C Functional Fixity
D Realistic Thinking

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Answer: Functional Fixity

64 “Functional Fixedness” is an important factor in:
A Day Dreaming
B Thinking
C Problem Solving
D None of the above
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Answer: None of the above

65 Knowledge of ‘phonems’ is essential for comprehending a language, but the
phonems themselves do not form a unit of perception of a language. The reason
is that we never hear them one at a time. What we actually hear is two or three
phonemes combined into a syllable called:
A A morphem
B A phonem
C A concept
D An image

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Answer: A morphem
66 Therange between the loudest and the weakest sounds that an individual can
make is called:
A Dynamic range
B Sensory range
C Pitch range
D None of the above

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Answer: Dynamic range

67 The information processing theory empha¬sises the contribution of the child
rather than the role of reinforcement as emphasized by the:
A Operant model
B Insightfullearning model
C Classical conditioning model
D Trial-and-Error model

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Answer: Operant model

68 In1860s, a French physician Paul Broca showed that a lower part of the
frontal lobe, a short distance above and in the front of the left ear was mainly
responsible for the:
A Creativity
B Formation and development of images
C Control of spoken language
D Concept formation
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Answer: Control of spoken language

69 The language region in the lower frontal lobe is known as:
A Broca’s Area
B Sherrington’ Area
C Wernicke’s Area
D None of the above

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Answer: Broca’s Area

70 The general term for speech disorder due to brain damage is known as:
A Aphasia
B Paresthesia
C Astasia-abasia
D Aphonia

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Answer: Aphasia