4) Who is the father of Experimental psychology?

a. Wilhelm Wundt
b. G. Jung
c. Sigmund Freud
d. None of the above

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5) Which of the following part of the brain sends signals "alert" to the higher
centers in response to incoming messages?

a. Reticular formation
b. Hippocampus
c. Limbic system
d. Amygdala

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6) Psychophysics is a study of -

a. Perception illness
b. Movement perception
c. Psychological perception or physical stimuli
d. None of the above

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7) Which of the following is an example of the negative attitude towards people?

a. Stereotype
b. Prototype
c. Prejudice
 d. Discrimination

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8) Which of the following part of the brain is responsible for transferring short-
term memory to long-term memory?

a. Cerebellum
b. Hippocampus
c. Amygdala
d. None of the above

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9) From the list of below options, which does not contribute in memory?

a. Some rest after learning

b. Gender
c. Goal behind learning
d. Interesting learning material

10) Different people often react differently to the same situations. In psychology,
it is referred to as -

a. Nativism
b. Individual differences
c. Multiple determinants
d. None of the above

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11) Which of the following Greek philosopher believed that knowledge is acquired
through learning and experience?
 a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Archimedes
d. None of the above

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12) Which of the following is a belief that the mind is fundamentally different
from the body?

a. Mind-body Dualism
b. Specialism
c. Centralism
d. Mindism

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13) Which of the following is another term for reinforcement?

a. Reward
b. Condition
c. Response
d. None of the above

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14) Which of the following is the idea by which we can access the personality of
someone by studying their face?

a. Physiognomy
b. Phrenology
c. Physiology
d. Somatology
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15) People lost their touch with reality when they are ______

a. Psychopathic
b. Psychotic
c. Manic
d. Neurotic

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16) The process of using psychological methods by a trained psychologist for

helping people with psychological problems is called as -

a. Psychoanalysis
b. Psychotherapy
c. Psychiatry
d. None of the above

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17) The term used to refer the first two weeks of life is -

a. The period of infancy

b. The neonatal stage
c. Early childhood
d. Preoperational stage

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18) Which of the following is a part of the psychosocial domain?

a. Judgment
 b. Style of behaving
c. Memory
d. Motor skills

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19) The term used for describing a child's one-word utterances is -

a. Holophrases
b. Telegraphic speech
c. Under extensions
d. None of the above

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20) Which of the following is not a diagnosable sleep disorder?

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a. Insomnia
b. Somniloquy
c. Somnambulism
d. Sleep terror

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21) Intelligence can be defined as -

a. Knowledge of great many facts

b. Getting good grades in school
c. Ability to think abstractly and learn from experience
d. None of the above
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22) Which of the following controls the reflexes?

a. Hypothalamus
b. Spinal cord
c. Frontal lobe
d. None of the above

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23) Which of the following is controlled by the thyroid gland?

a. Glucose
b. Emotions
c. Metabolism
d. None of the above

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24) Which of the following is the ability to sense the movement and position of
our body parts?

a. Proprioprediction
b. Proprioliction
c. Proprioception
d. Proprioaction

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25) The range of IQ in the people with moderate mental retardation is -

a. 35 to 54
 b. 10 to 19
c. 20 to 34
d. 55 to 70

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26) The method of gathering information about the brain that indicates the
overall activity of the brain is called as -

a. Positron emission tomography

b. Electrical stimulation
c. Electroencephalogram
d. None of the above

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27) Suppose a person met with an accident, and later, he turned into less
concerned, irresponsible, and impulsive with the consequences of his actions. It
happened because the person must have suffered damage in -

a. Occipital lobe
b. Parietal lobe
c. Frontal lobe
d. All of the above

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28) Who started the scientific study of creativity?

a. Mednick
b. Guilford
c. Galton
d. Torrance
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29) Amit made a to-do list, but he mistakenly left it at home while going out for
his initial activity. When he tried to remember it, he only remembers the
beginning of the list and the end of the list, but he did not remember the things in
the middle. The above situation is an example of -

a. Flashbulb memory
b. Serial position effect
c. Encoding specificity effects
d. None of the above

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30) Who coined the term serial-position effect?

a. Herman Ebbinghaus
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Wilhelm Wundt
d. Sigmund Freud

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31) Suppose you enter in a room and notice a disgusting smell on your first walk
into the room, but you stop noticing it when you stay there for a while. What
does it illustrate?

a. Selective attention
b. Synesthesia
c. Sensory adaptation
d. Sensory attention

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32) Who is the author of the book "principles of psychology"?

a. Charles Darwin
b. Sigmund Freud
c. William James
d. Wilhelm Wundt

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33) Which of the following method is used for memorizing a poem?

a. Serial memorizing
b. Syntactic memorizing
c. Distributed practice
d. None of the above

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34) The act in which people help someone without any reason, motive, or we can
say personal interest is known as -

a. Nurturance
b. Social obligation
c. Prosocial behavior
d. None of the above

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35) If a student studies and practices hard with enjoyment and interest, it is
known as -

a. Cognitive engagement
b. Healthy adjustment
 c. Behavioral engagement
d. Emotional engagement

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36) For how many seconds, short-term memory holds information?

a. 30 seconds or less
b. 50 seconds
c. More than 50 seconds
d. None of the above

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37) Who is the father of psychodynamic theory?

a. Charles Darwin
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Wilhelm Wundt
d. None of the above

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38) Who is the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in psychology?

a. Melanie Klein
b. Karen Horney
c. Anna Freud
d. Margaret Floy Washburn

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39) Which of the following branch of psychology concerned with the study of
animal behavior?

a. Comparative psychology
b. Differential psychology
c. Social psychology
d. Abnormal psychology

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40) In India, first psychological laboratory was established at -

a. Delhi university
b. Bombay university
c. Calcutta university
d. None of the above

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41) In which year the first psychology department started in the dept. of
philosophy at Calcutta University?

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a. 1907
b. 1890
c. 1916
d. None of the above

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42) Phrenologists tried to find out the personality of someone by -

a. Feeling a person's skull

 b. Reading the horoscope of the person
c. Looking at the hands of the person
d. None of the above

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43) In which theory the age-related changes in intelligence are best explained?

a. Jensen's theory
b. Sternberg's theory
c. Cattell's theory
d. None of the above

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44) Study of qualities of a person is called as the -

a. Nomothetic approach
b. Idiographic approach
c. General approach
d. None of the above

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45) Who is the founder of the "Individual Psychology"?

a. Alfred Adler
b. Alfred Binet
c. David Hull
d. None of the above

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46) Which of the following is the overt behavior?

a. Do each and every thing

b. A person perform what he/she sense
c. A person perform what he/she see
d. None of the above

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47) Which of the following are the symptoms of schizophrenia?

a. Dizziness
b. Deafness
c. Hallucination, delusion
d. All of the above

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48) The single factor theory of intelligence was given by -

a. Alfred Adler
b. Alfred Binet
c. David Hull
d. None of the above

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49) The feeling of tension is known to be -

a. Anxiety
b. Depression
c. Panic
d. None of the above
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50) Which of the following facial expression is recognized universally?

a. Raised eyebrows
b. Pursed lips
c. Smiling
d. None of the above

01. Psychology may best be described as the scientific study of _______ and
______.
A. Mental states, physical states
B. Thoughts, emotions
C. Behavior, mental processes
D. Mental health, mental illness
02. Freud believed that adult problems usually:
A. Result in Freudian slip
B. Result in bad dreams
C. Can be traced back to critical stage during childhood
D. Are the result of poor behavior
03. Gestalt theory emphasizes:
A. A flow of consciousness
B. The atoms of thought
C. Environmental stimuli
D. Our tendency to see pattern
04. Whereas the _______ asked what happens when an organism does
something; the _____ asked how and why.
A functionalist, behaviorist
B structuralist, introspectionist
C structuralist, functionalist
D functionalist, structuralist
05. The _____ lobe is to hearing as the occipital lobe is to vision.
A. cerebeller
B. Parietal
C. Temporal
D. Frontal
06. Reflexes are usually controlled by the:
A Hypothalamus
B Spinal cord
C Frontal lobe
D Medulla
07. A part of the brain that sends signals “alert” to higher centers of the brain in
response to incoming messages is:
A. amygdala
B. Hippocampus
C. Limbic system
D. Reticular formation
08. Perception of the brightness of a color in affected mainly by:
A. The saturation of light waves
B. The wavelength of light waves
C. The purity of light waves
D. The amplitude of light waves
09. Which of the following is not a clue for depth perception?
A. Orientation
B. Interposition
C. Reduced clarity
D. Linear perspective
10. Psychophysics is the study of:
A. Depth perception
B. Perceptual illness
C. Movement perception
D. The psychological perception oh physical stimuli
21. Illnesses that seem to result from an interaction of physical and psychological
factors are called:
A. Somatic
B. Hysterical
C. Psychosomatic
D. Conversion disorder
22. Which of the following clinical procedures are based, in part on classical
conditioning?
A. Transference
B. Token economy
C. Two chair technique
D. Systematic desensitization
23. When people are _____ they have lost touch with reality.
A. Manic
B. Neurotic
C. Psychotic
D. Psychopathic
24. Intelligence can be defined as:
A. Knowledge of a great many facts
B. The ability to get good grades in school
C. All the factors that make one person different from another
D. The ability to think abstractly and learn from experience
25. According to Piaget the process of building mental representation of the
world through direct interaction with it is:
A. Adaptation
B. Conservation
C. Metacognition
D. Egocentrism
26. People who consistently come up with _____ explanations of events are more
prone to depression.
A. dysthymic
B. Delusional
C. Pessimistic
D. Overly optimistic
27. The leading cause of mental retardation is believed to be:
A. Inherited traits
B. Environmental factors
C. Organic brain syndrome
D. Fetal alcohol syndrome
28. An affective disorder in which a person swings from one mood extreme to
another is classified as:
A. Bipolar
B. Unipolar
C. Manic
D. Depressive
29. Albert Ellis and Aron Beck are names associated with the ____ therapy
approach.
A. Gestalt
B. Cognitive
C. Behavioral
D. Phenomenological
30. The process by which a trained professional uses psychological methods to
help people with psychological problem is known as:
A. Psychiatry
B. Psychoanalysis
C. Psychosurgery
D. Psychotherapy
31. Basic characteristics of tasks that result in social loafing is that they are:
A. Additive
B. Negative
C. Subtractive
D. Multiplicative
32. Job satisfaction is enhanced by tasks that are:
A. Very easy to accomplish
B. Overwhelming and rewarding
C. Unrelated to one’s personal needs
D. Challenging but not overwhelming
33. Piaget’s stage for infancy is:
A. Formal operation
B. Preoperational thought
C. Sensory motor thoughts
D. Concrete operations
34. When a researcher tests several groups of people at the same time each
group at a different age, he is conducting a(n) ______ study.
A. Sequential
B. Cross-sectional
C. Longitudinal
D. Observational

35. An individual becomes a member of social group through the process of:
A. Aging
B. Learning
C. Maturation
D. Socialization
36. The first two weeks of life are referred to as:
A. Early childhood
B. The neonatal period
C. The period of infancy
D. The preoperational stage
37. It would be more accurate to say that maturation:
A. Can be delayed by illness or poor nutrition
B. Is dramatically accelerated by good nutrition
C. Is not affected by any environmental factors because it is genetic
D. Is greatly accelerated by good health care and delayed by illness
38. Which of the following is part of the psychosocial domain?
A. Memory
B. Judgment
C. Motor skills
D. Style of behaving
39. The stage of prenatal development during which the developing organism is
most vulnerable to injury is the:
A. Embryonic stage
B. Fetal stage
C. Germinal stage
D. Zygotic stage
40. The child’s increasing skill at using his muscles is due chiefly to:
A. Maturation
B. Learning
C. Pushing by parents
D. An opportunity to exercise
41. Phrenologists tried to find out about personality by:
A.. reading a person’s horoscope
B.. feeling a person’s skull
C. looking at a person’s hands
D. asking people questions
42. A limitation of selective breeding studies is that they cannot:
A. tell us anything about the role of genes
B. be used to study human beings
C. provide information relevant to the nature/nurture debate
D. tell us anything about the role of the environment
43. Which Neo-Freudian challenged his ideas about penis envy?
A. Adler
B. Fromm
C. Jung
D. Horney
44. Someone who feels as though they are not living up to expectations would be
described by Adler as having:
A. low self-realization
B. an Adlerian complex
C. an inferiority complex
D. low actualization
45. According to Freud, the mind’s three components are:
A. ego, id, superego
B. unconscious, moral, immoral
C. oral, anal, phallic
D. primary, secondary, tertiary
46. The idea that you can assess someone’s personality by studying their face is
called:
A. phrenology
B. physiology
C. somatology
D. physiognomy
47. The ________ complex is to girls as the ________ complex is to boys.
A. Electra, Oedipus
B. Oedipus, Electra
C. oral, phallic
D. phallic, oral
48. The discovery that the heritability of the Big Five personality traits is around
40% – 50% suggests that:
A. the environment plays no role in personality
B. genes play no role in personality
C. the environment plays an important role in personality
D. the Big Five traits account for about half of our personality
49. Humanistic psychologists embraced the idea of:
A. repression
B. free will
C. unconscious drives
D. the id
50. According to Eysenck, extraverts seek to ________ their arousal while
introverts seek to ________ their arousal.
A. decrease, increase
C. B.c. increase, decrease
D. reveal, hide
51. All port believed that traits could be organized into three levels:
A. primary, secondary, tertiary
B. cognitive, emotional, physiological
C. id, ego, superego
D. cardinal, central, secondary
52. The MMPI is used to measure:
A. unconscious drives
B. the Big Five traits
C. personality and psychological disorders
D. leadership potential
53. Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five traits?
A. sense of humor
B. openness to experience
C. conscientiousness
D. extraversion
54. Freud founded the ________ approach to understanding human behaviour.
A. palliative
B. psychodynamic
C. patronymic
D. psychedelic
55. The influence of parents on the personality of their children is:
A. non-existent
B. weakest in early childhood
C. strongest in early childhood
D. consistent across the lifespan
56. What is special about “knockout” mice?
A. they are very attractive
B. their DNA has been modified
C. they are easy to knock out
D. they are unusually aggressive
57. The aim of behavioural genetics is to learn about:
A. the extent to which geneticists can modify people’s behaviour
B. the possibility of eradicating behavioural problems in children
C. the genetic and environmental influences on human behaviour
D. the ability of animals to learn language
58. Monozygotic is to ________ twins as dizygotic is to ________ twins.
A. male, female,
B. female, male
C. fraternal, identical
D. identical, fraternal
59. Which of the following characteristics describe someone who, according to
Maslow, is self-actualized?
A. creativity
B. confidence
C. spontaneity
D. all of the above
60. According to Freud, children pass through 4 stages of psychosexual
development.
Which of the following shows the stages in the correct developmental order?
A. oral, anal, phallic, latency
B. latency, oral, anal, phallic
C. phallic, anal, oral, latency
D. oral, phallic, latency, anal