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Psychology MCQ
1) Where the word "psychology" does come from?

1. Italian
2. Greek
3. Latin
4. None of the above

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2) Psychology is said to be the scientific study of _____

and ______.

1. Behavior, mental processes

2. Mental illness, Mental health
3. Physical states, mental states
4. None of the above

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3) Psychology is a -

1. Biological science
2. Physical science
3. Social science
4. Natural science

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4) Who is the father of Experimental psychology?

1. Wilhelm Wundt
2. G. Jung
3. Sigmund Freud 
 4. 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?

1. Reticular formation
2. Hippocampus
3. Limbic system
4. Amygdala

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6) Psychophysics is a study of -

1. Perception illness
2. Movement perception
3. Psychological perception or physical stimuli
4. None of the above

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7) Which of the following is an example of the

negative attitude towards people?

1. Stereotype
2. Prototype
3. Prejudice
4. 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?

1. Cerebellum
2. Hippocampus
3. Amygdala
4. None of the above
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9) From the list of below options, which does not

contribute in memory?

1. Some rest after learning

2. Gender
3. Goal behind learning
4. Interesting learning material

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10) Different people often react differently to the same

situations. In psychology, it is referred to as -

1. Nativism
2. Individual differences
3. Multiple determinants
4. None of the above

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11) Which of the following Greek philosopher believed

that knowledge is acquired through learning and
experience?

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Archimedes
4. 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?

1. Mind-body Dualism
2. Specialism
3. Centralism
4. Mindism

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

1. Reward
2. Condition
3. Response
4. 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?

1. Physiognomy
2. Phrenology
3. Physiology
4. Somatology

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15) People lost their touch with reality when they are
______

1. Psychopathic
2. Psychotic
3. Manic
4. 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 -

1. Psychoanalysis
2. Psychotherapy
3. Psychiatry
4. None of the above

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17) The term used to refer the first two weeks of life is -
 1. The period of infancy
2. The neonatal stage
3. Early childhood
4. Preoperational stage

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

domain?

1. Judgment
2. Style of behaving
3. Memory
4. Motor skills

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

utterances is -

1. Holophrases
2. Telegraphic speech
3. Under extensions
4. None of the above

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20) Which of the following is not a diagnosable sleep

disorder?

1. Insomnia
2. Somniloquy
3. Somnambulism
4. Sleep terror

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21) Intelligence can be defined as -

1. Knowledge of great many facts

2. Getting good grades in school
3. Ability to think abstractly and learn from
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experience
 4. None of the above

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22) Which of the following controls the reflexes?

1. Hypothalamus
2. Spinal cord
3. Frontal lobe
4. None of the above

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23) Which of the following is controlled by the thyroid

gland?

1. Glucose
2. Emotions
3. Metabolism
4. 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?

1. Proprioprediction
2. Proprioliction
3. Proprioception
4. Proprioaction

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25) The range of IQ in the people with moderate

mental retardation is -

1. 35 to 54
2. 10 to 19
3. 20 to 34
4. 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 -

1. Positron emission tomography

2. Electrical stimulation
3. Electroencephalogram
4. 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 -

1. Occipital lobe
2. Parietal lobe
3. Frontal lobe
4. All of the above

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28) Who started the scientific study of creativity?

1. Mednick
2. Guilford
3. Galton
4. 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 -

1. Flashbulb memory
2. Serial position effect
3. Encoding specificity effects 
 4. None of the above

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30) Who coined the term serial-position effect?

1. Herman Ebbinghaus
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Wilhelm Wundt
4. 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?

1. Selective attention
2. Synesthesia
3. Sensory adaptation
4. Sensory attention

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

psychology"?

1. Charles Darwin
2. Sigmund Freud
3. William James
4. Wilhelm Wundt

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33) Which of the following method is used for

memorizing a poem?

1. Serial memorizing
2. Syntactic memorizing
3. Distributed practice
4. 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 -

1. Nurturance
2. Social obligation
3. Prosocial behavior
4. None of the above

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35) If a student studies and practices hard with

enjoyment and interest, it is known as -

1. Cognitive engagement
2. Healthy adjustment
3. Behavioral engagement
4. Emotional engagement

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

information?

1. 30 seconds or less
2. 50 seconds 
3. More than 50 seconds
4. None of the above
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37) Who is the father of psychodynamic theory?

1. Charles Darwin
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Wilhelm Wundt
4. None of the above

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

1. Melanie Klein
2. Karen Horney
3. Anna Freud
4. Margaret Floy Washburn

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39) Which of the following branch of psychology

concerned with the study of animal behavior?

1. Comparative psychology
2. Differential psychology
3. Social psychology
4. Abnormal psychology

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40) In India, first psychological laboratory was

established at -

1. Delhi university
2. Bombay university
3. Calcutta university
4. 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?

1. 1907
2. 1890
3. 1916
4. None of the above

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42) Phrenologists tried to find out the personality of

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someone by -
 1. Feeling a person's skull
2. Reading the horoscope of the person
3. Looking at the hands of the person
4. None of the above

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43) In which theory the age-related changes in

intelligence are best explained?

1. Jensen's theory
2. Sternberg's theory
3. Cattell's theory
4. None of the above

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

1. Nomothetic approach
2. Idiographic approach
3. General approach
4. None of the above

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

1. Alfred Adler
2. Alfred Binet
3. David Hull
4. None of the above

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46) Which of the following is the overt behavior?

1. Do each and every thing

2. A person perform what he/she sense
3. A person perform what he/she see
4. None of the above

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

1. Dizziness
2. Deafness
3. Hallucination, delusion
4. All of the above

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48) The single factor theory of intelligence was given

by -

1. Alfred Adler
2. Alfred Binet
3. David Hull
4. None of the above

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49) The feeling of tension is known to be -

1. Anxiety
2. Depression
3. Panic
4. None of the above

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50) Which of the following facial expression is

recognized universally?

1. Raised eyebrows
2. Pursed lips
3. Smiling
4. None of the above

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