psychology MCQs – Page 22

Practise multiple-choice questions from psychology for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

psychology Mcqs
421. Jean Piaget, contributed generally to cognitive psychology through his accounts of ___________?
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A. the mental rules underlying languages use

B. animal behavior in the natural environment

C. intellectual development in children

D. information processing in computers

422. Which of the following behaviors is characteristic of infantile autism?
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A. social isolation

B. extreme sensitivity to pain

C. stereotyped behavior

D. both a and c
423. A psychologist that has a job to teach smoking cessation classes to employees is ___________?
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A. health psychologist

B. clinical psychologist

C. educational psychologist

D. counseling psychologist

424. In a study of the effects of alcohol consumption, some participants drank a nonalcoholic beverage that actually smelled and tested like alcohol. This nonalcoholic drink was a ___________?
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A. placebo

B. double blind

C. None of these

D. replication

E. random sample

425. To say that psychology is a science means that ____________?
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A. psychological research is free from value judgments

B. psychologists approach the study of thoughts and actions

C. all of the above

D. psychologists only study observable behaviors

426. Piagets concept of scheme is ___________________?
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A. a deliberate plan of action

B. a mental representation of some aspect of external world

C. a set of relaxed experiences

D. a mental blueprint for an organized pattern of action
427. The vocal apparatus for producing speech sounds are useless unless the organism has which area in its brain developed in order to coordinate these movements?
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A. fissure of Ronaldo

B. Brocas area

C. hypothalamus

D. thalamus

428. The ___________ is responsible for the transmission of an impulse between neurons?
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A. luteinizing hormone

B. acetylcholine

C. actomyosin

D. acetyl cholinesterase

429. What refers to biological difference between males and females present at birth?
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A. gender role

B. sex

C. genotype

D. gender identity

430. The ____________ is not a neurotransmitter?
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A. acetylcholine

B. serotonin

C. dopamine

D. opioid peptides
431. Socially the young child can only attend to one dimension at a time. In cognitive terms this is called ______________?
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A. assimilation

B. egocentrism

C. accommodation

D. reversibility

432. What measures brain activity, more specifically, emitted potentials ?
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A. EEG

B. ECT

C. CAT system

D. MRI

433. Experiments demonstrate that infants register strongest preference for which of the following visual stimuli?
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A. bright colors

B. likenesses of animals and pets

C. plain, solid colors

D. likenesses of human faces
434. According to Kohlberg, an individual in a stage of conventional morality would be most concerned with _____________?
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A. avoiding punishment

B. achieving fairness

C. gaining approval

D. gaining rewards

435. Two historical roots of psychology are ____________?
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A. Physiology and chemistry

B. philosophy and chemistry

C. philosophy and physiology

D. Physiology and physics

436. In gamete development, the fact that each mature egg or sperm contains only one chromosome from each pair is attributable to a process known as ______________?
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A. zygotic division

B. immunization

C. reduction division

D. fertilization

437. According to Roger Brown and other psycholinguistic researchers, children refine the way they apply grammatical rules through ______________?
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A. positive conditioning from caregivers

B. memorizing of what others say

C. positive reinforcement from caregivers

D. experience and self-correction
438. According to Noam Chomskys theory of transformational grammar, a Kernel is ______________________?
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A. the smallest unit of meaning in a language

B. the deep structure of a sentence

C. the basic declarative thought of the sentence

D. the surface structure of a sentence

439. Kohlbergs moral developmental stages are closely related to __________________?
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A. Eriksons psychosexual stages

B. Dollard and Millers learning stages

C. Freuds psychosexual stages

D. Piagets cognitive developmental stages
440. The thyroid gland control ______________?
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A. emotions

B. metabolism

C. glucose absorption

D. sexuality