psychology MCQs – Page 27

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
521. The childrens game of peak-a-boo centers around which of the following developmental concepts?
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A. conservation

B. formal operational

C. object permanence

D. schema

522. Who most stressed the importance of maturation in development?
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A. Jean Piaget

B. John Locke

C. Arnold Gesell

D. Lev Vygotsky

523. According to Piaget, the major accomplishment of sensorimotor stage is ________________?
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A. contraction

B. egocentrism

C. abstract thinking

D. object permanence
524. Specialized cells of nervous system carry ____________?
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A. messages

B. reflexes

C. both a and b

D. none of these

525. Occipital lobe is located in ___________?
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A. none of these

B. parietal lobe

C. temporal lobe

D. frontal lobe

526. Which of the following plays an important role in the regulation of respiration?
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A. pons

B. hypothalamus

C. thalamus

D. midbrain

527. The school of thought which restricted psychologys subject matter to the observable actions of people and other animals is ___________?
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A. None of these

B. ethnology

C. behaviorism

D. Structuralism

E. physiological psychology

528. ___________were major figures in behaviorism ?
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A. B.F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky

B. Watson C. Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget

C. Jean Piaget and John

D. John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner
529. A term completely describing muscles and glands is ____________?
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A. receptors

B. affectors

C. effectors

D. innervates

530. Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to your heart muscles by the ____________?
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A. autonomic nervous system

B. limbic system

C. central nervous system

D. skeletal nervous system

531. A physical stimulus is converted into a neural impulse by a process ____________?
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A. transposition

B. transition

C. transference

D. transduction
532. The term germ cell when used in genetics refers to _________________?
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A. somatic cells

B. ova and sperm cells

C. both a and b

D. none of these

533. Information is carried from the central nervous system to the tissue by _______________?
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A. motor neurons

B. interneurons

C. afferent neurons

D. sensory neurons

534. As one moves from external stimulus to moto response, which of the following constitutes an accurate sequential pattern?
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A. afferent nerve, efferent nerve, neural modulator

B. efferent nerve, afferent nerve, neural modulator

C. afferent nerve, interneuron, efferent nerve

D. efferent nerve, interneuron, afferent nerve

535. This is not the characteristic attributed to consciousness by William James ___________?
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A. selective

B. continuous

C. personal

D. stability
536. According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the _____________ stage?
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A. concrete operational

B. formal operational

C. preoperational

D. sensorimotor

537. In human females, the primary sex hormones are _____________?
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A. progesterone and estrogen

B. testosterone and estrogen

C. testosterone and androgen

D. progesterone and testosterone

538. In Piagets theory of cognitive development, internalizing of action schemes is the major task of the______________ stage?
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A. sensorimotor

B. preoperational

C. concrete-operational

D. formal operational

539. Who would comment that environment is of central importance?
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A. Watson

B. Dewey

C. Darwin

D. Wundt

540. The longest part of neuron is ____________?
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A. axon

B. synapses

C. cell body

D. dendrite