psychology MCQs – Page 30

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
581. The skeletal nervous system is a component of the _____________ nervous system?
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A. autonomic

B. central

C. sympathetic

D. peripheral
582. During a childs development, if the amount of frustration and anxiety becomes too great concerning movement to the next stage, development may come to a halt. The individual is said to become ____________?
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A. dependent

B. passive

C. regressive

D. fixated
583. What describes the correct sequence of electrical activity as it passes through a single nerve cell?
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A. soma, cell body. Dendrite, vesicle

B. dendrite, soma, axon, vesicle

C. soma, vesicle, dendrite, axon

D. axon, dendrite, soma, vesicle

584. According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk is a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably _________________?
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A. between 3 and 5 years old

B. able to conserve volume

C. in the preoperational stage of cognitive development

D. engaging in egocentric patterns of play

585. The ______________ mobilizes the body by secreting epinephrine in stressful situation?
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A. pancreas

B. adrenal cortex

C. pituitary

D. adrenal medulla
586. A psychologist systematically observes and records the behavior of children on their first trip to a dentists office. This is ___________?
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A. a correlational study

B. a descriptive study

C. an experiment

D. a self-report study

587. A patient walks with a jerky, uncoordinated motion. A good preliminary diagnosis would be damage to the __________?
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A. reticular activating system

B. thalamus

C. amygdala

D. cerebellum
588. Most sensory information is relayed to the cerebral cortex by the ____________?
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A. thalamus

B. bipolar cells

C. medulla

D. transducer

589. The elementary units of the nervous system that carry out the functions of the system are called _____________?
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A. glia

B. ganglia

C. nerves

D. neurons
590. Social psychology is the study of __________?
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A. how the behavior of individuals in influenced by the their cultural heritage

B. all of the above

C. how the behavior of individuals is influenced by others

D. None of these

E. how the behavior of groups is influenced by their cultural heritage

591. The German word Gestalt means ____________?
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A. whole form

B. random combination

C. unconscious illusion

D. conscious perception

592. When a child acquires the ability to represent the world internally through the use of symbols, he enters which of Piagets stages of cognitive development?
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A. sensorimotor

B. concrete operational

C. preoperational

D. secondary circular reactions

593. One would expect an action potential to travel most quickly in _____________?
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A. a short, thin myelinated fiber

B. a long, thin myelinated fiber

C. a long, thick myelinated fiber

D. a short, thick myelinated fiber

594. The gland of the body serve as ___________?
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A. afferent nerves

B. efferent verves

C. receptors

D. effectors
595. A neuron does not contain _______________?
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A. dendrites

B. septum

C. myelin sheath

D. a cell body

596. The whole is more than the sum of its parts the approach that most associate with this statement is ___________?
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A. Humanism

B. Psychoanalysis

C. Structuralism

D. Gestalt
597. That the upper part of the body develops earlier than the lower part is termed ________________?
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A. corticodistal

B. general to specific

C. cephalocaudal

D. proximodorsal

598. Mr. Farid has no meaningful conceptual goals and has changed his college several times. Erikson would have suggested that he lacks _______________?
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A. initiative

B. autonomy

C. trust

D. identity
599. What is produced by tactile stimulation of a newborns cheek?
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A. Moro response

B. grasping response

C. rooting response

D. Babkin response

600. The first two years after birth are critical _________________?
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A. to formation of secondary sexual characteristics

B. to sensory formation

C. to self-concept formation

D. to aptitude formation