psychology MCQs – Page 33

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
641. Chemicals that act as messengers between animals are referred as _____________?
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A. pheromones

B. amacrines

C. hormones

D. anachrones
642. Diana Baumrind found that which parenting style produces the most well-adjusted children?
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A. Permissive

B. Authoritative

C. Authoritarian

D. Attached

643. The myelin sheath serves to ____________?
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A. bypass the nodes of Ranvier

B. increase the speed of natural transmission

C. break down epinephrine

D. decrease the speed of natural transmission

644. Which of the following shows the largest ratio of brain size to body mass?
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A. elephants

B. humans

C. chimpanzees

D. dolphins

645. Two kinds of change that occur to the cell body of a neuron during an action potential are ___________?
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A. hormonal and mechanical

B. spontaneous and stimulated

C. chemical and hormonal

D. electrical and chemical
646. The subject concerned with studying human behavior in workplace is _____________?
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A. industrial/organizational psychology

B. psychiatry

C. personality psychology

D. clinical psychology

647. When the development of the same subject is studied over a period of time, the study is called a _______________?
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A. longitudinal study

B. life-history study

C. sequential study

D. cross-sectional study

648. According to Erikson, a child four to six years of age is in which stage of development?
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A. locomotor-genital stage

B. muscular-anal stage

C. latency stage

D. oral-sensory stage

649. When a child understands that reversible changes in the appearance of an object do not change fundamental properties such as number, width and volume, the child has achieved _______________?
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A. an understanding of cause-and-effect relations

B. egocentrism

C. conservation

D. hypothetic-deductive reasoning

650. Piaget contented that the initial forms of thought are _____________?
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A. visual symbols

B. early action schemes

C. verbal symbols

D. spoken (not mental) verbal symbols

651. The palmar reflex, present in neonates, refers to which behavior?
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A. startle response

B. head turning

C. hand grasping

D. sucking

652. Anoxia is ________________?
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A. hyperventilation

B. interruption of the oxygen supply to brain

C. an oversupply of oxygen to the brain

D. a disease of the blood cells

653. Removal of the hippocampus is most likely lead to ___________?
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A. retrograde amnesia

B. anterograde amnesia

C. sham rage

D. narcolepsy

654. Damage in Brocas area will lead to difficulty in ______________?
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A. remembering past events

B. reading

C. speaking fluently

D. understanding other people when they speak

655. In language, grammar refers to _________________?
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A. the morphemes used

B. the phonemes used

C. both morphemes and phonemes

D. the rules used to connect phrases
656. In an experiment, the control group should be treated in the same way as the experimental group except for ____________?
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A. receiving different levels of the confounding variable

B. completing posts-test measures

C. completing pretest measures

D. receiving different levels of the independent variable

657. The ability to view the world in 3 dimensions and perceive distance is ___________?
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A. Depth perception

B. Illusion

C. Delusion

D. None of these

658. Which one of the following is not the law of perceptual grouping?
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A. Continuation

B. None of these

C. Similarity constancy

D. Proximity

E. Constancy

659. McClellands method of measuring the achievement motive made use of ____________?
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A. None of these

B. Persons estimates of level of aspiration

C. Self-ratings

D. Fantasy

E. Activity level

660. Psychologists who are interested in the perception of the motion, part-whole relationships and in how people judge size were identified with what school of psychology?
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A. psychoanalytic

B. gestalt

C. structural

D. biological