psychology MCQs – Page 34

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
661. Someone whose corpus callosum has been cut will experience difficulty in ___________?
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A. Recognizing an object held in the right hand

B. Naming an object held in the right hand

C. Naming an object held in the left hand

D. Recognizing an object held in the left hand

662. The term reinforcement refers to the pairing of ___________?
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A. CS and CR

B. US and UR

C. CS and US

D. CR and UR

663. The local stimulus theory of hunger is associated with the name of ___________?
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A. Anderson

B. Beach

C. None of these

D. Cannon

E. Ingram

664. A theory that states that emotions are a join result of non-specific physiological arousal and interpretation of the arousal is called__________?
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A. James-Lange theory of emotion

B. Two-factor theory of emotion

C. Bems theory of emotion

D. None of these

665. Disagreeing with Freud, Erickson emphasized more on _____________?
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A. None of these

B. Conflict

C. Racial memory

D. Adulthood

E. Early habits

666. Information-processing theorists belong to ____________?
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A. behavioral psychologists

B. psychoanalysts

C. functionalists

D. cognitive psychologists
667. Coping behavior is ___________?
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A. A form of habitual behavior

B. Always goal-directed

C. Usually carried out directly

D. Often unconscious
668. A person behavior is usually attributed to external causes when all but one of the following conditions exist ____________?
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A. The person acts differently in other situations

B. The person acts the same way at other times

C. The person seems aware of the environment

D. Others act in the same way

669. The techniques used in behavior modification ____________?
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A. All involve some sort of operant conditioning

B. Stress interpersonal interactions

C. Employ the principal of learning

D. Are capable to a very limited rang of psychological problems

670. Speech like but meaningless sound appear between 3 months to one year is termed as___________?
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A. Conversation

B. None of these

C. Syntax

D. Babble
671. Chromosomal mapping studies have found that _____________?
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A. Schizophrenia does appear to have a genetic component

B. Schizophrenia does not appear to have genetic components

C. There is a single cause of schizophrenia

D. Adoption studies do not reveal anything about schizophrenia

672. Most IQ tests assess ___________?
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A. Creativity

B. Perceptual motor skills

C. Convergent thinking

D. Academic motivation

673. Group think refers to ___________?
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A. Think tank

B. Deterioration of physical energy

C. None of these

D. Deterioration of mental efficiency
674. When new acquisition improves retention of the old, we speak of _____________?
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A. Reproductive interference

B. None of these

C. Positive transfer

D. Negative transfer

E. Reproductive facilitation
675. If we want to test our prediction that students who underline chapters as they read retain the information better than those who do not, we would first have to state this prediction that is ___________?
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A. a hunch

B. an experiment

C. a hypothesis

D. a theory

676. _____________ criticized the stimulus-response mode of thought?
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A. None of these

B. William McDougall

C. Thorndike

D. Watson

677. Central traits _____________?
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A. None of these

B. Are seen in growth-oriented individuals

C. Are more situations specific than they are secondary traits

D. Organize and control behavior across many situations

E. Were suggested by a behaviorist to explain behavior
678. A psychologist explains you that learning can be best defined in terms of underlying thought process. What theory is being stated ___________ ?
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A. Trial and error

B. Social learning

C. Cognitive learning

D. None of these

679. Motivation is defined as inferred process within a person that causes organism to move toward _____________?
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A. None of these

B. A goal

C. All other organisms

D. Higher kevels in the hierarchy of needs

E. A homeostatic state

680. One of the following is not a monocular depth cue ______________?
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A. Interposition

B. None of these

C. Convergence

D. Accommodation

E. Relative moment