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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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

781. Which of the following improves worker skills and reduces frustration and stress?
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A. An organizational culture

B. Job training

C. Access to an employee assistance program

D. Job analysis

E. None of these

782. Delusion refer to ____________?
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A. Thoughts or beliefs that have no basis in reality

B. None of these

C. Behaviors that have no basis in reality

D. Feelings that have no basis in reality

783. A feeling of apprehension or tension is ___________?
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A. Panic

B. Frustration

C. Anxiety

D. None of these

784. A hungry person would find food to be a ___________?
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A. None of these

B. Primary reinforcer

C. Secondary reinforcer

D. All of these

785. Which of the following is most likely to lead to high job satisfaction?
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A. Promotion practices based on seniority

B. Matching personality with occupation

C. Having an out going personality

D. None of these

E. Working alone

786. The most fundamental principle of perceptual organization is called the___________?
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A. Volley principle

B. Dark adaptation phenomenon

C. Law of closure

D. Figure-ground relationship

E. None of these

787. A major defining characteristic of personality disorder is that they___________?
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A. Reflect a lack of contrast with reality

B. Are comparatively easy to treat

C. Are psychological, more from societys view than from that of the persons who have them

D. Are frequently relative, i.e. short term responses to stress

788. Emergency reactions refer to _____________?
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A. Bodily changes accompanying emotions of anger and fear

B. Individuals attempt to cope with an emergency

C. None of these

D. Ways that the individual seeks to achieve emotional control

E. Feeling of startle when suddenly stimulated

789. The first step in any research project is generating a ____________?
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A. proposition

B. theory

C. hypothesis

D. experiment

790. Which of the following factors influence the impact of interference on learning?
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A. The nature of the material being learned

B. None of these

C. The organization and meaningfulness of the information learned

D. All of the above

E. The type of activity that flows studying

791. The application of psychological theories, methods and techniques to solve practical human problems describes an area of psychology known as ____________?
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A. Applied psychology

B. Para-psychology

C. Humanistic psychology

D. Social psychology

792. A cross-sectional study is one in which ____________?
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A. the behavior of a group is assessed by different researchers

B. the same people are retested over a period of years

C. different age groups are tested at the same time

D. different characteristics of a given individual are assessed at the same time

793. Which of the following therapists make intensive use of role playing?
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A. Client-centered therapists

B. Existential therapists

C. Gestalt therapists

D. Psychoanalytic therapists

794. If psychologists discovered that wealthy people are less satisfied with their marriages than poor people are, this would indicate that wealth and martial satisfaction are ____________?
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A. None of these

B. casually related

C. dependent variables

D. negatively correlated

E. independent variables

795. Of which school of human behavior, Abraham Maslow is a chief proponent?
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A. functionalist

B. behaviorist

C. humanist

D. structuralist

E. None of these

796. The so-called master gland which helps control the activities of various ductless glands is the ___________?
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A. Gonad

B. Adrenal medulla

C. Anterior pituitary

D. Thyroid

E. None of these

797. An independent variable is _____________?
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A. the variable that is manipulated by experimenter

B. a variable whose value depends on that of the dependent variable

C. a variable that is independently verified

D. the only variable of interest

798. Learning theories explain attachment of infants to their parents in items of__________?
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A. The maturation of perceptual skills

B. Observational learning

C. Cognitive development

D. Conditioning

799. The Binet-Simon scale was adapted for American use by ___________?
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A. Wechsler

B. Binet

C. Thurston

D. Terman

800. A psychologist expects that rats raised in toy-filled cages will become better learner. This expectation of him is ___________?
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A. research hypothesis

B. observer expectancy effect

C. independent variable

D. inferential statistics

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