psychology MCQs – Page 41

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
801. Which pair represents an incorrect association?
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A. Piaget cognition development

B. Schechter emotion development

C. Seligman social exchange theory

D. Murray Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT)

802. The perception of a relationship between two variables that does not actually exist is called ___________?
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A. illusory correlation

B. the false consensus effect

C. an illusion of control

D. the hindsight bias

803. Perfection is a problem that is most associated with the ___________?
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A. Ego

B. None of these

C. Superego

D. Id

E. Ego and superego

804. Behavior therapists believe that insight is ___________?
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A. Non sufficient for behavior change

B. A worthwhile goal

C. Not necessary for behavior change

D. All of these

805. One of the following is not a method of measuring retention?
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A. Recall

B. Reminiscence

C. Recognition

D. Relearning

806. The biological and behavioral perspectives are most likely to differ with respect to the issue of ____________?
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A. rationality versus irrationality

B. nature versus nature

C. observation versus introspection

D. basic versus applied research

807. In ancient times, who supposedly inhibited the body and soul of a crazy person?
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A. A saint

B. None of these

C. The devil

D. God

808. Psychoneurosis tends to be___________?
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A. About the same severity as the psychoses

B. Milder than neuroses

C. Severe than the psychoses

D. Milder than psychoses

809. Smoking during pregnancy is associated with _____________?
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A. High intelligence in the fetus, since the fetus must be clever to keep the cigarette burning

B. Low birth weight

C. High mortality

D. Both B and C
810. Correlation are useful for ____________?
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A. predicting behavior

B. discovering the causes of behavior

C. doing all the above

D. explaining attitudes

811. The difficulty with type theories of personality is that they are ___________?
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A. All of these

B. None of these

C. Too simple

D. Too arbitrary

E. Too contradictory

812. Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzees in the jungle are using research method known as ____________?
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A. naturalistic observation

B. the case study

C. the survey

D. experimentation

813. The cerebellum and cerebrum are ____________?
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A. Found in the mid-brain

B. In front of the central fissure

C. None of these

D. Functionally independent

E. Bilaterally symmetrical

814. The ability to deal with new problems and encounters is technically called as___________?
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A. Fluid intelligence

B. None of these

C. Crystallized intelligence

D. G or g-factor of intelligence

815. Which philosophical movement claimed that the human mind consists of elementary ideas that originate from sensory experiences?
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A. interactionism

B. nativism

C. empiricism

D. dualism

E. None of these

816. In Piagets theory, the first two years of life are called the ___________ stages ?
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A. Sensorimotor

B. Paralinguistic

C. Preoperational

D. Exploratory

817. Research on the role of reinforcement in insight therapy has found that ___________?
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A. It plays a role in highly structured therapy situation

B. It has an effect only on dependent patients

C. It does not play a role

D. It does play a role
818. Teacher carefully monitors and records the behaviors of children on school playgrounds in order to track the developmental of their physical skills. He is most clearly engaged in ___________?
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A. replication

B. naturalistic observation

C. experimentation

D. survey research

819. Thorndikes Law of Effect was an early form of the present day principle of _____________?
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A. Extinction

B. Contiguity

C. Reinforcement

D. None of these

E. Trial and error

820. The portion of your nervous system which controls breathing and digestion is____________?
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A. Linear circuit

B. Axon

C. None of these

D. Autonomic