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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

841. An experimenter who has been carefully trained in the techniques of self-observation uses himself as his object. He attempts to analyze his own immediate experience into its elements. This study would most likely occur in the laboratory of ____________?
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A. Edward Titchener

B. John Watson

C. Hermann von Helmholtz

D. Max Wertheimer

842. Factors predisposing an individual towards feeling of jealousy include ______________?
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A. Insecurity of self-conception

B. None of these

C. Self-hate

D. All of these

E. Lack of intensity of feeling of love

843. The best definition of psychotherapy includes ______________?
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A. A healer that uncovers unconscious conflicts and heals the personality

B. The removal of symptoms about which the patient complains

C. A sufferer, a healer and a systematic interaction between the two

D. The use of talking and drugs about which the patient complains

E. None of these

844. Which of the following is not one of the factors, which tend to hinder the fairness of intelligence tests for lower class children?
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A. Items requiring certain experience

B. Test givers bias the result

C. Test assume test-taking skills

D. Inappropriate norms

845. The basic assumption of humanistic theories include ___________?
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A. Humans are basically good and worthy

B. Humans are basically bad and unworthy and thus have to be reconditioned using learning principles

C. There is a natural growth process that can be blocked by bad condition

D. Both A and C

846. Which of the following tests is likely to have the highest reliability?
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A. The TAT

B. The MMPI

C. None of these

D. The Draw-a-Person test

E. The Rorschach

847. Which of the following is not one of the aspects of development studied by psychologists?
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A. Individual differences in development

B. Universal aspects of development

C. Cultural differences in development

D. None of these

E. Immutable laws of development

848. A famous person who insisted that psychology be restricted to observable behavior is _____________?
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A. Sigmund Freud

B. John B. Watson

C. Carl Rogers

D. Harry Stack Sullivan

849. A conversion disorder is characterized by ______________?
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A. Functional impairment of a limb or sensory ability with no apparent physical cause

B. Frequently vague complaints of physical symptoms

C. A constant fear of becoming seriously ill

D. None of these

850. By the perceptual organization of stimuli the persons span of attention is ____________?
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A. Divided

B. Decreased

C. Unaffected

D. None of these

E. Increased

851. An experiment psychology lab was first established in 1879 by ____________?
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A. None of the above

B. Sigmund Freud

C. Rene Descartes

D. William James

852. An experimenter investigates test anxiety in military academy cadets by utilizing galvanic skin response measurement. The GSR represents ____________?
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A. only operational definition of anxiety

B. intervening variable and operational definition of anxiety

C. dependent variable and operational definition of anxiety

D. independent variable and operational definition of anxiety

853. Presence of others may interfere with performance due to___________?
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A. Social loafing

B. Distraction

C. Social inhabitation

D. All of these

854. What procedure is used by experimenters to determine whether a difference between conditions of an experiment is large enough for us to have confidence in its validity?
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A. None of these

B. Statistical analysis

C. Scientific intuition

D. Correlation coefficient

855. Some employers allow their employees to create their own schedules within set parameters. This is called ___________?
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A. Time sharing

B. Job enrichment

C. Job sharing

D. Flextime

856. Psychology has been defined by psychologists as ___________?
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A. The study of behavior

B. The study of mental activity

C. None of these

D. The science that studies behavior and mental process

E. All of these

857. In which type of research a representative sample of people asked to answer questions about their behaviors or opinions?
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A. the survey

B. naturalistic observation

C. experiment

D. the case study

858. Many of the neo Freudians have modified Freuds original theory of personality to give more emphasis to ______________?
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A. Unconscious forces

B. Social and cultural factors

C. Childhood sexuality

D. None of these

E. Differences between the sexes

859. During the stage of concrete operations children ___________?
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A. Understand the concept of reversibility

B. Do not yet understand the concept of conversation

C. Are able to solve abstract problems

D. None of these

860. Concerns with meeting standards of excellence and accomplishing difficult tasks refer to need for___________?
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A. Power

B. Apperception

C. Affiliation

D. Achievement

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