psychology MCQs – Page 45

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
881. Psychological theories ____________?
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A. do all the above

B. generate hypothesis

C. organize scientific observation

D. explain observed facts

882. Correlation studies _____________?
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A. indicate some relationship between two variables

B. involve manipulation of independent variables

C. indicate causality

D. are more valid than laboratory studies

883. Developmental psychologists believe that two factors that influence human development are ____________?
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A. Motivation and emotion

B. Self and others

C. Genetic makes up and experience

D. Rewards and punishments

884. The social distance scale is mainly a measure of ___________?
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A. Cohesiveness of a group

B. Upward social mobility

C. Social class differences

D. Ethnic attitude

E. None of these

885. As E scores of I-E scale show a general trend upward ___________?
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A. People show more reserve suspicion and withdrawal

B. Assassinations and events like Watergate and Vietnam increase

C. The ability for people to openly express themselves decrease

D. Both A and C

886. Clinicians attempting to systematically assess the abnormal behavior of a client will frequently _____________?
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A. Employ a battery of tests

B. Rely primarily on personality tests

C. None of these

D. Rely primarily on neuropsychological tests

E. Rely primarily on projective tests

887. With which field of scientific inquiry, the study of psychology is most concerned?
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A. the science of philosophy

B. the science of emotional and mental processes

C. the science of behavior and mental processes

D. the science of developmental processes

888. Which perspective is most concerned with identifying the limits of human reasoning?
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A. cognitive

B. social-cultural

C. biological

D. behavioral

889. The central concept in Gestalt therapy is_____________?
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A. Self-control

B. Awareness

C. Self-fulfillment

D. Desensitization

890. A between subjects design is less efficient than a within subjects design because ____________?
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A. it is less reliable

B. None of these

C. it must deal with difference among subjects

D. it has more subjects

E. it has less validity

891. Client-centered therapy is most consistent with the ___________?
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A. Humanistic approach

B. Behavioral approach

C. Cognitive approach

D. Psychodynamic approach

892. Studies show that an authoritarian family tends to produce an adolescent who is ___________?
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A. Independent but deserved

B. Self-reliant

C. Dependent and obedient

D. Surface-complaint but rebellious underneath

893. Illnesses that seem to result from an interaction of physical and psychological factors are called ____________?
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A. Somatic

B. Hysterical

C. Conversion disorders

D. Psychosomatic
894. The term germ cell when used in genetics refers to ___________?
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A. Somatic cells

B. Body cells

C. Ova and sperm cells

D. Both (A. and (B.

E. None of these

895. Human beings respond to their subjective cognitions about their world rather than to the objective environment is an argument for the effectiveness of ___________?
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A. Rankian therapy

B. Freudian therapy

C. Cognitive therapy

D. Primal therapy

896. The theory which suggests that people learn attitude by observing their own behavior is __________?
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A. None of these

B. Self-perception

C. Operant conditioning

D. CR

897. 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. Social learning

B. None of these

C. Cognitive learning

D. Trial and error

898. Which of the following identified universal symbolic images that appear in myths, art, dreams, and other expressions of the collective unconscious?
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A. Freud

B. Jung

C. Adler

D. All of these

E. Horney

899. When psychological tests are used in personal selection, an important concern regarding the tests is ___________?
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A. Cost

B. Ease of administration

C. Validity

D. None of these

E. Objectivity
900. The most helpful for revealing cause-and-effect relationship is __________?
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A. naturalistic observation

B. correlations

C. the survey

D. the experiment