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(1) A process in which our judgements, emotions or behaviour are influebced by mental processing that is not really under our control is called
(1) Retrograde Amnesia
(2) Anterograde Amnesia
(3) Mental Contamination
(4) Mood-Dependent Memory
Answer: Mental Contamination
(2) Adler’s developmental path to psychological health consists of following sequence :
(1) Feeling of Inferiority → Striving for personal superiority → Constructive life style → Psychological health
(2) Striving for superiority to attain completion → Feeling of inferiority → Destructive life style → Psychological health
(3) Feeling of Inferiority → Striving for superiority to attain completion → Constructive life style → Psychological health
(4) Striving for personal superiority → Feeling of inferiority → Destructive life style → Neurosis
Answer: Feeling of Inferiority → Striving for superiority to attain completion → Constructive life style → Psychological health

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(3) Complex cognitive activities such as thinking and reasoning involve the role of
(1) Frontal lobe
(2) Parietal lobe
(3) Occipital lobe
(4) Association cortex
Answer: Association cortex
(4) “The inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenge, to extend and exercise one’s capacities, to explore and learn” describes
(1) Extrinsic Motivation
(2) Intrinsic Motivation
(3) Unconscious Motivation
(4) Sensation Seeking
Answer: Intrinsic Motivation
(5) A tendency to search for information that confirms one’s own preconceptions refers to
(1) Functional fixedness
(2) Mental set
(3) Confirmation bias
(4) Overconfidence
Answer: Confirmation bias
(6) Bilingual children and adults appear to do better ________ tasks that drawn heavily on memory and _______ control resources.
(1) verbal; cognitive
(2) verbal; non-cognitive
(3) non-verbal; cognitive
(4) non-verbal; non-cognitive
Answer: non-verbal; cognitive
(7) The following term is no longer used as a subtype of the Schizophrenia spectrum.
(1) Disorganized
(2) Hebephrenic
(3) Catatonic
(4) Undifferentiated
Answer: Hebephrenic
(8) Painful and unpleasant experience hurts the ego of a person. In order to get rid of this one tends to forget it is repressed to unconscious. This Freudian concept highlighted by –
(1) Alfred Adler
(2) Anna Freud
(3) Rosenzweig
(4) Kurt Lewin
Answer: Rosenzweig
(9) Cognitive theories of motivation conceive of an action sequence as instigated by some _______.
(1) External Stimulation
(2) Source of Information
(3) Extrinsic Motivation
(4) Unconscious Motivation
Answer: Source of Information
(10) While drawing inferences about people or events which type of information is given more weight ?
(1) Positive information
(2) Negative information
(3) Both positive and negative information are given more weight
(4) Positive and negative information has no relationship in social inference
Answer: Negative information
(11) When an employee is paid in accordance to his performance measure, it refers to……. but when an employee is paid a fixed sum for each unit of performance, then it refers to
(1) Variable-pay ; piece rate pay
(2) Piece rate pay ; Variable-pay
(3) Variable-pay ; Profit-sharing
(4) Profit-sharing ; piece rate pay
Answer: Variable-pay ; piece rate pay
(12) A number of types of amnesia have been mentioned below. Which one of these is not due to physiological reasons
(1) Senile amnesia
(2) Biological amnesia
(3) Marijuana, alcohol related amnesia
(4) Defensive amnesia
Answer: Defensive amnesia
(13) According to Weiner, most of the attributed causes for school successes or failures can be characterised in terms of three dimensions. These are
(1) Expectancy, Stability, Controllability
(2) Locus, Stability, Deficiency
(3) Stability, Complexity, Controllability
(4) Locus, Stability, Controllability
Answer: Locus, Stability, Controllability
(14) According to Cattell-Horn-Caroll theory of Intelligence, which of the following sequences of second-stratum-abilities in rank order from highest to lowest loadings ?
(1) Fluid intelligence → general memory & learning → crystallized intelligence → broad visual perception → broad auditory perception → broad retrieval ability → broad cognitive speediness → processing speed
(2) Fluid intelligence → crystallized intelligence → general memory & learning → broad visual perception → broad auditory perception → broad retrieval ability → broad cognitive speediness → processing speed
(3) Fluid intelligence → crystallized intelligence → broad visual perception → broad auditory perception → general memory & learning → broad retrieval ability → processing speed → broad cognitive speediness
(4) Fluid intelligence → crystallized intelligence → broad visual perception → broad auditory perception → broad retrieval ability → general memory & learning → broad cognitive speediness → processing speed
Answer: Fluid intelligence → crystallized intelligence → general memory & learning → broad visual perception → broad auditory perception → broad retrieval ability → broad cognitive speediness → processing speed
(15) The following is not a form of epilepsy
(1) Jacksonian
(2) Petit Mal
(3) Grand Mal
(4) Orbitofrontal
Answer: Orbitofrontal

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