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(1) In Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives, the following appear in ascending order :
(1) Remember ® Understand ® Apply ® Analyze
(2) Apply ® Analyze ® Understand ® Remember
(3) Understand ® Apply ® Remember ® Analyze
(4) Analyze ® Remember ® Apply ® Understand
Answer: Remember ® Understand ® Apply ® Analyze
(2) Failure to develop consistent identity results in __________.
(1) Inferiority
(2) Role confusion
(3) Stagnation
(4) Social isolation
Answer: Role confusion

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(3) Helpers respond to the needs of a victim because they want to accomplish something rewarding; this may be referred as :
(1) Negative state - relief model
(2) Empathic - joy hypothesis
(3) Empathy - altruism hypothesis
(4) Pluralistic empathy
Answer: Empathic - joy hypothesis
(4) Which is the correct order of the emergence of following Psycho-Social strengths ?
(1) Love, Fidelity, Wisdom, Care
(2) Care, Fidelity, Love, Wisdom
(3) Fidelity, Love, Care, Wisdom
(4) Care, Fidelity, Wisdom, Love
Answer: Fidelity, Love, Care, Wisdom
(5) From the following list of tools used by the career guidance counsellor, choose the odd one out :
(1) DAT
(2) GATB
(3) DBDA
(4) SVIB
Answer: SVIB
(6) Detecting movement in spite of camouflage is easier for people who are :
(1) field dependent
(2) field independent
(3) both field dependent and field independent
(4) neither field dependent nor field independent
Answer: field independent
(7) Read the following statement and decides :

“If a rat that had previously learned to traverse a maze or a runway to obtain food is placed directly into a non - empty goal box, it will stop traversing the maze or runway on subsequent trials”. What it exemplifies ?

(1) Latent Learning
(2) Place Learning
(3) Response Extinction
(4) Latent Extinction
Answer: Latent Extinction
(8) Which is the correct sequence of Reinforcement schedules interms of their effectiveness in response rate and resistance to extinction during learning experiments ?
(1) Variable Ratio ® Fixed Ratio ® Variable Interval ® Fixed Interval ® Continuous Reinforcement schedule
(2) Fixed Ratio ® Variable Ratio ® Fixed Interval ® Variable Interval ® Continuous Reinforcement schedule
(3) Continuous Reinforcement schedule ® Variable Ratio ® Fixed Ratio ® Variable Interval ® Fixed Interval
(4) Variable Ratio ® Variable Interval ® Fixed Ratio ® Fixed Interval ® Continuous Reinforcement schedule
Answer: Variable Ratio ® Variable Interval ® Fixed Ratio ® Fixed Interval ® Continuous Reinforcement schedule
(9) When a Background Interference Procedure was used experimentally, the following findings became apparent ?
(1) Field independent persons did better than field dependent persons
(2) Field dependent persons did better than field independent persons
(3) Both field dependent and field independent persons did equally well
(4) BIP enhanced the performance of all subjects
Answer: Field independent persons did better than field dependent persons
(10) People with moderate mental retardation would have an IQ in the range of :
(1) 10 to 19
(2) 35 to 54
(3) 55 to 70
(4) 20 to 34
Answer: 35 to 54
(11) The following is not typically found in a school guidance counsellor’s office :
(1) Sand pit
(2) Lie detector
(3) Psychometric tests
(4) Puppets and play dough
Answer: Lie detector
(12) Partial reinforcement is considered better than continuous reinforcement because :
(1) the learning occurs rapidly
(2) the learning occurs slowly
(3) the extinction occurs rapidly
(4) the extinction occurs slowly
Answer: the extinction occurs slowly
(13) Which of the following is correctly arranged ?
(1) Sensory memory / short / term memory / forgetting
(2) Long / term memory / sensory memory / short-term memory
(3) Sensory memory / short / term memory / long-term memory
(4) Episodic memory / short term memory / long-term memory
Answer: Sensory memory / short / term memory / long-term memory
(14) History of intelligence Testing can be discribed in following sequence :
(1) Galton ® J.M. Caltell ® Benet - Simon ® Wechsler
(2) J.M. Cattell ® Stern-Terman ® Benet - Simon ® Wechsler
(3) Wister ® Benet - Simon ® Spearman ® R.B. Cattell
(4) Galton ® J.M. Cattell ® Spearman ® Wechsler
Answer: Galton ® J.M. Caltell ® Benet - Simon ® Wechsler
(15) Bartlett described memory as a :
(1) Constructive mental process
(2) Reproductive mental process
(3) Active mental process
(4) A process of retention
Answer: Constructive mental process

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