Psychology Questions and Answers - Set 13 | Psychology Test Series

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

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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

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Answer:Feeling of Inferiority → Striving for superiority to attain completion → Constructive life style → Psychological health

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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