Psychology Questions and Answers - Set 21 | Psychology Test Series

1 Because it has the external features associated with the concept of dog, a wolf is perceived as a dog. This is an example of :

1 Centration

2 Equilibration

3 Object permanence

4 Prototype

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Answer:Prototype

2 Which of the following is the final destination for much of the brain’s information about emotion before action is taken ?

1 Amygdala

2 Anterior cingulate cortex

3 Pre-frontal cortex

4 Hypothalamus

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Answer:Pre-frontal cortex

3 Cattell propounded gf-gc theory of intelligence mainly based on :

1 First order factors of abilities

2 Second order factors of abilities

3 Third order factors of abilities

4 Higher order factors of abilities

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Answer:Second order factors of abilities

4 Which one of the following statements is true ?

1 The ‘Global Five’ factors in personality refer to the second-order factors of 16 PF, latest edition.

2 The ‘Global Five’ factors refer to the factors assessed by the NEO-Five Factor Inventory, latest edition.

3 The ‘Global Five’ factors refer to the factors assessed by Goldberg’s bipolar adjectives.

4 The ‘Global Five’ factors are derived from Eysenck Personality Profiler, latest edition.

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Answer:The ‘Global Five’ factors in personality refer to the second-order factors of 16 PF, latest edition.

5 Four important elements in the theory of signal detection are :

1 errors, hits, speed and accuracy

2 speed, accuracy, power and false alarm

3 hit, miss, correct rejection and false alarm

4 acuity, efficacy, speed and power

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Answer:hit, miss, correct rejection and false alarm

6 Jia had written a list to do her week end work, but incidently left it home while going out for her first activity. Trying to remember the list, Jia remembers what was at the beginning of the list and what was at the end but not those things in the middle. This is an example of :

1 Encoding specificity effect

2 Flash bulb memory

3 Serial position effect

4 Tip-of-the tongue effect

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Answer:Serial position effect

7 Brief stress enhances the activity of immune system as evidenced by the action of __________.

1 macrophages

2 T cells

3 B cells

4 all the above

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Answer:all the above

8 Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) are mainly indexing :

1 Creative Products

2 Creative Processes

3 Creative Personality

4 Creative Persuation

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Answer:Creative Processes

9 Which one of the scaling method is more likely to yield multidimensional attitude scale ?

1 Guttman scalogram analysis

2 Paired comparison method

3 Equal appearing intervals method

4 Method of summated rating

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Answer:Method of summated rating

10 When is aspiration a method of choice to make a lesion ?

1 in a deeper brain area

2 in an area of cerebral cortex

3 an irreversible lesion

4 in underlying white matter

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Answer:in an area of cerebral cortex

11 A psychologist was administering a projective test which involved a word association task. She tended to nod and smile every time a plural word was given by the respondent. The following testing bias was seen :

1 favoritism

2 test wiseness

3 selective reinforcement

4 gender of assessor

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