Psychology Online Practice Sample Paper

Psychology Online Practice Sample Paper
Objective Question Solved Test
1 The anxiety one suffers at the time of going for an examination is called
(a) Test anxiety
(b) Trait anxiety
(c) State anxiety
(d) Anxiety neurosis
Ans. (a)


2. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:
List-I (Defence mechanism of ego)
A. Repression
B. Regression
C. Displacement
D. Rationalization

List-II (Basic Nature)
1. Responding to a threatening situation in a way appropriate to an earlier age or level
of development.
2. Redirecting an emotional response from a dangerous object to a safe one
3. Conjuring up socially acceptable reasons for thoughts or actions based on
unacceptable motives
4. “Forgetting or consciousness into unconsciousness unacceptable thoughts


Codes:
A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 4 1 2 3
(c) 2 3 1 4
(d) 3 1 2 4
Ans. (b)

3. According to Freud’s psychosexual stages of development fixation at anal stage, stemming from overly harsh toilet-training experiences, may result in individuals, who
(a) Are excessively orderly or compulsive
(b) Cannot leave any job unfinished
(c) Strive, for perfection and neatness in everything
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)


4. According to Freud, Oedipus complex is
(a) A crisis of psychosexual development in which children must give up their sexual attraction to their opposite-sex parent
(b) A tendency of aggression
(c) Fixation
(d) Desire to kill the parent of opposite sex
Ans. (a)

5. According to Freud:
(a) All human beings pass through a series of discrete psychosexual stages of development

(b) At each stage, pleasure is focused on a particular part of the body
(c) Too much or too little gratification at any stage can result in fixation and can lead to psychological disorders
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

6. Neo-Freudians, are the personality theorists who
(a) Accepted basic portions of Freud’s theory but rejected or modified other portions
(b) Perceived personality as stemming from a complex interplay between social factors and the experiences we have during childhood
(c) Served as a kind of bridge between the provocative views offered by Freud and more modern conceptions of personality
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

7. Social learning theory suggests:
(a) The likelihood that a given behaviour will occur in a specific situation depending on the individual’s expectancies concerning the outcomes the behaviour will produce
(b) Individuals form generalized expectancies concerning the extent to which their own actions determine the outcome they experience
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Julian Rotter never proposed social learning theory
Ans. (c)

8. A general introduction to psychoanalysis is written by:
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Anne Freud
(c) William James
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

9. The main difference between ……… and Carl Gustav Jung is that Jung thinks childhood psychosexual development is not very important to adult adjustment.
(a) Skinner
(b) Maslow
(c) Freud
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)

10. Which of the following can be viewed as a homeostatic mechanism?
(a) Hunger
(b) Thirst
(c) Sex
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Ans. (d)

11. People are always struggling to overcome their feelings of inferiority and this struggle is the most basic life urge of them; this is the view of:
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Carl Gustav Jung
(c) Alfred Adler
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)

12. Fixation at Freud’s anal stage of development stemming from very relaxed toilet training may result in people who are
(a) Undisciplined
(b) Impulsive
(c) Excessively generous
(d) All of the, above
Ans. (d)

13. Externals, in Rotter’s term, are individuals, who believe that:
(a) They have little control over the outcomes they experience
(b) They can change the world according to their wishes
(c) They have full control over the outcomes
(d) They have a respectable place in society
Ans. (a)

14. According to Bandura’s social cognitive theory
(a) Human behaviour is influenced by many cognitive factors
(b) Human behaviour is influenced by reinforcement contingencies
(c) Human beings have an impressive capacity to regulate their own actions
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

15. Which of the following endocrine glands releases sugar stored in the liver to maintain the proper balance of sugar in the blood?
(a) Pituitary
(b) Pancreas
(c) Adrenal
(d) Thyroid
Ans. (b)

16. Jung defined a ……..as a network of ideas bound together by a common emotion or set of feelings.
(a) Dream
(b) Complex
(c) Thought
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)

17. Which of the following variables influence hypothalamic control of immediate appetite?
(a) Blood — sugar level
(b) Stomach fullness
(c) Body temperature
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

18. …….. stressed the concepts of compensation and over compensation, the pursuit of activities designed to make up for or to overcome inferiority.
(a) Alfred Adler
(b) Carl Gustav Jung
(c) Sigmund Freud
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

19. Who is the author of Feminine Psychology?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Alfred Adler
(c) Karen Homey
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)

20. ……… said basic anxiety is whit arises in childhood when the child feels helpless in a threatening world.
(a) Freud
(b) James
(c) Horney
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)

21. The hormones responsible for development and functioning of the reproductive organs are controlled by the
(a) Thymus gland
(b) Pituitary gland
(c) Adrenal gland
(d) Parathyroid gland
Ans. (b)

22. When a new baby is the centre of attention, an older child may become Jealous; prevented from harming the baby, the child demolishes a doll-this is an example of:
(a) Displacement
(b) Regression
(c) Sublimation
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

23. Depressed persons should show reduced activity in the _____ regions, while anxious person should show increased activity in these regions.
(a) Right posterior
(b) Right anterior
(c) Left posterior
(d) Left anterior
Ans. (a)

24. In the face of a threat, one may retreat to an earlier pattern of adaptation, possibly a childish or primitive one, this is called:
(a) Displacement
(b) Regression
(c) Sublimation
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)

25. …….. suggests integrity means to integrate one’s attitudes, beliefs, motives and experiences in such a way that they fit together comfortably and form a coherent whole:
(a) Freud
(b) Erikson
(c) Jung
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)