Psychology Sample Test Paper

Psychology Sample Test Paper
MCQ Paper Psychology

1. Which is not a theory of motivation?
(A) Physiological theory of motivation
(B) Maslow’s theory of motivation
(C) Murray’s theory of motivation
(D) Psychoanalytical theory of motivation
(E) Learning based theory of motivation
(F) S-R theory of motivation
Ans. (F)

2. According to Freud interruptions in the flow of free association indicate—
(A) Repression
(B) Resistance
(C) Lack of attention
(D) Lack of interest
Ans. (B)

3. According to ethnologists which is most correct?
(A) Many human and animal behavior are instinct.
(B) Aggressive behavior are learned behavior.
(C) None of dominance submissive relationship is instinctive.
(D) Behavior of insects and some lower animals are, by and large, learned.
Ans. (A)

4. Arousal of emotions according to Cannon— Bard theory involves the following sequence of activities—
(a) stimulus of sense organ
(b) no impulse travel to cortex via thalamus and Hypothalamus
(c) cortex relaxes control over hypothalamus and sends additional alternative impulses making hypothalamus fully active,
(d) impulses, then travel upward to cortex and downward to visceral organs causing emotional experience at the cortex level simultaneously.
(A) The sequence is a-b-c-d.
(B) Sequence of above as a-b-d-c
(C) Sequence of above as a-c-b-d
(D) Sequence of above as a-d-b-c
Ans. (A)

5. Ethologists position is based on—
(A) Releaser mechanism
(B) Genetically programmed behavior
(C) Both of them
(D) None of these
Ans. (C)

6. The James-Lange theory implies that—
(A) Emotional experience leads to emotional behavior
(B) The individual experience frustration, sohe aggresses.
(C) The individual runs away because he fears.
(D) Emotional behavior reads to emotional experience.
Ans. (D)

7. Violence n T.V. arises aggressive behavior in children. Which theory describes this?
(A) Frustration—aggression hypothesis
(B) Instinct theory by Freud
(C) Social learning theory
(D) All of these
Ans. (C)

8. Thalamic or Hypothalamic theory of emotions is another name for—
(A) James-Lange theory
(B) Canon-Bard theory
(C) Schacter—Singer theory
(D) Cognitive Appraisal theory ‘
Ans. (B)

9. The role of cognitive appraisal in emotion as claimed by Schachter and Singer theory of emotion is rejected by—
(A) Tomkins, 1981
(B) Marshal and Zimbardo
(C) Maslach
(D) All of these
Ans. (B)

10. The cause of anxiety may be—
(A) The unconscious memory of a fear stimulus.
(B) A response to a specific fear stimulus.
(C) A conscious memory of a fear stimulus.
(D) Specific fear experienced when source of fear is known.
Ans. (A)

11. All of the following are internal changes taking place in emotional excitement except one of them—
(A) Changes in blood pressure.
(B) Chemical changes in blood.
(C) Changes in rate of respiration
(D) Changes in heartbeat and pulse rate.
(E) Changes in gastrointestinal activities.
(F) Changes in glandular secretions.
(G) Changes in CNS structure.
(H) Changes in galvanic skin reactions.
(I) Changes in papillary responses
(J) Changes in brain waves.
Ans. (G)

12. Galvanometers is used for measuring—
(A) Heart and pulse rate
(B) Blood pressure
(C) Electrical conductance of the skin.
(D) Changes in glandular secretions.
Ans. (C)

13. Which of the following does not go with others?
(A) GSR
(B) PGR
(C) EDR
(D) ESR
(E) Free phenomenon
(F) DCR
Ans. (F)

14. Thy sympathetic system—
(A) Acts as a unit
(B) Acts in a piecemeal manner, affecting one organ at a time.
(C) Is dominant in quiescence
(D) Both (A) and (C) are correct.
Ans. (A)

15. Specific fear may be learned through—
(A) Conditioning
(B) Modeling
(C) By symbolic means
(D) All of the above
Ans. (D)

16. The flat emotional life of adults as compared with the sharp ups and down seen in boys and girls is due partly to all except—
(A) Physiological effects of age.
(B) Wider experience of adults.
(C) More developed and perfected intellect.
(D) More objective judgements of adults.
Ans. (C)

17. According to theory, dryness of the mucous lining of the mouth and throat elicit thirst drive.
(a) Washborn
(b) Cannon
(c) James
(d) Stellar
Ans. (b)

18. The need for achievement was first defined largely on the basis of clinical studies done by:
(a) Morgan
(b) Maslow
(c) Murray
(d) Mc Clelland
Ans. (c)

19. Who among the following was the founder of functional school of Psychology?
(a) Mc Dougall
(b) William James
(c) P. T. young
(d) Freud
Ans. (b)

20. The strongest advocate of instinct theory was the psychologist who maintained that all of our thoughts and behaviour were the result of instincts.
(a) Mc Clelland
(b) Mc Dougall
(c) Freud
(d) Maslow
Ans. (b)

21. A/an is an aroused state resulting from some bodily or tissue need.
(a) Instinct
(b) Drive
(c) Emotion
(d) Aggression
Ans. (b)

22. Who among the following has tried to explain motivated behaviour in terms of underlying physiological mechanism of the ‘0’ which does not include the social or personal motives?
(a) Maslow
(c) Hull
(b) Morgan
(d) Lindzey
Ans. (b)

23. Who among the following conducted a study on a 11 month old baby named Albert to demonstrate how fear response develops?
(a) Morgan
(b) Watson
(c) James
(d) Cannon
Ans. (b)

24. _______formulated his own theory of emotion which is called Thalamic or Emergency theory of emotion.
(a) Maslow
(b) Cannon
(c) James
(d) Lashley
Ans. (b)

25. Which of the following instincts are powerful motivational forces?
(a) Life instinct
(b) Death instincts
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)