Free Online Psychology Practice Paper

Free Online Psychology Practice Paper
Psychology Solved Question Paper

1. ___theory states that weak or ambiguous internal cues force an individual into the role of an outside observer; he must look at his own behaviour and the surrounding circumstances to help him decide what his feelings are.
(a) Implicit personality
(b) Self-perception
(c) Attribution process
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)

2. The phenomenon of “learned flavour aversion” illustrates the concept of
(a) Preparedness
(b) Smartness
(c) Reinforcement
(d) Quickness
Ans. (a)


3. According to the learning theory of attitude formation, the basic process underlying attitude formation is
(a) Operant conditioning
(b) Classical conditioning
(c) Concept formation
(d) Verbal conditioning
Ans. (a)

4. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) Displacement____ Directing energy toward another object when the original object is in accessible
(b) Rationalization_____ Manufacturing good reasons to explain away a bruised ego
(c) Reaction formation_____ Behaving in way that is directly opposite to unconscious wishes
(d) Fixation_____ Retreating to an earlier phase of development where demands are not so great
Ans. (d)

5. The instrumental-conditioning forms of behaviour therapy treat psychological disorders
(a) By contingently reinforcing socially adaptive behaviours
(b) By extinguishing maladaptive behaviours
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)


6. Match List-I (Functions of attitude) with List-II (Behaviours/Action tendencies) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists
List-I List-II
A. Adjustment 1. Provides basis for acceptance of any opinion
B. Value-expressive 2. Protects self images
C. Ego-defensive 3. Provides basis for understanding
D. Knowledge 4. Adapts to environment
Codes:
A B C D
(a) 4 1 2 3
(b) 4 1 3 2
(c) 1 4 2 3
(d) 1 4 3 2
Ans. (a)


7. Which one of the following statements is incorrect about the significance of classical conditioning?
(a) Many of our subjective feelings are probably conditioned responses
(b) A face, a scene or a voice may be the conditioned stimulus for an emotional response
(c) We are not always able to identify the origins of our emotional responses
(d) We do not generalize human feelings
Ans. (d)

8. Which one of the following leadership styles is likely to be effective in Indian context?
(a) Authoritarian demanding type
(b) Participative consultative type
(c) Delegating orienting type
(d) Nurturant task type
Ans. (b)

9. _____ means that each person in the target population has an equal chance of being selected in the sample.
(a) Main sampling
(b) Random sampling
(c) Target population
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)

10. An increase in the magnitude of a conditioned response after a period of time no explicit training is known as
(a) Spontaneous recovery
(b) Reconditioning
(c) Extinction
(d) Acquisition
Ans. (a)

11. _____ present details on over 120 attitude scales.
(a) Freud and Terman
(b) Terman and Binet
(c) Robinson and Shaver
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)


12. Who was the first investigator to suggest that learning principles could be applied to
Attitudes?
(a) Doob
(b) Freud
(c) Binet
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

13. The learning situation in classical conditioning is one of learning
(a) S—S
(b) S—R
(c) R—S
(d) R—R
Ans. (a)

14. Doob proposed that the principles of classical and instrumental conditioning could be used to explain the formation and change of _____ in the same way that they have been applied to overt behaviour.
(a) Attitudes
(b) Motivation
(c) Emotion
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

15. Who has given the theory of cognitive dissonance?
(a) Likert
(b) Doob
(d) None of the above
(c) Leon Festinger
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)


16. Which of the following statements about the theories of classical conditioning is the correct one?
(a) Classical conditioning is concerned with the processes occurring when a conditioned response is acquired
(b) They speculate about the nature of the learning that takes place in classical conditioning
(c) One version of the theory is the theory of stimulus substitution
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

17. The two major ways for a person to reduce dissonance are to change one of the cognitive elements or to
(a) Reject one of the cognitive elements
(b) Add a new cognitive element
(c) Introduce a unique cognitive element
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)

18. ‘There is no good reason to suppose that an overall measure of attitude toward an object will necessarily predict a specific behaviour’- this theory is given by
(a) Likert
(b) Martin Fishbein
(c) Lewis Terman
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)

19. Stimulus substitution theory
(a) Originated with Pavlov
(b) Relies on the idea that the conditioned stimulus as a result of pairing with the unconditioned stimulus acquires the capacity to substitute for the unconditioned stimulus
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)


20. A/An_____ is like a set of correlations we carry around in our heads, correlations that enable us to go beyond the information we are given about a person and to “fill in’ the missing data
(a) Attribution process
(b) Implicit personality theory
(c) Reciprocal liking
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)

21. The first major attempt to formulate the implicit rules was made by
(a) Fritz Heider
(b) Lewis Terman
(c) Sigmund Freud
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

22. Concurrent schedule of reinforcement is a situation in which
(a) Two or more behaviours each having its own reinforcement schedule, are simultaneously available
(b) A certain amount of time must elapse before a response
(c) One behaviour suppresses other behaviour
(d) Stimulus signals availability of reinforcement
Ans. (a)

23. Social psychology studies the ways in which a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by
(a) Other persons
(b) Social groups
(c) Society
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)


24. ____environment denotes the person’s physical environment, climatic conditions and regional area which play significant role in determining social habits, behavioural tendencies and general outlook towards life.
(a) Ecological
(b) Social
(c) Psycho-social
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

25. _____ is a schedule of reinforcement in which a specific interval of time must elapse before a response will yield reinforcement
(a) Fixed — Interval schedule
(b) Fixed — Ratio schedule
(c) Variable — Interval schedule
(d) Continuous Reinforcement schedules
Ans. (a)