Psychology Model Test Paper

Psychology Model Test Paper
Practice Paper of Psychology

1. The GSR is:
(a) An indicator of Pain pressure
(b) An easily measured change in the electrical activity of the skin
(c) A relatively permanent change in behaviour
(d) An emotional out let
Ans. (b)

2. In its simplest form, balance theory.
(a) Involves the relations between a person and two attitude objective
(b) The three, elements are connected by either favorable attitudes or unfavorable attitudes. The structures formed by the relations among the elements may be balanced or unbalanced.
(c) Does not predict that imbalance will always be resolved-only that there is a tendency toward balance and that unbalanced structures produce tensions and discomfort.
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

3. The process by which information about others is converted into more or less enduring cognitions or thoughts about them is called
(a) Impression formation
(b) Cognitive Framework
(c) Stereotype formation
(d) Systematic distortion
Ans. (a)

4. The cognitive response approaches focus on the fact that
(a) The recipient does more than react to the external information
(b) The recipient also generates thoughts about the information
(c) These thoughts can increase, neutralize or even reverse the intended impact of the information
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)


5. is the process by which a conditioned stimulus acquires the ability to elicit a conditioned response through repeated pairings of an unconditioned stimulus with the conditioned stimulus
(a) Perception
(c) Extinction
(b) Acquisition
(d) Repetition
Ans. (b)



6. The principle stating that a more preferred activity can be used to reinforce a less preferred activity, is known as
(a) Shaping Principle
(b) Generalization
(c) Premack principle
(d) Peak principle
Ans. (c)

7. The theory-attitude-to-behaviour process model is proposed by
(a) Fazio
(b) Ajzen
(c) Fishman
(d) Krosnick
Ans. (a)


8. ______ is a procedure That establishes a sequence of responses, which lead to a reward following the final response
(a) Shaping
(b) Chaining
(c) Changing
(d) Conditioning
Ans. (b)

9. In many situations individuals observe others and emulate their behaviour. This observational learning is called
(a) Modelling
(b) Model behaviour
(c) Instrumental
(d) Operant
Ans. (a)

10. Young children often play games of marriage ceremonies, birthday parties, house keeping and thief and policeman etc. This is an example of :
(a) Operant learning
(b) Stimulus learning
(c) Observational learning
(d) Instrumental learning
Ans. (c)

11. Aggressiveness pro-social behaviour, politeness, indolence are acquitted by ______ learning
(a) Observational
(b) Operant
(c) Instrumental
(d) Classical
Ans. (a)

12. ______ is a peculiar situation in which an organism learns a habit to do nothing when it is necessary to do something to obtain a reward
(a) Learned Indolence
(b) Self punitive behaviour
(c) Learned helplessness
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)


13. Experimental investigations studies are verbal learning influenced by the
(a) Length of the list to be learned
(b) Meaningfulness of the material
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)

14. The tendency to ignore information that contradicts our attitudes while actively seeking information consistent with our attitudes constitute two sides of what psychologists term
(a) Selective exposure
(b) Selective avoidance
(c) Biased assimilation
(d) Fore warning
Ans. (a)

15. The longer the list, or words with low association values in the list or lack of relations in the items on the list
1. It will take more time to learn the list
2. It will take less time to learn the list
3. Stronger will be learning
4. Learning will be weaker
Select the correct answer from the options given below
(a) 1 and 4
(b) 1 and 3
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 2 and 4
Ans. (b)

16. When individuals receive information that disagrees with their current view they
(a) Tend to react with annoyance and contempt
(b) Quickly discount such input as biased
(c) Tend to perceive the source of such information as biased
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

17. Operant responses
(a) Are emitted by animals and human beings
(b) Are voluntary responses
(c) Are under control of the human beings and animals
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

18. Behaviours that can be learned with a moderate amount of difficulty are said to be
(a) Prepared
(b) Unprepared
(c) Contra prepared
(d) Organised
Ans. (b)

19. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) Direct approaches to dissonance reduction focus on the attitudes behaviour discrepancies that are causing the dissonance
(b) Indirect approaches to dissonance reduction leave the basic discrepancy between attitudes and behaviour intact but reduce the unpleasant negative feelings generated by dissonance.
(c) Indirect routes to dissonance reduction is most likely to occur when an attitude- behaviour discrepancy involves important attitudes or self-beliefs. Individuals experiencing such dissonance may rely on self-affirmation-restoring positive self-evaluations that are threatened by the dissonance
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)


20. Variable — Ratio Schedule is a schedule of reinforcement in which
(a) Reinforcement is delivered after a variable number of responses have been performed
(b) Variable amount of time must elapse before a response yields reinforcement
(c) Reinforcement occurs only after a fixed number of responses have been emitted
(d) A specific interval of time must elapse before a response will yield reinforcement
Ans. (a)


21. Find out the correct statements
(a) In classical conditioning, the experimenter controls the occurrence of US
(b) In operant conditioning occurrence of the reinforcer 1s under the control of the organism
(c) For US in classical conditioning the organism remains passive
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)

22. Persuasion is the
(a) Effort to change others attitudes through the use of various kinds of messages
(b) Process of person’s perception
(c) Kind of attitude formation
(d) Efforts to confirm others attitudes
Ans. (a)

23. Classical conditioning is also sometimes called
(a) Respondent conditioning
(b) Pavlovian conditioning
(c) Instrumental conditioning.
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Ans.(d)


24. Who among the following carried out a number of insight experiments on chimpanzees and summarized the findings in a book entitled. “The mentality of APes (1925)”?
(a) Ivan Pavlov
(b) Wolfgang Kohler
(c) Koffka
(d) Tolman
Ans. (b)

25. Consider the following statements
1. Studies conducted with identical twins suggest that attitudes may also be influenced by genetic factors although the strength of such effect varies greatly across different attitudes
2. Several factors serve as moderators of the link between attitudes and behaviour affecting the strength of this relationship
3. Situational constraints may prevent us from expressing our attitude overtly
4. We tend to prefer situations that allow us to express our attitudes and this may further strengthen these views
Which of the above statements is correct?
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 2and 3
(c) 3 and 4
(d) 1 and 4
Ans. (a)