Objective Test Paper Psychology

Objective Test Paper Psychology

Psychology Sample Paper

1. ______ 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)

2. Psychologist____ has laid great stress on the child’s family position or birth order.

(a) Sigmund Freud

(b) Alfred Adler

(c) J.B . Watson

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

3. The organism undergoing ______ receives a reward for each small step toward a final goal

(a) Shaping

(b) Conditioning

(c) Operating

(d) Delaying

Ans. (a)

4. 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)

5. The defining characteristic of ____is that they express an evaluation of some objects, such as liking-disliking, pro-anti, positive, negative etc.

(a) Motivation

(b) Personality

(c) Attitude

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

6. Aggressiveness pro-social behaviour, politeness, indolence are acquitted by ______ learning

(a) Observational

(b) Operant

(c) Instrumental

(d) Classical

Ans. (a)

7. In lower classes children take every word of the____ as command and try to imitate his behaviour.

(a) Class-monitor

(b) Class-mate

(c) Teacher

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

8. Paired-Associates Learning

(a) Is a method used in studying verbal learning

(b) Mimics S - S conditioning and S - R learning

(c) Is used in learning some foreign language vocabulary list that pairs foreign words with their equivalents in Hindi

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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)

14. Fore warning provides us with

(a) More opportunity to formulate counter arguments

(b) More time in which to recall relevant facts and information that may prove useful in refuting a persuasive message

(c) Less time to recall relevant information

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

15. 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)

16. Cognitive processes involve

(a) The selection of information

(b) The elaboration of information in thought

(c) The storage of information in memory

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

17. Attitude polarization is a tendency to evaluate mixed evidence or information in such away

(a) That it strengthens our initial views and makes them more extreme

(b) That it weakens our initial views

(c) That it does not influence our initial views

(d) That it diverts our attitude

Ans. (a)

18. 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)

19. learning is an example of instrumental conditioning based on negative reinforcement:

(a) Verbal

(b) Escape

(c) cognitive

(d) Latent

Ans. (b)

20. A technique for reducing dissonance by mentally minimalizing the importance of attitudes or behaviour that is inconsistent with each other is known as-

(a) Trivialization

(b) Affirmation

(c) Reducing dissonance

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

21. Who among the following developed an influential theory that stressed the cognitive nature of all learning?

(a) Thorndike

(b) Edward C. Tolman

(c) Ivan Pavlov

(d) B. F. Skinner

Ans. (b)

22. is the acquisition of new behaviour or the strengthening or weakening of old behaviour as the result of experience.

(a) Memory

(b) Motivation

(c) Learning

(d) Personality

Ans. (c)

23. 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)

24. Who among the following psychologists is known as the propagator of the theory concerning trial and error learning?

(a) Wolfgang Kohler

(b) Edward L. Thorndike

(c) Ivan Pavlov

(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)