Psychology Free Online Practice Paper

Psychology Free Online Practice Paper

Solved Psychology 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. Which one of the following statements is correct about ‘learning’?

(a) Learning is a change that takes place through practice or experience.

(b) Learning is a change in behaviour, for better or worse.

(c) Learning is a change that must be relatively permanent, it must last a fairly long time.

(d) All of the above.

Ans. (d)

3. Match List-I (Validity/clinical scales of MMPI) with List-II (Characteristics of high scores on these scales) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

List-I List-II

A. Lie Scale 1. Feeling of hopelessness and worthlessness

B. Paranoia 2. Excessive concern about Scale health, exaggeration of

real or imagined physical ailments

C. Depression 3. Denial of common Scale personal faults, defensiveness

D. Hypochondriasis scale 4. Obsessive- compulsiveness, excessive introspection that

dwells on fears and self-doubts

5. Defensiveness, suspiciousness and jealousy

Codes:

A B C D

(a) 5 3 2 1

(b) 3 5 1 2

(c) 3 5 4 2

(d) 5 3 1 4

Ans. (c)

4. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

1. Denial_____ Closing one’s eyes to the existence of threatening reality

2. Sublimation_____ Using a higher socially acceptable outlet for basic impulses

5. Repression_____ Forgetting content that is traumatic

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Codes:

(a) 2 and 3

(b) l and 2

(c) l and 3

(d) 1, 2 and 3

Ans. (d)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. _____ 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)

9. Production process which covers the final aspect of observational learning depends on

(a) One’s own physical abilities

(b) One’s capacity to monitor one’s own performance and adjust until it matches that of the model

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

10. _____ 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)

11. 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)

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. Find out the incorrect statement

(a) Aversive unconditioned stimuli elicit avoidance and escape responses

(b) Bitter taste, is an unconditioned stimulus related to aversive conditioning

(c) Aversive unconditioned stimuli elicit pleasant responses

(d) Noise is an unconditioned stimulus related to aversive conditioning

Ans. (c)

14. Credit for demonstrating the potential of the instrumental conditioning of attitudes is given to_____ who used verbal record to alter what people said.

(a) Doob

(b) Green spoon

(c) Freud

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

15. 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)

16. A is defined as any stimulus or event, which increases the probability of the occurrence of a desired response

(a) Reinforcer

(b) Stimulus

(c) Response

(d) Conditioned stimulus

Ans. (a)

17. The attitude-behaviour relationship was conducted by

(a) La Piere

(b) Doob

(c) Freud

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

18. Find out the correct statement

(a) Use of punishment reduces or suppresser the response while a negative reinforces increases the probability of avoidance or escape response

(b) Punishment increases the response while negative reinforcer reduces the probability of avoidance or escape response

(c) Punishment and negative reinforcer both reduce the escape response

(d) Punishment and negative reinforcer both increase the escape response

Ans. (a)

19. 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)

20. 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)

21. Find out the incorrect information from the statements given below

(a) Classical and instrumental, both forms of conditioning are examples of simple learning

(b) Extinction and generalization can be applied to both classical and instrumental conditioning

(c) Discrimination cannot be applied to instrumental conditioning

(d) Classical conditioning was proposed by Pavlov

Ans. (c)

22. 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)

23. ____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)

24. An US in classical conditioning

(a) Elicits the responses in the beginning

(b) Reinforces the stimulus to be associated later

(c) Elicits the responses later

(d) Reinforces the responses in the beginning

Ans. (a)

25. ___environment refers to an individual’s motivations, cognitions, perceptions and other personality characteristics.

(a) Ecological

(b) Social

(c) Psychological

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)