Psychology Model Test Paper

Psychology Model Test Paper

Practice Test Paper Psychology

1. _____ is a schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement occurs only after a fixed number of responses have been emitted

(a) Fixed — Interval schedule

(b) Fixed — Ratio schedule

(c) Variable — Ratio schedule

(d) Schedules of Reinforcement

Ans. (b)

2. 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)

3. _____ 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)

4. The unconditioned stimuli used in studies of classical conditioning are basically

(a) Appetitive

(b) Aversive

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

5. Consider the following statements

1. Appetitive classical conditioning is slower

2. Appetitive conditioning requires greater number of acquisition trials

3. Aversive conditioning is established in one, tow or three trials

4. Establishing Aversive conditioning is dependent on the intensity of the aversive unconditioned stimulus

Select the correct sentences from the following options

(a) l and 2

(b) 1, 2 and 3

(c) 3 and 4

(d) l, 2, 3 and 4

Ans. (d)

6. 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)

7. Operant conditioning was first investigated by:

(a) B F Skinner

(b) Pavlov

(c) Thorndike

(d) Tolman

Ans. (a)

8. Which one of the following statements is correct?

(a) A reinforcement schedule is the arrangement of the delivery of reinforcement during conditioning trials

(b) Each schedule of reinforcement influences the course of conditioning in its own way

(c) Conditioned responses occur with differential characteristics

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

9. ‘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)

10. Where a desired response is reinforced every time it occurs, it is called

(a) Intermittent reinforcement

(b) Continuous reinforcement

(c) Everlasting reinforcement

(d) Simply reinforcement

Ans. (b)

11. All of us gradually learn to put on woolen clothes or to use electric heaters to avoid the unpleasant cold weather. This is an example of

(a) Positive reinforcement

(b) Negative reinforcement

(c) Reinforcement only

(d Mild reinforcement

Ans. (b)

12. The basic thrust of attribution theory is to make explicit the rules we all use in attempting to infer _____and to discover the biases and errors that plague our attempts to do so.

(a) Our motivation

(b) Our emotion

(c) The causes of behaviour

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

13. Consider the following statements

1. Effects of punishment are quite complex

2. Mild and delayed punishment has no effect

3. The stronger the punishment, the more lasting is the suppression effect but not permanent

4. No punishment suppresses a response permanently

5. Punished person may develop dislike and hatred for the punishing agent or the person who administers the punishment

Select the correct answer from the options given below

(a) 1, 2 and 4

(b) 2, 3 and 5

(c) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

(d) 4 and 5

Ans. (c)

14. Find out the correct statement

(a) In classical conditioning, the responses are under the control of some stimulus because they are reflexes automatically elicited by the appropriate stimuli

(b) In instrumental conditioning, responses are under the control of organism and are voluntary responses

(c) In classical conditioning the organism learns that the Cs is the sign for the occurrence of UCS because of their temporal and spatial contiguity

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

15. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed”, was stated by

(a) Carl Jung

(b) William James

(c) Sigmund Freud

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

16. Find out the incorrect match

(a) Classical conditioning ……… Cs and Us are well defined

(b) Operant conditioning ………. Cs is not defined

(c) Operant conditioning ……….. Cs can be inferred

(d) Classical conditioning ………..Cs is not well defined

Ans. (d)

17. ____environment refers to the environment provided by other people to the individual, his role in society, his family’s status in the society and his own position in the family hierarchy.

(a) Psychological

(b) Social

(c) Ecological

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

18. Which of the following statements is correct about observational learning?

(a) It is investigated by Bandura

(b) It is sometimes called social learning

(c) It is a kind of learning where human beings learn social behaviour

(d) All of the above

19. ____ is a process that does not stop at a certain stage but continues throughout life and helps the person to function effectively within a given cultural or social group.

(a) Learning professional skills

(b) Learning skills of interaction

(c) Transmission of culture

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

20. 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)

21. 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)

22. ___reflected by its own art, religion and philosophy, it becomes its culture.

(a) Certain rules

(b) Certain prejudices

(c) Certain values

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

23. ______ is the tendency of stimuli similar to a conditioned stimulus to evoke conditioned responses

(a) Stimulus Recovery

(b) Stimulus Generalization

(c) Generativity

(d) Stimulus discrimination

Ans. (b)

24. ___are clusters of interrelated traits and attributes that we assume to be characteristic of certain kinds of individuals.

(a) Attitudes

(b) Stereotypes

(c) Superstitions

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

25. Biological constraints on learning are the. tendencies of some species

(a) To acquire some forms of conditioning less readily than other species do

(b) To acquire some forms of conditioning more readily than other species do

(c) To exhibit nocturnal activity

(d) To depend on vision to associate food with illness

Ans. (a)