Psychology UPSC IAS Test Paper
Practice Paper Psychology for IAS Exams
1. One of the most powerful research tool in Psychology is
(a) Observation
(b) Case study
(c) Introspection
(d) Experiment
Ans. (d)
2. According to Gardner personal intelligence is the ability to
(a) Get along well with others
(b) Lead one’s personal life wisely
(c) Deal with personal problems effectively
(d) Involve others in personal matters
Ans. (a)
3. Read carefully the statements and give an appropriate response.
(i) A hypothesis is any careful observation made in a controlled experiment
(ii) Correlation does not demonstrate causation.
(a) Both the statements are true
(b) Both the statements are false
(c) (i) is true, but (ii) is false
(d) (ii) is true, but (1) is false
Ans. (b)
4. The variable that reflects changes in the independent variable, is known as ______
(a) Dependent variable
(b) Extraneous variable
(c) Independent variable
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)
5. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) Fluid intelligence refers to our largely inherited abilities to think and reason-in a sense it is the hardware of our brain
(b) Crystallized intelligence refers to accumulated knowledge
(c) Information we store over a lifetime of experience and the application of skills and knowledge to solving specific problems is known as crystallized intelligence
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)
6. Those conditions or factors to be excluded from possible influence on the outcome of a controlled experiment, are called _______
(a) Dependent variable
(b) Independent variable
(c) Extraneous variable
(d) Variable
Ans. (c)
7. If the average test score of the experimental group is higher than that of the control group, it can he concluded that
(a) The music improves learning group
(b) The music does not improve learning group
(c) The music has no effect on learning group
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)
8. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists.
List-I List-II
(Relationship) (Average correlation between their IQ’s)
A. Between parents 1. .25
and natural children
B. Between parents 2. .50
and their adopted
children
C. Identical twins 3. .90
D. Fraternal twins 4. .75
E. Identical twins reared apart 5. .55
Codes:
A B C D E
(a) 1 2 3 4 5
(b) 2 1 3 5 4
(c) 3 2 1 4 5
(d) 5 3 4 1 2
Ans. (b)
9. It is true that personal differences among subjects might influence outcome of an experiment. These can be controlled by
(a) Extraneous variable
(b) Random sampling
(c) Random assignment
(d) All of the above
Ans. (c)
10. The amount of study time, the sx of subjects, the temperature in the room, the ‘time of the day. the amount of light, and so forth, are coming under —_____
(a) Extraneous variables
(b) Outside variables
(c) Dependent variables
(d) (a) and (b)
(e) None of these
Ans. (d)
11. Individual classified as trainable
(a) Remain always dependent upon others
(b) Can learn to take care of their daily needs and can function in a sheltered environment
(c) Have the intellectual level of the average four to seven year old child
(d) All of the above
Ans. (a)
12. Psychologists face an interesting problem ‘not shared by physicists and chemists. Human subjects are very sensitive to hints from an experimenter about what is expected of them, is called
(a) Placebo effect
(b) Environmental effect
(c) Experimenter effect
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)
13. Many experiments that might be revealing are impractical, unethical, or impossible to perform. In instances such as these, information may be gained from
(a) Case studies
(b) Field studies
(c) Experimental studies
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)
14. Convergent thinking refers to
(a) General thinking ability
(b) Solving a problem that has a well defined correct answer
(c) Solving a problem that is without any defined answer
(d) Thinking creatively
Ans. (b)
15. A is an in-depth focus on all aspects of a single subject.
(a) Field studies
(b) Case studies
(c) Experimental studies
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)
16. A procedure used to control both the placebo effect and the experimenter effect in drug experiments is the
(a) Correlation method
(b) Extraneous prophecy
(c) Double blind technique
(d) Random assignment of subjects
Ans. (c)
17. Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a/an
(a) Genetically based metabolic disorder
(b) Emotional disorder
(c) Type of pneumonia
(d) Form of mental illness
Ans. (a)
18. Graphical statistics, measures of central tendency, and measures of variability, are
(a) Descriptive statistics
(b) Inferential statistics
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)
19. A familiar measure of central tendency is the
(a) Mean
(b) Median
(c) Mode
(d) All of the above
Ans. (a)
20. Who among the following believed that superior intelligence was accompanied by superior physical vigor?
(a) Binet
(b) Terman
(c) Simon
(d) Galton
Ans. (d)
21. The is calculated by adding all the scores for each group and then dividing by the total number of scores.
(a) Median
(b) Mode
(c) Mean
(d) All of the above
Ans. (c)
22. A bell-shaped curve having known mathematical properties and characterized by a large number of scores in the middle, tapering towards very few extremely high and low scores at either end, is called _________
(a) Norm al curve
(b) Abnormal curve
(c) Curve
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)
23. The woodcock-Johnson test of cognitive abilities, attempts to measure important aspects of
(a) Memory
(b) Perception
(c) Fluid and crystallized intelligence
(d) Motivation
Ans. (c)
24. When a correlation exists, we can say that
(a) Two variables are not related
(b) Two variables have cause and effect relationship
(c) Two variables are related
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)
25. The simplest way of visualizing a correlation is to construct a _______________
(a) Diagram
(b) Graph
(c) Scattered diagram
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)
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