Free Online Psychology Questions Paper with Answers

Free Online Psychology  Questions Paper with Answers

Psychology MCQ paper

1. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(a) Task oriented coping                                Refers to examining the problem objectively

(b) Emotion focused copying                         Aims at controlling and managing emotions

(c) Ego defence mechanism                            Protects the ego against the impending dangers of hurt.

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

2. Who among the following researchers developed a Hassles Scale?

(a) Lazarus and his colleagues

(b) Cohen and his colleagues

(c) Oulette and Puccetti

(d) Holmes and Rahe

Ans. (a)

3. Which one of the following options present the correct ascending order sequence of stressful life events that impair an

      individual’s health?

(a) Death of spouse, marital separation, personal injury, getting fired at work.

(b) Personal injury, marital separation, death of spouse, getting fired at work.

(c) Getting fired at work, personal injury, marital separation, death of spouse.

(d) Marital separation, personal injury, getting fired at work, death of spouse

Ans. (c)

4. Consider the following statements about individual differences in resistance to stress:

1. People who have general expectancies for good outcomes are much more stress- resistant than pessimists

2. Men are more likely to report work- related problems, whereas women tend to report problems relevant to themselves,

    parenting and interactions with others.

3. Chang (1996) found that Asian students were more pessimistic and tended to use more problem avoidance and social withdrawal as

    coping strategies

Which of the above statements is correct

(a) Only 1

(b) Only 3

(c) 1, 2 and 3

(d) 1 and 2

Ans. (c)

5. The___ personality is a kind of personality that is characterized by a general tendency to cope with stress by keeping negative

       emotions to oneself

(a) Type-A

(b) Type-B

(c) Type-D

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

6. The Person-Environment (P-E) Fit is

(a) The match between characteristics of workers and characteristics of their jobs

(b) The fit between the person and society

(c) That match between person and mental stress

(d) All of the above

Ans. (a)

7. Which of the following factors determine who will become addicted to smoking?

(a) Genetic

(b) Psychosocial

(c) Cognitive

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

8. Which of the following statements about time management as a behavioural coping technique is correct?

(a) By using the method of time management, we can reduce the stressors in our lives

(b) Time management is learning how to make time work for us instead of against us

(c) Principle of time management is to balance work time and play time

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

9. Which one of the following given options is correct?

(a) Lazarus has distinguished between two types of appraisals : primary and secondary.

(b) Primary appraisal is an initial evaluation of whether an event is relevant

(c) When we view an event as threatening or stressful, we are likely to make a secondary appraisal

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

10. Which one of the following statements is not correct?

(a) A major source of frustration is conflict between two opposing motives

(b) When two motives conflict the satisfaction of one leads to the frustration of the other

(c) Conflict arises between a motive and a person’s internal standards

(d) Conflict never arises between external goals.

Ans. (d)

11. A young woman leaves home to escape parental domination, only to come back to receive parental protection; her attitude toward

      her parents is

(a) Ambivalent

(b) Approach avoidance conflict

(c) Vacillation-avoidance approach

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

12. Which of the following statements about studies on gradients is the correct one?

(a) The tendency to approach a positive incentive is stronger, the nearer the subject is to it

(b) The tendency to go away from a negative incentive is stronger, the nearer the subject is to it

(c) In some situations the avoidance gradient tends to be steeper than the approach gradient

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

13. Which of the following statements best explains the third principle that in some situations the strength of avoidance increases

       more rapidly with proximity than does that of approach?

(a) At a distance the positive aspects seem more inviting than the negative ones

(b) At a distance negative aspects seem more inviting than the positive ones

(c) Close to each other the positive feeling is strongest

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

14. Stereotypy is a tendency to

(a) Exhibit repetitive, fixated behaviour

(b) Change and modify one self

(c) Show abnormal attachment

(d) Seek comfort in fantasy

Ans. (a)

15. Consider the following statements

1. When problems become too much for us, we sometimes seek the “solution” of escape into a dream world.

2. Unrealistic solutions are not only limited to children

3. Severe and continuous frustration may produce such complete escape into fantasy that the individual loses the ability to distinguish

    between fantasy and the real world

Which of the above statements is correct?

(a) 1, 2 and 3

(b) 1 and 2

(c) 2 and 3

(d) 2 and 1

Ans. (a)

16. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:

      List-I                                                      List-II

  (Mechanism)                                            (As a defence)

A. Discrimination                                        1. Rationalization

B. Means-end                                             2. Projection

    symbolization

C. Selective                                                3. Intellectualization

     awareness

D. Sensitivity                                             4. Dental

Codes:

                A              B              C              D

(a)             3              2              1              4

(b)            4              3              2              1

(c)             3              1              4              2

(d)            2              3              1              4

Ans. (c)

17.  Which one of the following statements about defence mechanism is not correct?

(a) Defence mechanisms provide protective armour while we are earning more mature and realistic ways of solving our problems

(b) Defence mechanisms give us time to solve problems that might otherwise overwhelm us

(c) The person who depends upon defence mechanisms for protection may never be forced to learn more mature ways of behaving

(d) Actions based on defence mechanisms always reach their goals and the resulting behaviour is tension-reducing

Ans. (d)

18. The results of the study conducted by Cohen and his colleagues (1998) showed that

(a) Volunteers who reported chronic stressors (lasting longer than a month) were more likely to develop a cold than volunteers

      who had experienced only acute stressors when administered nasal drops containing common cold virus

(b) Volunteers who experienced acute stressors were more likely to develop cold than volunteers who reported chronic stressors

(c) Short term stressful events may be more important determinant of disease risk than chronic stressors

(d) The existence of large differences in individual’s ability to withstand the impact of stress is also important

Ans. (a)

19. ___ is an internal state which can be caused by physical demands on the body or by environmental and social situations which

     are evaluated as potentially harmful, uncontrollable, or exceeding our resources for coping.

(a) Stress

(b) Anxiety

(c) Pain

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

20. ___ is often a factor in two of the leading causes of death, viz, heart disease and cancer

(a) Ill health

(b) Stress

(c) Conflict

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

21. ___ termed the body’s response to stressors the general adaptation syndrome

(a) Sigmund Freud

(b) Hans Selye

(c) William James

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

22. Retrogressive behaviour is

(a) A form of regression

(b) A return to behaviour once engaged in

(c) A primitive kind of behaviour

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

23. Which one of the correctly matched?

(a) Denial                                   refuses to face painful thoughts or feelings

(b) Means-end                             ability to analyse experience, to anticipate outcomes, to entertain

      symbolization                       alternatives

(c) Impulse diversion                    ability to control an impulse by inhibiting expression

(d) Selective                               ability to focus attention

      awareness

Ans. (c)

24. Study conducted by Holmes and Rahe (1967), on stressful life events shows that

(a) The greater the number of “stress points” people accumulated, the greater was their likelihood of becoming seriously ill.

(b) The greater the number of ‘stress points’ people accumulated the greater was their ability to cope with it

(c) Some persons suffer ill effects after exposure to a few mildly stressful events, others remain healthy

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

25. The term Hassles refer to

(a) Acute stress

(b) The countless minor annoying sources of everyday stress

(c) Chronic stress

(d) Specific stress

Ans. (b)

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1. ___ are methods for coping with stress.

(a) Relaxation training

(b) Hypnosis

(c) Biofeedback and systematic desensitization

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

2. The conflict can be affected by

(a) Religious scruples

(b) Loss of self-control

(c) Search for companionship

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

3. A body of words, or symbols and rules for combining them that is used for communication and thought and is understood

        by  a sizable community is _______.

(a) Concept

(b) Language

(c) Muscular imagery

(d) Image

Ans. (b)

4. Sometimes an___ conflict is resolved by refusing to select either alternative or in some way evading the choice.

(a) Approach-approach

(b) Approach-avoidance

(c) Avoidance-avoidance

(d) Multiple approach-avoidance

Ans. (b)

5. When circumstances block direct attack on the cause of frustration aggression may be

(a) Repressed

(b) Displaced

(c) Regressed

(d) Suppressed

Ans. (b)

6. _____ is the process of classifying information into meaningful categories.

(a) Concept

(b) Conjunctive concept

(c) Relational concept

(d) Concept formation

Ans. (d)

7. The___ theory approach focuses not on internal conflicts but on ways in which anxiety becomes associated with certain situations

      via learning.

(a) Learning

(b) Psychoanalytic

(c) Humanistic

(d) Cognitive

Ans. (a)

8. The most primitive defense against external threat is

(a) Reaction formation

(b) Denial of reality

(c) Rationalization

(d) Displacement

Ans. (b)

9. “A motor cycle must have two wheels and an engine and handle bars” is an example of

(a) Conjunctive concept

(b) Disjunctive concept

(c) Relational concept

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

10. Who among the following believed that repression of certain childhood impulses is universal?

(a) Jung

(b) Adler

(c) Freud

(d) Horney

Ans. (c)

11. Which of the following is a major source of frustration between two opposing motives?

(a) Approach

(b) Avoidance

(c) Conflict

(d) Repression

Ans. (c)

12. “In the game of baseball, a strike is either a swing and a miss or a pitch down the middle or a foul ball”, is an example of ____.

(a) Concept only

(b) Relational concept

(c) Conjunctive concept

(d) Disjunctive concept

Ans. (d)

13. ___ is defined as a return to more primitive modes of behaviour, that is, to modes of behaviour characterizing a younger age.

(a) Repression

(b) Regression

(c) Projection

(d) Reaction formation

Ans. (b)

14. Who among the following psychologists was the first to focus on the importance of anxiety?

(a) Jung

(b) Freud

(c) Adler

(d) Erikson

Ans. (b)

15. A language must provide  ________that can stand for objects and ideas.

(a) Symbols

(b) Speech

(c) Sounds

(d) Words

Ans. (a)

16. Freud believed that ___ was the result of an unconscious conflict between id impulses and the constraints imposed by the ego and

      superego.

(a) Objective anxiety

(b) Neurotic anxiety

(c) Repression

(d) Aggression

Ans. (b)

17. Frustration mainly arises from three important sources which include

(a) Physical

(b) Social

(c) Psychological

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

18. Which of the following types of conflict involves two negative goals and is a fairly common experience?

(a) Approach-Approach Conflict

(b) Avoidance-Avoidance conflict

(c) Approach-Avoidance conflict

(d) Multiple approach-Avoidance conflict

Ans. (b)

19. The physical, environmental, and social causes of the stress state are termed

(a) Stress

(b) Stressors

(c) Distress

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

20. The general adaptation syndrome consists of three stages which include

(a) The alarm reaction

(b) The stage of resistance

(c) The stage of exhaustion

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

21. Frustration-aggression is a very famous hypothesis proposed by

(a) Roger

(b) Dollard and Miller

(c) Maslow

(d) Otto Rank

Ans. (b)

22. According to whom, an individual would not experience stress unless the individual perceives a situation as threatening?

(a) Lazarus

(b) Erikson

(c) Adler

(d) Harney

Ans. (a)

23. Studies have shown that people who are not outcome oriented, experience

(a) Less strain

(b) Less mental health problem

(c) Less physical health problem

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

24. Consider the following statements.

1. Stretching exercises increase the arousal level of the body.

2. Aerobic exercises have a calming effect.

3. Yogic asanas provide systematic stretching to all the muscles and joints of the body.

4. Yogic asanas massage the glands and other body organs.

Which of the above statements are correct?

(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(b) 1 and 2

(c) 3 and 4

(d) 1, 3 and 4

Ans. (c)

25. Which one of the following statements is not correct?

(a) Persons who have good sleep habits are able to resolve stress better.

(b) The state of health includes only physical and mental well being

(c) Scheier and his colleagues have developed a measure to assess optimism.

(d) Social psychological and spiritual well being is also included in the state of health.

Ans. (a)

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1. Hans selye (1956, 1976) termed the body’s response to stressors the

(a) Turner’s syndrome

(b) General adaptation syndrome

(c) Life-change units

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

2. The term___ disorders is used when perceived stress-mental events increase the susceptibility of the body to disease.

(a) Psychophysiological

(b) Psychosomatic

(c) Affective

(d) Developmental

Ans. (b)

3. Lymphocytes are special white blood cells called

(a) T-cells

(b) B-cells

(c) NK-cells

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

4. Hardiness is a personality disposition that is marked by

(a) Commitment

(b) Challenge

(c) Control

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

5. Studies have shown that, smokers:

(a) Exercise less and eat more

(b) Eat less and exercise more

(c) Do less exercise and less eating

(d) Eat more and exercise more

Ans. (a)

6. Which one of the following techniques is considered as helpful in resolving stress.

(a) Transcendental meditation

(b) Deep breathing

(c) Zen

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

7. Holmes and Rahe developed a self-rating questionnaire to measure stressful life-events made-up of___ life changes.

(a) 43

(b)100

(c) 4

(d) 10

Ans. (b)

8. General Adaptation syndrome (GAS) is a three-stage model of reactions to stress proposed by:

(a) Hans Selye

(b) Lazarus

(c) Freud

(d) Maslow

Ans. (a)

9. Consider the following statements about work-related stress

1. Being asked to do too much in too short a time, can cause extreme overload.

2. Being asked to do too little can also cause stress.

3. Being the target of conflicting demands on expectations from different groups of people cause stress.

Which of the above statements is correct?

(a) 1, 2 and 3

(b) Only 3

(c) 2 and 3

(d) 1 and 2

Ans. (a)

10. Which one of the following options is correct about stress?

 (a) Stress plays some role in 50 to 70% of all physical illness

(b) Stress upsets our complex internal chemistry

(c) Stress interferes with efficient operation of our immune system

(d) All of the above                 

Ans. (d)

11. Which one of the following statements is correct?

(a) Anxiety and hostility can increase general arousal and facilitate the release of catecholamines

(b) Catecholamines stands for a class of neuro transmitters that play an important role in the sympathetic nervous system

(c) The release of the catecholamine epinephrine has the effect of boosting a person’s overall readiness to act-a rise in blood

      pressure is a symptom of this

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

12. Which of the following statements is correct about the term GAS model

(a) It stands for General Adaptation syndrome

(b) It was first reported by Hans Selye

(c) It describes how our bodies react to the effects of stress and includes alarm, resistance and exhaustion as distinct stages.

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

13. Health belief model

(a) Was initially developed to help explain why people do not use medical screening services

(b) Suggests that willingness to seek medical help depends on the extent to which we perceive a threat to our health

(c) Suggests that our willingness to seek medical help depends on the extent to which we believe that a particular behaviour will

     effectively reduce that threat

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

14. Which one of the following statements about the role of emotion in physical health is correct?

(a) Failure to express our emotions can adversely affect the progression of cancer and other illness

(b) Emotions can also lead to an increase in a person’s blood pressure

(c) Emotions play no role in physical health

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

15. Consider the following statements.

1. Our biological system is equipped with some stress alarms that are essential for survival and allow one to function effectively

    in many situations.

2. Without undergoing stress, there can be no constructive and creative activity.

3. A certain level of stress is necessary to perform better in examinations.

4. Stress quite often increases our efficiency and makes us search for new coping resources.

Which of the above statements are correct?

(a) 1, 2 3 and 4

(b) 2, 3 and 4

(c) 2 and 4

(d) 1 and 3

Ans. (a)

16. Frustration refers to

(a) The blocking of motive satisfaction

(b) The unpleasant emotional state that results from blocked goal-seeking rather than the event itself

(c) Thwarting circumstances — the external events rather than their internal consequences

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

17. Consider the following statements about conflicts

1. Most conflicts involve goals that are simultaneously desirable and undesirable- both positive and negative

2. The attitude towards a goal at once wanted and not wanted is called an ambivalent attitude

3. Ambivalent attitudes are very common

4. Conflicts between motives and internal standards can often be more difficult to resolve than conflicts between external goals

Select the correct answer from the options given below:

 (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(b) 1, 2 and 4

(c) 1 and3

(d) 2, 3 and 4

Ans. (a)

18. One unconscious mechanism that protects us from acknowledging undesirable traits or qualities is called

(a) Regression

(b) Projection

(c) Sublimation

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

19. Cases of___ illustrate some aspects of repression.

(a) Agnosia

(b) Amnesia

(c) Atasia

(d) Dementia

Ans. (b)

20. Which of the following impulses may find socially acceptable expression through participation in physical contact sports?

(a) Internal

(b) External

(c) Erotic

(d) Hostile

Ans. (d)

21. Many problems cannot be solve mechanically or by habitual modes of thought. In this case, a higher level of thinking based

         on ______ is necessary.

(a) Understanding

(b) Thinking

(c) Solving

(d) All of the above

Ans. (a)

22. When the person tries to transform his own ego or self after another person’s whom he likes, it becomes a case of:

(a) Introjection

(b) Identification

(c) Isolation

(d) Displacement

Ans. (b)

23. Stress is often a factor in___ disease, the leading causes of death.

(a) Heart

(b) Cancer

(c) Dementia

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

24. Stressors are able to activate the nerve cells of the ___ so that more corticotropin-releasing factor is sent to the pituitary gland, thus

      increasing secretion of ACTH into the blood.

(a) Thalamus

(b) Hypothalamus

(c) Neuron

(d) Brain

Ans. (b)

25. The basic speech sounds are called________

(a) Phonemes

(b) Morphemes

(c) Heuristics

(d) All of the above

Ans. (a)

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1. Freud felt that___ was the most satisfactory way handling aggressive and sexual impulses.

(a) Denial of reality

(b) Repression

(c) Displacement

(d) Regression

Ans. (c)

2. Problem-solving strategies that guide the search for solutions are called ________

(a) Heuristic

(b) Negation

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of these

Ans. (a)

3. Thought may be ____ or_____

(a) Inductive, Deductive

(b) Logical, Illogical

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of these

Ans. (c)

4. The third, and perhaps most essential, characteristic of language is that it is__________

(a) Grammar

(b) Symbol

(c) Syntax

(d) Productive

Ans. (d)

5. Psychologist ___ and his colleagues list five steps that they believe lead to effective problem solving, identity, define, explore,

        act and look and learn.

(a) John Bransford

(b) Karl Dunckr

(c) Adams

(d) Longer & Piper

Ans. (a)

6. ___ are also major stressors.

(a) Frustration

(b) Conflicts

(c) Aggression

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

7. True languages are _____ because they can be used to generate new possibilities.

(a) Phonemes

(b) Morphemes

(c) Productive

(d) Operant

Ans. (c)

8. The smallest meaningful units of speech are called _______

(a) Heuristic

(b) Productive

(c) Morphemes

(d) Phonemes

Ans. (c)

9. Most thinking is accompanied by muscular tension and ______ throughout the body.

(a) Created images

(b) Stored images

(c) Muscular imagery

(d) Micro movements

Ans. (d)

10. In which of the following areas do our impulses most frequently conflict with moral standards and violation of these standards

      may generate strong feelings of guilt?

(a) Sex

(b) Aggression

(c) Tension

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

11. Concepts are powerful tools because they allow us to think more ________

(a) Absurdly

(b) Abstractly

(c) Positively

(d) Negatively

Ans. (b)

12. Concept formation involves experience with _______ and _______ instances of the concept.

(a) Conjunctive, Disjunctive

(b) Positive, Negative

(c) Denotative, Connotative

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

13. Anxiety involves a state of ___ the individual is motivated to avoid or to reduce it.

(a) Tension

(b) Discomfort

(c) Aggression

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

14. A _________ refers to a class of objects having more than one feature in common.

(a) Relational concept

(b) Disjunctive concept

(c) Conjunctive concept

(d) All of the above

Ans. (c)

15. ___classify objects on the basis of their relationship to something else or by the relationship between feature of an object.

(a) Conjunctive concept

(b) Relational concept

(c) Disjunctive concept

(d) Concept only

Ans. (b)

16. Which of the following is the most primitive defense against internal threat?

(a) Regression

(b) Repression

(c) Reaction formation

(d) Suppression

Ans. (b)

17. _____ refers to objects that have atleast one of several possible features.

(a) Relational concept

(b) Conjunctive concept

(c) Disjunctive concept

(d) All of the above

Ans. (c)

18. A ‘mup’ is defined as anything that is small, blue and hairy, ‘Mup’ is a ______ .

(a) Disjunctive concept

(b) Conjunctive concept

(c) Relational concept

(d) None of these

Ans. (b)

19. Any situation that threatens the well being of the organism is assumed to produce a state of:

(a) Frustration

(b) Anxiety

(c) Conflict

(d) Aggression

Ans. (b)

20. Study of the meaning of words and language is called ______

(a) Encoded

(b) Phonemes

(c) Morphemes

(d) Semantics

Ans. (d)

21. “Thinking” is considered in cognitive psychology as_____

(a) Nervous system

(b) Brain

(c) Computer

(d) Programming

Ans. (d)

22. Which of the following defense mechanisms is the basic defense mechanism?

(a) Denial

(b) Repression

(c) Projection

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

23. Who holds the “world record” for mental calculation?

(a) David Levy

(b) Shakuntala Devi

(c) Morain

(d) P.T. Usha

Ans. (b)

24. According to___ the process of the birth brings the greatest frustration in human life.

(a) Shaffer

(b) Otto Rank

(c) Miller and Dollard

(d) Maier

Ans. (b)

25. ___ can be defined as an internal state which can be caused by physical demands on the body or by environmental and

     social situations which are evaluated as potentially harmful, uncontrollable, exceeding our resources for coping.

(a) Frustration

(b) Conflict

(c) Stress

(d) Aggression

Ans. (c)