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)