IAS Civil Service Psychology Entrance Test

IAS Civil Service Psychology Entrance Test
Psychology Model Question Paper
1. People whose perceptions are at the constricted end of the flexible constructed dimension

(a) Are dominated by internal needs and motives

(b) Have narrow focus of attention

(c) Are greatly affected by interfering influences

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

2. in stereoscopic vision

(a) Two eyes co-operate to yield the experience of solidity and distance

(b) Two eyes move in the opposite direction

(c) One eye remains shut

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

3. Helmholtz argued that

(a) Visual perceptions are too variable

(b) Visual perceptions cannot be explained on the basis of fixed receptor mechanisms

(c) Visual perceptions must be learned

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

4. ‘Telepathy’ is a form of

(a) Perception

(b) Illusion

(c) Apparent motion

(d) Extrasensory perception

Ans. (d)

5. Both camera and eye have mechanism to control the amount of entering light, diaphragm in the camera and —________ in the eye.

(a) Rods

(b) Iris

(c) Cones

(d) Lens

Ans. (c)

6. Which of the following statements is correct about Fovea

(a) It is the region of maximum acuity

(b) No rods are found here

(c) The image of an object falls on the fovea

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

7. The bipolar cells in the retina.

(a) Gather the responses of many nearby receptors

(b) Send the responses to the cerebral cortex through ganglion cells

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

8. Who among the following discovered that when white light passes through a glass prism it is broken down into rainbow of colours?

(a) Bruner and Goodman

(b) Newton

(c) Campbell

(d) Segall

Ans. (b)

9. Which of the following personal variables influence our perceptions?

(a) Needs

(b) Emotions

(c) Values

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

10. Who among the following proposed that the brain has the innate capacity for organizing perceptions?

(a) Kohler

(b) Koffka

(c) Wertheimer

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

11. Which of the following is the principle of perceptual organization?

(a) Closure

(b) Grouping

(c) Contrast

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

12. Sense organs in the muscles, tendons, and joints tell us about the position of our limbs and the state of tension in the muscles. They serve the sense called

(a) Kinesthesis

(b) Simulation

(c) Receptors

(d) Transduction

Ans. (a)

13. During the transduction process, receptor cells convert physical energy into an electric voltage called

(a) Receptor potential

(b) Receptor activity

(c) Receptor organism

(d) All of the above

Ans. (a)

14. The conversion of physical energy into a code made up of nerve firing patterns that correspond to events in the environment are known as

(a) Afferent codes

(b) Efferent codes

(c) Afferent neurons

(d) Codicals

Ans. (a)

15. Timbre is

(a) The psychological counterpart of wave complexity

(b) The tonal quality that enables us to distinguish among different musical instruments and voices

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

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

List-I                                                   List-II

(Receptors)                                         (Body parts)

A. Meissner corpuscle                         1. Areas of the skin with no receptor

B. Basket nerve ending                       2. Palms of the hands

C. Free nerve endings                         3. Roots of hairs

Code:

A         B         C        

(a)        2          3          1         

(b)        3          1          2         

(c)        3          2          1         

(d)       2          1          3

Ans. (a)

           

17. Select the incorrect information about a binocular cue for depth perception

(a) The fovea is much more sensitive than the rest of the retina

(b) When we look at an object, we fixate our eyes so that the image of the object falls mostly on each fovea

(c) Images are more dissimilar when the object is close than when it is far in the distance

(d) The image of the object falls only on one eye

Ans. (d)

18. The kind of motion seen in movies is

(a) Apparent motion

(b) Stroboscopic motion

(c) Induced motion

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

19. The moon is often perceived as ‘racing’ through a thin layer of clouds. This is an example of

(a) Apparent movement

(b) Real movement

(c) Induced movement

(d) Autokinetic movement

Ans. (c)

20. Perceptual-cognitive styles refer to the idea that

(a) People differ in the ways they typically and characteristically process information

(b) People process information in the same way

(c) People do not process information

(d) Informations get processed on their own

Ans. (a)

21. Factors that influence an individual’s perception are

I. Perceptual learning

2. Person’s set

3. Motives and needs

4. Individual’s characteristic perceptual Cognitive style

Select the correct answer from the options given below:

(a) Only 1 and 2

(b) Only 2 and 3

(c) Only 1, 2, 3 and 4

(d) Only 4

Ans. (c)

22. Which of the following information about the Hyper complex cell is/are correct?

(a) Neural activity recorded in the visual cortex by cells named by Hubel and Wiesel

(b) These cells are active only if the stimulus line is in a particular orientation and of a specific length and width

(c) These cells appear to be connected to an array of complex cells

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

23. Orienting reflex refers to

(a) Physiological reactions that occur in response to stimulation changes in the environment

(b) Reflex found only in human beings

(c) Reflex found only in animals

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

24. Accommodation is a process in the eye where

I. Ciliary muscles attached to the lens flatten it for distant objects

2. Ciliary muscles attached to the lens thicken for closer objects

3. Ciliary muscles flatten the lens for closer objects

4. Ciliary muscles thicken the lens for distant objects

Select the correct answer from the options given below:

(a) 1 and 2

(b) 3 and 4

(c) 1 and3

(d) 2 and 4

Ans. (a)

25. Which of the following information about Retina is correct?

(a) It is the most important structure in the eye

(b) Light reaches the retina by passing through the vitreous humor

(c) Two types of photo receptors are identified in the retina-rods and cones

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)