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Psychology MCQ`s Paper (Babar Zaheer)
1. -----------------is the set of forces that energize,direct,and sustain behaviour.
a) Motivation
b) Expectancy
c) Empowerment
d) Socialization
2. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs includes all of the following categories EXPECT.
a) Safety
b) Relatedness
c) Physiological
d) Self-actualization
3. ----------------- involve a mixture of physiological arousal , behaviour and thought.
a) Needs
b) Beliefs
c) All of these choices are true
d) Emotions
4. Imagine that a snarling dog runs up to you as are riding your bicycle . What part(s) of your brain is
primarily involved in your response ?
a) Hypothalamus
b) Cortex
c) Sympathetic nervous system
d) All of these choices are true
5. when we experience ----------- and------------, skin temperature may be reduced.
a) Anger , happiness
b) Surprise , anger
c) Fear , disgust
d) Grief , sadness
6. According to the james – lange theory of emotions , you know you are afraid of snakes because.
a) Of learning about poisonous snakes .
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b) You run when you see one.
c) Of your cognitive appraisal of the danger.
d) All of these choices are true.
7. A freshman student exclaimed, “I know I’m afraid of Dr.Imtiaz because every time I enter his class I
break out in a sweat and the muscles in my forehead tense up in a very special way.” This statement
best illustrates ------------- theory of emotion.
a) A psychodynamic
b) The cannon
c) The james-lange
d) A humanistic-existential
8. The learned aspects of emotional expression are called:
a) Native expressions
b) Display rules
c) Experience rules
d) Cognitive appraisals
9. The term “Tabula Rassa”highlights the importance of -------------in shapping behaviour.
a) Genes
b) Experience
c) Nature
d) Predestination
10. -------- is to nature as --------- is to nurture.
a) Plato , Aristotle
b) Aristotle , Plato
c) Pliny , Archimedes
d) Stavros , plin
11. Darwin’s theory of ----------argued that physiological characteristics evolve because they are useful
to the organism.
a) Extreme usefulness
b) Natural endowment
c) Natural selection
d) Natural wellbeing
12. Watson and Skinner both contributed to which school of psychology.
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a) Functionalism
b) Cognitive
c) Social-cultural
d) Behaviourism
13. For how many seconds , short term memory holds information .
a) 30 seconds or less
b) 50 seconds
c) More than 50 seconds
d) Only for 1 minute
14. Approximate weight of human soul?
a) 27 kg
b) 0.27 kg
c) 0.027 kg
d) None of the above
15.The range of IQ in the people with moderate mental retardation is:
a) 35 to 54
b) 10 to 19
c) 20 to 34
d) 55 to 70
16. The process of using psychological methods by a trained psychologist for helping people with
psychological problems is called as:
a) Psychoanalysis
b) Psychotherapy
c) Psychiatry
d) None of the above
17. Which of the following is the idea by which we can access the personality of someone by studying
their face ?
a) Physiognomy
b) Phrenology
c) Physiology
d) Somatology
18. Which of the following Greek philosopher believed that knowledge is acquired through
learning and experience ?
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a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) J.B Watson
d) William wundt
19. Which of the following part of the brain is responsible for transferring short-term memory
to long-term memory ?
a) Cerebellum
b) Hippocampus
c) Amygdala
d) Symphatatic nervous system
20. Who is the father of experimental psychology?
a) J.B Watson
b) John locke
c) Socrates
d) Wilhelm Wundt
21. Another name of adrenal gland is known as :
a) Pituitary gland
b) Gland of emergency
c) Supra renal gland
d) Both b and c BZ Khan
22. Correlation coefficients range from:
a) r = -1 to r = +1
b) r = 0 to r = +1
c) r = -1 to r = 0
d) r = +.5 to r = +1
23. The hypothalamus plays an important role in the regulation of :
a) Food intake
b) Water intake
c) Alcohol intake
d) Both a and b
24. A person who is motivated displays:
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a) Unconscious behaviour
b) Conscious behaviour
c) Goal- directed behaviour
d) Erratic behaviour
25. Motives are :
a) Internal sources of behaviour
b) External sources of behaviour
c) Natural sources of behaviour
d) None of the above
26. When the motive is directed towards goals external to the person such as money or grade it is
called:
a) Extrinsic motivation
b) Intrinsic motivation
c) Instinct
d) None of the above
27. A person’s need for feeling competent and self-determining in dealing with his
environment is called:
a) Intrinsic motivation
b) Instinct
c) Imprinting
d) Coolidge effect
28. Both the terms “emotion” and “motivation” came from the same latin root:
a) Movement
b) Move
c) “Movere”
d) None of these
29. As motivation is closely related to effort , the emotion is related to:
a) Arousal
b) Instinct
c) Displacement behaviour
d) Conflict
a) 30. Neurotic anxiety is one in which there occurs emotional response to a threat to ego that
the impulses may break through into:
a)Consciousness , b).Un-consciousness , c). Sub-consciousness , d). Super Ego
