Programme Name: M.Phil.

(Clinical Psychology)
CET Code: 157

NOTE: THE CORRECT ANSWER IS MARKED IN BOLD LETTERS

1. Dark adaptation is the process in which the eyes get more sensitive to:
a) Green light
b) Coloured lights
c) Light with bright illumination
d) Light with low illumination

2. Any distorting or selective effect of a person’s inner world on his perception or conception of
the outer world is termed:
a) Projection
b) Introjection
c) Empathy
d) Denial

3. The phenomenon that is nearly opposite of habituation is termed:

a) Sensitisation
b) Stabilization
c) Inhabitation
d) Habitation

4. The process of changing your behaviour to match that of others in a group is termed:
a) Norming
b) Conformity
c) Standardization
d) Forming a social contact

5. Reliable difference between two groups can be obtained by using:

a) Norms
b) Validity
c) Reliability
d) Statistical test

6. Which is the smallest unit of meaning in speech perception?

a) Syllables
b) Consonant
c) Phonemes
d) Morphemes

7. The first-grade teacher gives students stickers when they perform well. If they earn five stickers
in one day they are exempt from homework. The stickers in this example could also be called:
a) Primary reinforcer
b) Token
c) Generalized reinforcer
d) Prepotent responses

8. The concept of “Self-reference effect” was founded by:

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a) Craik and Lockhart

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b) Posner
 c) Paivio
d) Rogers and Kuiper

9. The concept of the “collective unconscious” was given by:

a) Sigmund Freud
b) Alfred Adler
c) Carl Jung
d) Karen Horney

10. Narendra turns around and around in a circle. When he stops, he feels like his head is spinning.
What is responsible for this sensation?
a) Semi circular canals
b) Proprioceptors
c) Otolith organs
d) Otolith crystals

11. The concept of inferiority complex – superiority drive was given by:
a) Carl Jung
b) Victor Frankl
c) Alfred Adler
d) Erik Erikson

12. During insight learning there is the sudden realization of the solution to a problem. This is
known as the:
a) ‘aha’ experience
b) Light bulb
c) Momentary
d) Learning

13. The term ‘Ambivalence’ was coined by:

a) Kraepelin
b) Eugen Bleuler
c) Richmond Fromm
d) Sigmund Freud

14. Delusion of infidelity on part of the sexual partner is known as:

a) Ekbom’s Syndrome
b) Othello syndrome
c) de clérambault’s syndrome
d) Couvade syndrome

15. Highway engineers sometimes paint stripes on freeway off-ramps to enhance the perception of
depth. This uses the cue of:
a) Aerial perspective
b) Parallax
c) Overlap
d) Texture gradients

16. A woman harassed by her boss at work, initiates an argument with her husband. She is using
which of the following ego’s defense mechanisms:
a) Projection
b) Identification
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c) Sublimation
d) Displacement
17. The improvement in anxiety may sometimes spuriously improve depression. This is called:
a) Halo effect
b) Ceiling effect
c) Hawthorne effect
d) Therapeutic effect

18. Which of the following disorder is a common cause of pseudodementia?

a) Schizophrenia
b) Mania
c) Depression
d) Hypochondriasis

19. In paranoia, the ego’s defense mechanism as given by Melaine Klein is seen as:
a) Reaction formation
b) Splitting
c) Suppression
d) Projection

20. The tendency to complete a figure is called:

a) Continuation
b) Continuity
c) Closure
d) Similarity

21. Which of the following is NOT a Schneider’s first-rank symptom?

a) Auditory hallucination
b) Delusional perception
c) Passivity phenomenon
d) Delusion of self-reference

22. The Yerkes-Dodson law states that between performance and anxiety, there is:
a) Inverted-U shaped relationship
b) Curvilinear relationship
c) Linear relationship
d) M-shaped relationship

23. The following defense mechanisms are used in obsessive-compulsive disorder:

a) Isolation
b) Undoing
c) Reaction formation
d) Displacement

24. A toddler goes to great lengths to open a box. She knows there is nothing in the box. This is an
example of:
a) Intrinsic motivation
b) Homeostasis
c) Extrinsic motivation
d) Secondary motivation

25. The term ‘la Bella indifference’ seen in hysteria was first used by:
a) Sigmund Freud
b) Anna Freud
c) Pierre Janet
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d) Hippocrates
26. A child has learned to avoid a furry, black cat. However, she still plays with her grandmother’s
short-haired tabby. Her response demonstrates:
a) Discrimination
b) Extinction
c) Successive approximation
d) Negative transfer

27. In hysterical dissociative states, all of the following are seen EXCEPT:
a) Multiple personality
b) Fugue
c) Amnesia
d) Déjà vu

28. Which of the following psychiatric illness is most common after cardiac surgery?
a) Schizophrenia
b) Delirium
c) Anxiety
d) Depression

29. The density of stones increases as we look farther away. This phenomenon is due to?
a) Convergence
b) Aerial perspective
c) Interposition
d) Texture gradient

30. The neurotransmitters called feel-good hormones are known as:

a) Dopamine
b) Endorphins
c) GABA
d) Acetylcholine

31. In the case of human development, the strongest evidence for the critical period hypothesis is
found in:
a) Imprinting
b) Language acquisition
c) Embryonic development
d) Development of vocational interests

32. The process of getting adjusted to different intensities of light is called:

a) Visual adaptation
b) Visual assimilation
c) Visual accommodation
d) Visual sensation

33. Distress tolerance is a major treatment modality in which of the following therapy?
a) Behaviour therapy
b) Dialectical Behaviour therapy
c) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
d) Psychodynamic therapy

34. What is the relationship between frequency and wavelength?

a) Direct
b) Collateral
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c) Bilateral
d) Inverse
35. Who developed the concept of ‘magic number’?
a) Heinz
b) Ebbinghaus
c) Triesman
d) Miller

36. Primacy-recency effect was first observed by whom?

a) McCray and Hunter
b) Ebbinghaus
c) Craik and Lockhart
d) Baddeley and Hitch

37. Air traffic controllers and radar readers provide us with a good example of which of the
following phenomenon?
a) Selective attention
b) Sustained attention
c) Divided attention
d) Perceptual attention

38. Papillae is responsible for which sensory function?

a) Smell
b) Touch
c) Taste
d) Vision

39. Who developed the Decay theory?

a) Ebbinghaus
b) Thorndike
c) Tulving
d) Melton and Irwin

40. What is the key brain structure that is often damaged in patients with anterograde amnesia?
a) Hippocampus
b) Cerebral cortex
c) Amygdala
d) Hypothalamus

41. An English-speaking person may have greater difficulty learning Spanish because of his or her
tendency to wish to apply English grammar to the new language. This occurs due to which of
the following phenomenon?
a) Proactive reference
b) Retroactive reference
c) Trace decay
d) Retrieval failure

42. Which of the four lobes of the brain is responsible for interpreting sensory information?
a) Frontal lobe
b) Occipital lobe
c) Parietal lobe
d) Temporal lobe

43. Which illness is known as the common cold of psychiatry?

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a) Schizophrenia
b) Depression
 c) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
d) Hysteria

44. Why the number plates given for motorbikes or cars carry only 4 digit numbers coupled with
some alphabets?
a) Selected attention
b) Span of attention
c) Divided attention
d) Sustained attention

45. Human ear responds to frequencies between the range of

a) 20 to 20000 HZ
b) 20 to 2000 HZ
c) 20 to 200 HZ
d) 200 to 20000 HZ

46. The tip of the tongue phenomenon appears to be caused by a problem in:
a) Retrieval
b) Engrams
c) Storage
d) Repression

47. Lack of bowel control in children is known as:

a) Encopresis
b) Analism
c) Enuresis
d) Anorexia

48. In PQRST method, a method of enhancing memory, what does the alphabet ‘S’ stand for?
a) Storing
b) Self-recitation
c) Sequencing
d) Semantics

49. Deepika is unable to gain threatening or anxiety-provoking material into her access to conscious
awareness. This phenomenon occurs due to____________________.
a) Suppression
b) Repression
c) Depression
d) Denial

50. Who developed the Filter-attenuation theory?

a) Broadbent
b) Triesman
c) Johnston
d) Heinz

51. Arbitrary zero is the characteristic of which scale?

a) Ratio scale
b) Ordinal scale
c) Interval scale
d) Nominal scale
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52. Which of the following act as receptor(s) for scotopic vision?

 a) Retina
b) Cones
c) Iris
d) Rods

53. The rail tracks appear to be converging to all of u is an example of:

a) Permanent illusion
b) Personal illusion
c) Visual illusion
d) Muller-Lyer illusion

54. The ‘start-stop technique’ and the ‘squeeze technique’ is useful in the treatment of:
a) Male erectile disorder
b) Premature ejaculation
c) Inhibited male orgasm
d) Vaginismus

55. Premature ejaculation is most commonly associated with:

a) Diabetes mellitus
b) Masturbation
c) Personality disorder
d) Anxiety state

56. The research findings indicate that job satisfaction and performance usually have:
a) Weak negative correlation
b) No correlation
c) Weak positive correlation
d) Strong positive correlation

57. Following a stroke, a person has difficulty in recognizing faces. This condition is called:
a) Aphasia
b) Agnosia
c) Apraxia
d) Ataxia

58. Who gave the important concept of ‘identity crisis’ in adolescents?

a) Bowlby
b) Melanie Klein
c) Eric Erikson
d) Eric Berne

59. The treatment of choice for Adjustment disorder is:

a) Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
b) Group psychotherapy
c) Cognitive behaviour therapy
d) Crisis intervention

60. Which of the following would be considered an acute stressor?

a) A pop quiz
b) HIV disease
c) Marital discord
d) Colon cancer
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61. The term ‘kleptomania’ was given by:

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a) Marc
 b) Bleuler
c) Munro
d) Morselli

62. Hypnagogic hallucinations most commonly occur in:

a) Schizophrenia
b) Delirium
c) Drug dependence
d) Normal

63. The tendency to assume that we would have been better at predicting actual events than is really
true is termed as:
a) Hindsight effect
b) Just world hypothesis
c) Decisiveness
d) Confirmation

64. In a typical major sleep period, how many cycles of NREM-REM is there:
a) 2-4
b) 4-6
c) 6-10
d) 10-12

65. Parameter is characteristic of:

a) The sample
b) The population
c) An individual
d) A test

66. A student is afraid of a sports ground in which he has lost a game. It is an example of:
a) Inhibition
b) Cognitive learning
c) Classical conditioning
d) Social learning

67. In an experiment the stimuli were presented to the subjects in certain order and after the
presentation of stimuli their order was disturbed. In the test phase the subjects were needed to
set them in the presented order. Which of the following methods was used in this experiment?
a) Reconstruction
b) Relearning
c) Recognition
d) Recall

68. Habit weakening through the elimination of any reward is called:

a) Negative reinforcement
b) Extinction
c) Reciprocal inhibition
d) Flooding

69. ‘Scales’ and ‘Inventories’ are usually:

a) Subjective
b) Objective
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c) Projective
d) Introjective
70. A rule-of-thumb that allows for an efficient search for the selection of a problem is termed as
a) Algorithm
b) Education
c) Learning
d) Heuristic

71. In order, starting from the first stage, what are the stages of the general adaption syndrome
a) Resistance, alarm, exhaustion
b) Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
c) Resistance, illness, alarm,
d) Alarm, exhaustion, illness

72. A teacher in his class sees two students bored, feels his class is not liked by all the students is
which type of cognitive error:
a) Arbitrary inference
b) Selective attention
c) Over generalization
d) Magnification

73. Following are negative features of schizophrenia except:

a) Avolition
b) Alogia
c) Ambivalence
d) Affective blunting

74. Which of the following factor is most directly linked to a higher risk for coronary heart disease?
a) Type A personality
b) Type B personality
c) Hostility
d) Self-efficacy

75. The left hemisphere is:

a) Concerned to a large extent with spatial and pattern sense
b) The minor hemisphere
c) The major hemisphere
d) Centre of musical ability

76. ‘Reinforcement will have positive effect on performance,’ which type of hypothesis is this?
a) Null and directional
b) Alternate and directional
c) Null and non-directional
d) Alternate and non-directional

77. Which of the following illnesses caused by a long term abuse of alcohol often involves profound
retrograde amnesia?
a) Alzheimer’s disease
b) Parkinson’s disease
c) Huntington’s disease
d) Korsakoff’s psychosis

78. The master gland which manufactures hormones which affect most of the other glands and
which regulates growth is the ___________________.
a) Adrenal cortex
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b) Adrenal medulla
c) Pituitary gland
 d) Thyroid gland

79. Cutting through a person’s corpus callosum causes the person to :

a) Die
b) Become blind
c) Be unable to speak or understand language
d) Have difficulty coordinating certain kind of activities

80. In carrying out the ‘fight or flight’ response, the role of supervisor is assigned to the:
a) Adrenal gland
b) Pituitary gland
c) Hypothalamus
d) Parasympathetic nervous system

81. Our current mood and feelings are best described by the term:
a) Emotion
b) Mood
c) Affect
d) Feeling

82. A response style or bias, in which there is tendency to agree with test items regardless of their
contents is called:
a) Halo effect
b) Central tendency effect
c) Social desirability effect
d) Acquiescence effect

83. Which of the following does NOT reflect inductive reasoning?

a) Probabilistic conclusions
b) Heuristics
c) Decision making
d) Process involved in concept formation

84. The seat of emotion is to be found in _________________.

a) Reticular formation
b) Hind brain
c) Limbic system
d) Forebrain

85. Who gave the concept of ‘Folk psychology’?

a) Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Ivan Pavlov
d) Wilhelm Roentgen

86. ERP is a form of therapy used for:

a) Personality disorders
b) Depression
c) Schizophrenia
d) Obsessive-compulsive disorder

87. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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a) A test can be valid without being reliable

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b) A test can be reliable without being valid

c) If a test measures what it is intended to measure, then by definition it is reliable
 d) If a test gives consistent scores when administered repeatedly then it is valid

88. Which lobe of the cerebral cortex has intellectual functioning as its main domain?
a) Occipital lobe
b) Frontal lobe
c) Parietal lobe
d) Temporal lobe

89. Which of the following is NOT a criterion based validity?

a) Concurrent validity
b) Face validity
c) Predictive validity
d) Factorial validity

90. Consider the following principles with regard to the technique of shaping:
i. Speed
ii. Power
iii. Non-verbal
iv. Performance
On which of the above principles is the technique of shaping based?
a) 1 and 3
b) 1, 2 and 3
c) 1, 2 and 4
d) 1 and 2

91. What is the approximate visual field covered by each human eye?
a) 130 degrees
b) 160 degrees
c) 180 degrees
d) 220 degrees

92. Which of the following defense mechanism is seen in patients with borderline personality
disorder?
a) Splitting
b) Regression
c) Undoing
d) Sublimation

93. ‘Stroop effect’ is an account of:

a) Stimulus dominance
b) Semantic dominance
c) Instructional dominance
d) Conceptual dominance

94. The tendency to think of the use of objects only in terms of their habitual use is known as:
a) Mental barrier
b) Functional fixedness
c) Einstellung
d) Trial and error

95. The ‘satiety centre’ of the brain is located in the:

a) Lateral hypothalamus
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c) Lateral thalamus
d) Ventromedial hypothalamus
96. A patient with anorexia nervosa has traits of:
a) Perfectionism
b) Impulsivity
c) Avoidance
d) Dependence

97. ‘Census’ is the example of which method?

a) Ex post facto
b) Field study
c) Survey
d) Sociometry

98. Which of the following is the most important characteristic of a psychological test?
a) Objectivity
b) Subjectivity
c) Validity
d) Rationality

99. Neurotransmitters are released at the:

a) Axon hillock
b) Axon terminals
c) Myelin sheath
d) Telodendria

100. Solomon Asch’s classic experiment was arranged to test the limits of:
a) Social perception
b) Conformity
c) Coercive power
d) Leadership

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