Series-A 2 QPI

1. Classical forgetting curve was given by _____ .

(a) Wundt (b) Bartlett (c) Ebbinghaus (d) Hovland

2. According to Gardner (1983), which of the following is NOT a type of intelligence ?

(a) Bodily Kinesthesis (b) Interpersonal relationship

(c) Visual-Spatial (d) Visual-auditory

3. Prosopagnosia is a condition in which people cannot recognize _____ .

(a) Human faces (b) 3-dimensional visual scene

(c) Inanimate objects (d) Geometrical patterns

4. Which is not an element of emotion ?

(a) Physical arousal (b) Behavioural reaction

(c) Objective experience (d) Subjective experience

5. Among the following, which perspective focuses on the biological basis of universal mental characteristics ?

(a) Humanistic (b) Behavioural (c) Psychodynamic (d) Evolutionary

6. Which of the following is not a goal of psychology ?

(a) Description (b) Explanation (c) Prediction (d) Generalization

7. The main advantage of a survey is _____ .

(a) Only a small number of respondents need to be contacted

(b) A large number of data can be gathered

(c) The chance of experimental error will be minimum

(d) Respondents will not know whether they are part of a control or experimental group

8. _____ technique analyzes blood oxygen levels to look at the functioning of the brain ?

(a) EEG (b) CT (c) FMRI (d) PET

9. The part of neuron that carries messages to other cells is called _____ .

(a) Dendrite (b) Axon (c) Mylin sheeth (d) Soma

10. Neurotransmitter associated with pain relief is _____ .

(a) Acetylcholine (b) Serotonin (c) Endorphin (d) Glutamate

11. Which of the following is a primary reinforcer ?

(a) Gold stars (b) Attention (c) Money (d) Food

12. Fatty substances that coat the axon are known as _____ .

(a) Tissue (b) Soma (c) Dendrite (d) Mylin sheeth

13. _____ are associated with the sensory pathway of neurons.

(a) Efferent neuron (b) Afferent neuron

(c) Both efferent and afferent neurons (d) Voluntary muscle fibres

14. Incidences in which perception yields wrong interpretation of physical reality are called _____ .

(a) Delusion (b) Hallucination (c) Illusion (d) Misperception

15. Primary visual cortex is associated with _____ lobe of the cortex.

(a) Frontal (b) Occipital (c) Temporal (d) Parietal

QPI 3 Series-A

1. () _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

2. (1983) ?

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3. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

4. ?

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8. _____

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10. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

11. ?

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12. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

13. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

14. , _____ (a) (b) (c) (d) ( )

15. , _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

Series-A 4 QPI

16. The smallest amount of a stimulus which we can detect 50% of the time is _____ . (a) Absolute threshold (b) Just noticeable difference (c) Sensation (d) Sensory adaptation

17. According to trichromatic theory, the three primary colours are (a) Red, Yellow, Blue (b) Red, Green, Blue (c) White, Black, Brown (d) White, Black, Red

18. The wavelength of light determines _____ . (a) Colour (b) Time (c) Saturation (d) Duration

19. The visible part of the ear is also called _____ . (a) Pinna (b) Oval window (c) Organ of corti (d) Cochlea

20. Taste is often called a _____ sensation because it is associated with the molecules of food. (a) Physical (b) Psychological (c) Chemical (d) Electrical

21. In working memory, the structure that holds the information in transit is called _____ . (a) Visuo-spatial sketch pad (b) Episodic buffer (c) Central executive (d) Phonological loop

22. “People constantly scan the environment for dangers, although often they cannot specify what the danger might be.” This condition is referred to as _____ .

(a) Panic disorder (b) Apprehension (c) Hyper vigilance (d) Anxiety

23. Learning is defined as a change in _____ . (a) Personality (b) Behaviour (c) Habit (d) Attitude

24. Humanistic therapies are different from psychoanalysis because humanistic therapies are _____ .

(a) More objective (b) Action oriented (c) Focused on conscious thoughts and behaviour (d) Insight therapies

25. Who gave the ‘Law of Effect’ ? (a) Skinner (b) Kohler (c) Thorndike (d) Guthrie

26. According to Piaget, in which stage does a child develop the ability to conserve. (a) Sensory motor (b) Pre-operational (c) Concrete operational (d) Formal operational

27. In the big five theory of personality, ‘E’ stands for _____ . (a) Empathy (b) Energy (c) External (d) Extroversion

28. ‘General Problem Solver’ is a program where basic strategy is _____ . (a) Analogy (b) Mean-end analysis (c) Exhaustive search (d) General processing

29. The other term used for trial and error is _____ . (a) Heuristic (b) Algorithm (c) Rule of thumb (d) Mechanical solution

30. How many trait dimensions are given by cattell ? (a) 20 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 16

QPI 5 Series-A

16. 50% () _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

17. _____, _____ _____ (a) , , (b) , , (c) , , (d) , ,

18. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

19. _____ (a) / (b) (c) (d)

20. _____ () (a) (b) (c) (d)

21. , _____ (a) - (b) (c) (d)

22. “ , ” ?

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23. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

24. () (a) (b) (c) (d)

25. ‘ ’ ?

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26. , ?

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27. ‘ ’ ‘’ _____

(a) / (b) (c) (d)

28. ‘ -’ _____

(a) (b) - (c) (d)

29. - _____

(a) (b) (c) (d)

30. ?

(a) 20 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 16

Series-A 6 QPI

31. Spearman has given a theory of intelligence in which this theory ‘g’ and ‘s’ stands for _____ and _____ .

(a) General intelligence and specific intelligence

(b) General syndrome and special intelligence (c) General intelligence and special intelligence (d) General knowledge and social intelligence

32. Self terminating search takes place in recall from _____ . (a) Autobiographical memory (b) Sensory memory

(c) Short-term memory (d) Long-term memory

33. The theory of emotion associated with cognition and labelling is _____ . (a) The common sense theory (b) Schachter Singer’s theory

(c) Cannon-Bard theory (d) James Lange theory

34. In Maslow’s theory, the correct order of needs is _____ .

(a) Physiological, Safety, Belongingness, Esteem, Self-actualization (b) Safety, Physiological, Belongingness, Esteem, Self-actualization (c) Physiological, Safety, Esteem, Belongingness, Self-actualization

(d) Self-actualization, Esteem, Safety, Belongingness, Physiological

35. When you think of the term “chair”, you immediately think of a comfortable easy chair. A chair of this type could be thought of as a _____ of the category chair.

(a) Concept (b) Prototype (c) Mental set (d) Image

36. ‘Backward search’ is often called _____ . (a) Sub-goal method (b) Solution method

(c) Suggested solution method (d) Strategy method

37. What type of problem-solving strategy would be best to solve a problem of algebra ?

(a) Heuristic (b) Algorithm (c) Trial and error solution (d) Mean-end analysis

38. The ability to produce new and useful ideas is called _____ . (a) Intelligence (b) Attitude (c) Creativity (d) Asymptote

39. “A thinker does not ignore the unsolved problem altogether when he turns away from it in frustration; he continues to work on it unconsciously.” This phenomenon is called _____ .

(a) Cognitive analysis (b) Prediction (c) Thinking (d) Incerbation

40. Often people have the tendency to see objects as having their customary uses. This makes it difficult for them to solve a problem. Such type of tendency is called _____ .

(a) Insight (b) Heuristics (c) Mental set (d) Functional fixation

41. A test of verbal fluency in which an individual is asked to supply all the names of object that he/she can think of beginning with the letter ‘F’ is an example of _____ .

(a) Memory (b) Intelligence (c) Convergent Thinking (d) Divergent Thinking

42. Which branch of psychology can best study the behaviour of a crowd ? (a) General Psychology (b) Community Psychology

(c) Social Psychology (d) Criminal Psychology

QPI 7 Series-A

31. , ‘’ ‘’ _____ _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

32. : _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

33. , _____

(a) (b) - (c) - (d) -

34. _____

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35. ‘’ ,

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36. ‘ ’ _____ (a) - (b) (c) (d)

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38. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

39. “ , ” _____

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40. : _____

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41. ‘’ , _____

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42. ?

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Series-A 8 QPI

43. Which branch of psychology focuses on changes in behaviour and cognitive processes over the lifespan ?

(a) Clinical Psychology (b) Developmental Psychology (c) Cognitive Psychology (d) General Psychology

44. Which part of the neuron receives messages from other cells ? (a) Axon (b) Dendrite (c) Soma (d) Myelin Sheeth

45. Which of the following is associated with sleep, mood and appetite ? (a) Acetylecholine (b) GABA (c) Serotonin (d) Endorphin

46. Which sensation is not sent to the cortex by thalamus ? (a) Hearing (b) Smell (c) Taste (d) Vision

47. Melatonin is secreted by the _____ gland. (a) Pituitary (b) Adrenal (c) Thyroid (d) Pineal

48. When receptor cells of our sense organs are activated, the process is called _____ . (a) Perception (b) Sublimation (c) Adaptation (d) Sensation

49. For every five questions that Ram answers he gets rupees 10. Ram is being reinforced with which schedule of reinforcement ?

(a) Fixed ratio schedule (b) Fixed interval schedule (c) Variable ratio schedule (d) Variable interval schedule

50. A child has been classically conditioned to pick up an apple when alphabet ‘A’ is pronounced. If the child also pick’s up a guava when alphabet ‘A’ is said, this is called _____ .

(a) Stimulus discrimination (b) Stimulus generalization (c) Spontaneous recovery (d) Extinction

51. In classical conditioning, the _____ are important in learning, but in instrumental conditioning it is the _____ that determine whether learning will be established.

(a) Reward; Punishment (b) Punishment; Reward (c) Consequences; Antecedents (d) Antecedents; Consequences

52. When a conditioned response briefly reappears after it has been extinguished, this is called _____ .

(a) Spontaneous recovery (b) Higher order conditioning (c) Extinction (d) Stimulus generalization

53. Through which, lager amount of information can be stored into the memory storage ? (a) Chunking (b) Decoding (c) Rote rehearsal (d) Reconstruction

54. Which type of long term memory is revised and updated more or less constantly ? (a) Procedural memory (b) Episodic memory (c) Sensory memory (d) Semantic memory

55. Based on his investigation, who said that forgetting is rapid in the beginning but slows down with the passage of time.

(a) Atkinson (b) Ebbinghaus (c) Bartlett (d) Miller

56. Interference by the previous learning on the later learning is known as _____ . (a) Retroactive inhibition (b) Proactive inhibition (c) Counter learning (d) Reciprocal inhibition

QPI 9 Series-A

43. ?

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47. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

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50. ‘’ ‘’ , _____

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51. _____ _____

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52. _____ (a) : (b) (c) (d)

53. ?

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55. - , ?

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56. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

Series-A 10 QPI

57. Which one is not part of Carl Jung’s theory ? (a) Collective unconscious (b) Personal unconscious (c) Archetype (d) Libido

58. Which of the following is the third force of psychology ? (a) Humanistic Psychology (b) Cognitive Psychology (c) Developmental Psychology (d) Transpersonal Psychology

59. Which need is not included in Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory ? (a) Physiological Need (b) Safety Need (c) Esteem Need (d) Autonomy Need

60. People with high need of achievement prefer to take _____ . (a) moderate risk (b) high risk (c) low risk (d) All of the above

61. Goleman said that _____ intelligence has more powerful influence on success in life than other forms of intelligence.

(a) Analytical (b) Creative (c) Emotional (d) Practical

62. Using the IQ formula, what IQ would Mohan have whose mental age is 20 and chronological age is 30 ?

(a) 150 (b) 120 (c) 57 (d) 67

63. Reeta is not good in academics. So, she puts all her energy into becoming an athelete. It is an example of _____.

(a) Rationalization (b) Reaction formation (c) Compensation (d) Regression

64. Which one of the following is guided by the pleasure principle ? (a) Conscience (b) Id (c) Ego (d) Super ego

65. Which mood disorder is regularly in sad mood ? (a) Major depression (b) Bipolar (c) Cyclothemia (d) Mania

66. Which type of schizophrenia is likely to have delusion of grandeur ? (a) Disorganized (b) Paranoid (c) Catatonic (d) Residual

67. The theory of emotion that owes a lot to Darwin’s work is the _____ theory. (a) James Lange (b) Cannon-Bard (c) Schachter-Singer (d) Facial feedback

68. The basis of form perception is : (a) Retinal stimulation (b) Contour formation (c) Stabilized image (d) Closure

69. Which of the following is not a law of figural organization ? (a) Similarity (b) Threshold (c) Closure (d) Continuity

70. Which of the following is not a monocular cue for depth perception ? (a) Convergence (b) Interposition (c) Linear perspective (d) Motion parallex

71. Allison opened her new jigsaw puzzle. When she was a kid, she had the same puzzle. With her past experience to rely upon, Allison will properly use _____ to help her reassemble the puzzle.

(a) Top-down processing (b) Bottom-up processing (c) Perceptual expectancy (d) Perceptual set

QPI 11 Series-A

57. ?

(a) (b) (c) (d)

58. ?

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59. ?

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60. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

61. _____

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62. 20 30

(a) 150 (b) 120 (c) 57 (d) 67

63. _____

(a) (b) (c) (d)

64. ?

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65. : ?

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66. ?

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67. _____ (a) - (b) - (c) - (d)

68. (a) (b) (c) (d)

69. ?

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70. ?

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71. _____

(a) - (b) - (c) (d)

Series-A 12 QPI

72. Which of the following is relevant to systematic desensitization ? (a) Cognitive restructuring (b) Operant conditioning (c) Aversive conditioning (d) Counter conditioning

73. Gestalt therapy focuses on the _____ . (a) Hidden past (b) Surface past (c) Present life and challenges (d) Self past

74. Who said, “In any kind of psychotherapy the underlying basic theme is the helping relationship.”

(a) Rollo May (b) Carl Rogers (c) Dollard and Miller (d) Anna Freud

75. One of the first therapists to begin a movement towards the humane treatment of patients was _____. (a) Robert Fleury (b) Phillips Pinel (c) Sigmund Freud (d) Josef Brower

76. “The client perceives the analyst as the reincarnation of an important figure from her childhood and transfers onto him moderate to intense feelings and emotions appropriate to this earlier model.” This definition highlights

(a) Attachment (b) Role-model (c) Transference (d) Counter-transference

77. In which therapy systematic desensitization and aversion methods have been used ? (a) Behaviour therapy (b) Psychodynamic Therapy (c) Humanistic therapy (d) None of the above

78. Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder, having symptoms (a) Disorganized speech (b) Hallucinations (c) Delusions (d) All of the above

79. Which category of thinking does ‘Dream’ belong to ? (a) Autistic Thinking (b) Creative Thinking (c) Realistic Thinking (d) Evaluative Thinking

80. According to Cattell, there are two components in intelligence _____ and _____ . (a) Fluid and crystallized intelligence (b) Fluid and concrete intelligence (c) Abstract and concrete intelligence (d) Fluid and abstract intelligence

81. Which factor affects the retrieval of long term memory ? (a) Organization of materials (b) Parallel process hypothesis (c) Retrieval cues (d) Organization of materials and retrieval cues

82. Which type of intelligence does a dancer mainly have ? (a) Musical intelligence (b) Liquid intelligence (c) Concrete intelligence (d) Body-Kinetic intelligence

83. Which is more impressive and meaningful in form perception ? (a) Background (b) Figure (c) Figure and background (d) All of the above

84. Classification of subjects according to their gender, can be labelled as _____ . (a) Nominal measurement (b) Ordinal measurement (c) Interval measurement (d) Ratio measurement

85. In an experiment, dependent variable is that variable _____ . (a) which depends on independent variable (b) which is independent (c) which is controlled by the experimenter (d) which is manipulated by the experimenter

QPI 13 Series-A

72. ?

(a) (b) (c) (d)

73. _____

(a) (b) (c) (d)

74. , “ ?” (a) (b) (c) (d)

75. ?

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76. “, ” ?

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77. ?

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78. , (a) (b) (c) (d)

79. ‘’ ?

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80. _____ _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

81. : ?

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83. ?

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84. , (a) (b) (c) (d)

85. _____

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Series-A 14 QPI

86. The internal environment of the body is mostly controlled by _____ . (a) Spinal cord (b) Thalamus (c) Exocrine glands (d) Endocrine glands

87. Which gland is also called master gland ? (a) Pituitary gland (b) Adrenal gland (c) Pineal gland (d) Thyroid gland

88. When body is in relaxing state, which system is more active ? (a) Sympathetic system (b) Central nervous system (c) Parasympathetic system (d) Somatic nervous system

89. According to which approach Allport has classified personal traits in three categories – cardinal, central and secondary traits ?

(a) Nomothetic approach (b) Idiographic approach (c) Idiographic and nomothetic approach (d) Cognitive approach

90. Which inventory measures pathological traits ? (a) Bell Adjustment Inventory (b) Cattell’s 16-PF Questionnaire (c) California Psychological Inventory (d) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

91. In which method personality can be measured indirectly ? (a) Inventories (b) Questionnaire (c) Projective methods (d) Inventories and Questionnaire

92. What part is mainly responsible for regulating emotions ? (a) Galvanic skin response (b) Reticular formation (c) Thalamus (d) Hypothalamus

93. Who gave ‘Activation Theory’ of emotion ? (a) James-Lange (b) Lindsley (c) Cannon-Bard (d) Schachter-Singer

94. According to Pavlov, which of the following is the most important in conditioning theory ? (a) Contiguity (b) Reinforcement (c) Contingency (d) Overshadowing

95. Which two methods are based on the law of extinction ? (a) Aversion Therapy & Cognitive therapy (b) Aversion and flooding (c) Implosive therapy and flooding (d) Aversion and implosive therapy

96. A woman who has quaralled with her husband, immediately shouted at her son. This is an example of :

(a) Repression (b) Regression (c) Displacement (d) Projection

97. Echolalia is associated with which of the following ? (a) Schizophrenia (b) Autism (c) Hypochondriasis (d) Unipolar depression

98. Unipolar disorder, from mild to moderate range is known as _____ . (a) Dysthymic disorder (b) Major depressive disorder (c) Cyclothymic disorder (d) Conversion disorder

99. Which of the following person was instrumental in improving the conditions of mental hospitals ?

(a) Rosenhan (b) Szasz (c) Pinel (d) Freud

100. Which disorder was eventually added to the appendix of DSM-IV despite controversy surrounding it’s inclusion ?

(a) Bipolar disorder (b) Anxiety disorder (c) Mood disorder (d) Premenstrual dysphoric disorder

QPI 15 Series-A

86. ?

(a) (b) (c) : (d) :

87. ?

(a) (b) (c) (d)

88. ?

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89. – , ?

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90. ?

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91. ?

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92. ?

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93. ‘ ’ ?

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94. ?

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95. ?

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96. , _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

97. ‘’ ?

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98. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

99. ?

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100. : DSM-IV ?

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Series-A 16 QPI

101. Jung’s classification of extraversion-introversion is actually _____ . (a) Eightfold (b) Fourfold (c) Bifold (d) Sixfold

102. Who among the following is not a trait theorist of personality ? (a) Cattell (b) Costa and McCrae (c) Allport (d) Carl Jung

103. Which of the following is not a projective test of personality ? (a) Sock’s Sentence Completion Test (b) Word Association Test (c) Holtzman Ink Blot Test (d) Alexander Pass Along Test

104. A person gets good marks in an exam and believes that the good marks were due to the fact that the exam was easy. This statement is most relevant to which of the following theorists ?

(a) Abraham Maslow (b) Julian Rotter (c) Sandra Bem (d) Gorden Allport

105. An old motto of the US Army was, “Be all you can be.” This concept fits well with Carl Roger’s theory of _____ .

(a) Unconditional positive regard (b) Empathy (c) Self-actualizing tendency (d) Real versus the ideal self

106. A factor causing non-specific transfer in verbal learning is _____ . (a) Stimulus similarity (b) Learning to learn (c) Response similarity (d) Paired learning

107. You smell the odour of baked cookies being baked and your mouth waters. Apparently, the odour of cookies is _____ and your salivation is a _____ .

(a) CR, CS (b) CS, CR (c) Consequence, Neutral stimulus (d) Reflex, CS

108. Bandura’s study found that ‘learning can take place without actual performance’. What is this referred to as

(a) Learning/Performance distinction (b) Insight based learning (c) Language based learning (d) Cognitive learning

109. In instrumental conditioning the process of learning a complex task/response is called ___ . (a) Modelling (b) Positive transfer (c) Chaining (d) Programmed learning

110. When one conditioned stimulus is used to create another, this is called _____ . (a) Extinction (b) Higher order conditioning (c) Shaping (d) Stimulus generalization

111. The duration of echoic memory is _______ than iconic memory, but its capacity is probably _______.

(a) shorter, longer (b) longer, shorter (c) longer, about the same (d) shorter, about the same

112. Knowledge we gain from books is called _____ memory. (a) Episodic (b) Procedural (c) Working (d) Semantic

113. When an experimenter manipulates independent variable in natural setting outside the laboratory, it is called _____ .

(a) Systematic observation (b) Experiment (c) Field experiment (d) Field study

QPI 17 Series-A

101. - _____ (a) (b) : (c) (d)

102. ?

(a) (b) (c) (d)

103. ?

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104. ?

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105. , “ , ” :

(a) (b) (c) - (d)

106. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

107. _____ _____

(a) , (b) , (c) , (d) ,

108. ‘ ’ ?

(a) / (b) (c) (d)

109. / _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

110. () , _____

(a) (b) (c) (d)

111. _____ , : _____ (a) , (b) , (c) , (d) ,

112. _____ (a) () (b) (c) (d)

113. _____

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Series-A 18 QPI

114. To make punishment more effective it should be _____ . (a) very intense (b) very mild (c) sometime mild sometime intense (d) paired with reinforcement of the correct behaviour

115. Ruby works for a day care center. The pay is low and the hours are long, but she loves being around children and has no desire to look for a higher paying job. Ruby’s motivation appears to be _____ .

(a) Intrinsic (b) Extrinsic (c) Selfish (d) Psychological

116. Mohit decides to reward himself by listening to music for ten minutes following each hour of study. Which of the following types of reinforcement schedule is this ?

(a) Fixed Ratio (b) Variable Interval (c) Fixed Interval (d) Variable Ratio

117. Rehearsing the input by clustering them in groups with more familiar traces already in the LTM is called _____ .

(a) Elaborate processing (b) Memory (c) Maintenance rehearsal (d) Processing

118. A cancer patient has little appetite for food several weeks after the nausea caused by chemotherapy has ended. Her loss of appetite is probably best explained by _____ .

(a) Increased NPY in the brain (b) A conditioned taste aversion (c) The aftereffect of yo-yo dieting (d) A loss of extracellular hunger

119. Which of the following is an example of secondary drive ? (a) A baby is crying because he is hungry. (b) A toddler goes to his mother and ask for milk. (c) A ten year old has fever and asks for medicine. (d) An adolescent girl asks for a new pair of modern shoes from her mother.

120. A girl’s TAT story depicts a young girl who had been rejected by one of her peers and she is seeking to regain her friendship. What type of motivation is the girl displaying ?

(a) Need for achievement (b) Need for affiliation (c) Need for order (d) Need for power

121. Which of the following is not correctly matched ? (a) Hypothalemic theory – Cannon & Bard (b) Two factor theory – Lazarus (c) Activation theory – Lindsley (d) Cognitive arousal theory – Schacter and Singer

122. Of the following, which has been stated by Watson in Radical Behaviourism ? (a) Mind and body are separate (b) No existence of mind (c) Interaction between mind and body (d) Separate entity of mind and body

123. Another name given to “Phobia” in psychonalytic theory is _____ . (a) Anxiety hysteria (b) Astraphobia (c) Conversion hysteria (d) Dissociative hysteria

124. McDougall gave the concept of _____ psychology. (a) functionalism (b) cognitive psychology (c) hormic psychology (d) developmental psychology

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114. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

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124. _____ ?

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125. Syllogism comes under the head of which reasoning ?

(a) Inductive reasoning (b) Deductive reasoning

(c) Heuristic (d) Alogrithmic

126. Which of the following is not part of brain stem ?

(a) Pons (b) Medulla (c) Hypothalamus (d) Cerebellum

127. Who developed the sociometry technique ?

(a) Sherif (b) Moreno (c) Cantril (d) Lindsley

128. Which of the following does not come in the category of receptor ?

(a) Eye (b) Nose (c) Tongue (d) Muscles

129. Which of the following, one is not an affective disorder ?

(a) Paronoia (b) Manic-depressive Psychesis

(c) OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) (d) Schizophrenia

130. An irrational fear caused by the closed spaces is called _____.

(a) Acrophobia (b) Clusterophobia (c) Agoraphobia (d) Mysophobia

131. Who had pioneered the concept of ‘Manic Depressive Psychesis’ ?

(a) Brown (b) Freud (c) Hippocrates (d) Kraeplin

132. Who first prepared the classification system of mental disorders ?

(a) Phillipe Pinel (b) Kraeplin (c) Sigmund freud (d) Jean Martin Characot

133. What is the basic unit of study of psychology ?

(a) Culture (b) Society (c) Individual (d) Group

134. Which of the following step does not match the stages of creativity ?

(a) Preparation (b) Motivation (c) Incubation (d) Illumination

135. Which of the following, test was not included in the ‘Hold Test’ by Wechsler ?

(a) Information test (b) Vocabulary test

(c) Digit symbol test (d) Object assembly test

136. A person who is neither accepted by the group nor he accepts anyone in the group is called _____.

(a) Star (b) Isolate (c) Deviant (d) Secondary star

137. Behaviour therapy is based on _____ .

(a) Principle of learning (b) Principle of motivation

(c) Principle of perception (d) None of these

138. Which of the following is not related to research work in the field of concept formation ?

(a) Reed (b) Bruner (c) Paul Ekman (d) Heid breder

139. A simple form of stroboscopic motion is called

(a) Illusion (b) Hallucination

(c) Autokinetic effect (d) Phi-phenomenon

140. According to Wertheimer, which of the following involves maximum productive thinking ?

(a) Type A (b) Type B (c) Type X (d) Type Y

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125. () ?

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141. According to Watson, thinking is _____ . (a) Subvocal thinking (b) Nonverbal behaviour (c) Vocal thinking (d) Circular conditioning

142. Who was the propounder of ‘Doctrine of Unconscious Inference’ ? (a) Freud (b) Adler (c) Jung (d) Helmholtz

143. Who established the concept of ‘Dynamic Psychology’ ? (a) R S Woodworth (b) Anna Freud (c) Sigmund freud (d) John Dewey

144. Which school of psychology emphasizes on the study of mental processes rather than static consciousness ?

(a) Structuralism (b) Functionalism (c) Gestalt Psychology (d) None of the above

145. Which process is measured by Brunswik ratio ? (a) Colour contrast (b) Size distance invariance (c) Visual illusion (d) Brightness constancy

146. Which of the following, factor is measured by Raven Progressive Matrices ? (a) G factor (b) S factor (c) V factor (d) P factor

147. Encoding means formation of memory _____ . (a) Traces (b) Code (c) Storage (d) Rehearsal

148. Who is the pioneer in the study of individual differences ? (a) Francis Galton (b) Bibb Latane (c) Alfred Binet (d) David Wechsler

149. Which of the following statements does correctly describe a performance test ? (a) It measures non verbal skills (b) It is useful in educational guidance (c) It is useful for vocational guidance (d) All the above

150. Memory is to Ebbinghaus as intelligence is to _____ . (a) James (b) Binet (c) Thorndike (d) Freeman

151. _____ is the accumulation of information, skills and strategies that people have learned through experience and that they can apply in problem-solving situations.

(a) IQ (b) Multiple Intelligence (c) Crystallized Intelligence (d) Cognitive Psychology

152. Which one of the following is considered as the proponent of S-O-R paradigm ? (a) Watson (b) Woodworth (c) Thorndike (d) Skinner

153. Blast injection was used to determine _____ . (a) Taste sensitivity (b) Pain sensitivity (c) Cold sensitivity (d) Olfactory sensitivity

154. Attention to an object owing to interest is called _____ . (a) Habitual attention (b) Ideational attention (c) Voluntary attention (d) Analytical attention

155. “The capacity to do well in intelligence tests is intelligence.” Who said it ? (a) Terman (b) Neisser (c) Boring (d) Wechsler

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141. , _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

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Series-A 24 QPI

156. Peterson and Peterson’s method of studying memory is based on which technique ? (a) Probing technique (b) Distraction technique (c) Anticipation technique (d) Delayed technique

157. The curve indicating complete information about learning is called _____ . (a) Curve of increasing return (b) S-shaped curve (c) Curve of equal return (d) Curve of decreasing return

158. Which is essential to start the process of thinking ? (a) Past experience (b) Language (c) Reasoning (d) Problem

159. According to Freud, one of the components of personality structure is the reservoir of desires. What is its name ?

(a) Consciousness (b) Id (c) Ego (d) Unconsciousness

160. Which of the following proposed the concept of inferiority and superiority complex ? (a) Jung (b) Erikson (c) Freud (d) Adler

161. Which mental disorder has higher prevalence ? (a) Phobia (b) Schizophrenia (c) Bipolar disorder (d) Depression

162. Who has authored the book ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ ? (a) Adler (b) Freud (c) Horney (d) Sullivan

163. ‘Patients can see, but are often unable to recognize what they see.’ This condition is reffered to as _____ .

(a) Visual agnosia (b) Apraxia (c) Aphasia (d) Disassociation

164. Which of the following would be active if you just had a car accident ? (a) Somatic division (b) Parasympathetic division (c) Motor division (d) Sympathetic division

165. Who has authored the book ‘Psychological care of Infant and child’ ? (a) Piaget (b) Kollman (c) Watson (d) Koffka

166. Railway tracks that seem to come closer together at a certain distance is an example of _____ .

(a) Covergence (b) Overlap (c) Linear perspective (d) Texture gradient

167. Who was the founder of the first laboratory of psychology ? (a) Wundt (b) Titchner (c) Freud (d) Watson

168. If a person checks his room-lock 10 times after walking away from it along with a guest even if he had locked it at the first instance firmly. It is an example of _____ .

(a) Aggressive behaviour (b) Unrealistic thinking (c) Phobic behaviour (d) Compulsive behaviour

169. TAT consists of a set of _____ . (a) 31 black and white pictures and 01 blank card (b) 30 black and white pictures and 01 blank card (c) 32 black and white pictures (d) 30 black and white pictures

170. In which year the first laboratory for systematic study of conscious experience was established ?

(a) 1879 (b) 1865 (c) 1880 (d) 1875

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156. ?

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Series-A 26 QPI

171. Episodic memory and semantic memory are types of long term memory given by _____. (a) Shiffrin (b) Kraig (c) Underwood (d) Tulving

172. _____ used introspection method in psychology. (a) Nisbet (b) Skinner (c) Miller (d) Wundt

173. Who amongst these is not a Gestalt psychologist ? (a) Kohler (b) Koffka (c) Werthiemer (d) Watson

174. Whose work is related to the biological basis of STM ? (a) Bower (b) Clark (c) Kimble (d) Hebb

175. Contribution of Adler in psychology is known as _____ . (a) Purposive Psychology (b) Individual Psychology (c) Social Psychology (d) Quantitative Psychology

176. Observation under controlled conditions is called _____ . (a) Survey (b) Experiment (c) Participant observation (d) Non-participant observation

177. The process through which the balance in the internal environment of the body is maintained is called.

(a) Homeostasis (b) Metabolism (c) Hypothalamus (d) Neurohormone

178. Another name of _____ gland is hypophysis. (a) Adrenal (b) Pituitary (c) Thyroid (d) Sex

179. Which is not a social motive amongst the following ? (a) Approval motive (b) Affiliation motive (c) Power motive (d) Sleep motive

180. Another name of short-term memory is _____ . (a) Sensory memory (b) Primary memory (c) Iconic memory (d) Semantic memory

181. The concept of _____ was given by Binet and Simon. (a) Chronological age (b) Mental age (c) Biological age (d) Real age

182. Another name for death instinct is _____ . (a) Thanatos (b) Eros (c) Moros (d) Zincos

183. _____ primary mental abilities have been given by Thurston in his theory of intelligence. (a) 07 (b) 06 (c) 05 (d) 08

184. Two factor theory of intelligence was given by _____ . (a) Thurston (b) Wechsler (c) Spearman (d) Thorndike

185. _____ describes the phenomenon of favouring an initial hypothesis and ignoring subsequent competing hypotheses.

(a) Meta-analysis (b) Confirmation bias (c) Testing (d) Null hypothesis

186. The placebo effect occurs when a subject responds according to _____ . (a) The hypothesis (b) The actual treatment (c) His or her expectations (d) How other subjects behave

187. Which one of the following statistical procedure is used to combine the informations across many studies ?

(a) Meta analysis (b) Path analysis (c) Multiple analysis (d) Combinational analysis

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171. _____ (a) (b) (c) (d)

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174. STM ?

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188. Observing babies in the nursery, children on the playground and adults at a cocktail party are examples of _____ .

(a) Controlled observation (b) Structured observation

(c) Clinical observation (d) Naturalistic observation

189. Non-participant observation fails to capture natural context of social settings to the extent participant observation is able to capture.

(a) True (b) False (c) Can’t say (d) Somewhat true

190. Who thought of analyzing the sensory experiences into elements just as the chemist analyzes the chemical compounds into elements ?

(a) Titchner (b) GT Fechner (c) Wundt (d) Herman Helmholtz

191. The concept of ‘functional autonomy’ was proposed by _____ .

(a) Allport (b) Freud (c) Murray (d) Erickson

192. In PDP approach of cognition, it is suggested that the information is processed _____ .

(a) Serially (b) Sequentially (c) In parallel (d) Simultaneous

193. Who developed the concept of operant conditioning ?

(a) Pavlov (b) Hull (c) Guthrie (d) Skinner

194. Staring at a red stimulus for a while leads to a green after image. This supports _____ .

(a) Bekesy’s theory (b) Wever and Bray’s volley principle

(c) Hering’s opponent process theory (d) Duplicity theory

195. Which neurotransmitter is not easily secreted in Alzheimer’s disease ?

(a) Dopamin (b) Endorphin (c) GABA (d) Acetylcholine

196. Our ability to pay attention to only some aspects of the world around us while largely ignoring others is known as _____ .

(a) Overt attention (b) Focused attention

(c) Divided attention (d) Selective attention

197. Which model of memory suggests that memory processes occur simultaneously throughout a neural network ?

(a) Level of processing model (b) Parallel distributed processing model

(c) Information processing model (d) Three-stage theory

198. When one cannot remember things that happened before a traumatic accident, this type of amnesia is known as

(a) Retrograde amnesia (b) Anterograde amnesia

(c) Psychogenic amnesia (d) Infantile amnesia

199. ‘Leptin’ is a hormone involved in _____ .

(a) Appetite control (b) Metabolism control

(c) Digestion of fatty food (d) Neurotransmission

200. In Watson’s experiment on ‘Little Albert’, the conditioned stimulus was

(a) The white rat (b) The loud noise

(c) The fear of rat (d) The fear of noise

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188. , , _____

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