psychology MCQ questions with answers
1) What the aspect of child development has evolved, according to John Bowlby?
a) the
emotional bond between infant and caregiver
b) the
ability to move independently
c) separation
from caregivers
d) the
desire to be a mother
·
Ans: a
2) For
Skinner, development is the result of:
a) a
continuous shaping process
b) maturation
c) recapitulation
d) sudden
qualitative reorganization of behavior
·
Ans: a
3) What kind
of ‘conditioning’ did Watson experiment with?
a) classical
conditioning
b) operant
conditioning
c) air
conditioning
d) social
conditioning
·
Ans: a
4) Operant
conditioning aims to condition what kind of behavior?
a) reflexes
b) emitted
responses
c) only
thoughts and feelings
d) respondents
·
Ans: b
5) In general
terms, what does a cognitive developmental psychologist try to reconstruct?
a) a child’s
underlying competence
b) the
child’s performance
c) what the
child actually does
d) what the
child says about what they do
·
Ans: a
6)
Which stage is profoundly different from the others
in the character of its schemas?
a) sensory-motor
stage
b) preoperational
stage
c) concrete
operational stage
d) formal
operational stage
·
Ans: a
7)
What is the central outcome of sensory-motor
intelligence?
a) the
construction of knowledge of reality
b) the
construction of material artifacts
c) the
construction of schemas
d) the
construction of equilibration
·
Ans: a
8)
At which age would a child be
categorized as preoperational according to Piaget?
a)
2 – 7 years
b)
5 – 7 years
c)
7 – 11 years
d)
None of these
·
Ans: a
9)
According to Adler, which of the following is not one of the primary
goals of children's misbehavior?
a)
Revenge
b)
Attention
c)
Affection
d)
Power
·
Ans: c
10)
A self-esteem curriculum, honor societies, free breakfasts and lunches,
and cooperative learning groups are applications of:
a)
Roger’s humanistic classroom
b)
Freud's theory of
psychosocial development
c)
Erikson's
psychosocial grouping
d)
Maslow's hierarchy
of needs
·
Ans: d
11)
________ are the basic biological units that transmit characteristics
from one generation to the next:
a)
Genes
b)
Neurons
c)
Glia
d)
Instincts
·
Ans: a
12)
Primary school children will learn most
effectively in an atmosphere:
a)
where
their emotional needs are met and they feel that they are valued
b)
where
the teacher is authoritative and clearly dictates what should be done
c)
where
the focus and stress are only on mastering primarily cognitive skills of
reading, writing and mathematics
d)
where
the teacher leads all the learning and expects students to play a passive role
·
Ans:
a
13)
Which
of the following is a sensitive period pertaining to language development?
a) Prenatal period
b) Middle childhood period
c) Adulthood
d) Early childhood period
·
Ans:
d
14)
Which
one of the following is best suited for emotional development of children?
a)
Democratic
classroom environment
b)
No
involvement of the teachers as it is the task of the parents
c)
Controlled
classroom environment
d)
Authoritarian
classroom environment
·
Ans:
a
15) Giving punishment, verbal or
non-verbal, to the children results in:
a)
motivating
them to work
b)
protecting
the child's image
c)
improving
their scores
d)
damaging
their self-concept
·
Ans:
d
16) Which one out of the following
provides information about the roles and behaviors which are acceptable in a
group, during early childhood period?
a)
Siblings
and Teachers
b)
Teachers
and Peers
c)
Peers
and Parents
d)
Parents
and Siblings
·
Ans:
d
17) Which of the following age groups
falls under later childhood category?
a)
11
to 18 years
b)
18
to 24 years
c)
Birth
to 6 years
d)
6
to 11 years
·
Ans:
d
18) "Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but
to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for
the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy." This is
related to:
a)
Emotional
development
b)
Social
development
c)
Cognitive
development
d)
Physical
development
· Ans: a
19) Which of the following stages are
involved when infants "THINK" with their eyes, ears and hands?
a)
Concrete
operational stage
b)
Pre-operational
stage
c)
Sensorimotor
stage
d)
Formal
operational stage
·
Ans:
c
20) A child starts to cry when his
grandmother takes him from his mother's lap. The child cries due to:
a)
emotional
anxiety
b)
stranger
anxiety
c)
separation
anxiety
d)
social
anxiety
· Ans: a
21) “Self – based evaluation on
reflection or social comparison” is:
a)
Self
– help
b)
Self
– confidence
c)
Self
– esteem
d)
Self
– awareness
·
Ans:
c
22) Role recording is the refined version
of:
a)
Summary
recording
b)
Narrative
recording
c)
Process
recording
d)
Abstract
·
Ans:
c
23) Who has given the ‘functional theory’
of social stratification?
a)
T.
B. Bottomore
b)
K.
Davis
c)
Karl
Marx
d)
W.E.
Moore
·
Ans:
d
24) According to Freudian understanding,
thoughts or motives that a person is currently aware of or is remembering is
called as:
a)
Conscious
b)
Memory
c)
Sub
– conscious
d)
Fixation
·
Ans:
a
25) Change or stability in mental
activities such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning
and creativity is:
a)
Physical
development
b)
Psychological
development
c)
Cognitive
development
d)
Social
construction
·
Ans:
c
26) “Degree of consciousness about
thinking, feelings and actions” is:
a)
Self
– awareness
b)
Self
– esteem
c)
Self
– respect
d)
Self
– confidence
·
Ans:
a
27) ‘Evaluation of self – based on
reflection or social comparison’ is known as:
a)
Self
– awareness
b)
Self
– esteem
c)
Self
– security
d)
Self
– confidence
·
Ans:
b
28) __________ propounds that childhood
experiences influence the adult behavior
a)
Person
Centered theory
b)
Psychoanalytical
theory
c)
Behavior
modification theory
d)
Existential
theory
·
Ans:
b
29) Maslow in his triangle of human needs
showed that:
a)
Challenging
new tasks is the basic human need
b)
Money
always motivates workers
c)
Safety
and security is a low order human need
d)
Workers
will not give their best unless they have good social events provided
·
Ans:
c
30) Psychoanalytic theory about human
personality was proposed by:
a)
Carl
Jung
b)
Skinner
c)
Sigmund
Freud
d)
Alfred
Adler
·
Ans:
c
31) Which one refers to the actual
behavior that the individual engages in while enacting the role?
a)
Role
taking
b)
Role
playing
c)
Playing
at a role
d)
Role
expectation
·
Ans:
b
32) A woman executive presides over a
management board meeting, picks up her daughter from her school, and goes to
play a game of bridge in the ladies club. She is manifesting:
a)
Her
role set
b)
Her
status set
c)
Her
style of life
d)
Her
elite status
·
Ans:
b
33) Ego experiences role conflict at two
levels:
a)
Within
his own body of roles and between his own roles and those of other actors
b)
Within
his own group and with outside group
c)
Within
himself and with outsiders
d)
Within
the roles of his family and with roles outside his family
·
Ans:
a
34) Behavioral changes which occur on the
basis of physiological developments rather than learning and which appear in
virtually all members of species are the result of:
a)
Socialization
b)
Rationalization
c)
Maturation
d)
Fermentation
·
Ans:
d
35) To trace the course of mental growth in an
individual or the race is the problem of:
a)
Analytical
psychology
b)
Synthetic
psychology
c)
Genetic
psychology
d)
Physiological
psychology
·
Ans:
a
36) There is an evidence of a hereditary
component in development of the mental illness known as:
a)
Paranoia
b)
Psychoneurotic
disorders
c)
Schizophrenia
d)
Paralysis
·
Ans:
a
37) At what age a child takes his first
step in walking?
a)
5
to 6 years
b)
10
to 12 years
c)
4
to 5 years
d)
None
of these
·
Ans:
d
38) Maturation changes occur in a fairly
predictable sequence and continue until:
a)
Adolescence
b)
Adulthood
c)
Old
age
d)
None
of these
·
Ans:
b
39) The concept of “a personality
nucleus” was given by:
a)
Allport
b)
Stendler
c)
Shirley
d)
Skinner
·
Ans:
c
40) A child is born with some:
a)
Qualities
b)
Ego
c)
Innate
drives
d)
All
of these
·
Ans:
c
41) The child becomes socialized:
a)
Fast
b)
Gradually
c)
Slowly
d)
After
ego
·
Ans:
b
42) What is the determinant of the scope
of socialization of a child?
a)
Environment
b)
Excitement
c)
Development
of physique
d)
Language
development
·
Ans:
a
43) Individual differences are found in:
a)
Environmental
situations
b)
Cognitive
situations
c)
Perceptual
situations
d)
Emotional
situations
·
Ans:
c
44) What is the result of emotional
immaturity in the child?
a)
Struggle
b)
Pain
c)
Frustration
d)
Anger
·
Ans:
c
45) What is the impact of other members
of the family besides the parents, on the socialization of the child?
a)
External
b)
Intimate
c)
Good
d)
None
of these
·
Ans:
b
46) How do brothers and sisters affect
the socialization of the child?
a)
Continuously
b)
Indirectly
c)
Greatly
d)
Commonly
·
Ans:
c
47) What does the youngest child receive
all from the parents?
a)
Drives
b)
Attention
c)
All
requirements
d)
Affection
·
Ans:
b
48) Applied aspects of social psychology
include the development and perfection of techniques for measuring:
a)
Attitude
b)
Opinion
c)
Socialization
d)
Both
a and b
·
Ans:
d
49) The educational psychologist advises
a school board on:
a)
Old
curriculum
b)
Circulation
of stimulus
c)
Knack
d)
New
curriculum
·
Ans:
d
50) In the school, the child faces:
a)
Struggle
b)
New
society
c)
Group
d)
Resistance
·
Ans:
b
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