Class 11 Psychology Chapter 1 What Is Psychology Quiz 5 (60 MCQs)

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1. Study ways in which politicians can manipulate the minds of voters into supporting their issues and/or voting for them.
2. Which group receives the "variable of interest?"
3. Which of the following best describes 'Nature' in the context of Nature vs. Nurture?
4. A phenomenon that occurs when a researcher's expectations or preferences about the outcome of a study influence the results.
5. Theoretically today many people pull from multiple fields in order to support their comprehensive view of how to treat a client. Which view would probably be used to do this?
6. The patterns of feelings, motives, and behavior that set people apart from one another.
7. Modern Psychology was born in the
8. Which of the following fields analyzes sensations and personal experience as basic elements?
9. What does the nature vs nurture debate concern?
10. Psychologist who focus on helping people with psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression
11. Which of the following is NOT considered a behaviour?
12. Which of the following best describes 'Nurture' in the context of Nature vs. Nurture?
13. Which subfield of psychology strives to make everyday experiences easier and more comfortable by applying psychology to products, systems, and devices that humans use?
14. Aristotle and Plato's contribution to psychology was:
15. Too much studying is a frequent cause of anxiety.
16. Psychology is not a study of .....
17. ..... were concerned with how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment.
18. What does the correlational method attempt to establish?
19. You're solving the mystery of why someone behaves a certain way, and you decide to look at three clues:their biology, their mental state, and their environment. Which perspective are you using?
20. What did John B. Watson focus on in his psychological studies?
21. Introspection method was rejected because it was too
22. Two research methods widely used by psychologists are
23. The psychodynamic approach focuses on how conscious impulses, conflicts, and instincts impact behavior.
24. Psychologists are interested in which of the following?
25. When working with groups of people belonging to different ethnic and religious backgrounds, a ..... psychologist's skills are valuable
26. William James rejected structuralism and focused on
27. The main goals of psychology are to
28. Questions to gather information
29. A ..... is something that cannot see, touch, or measure directly that researchers in psychology use.
30. Which part of the neuron sends neural information to the next neuron?
31. I was late for work today and therefore got scolded. then I realised I forgot my lunch at home. In the afternoon I missed by bus. It was a bad day and I am unlucky. this view of holistic experience is given by .....
32. Biological Basis of behavior, the function of the body and behavior
33. Define Psychology.
34. What is the term for 'Looking into oneself by exploring the senses, ' a method introduced by Wilhelm Wundt in 1879?
35. In Psychology, a behaviour is an action while a mental process is carried out in the mind.
36. What term refers to the measure of relationship between two variables?
37. Which research design is best for testing cause-and-effect by manipulating an independent variable and measuring a dependent variable?
38. Titchener believed that psychology should study the basic elements of conscious experience and belonged to which school of thought?
39. What is the quickest way to conduct psychological rearch and gather a lot of data?
40. The school headteacher has been able to resolve conflicts among teachers, the action that has made the school have a maximum learning environment. Which one of the following branches of psychology has been applied?
41. The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is the behaviors could be only one-time occurrences.
42. The ..... for acquiring knowledge is one based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical argument or previous authorities.
43. You're on a quest to become the best version of yourself, reaching your fullest potential. Which psychological perspective would be cheering you on as you strive for self-actualization and personal growth?
44. Cognitive activities are mental processes, such as dreams, perceptions, thoughts, and memories .
45. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
46. Learning through observation and experiments
47. This is a method of research where an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable).
48. Any action that other people can observe or measure
49. Which of the following specialties in psychology provides diagnosis and treatment for less serious mental problems such as adjustment disorders
50. Sociology relies on experiments for data collection
51. Which psychological perspective would explain an unruly child's classroom behavior as a result of learned responses to environmental stimuli?
52. A strength of an experiment is that
53. In classical conditioning, an animal learns to associate a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to produce a conditioned response.
54. A medical doctor with a specialty in the treatment of mental health problems.
55. What is the second step of the SQ3R Active Reading strategy?
56. A basic truth or law
57. Which psychological perspective emphasizes behavior as a means of personal growth and self-actualization?
58. Ria did a research on the effect of regular meditation on brain structure and functions using imaging techniques like PET and fMRI. Ria is likely to be a .....
59. Emphasizes the role that thoughts play in determining behavior
60. Researchers use psychological constructs to describe things that cannot be seen, touched, or measured directly.