This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Psychology > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 2 Methods Of Psychology – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 2 Methods Of Psychology Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does it provide about our inner experiences? A) No information. B) Necessary knowledge. C) Only theoretical knowledge. D) Confusing information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Necessary knowledge. 2. The ..... variable is the behavior of the person or animal in the experiment. A) Independent. B) Dependent. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent. 3. When psychologists conduct research, they are trying to find out the right and wrong answers to questions they have. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. Which of the following is used to collect self-reported data from people? A) Observation. B) Survey. C) Experiment. D) Case study. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Survey. 5. Piaget is best known for his work in: A) Psychosocial development. B) Cognitive development. C) Psychosexual development. D) Moral stages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognitive development. 6. What does the term 'cumulative record' refer to in psychology? A) A type of case study. B) A record of behavior over time. C) An interview technique. D) A method of observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A record of behavior over time. 7. In an experiment, the ..... variable is tested by the researcher to observe its effect(s) on the ..... variable. A) First; second. B) Research; results. C) Independent; dependent. D) Dependent; independent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Independent; dependent. 8. Positive reinforcement: A) Adds something pleasant. B) Removes something pleasant. C) Adds something unpleasant. D) Decreases a behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adds something pleasant. 9. Special abilities such as precognitions, psychokinesis, telepathy, and clairvoyance A) Correlation. B) ESP. C) ASL. D) ESPN. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ESP. 10. Psychology is a science. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. The founder of structuralism A) Wilhelm Wundt. B) William James. C) Psamtik I. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wilhelm Wundt. 12. The basic unit of heredity is the: A) Hormone. B) Chromosome. C) Gene. D) Neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gene. 13. What part of the brain connects the two hemispheres? A) Hippocampus. B) Medulla. C) Corpus callosum. D) Amygdala. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corpus callosum. 14. How do scientists confirm the findings of a study? A) By replicating the study. B) By changing the hypothesis of the original study. C) By formulating new research questions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By replicating the study. 15. By using a random sample of a population for a study, scientists: A) Are able to question every member of the target population. B) Use proportionately representative subgroups of the target population. C) Hope to avoid bias in their study. D) Are ensured that the study will be easily replicated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hope to avoid bias in their study. 16. Which disorder involves the sudden onset of sleep? A) Night terrors. B) Sleep apnea. C) Insomnia. D) Narcolepsy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narcolepsy. 17. Is any stimulus or event which varies or can take on different values and can be measured. A) Dependent variable. B) Variable. C) Extraneous variable. D) Independent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variable. 18. What is the main focus of the behaviorist approach? A) Free will and personal growth. B) Observable and measurable behavior. C) Memory and problem-solving. D) Unconscious desires. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Observable and measurable behavior. 19. In depth study of a single person or group revealing some general principle A) Correlation. B) Survey. C) Hypothesis. D) Case Study. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Case Study. 20. The part of the brain that regulates hunger and thirst is the: A) Amygdala. B) Hypothalamus. C) Cerebellum. D) Medulla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus. 21. The longitudinal method is concerned with observing A) The ways in which people change over time. B) How people behave under controlled conditions. C) People's views on a particular subject. D) People's character traits and temperament. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ways in which people change over time. 22. The ability to detect a difference between two stimuli is the: A) Absolute threshold. B) Difference threshold. C) Sensory threshold. D) Sensory adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Difference threshold. 23. Observation is done in a real life setting A) Naturalistic. B) Controlled. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naturalistic. 24. In operant conditioning, behavior is learned through: A) Unconscious motives. B) Stimulus-response only. C) Rewards and punishments. D) Brain structure and hormones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rewards and punishments. 25. An educated guess, the second step in the research process A) Experimental Group. B) Control Group. C) Hypothesis. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis. 26. What is a disadvantage of the observation method? A) It is economical. B) It is systematic. C) It is time-consuming. D) It is flexible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is time-consuming. 27. What is the meaning of the word 'Observation'? A) To close. B) To ignore. C) To observe. D) To keep open. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To keep open. 28. What type of correlation has one value increasing as the other value is also increasing? A) Postive. B) Negative. C) None. D) Cannot be determined. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Postive. 29. Which sense is most connected to memory? A) Vision. B) Smell. C) Taste. D) Hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smell. 30. Which of the following is an experiment in which the participants do not know whether they are receiving a treatment or not? A) Single-blind study. B) Longitudinal study. C) Double-blind study. D) Cross sectional study. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Single-blind study. 31. According to the behaviorist perspective, psychological science should be rooted in what? A) Observation. B) Growth potential. C) Cultural influences. D) Introspection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Observation. 32. Believed body was inhabited by various spirits which were responsible for all behaviors Abnormal behavior was believed to be caused by possession of evil spirits A) Stone Age. B) ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. C) Middle Age. D) Ancient Greeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stone Age. 33. Spontaneous recovery occurs when: A) A child mimics behavior. B) A conditioned response returns after extinction. C) A fear is permanently erased. D) A behavior becomes automatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A conditioned response returns after extinction. 34. In naturalistic observations, there is no control over extraneous variables. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. What can we study through external behavior according to the advantages of observation? A) Mind of a person. B) Environmental effects. C) Hereditary effects. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mind of a person. 36. In an experiment, it is useful to have a control group to A) Help minimize the effects of volunteer bias. B) Ensure that the target population is represented. C) Complete a stratified sample. D) Show the effect of the treatment and no other factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Show the effect of the treatment and no other factors. 37. Which of the following is NOT a type of observation method? A) Participated Observation. B) Controlled Observation. C) Natural Observation. D) Cumulative Observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cumulative Observation. 38. Reinforcement schedules that vary the number of behaviors required for reward are: A) Fixed interval. B) Variable interval. C) Variable ratio. D) Fixed ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fixed ratio. 39. Classical conditioning always involves: A) Internal motivation. B) Reinforcement schedules. C) Associations between stimuli. D) Rewards and punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Associations between stimuli. 40. A prediction has been made that the chance that a person will be robbed in a certain city is 15%. A) Inferential. B) Descriptive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inferential. 41. A person who cannot see distant objects clearly is likely: A) Nearsighted. B) Farsighted. C) Having sensory adaptation. D) Blind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nearsighted. 42. A specific, testable prediction, narrower than a theory A) Theory. B) Psychological reasoning. C) Hypothesis. D) Critical thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis. 43. Repeating a study in order to confirm the results of the original study A) Hypothesis. B) Replication. C) Survey. D) Case Study. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Replication. 44. A tentative statement of the relationship between variables as answer to the research questions. A) Case study. B) Hypothesis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 45. The vast majority of psychologists are against the use of animals in studies because of the potential for harming the animals A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 46. Which option below is an ethical way to protect participants in psychological research? A) No long lasting psychological harm. B) Consent is optional for your study. C) Debriefing your participants is only needed in special circumstances. D) Publishing a participants name in your study. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No long lasting psychological harm. 47. Pierce calls people and asks them a specified list of questions concerning their opinions of how irritating telemarketers can be. What kind of research is Pierce conducting? A) Experiment. B) Case Study. C) Naturalistic Observation. D) Survey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Survey. 48. Who is the founder of the Psychoanalytic Approach? A) B. F. Skinner. B) J. B. Watson. C) Carl Rogers. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sigmund Freud. 49. An experiment where participants and experimenters are not aware who receives the treatement in order to elimanate any bias woud be ..... ? ..... experiment. A) Dependent variable. B) Single-blind. C) Double-blind. D) Independent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Independent variable. 50. An experiment where neither the participants nor the experimenter know who has received the treatment, until the experiment has concluded ..... A) Random experiment. B) Single-blind experiment. C) Stratified experiment. D) Double-blind experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Double-blind experiment. 51. A baby's ability to understand that objects exist even when not seen is called: A) Maturation. B) Egocentrism. C) Object permanence. D) Rooting reflex. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Object permanence. 52. ..... is the study of the human brain:its mind and behavior through scientific study. A) Cognition. B) Psychology. C) Physiology. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychology. 53. ..... measures the relationship between 2 variables, such as higher number of hours spent studying and higher test scores. A) Causation. B) Correlation. C) Surveys. D) Experiments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correlation. 54. School of thought founded by Sigmund Freud A) Cognitive activity. B) Psychoanalysis. C) Principle. D) Sociocultural perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychoanalysis. 55. What kind of reinforcement is money? A) Negative. B) Primary. C) Secondary. D) Positive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secondary. 56. Which one is NOT a step in The Scientific Method A) Form a Hypothesis. B) Repeat experiment. C) Make Observations. D) Create Theories. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Create Theories. 57. The ..... began studying human behavior in the fifth & sixth centuries B.C. and decided that humans were rational beings. A) Americans. B) Greeks. C) Romans. D) Chinese. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greeks. 58. The dependent variable is so called because its value depends or may depend on the value of the independent variable. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 59. Learning by observing others is called: A) Habituation. B) Conditioning. C) Modeling. D) Shaping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modeling. 60. Researchers who study single individuals in depth in order to uncover general principles of thinking and behavior are using which research method? A) Experimentation. B) Correlational study. C) Case study. D) Naturalistic observation. 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