This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 10 Industrial Organisational Psychology – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 10 Industrial Organisational Psychology Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Self transcendence, A) John Garcia. B) Wilhelm Wundt. C) Carl Rogers. D) Abraham Maslow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Maslow. 2. What are inheritable traits? A) Traits that are, at least, partially determined by genetics. B) Traits that are developed with lifelong experience. C) Traits that are genetically determined. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traits that are, at least, partially determined by genetics. 3. This leader offers little or no guidance and leaves decision-making up to the group. A) Autocratic. B) Democratic. C) Open/Laissez-Faire. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Open/Laissez-Faire. 4. The word Psychology was first used by A) Wilhelm Wundt. B) William James. C) Rudolf Gockel. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rudolf Gockel. 5. The most effective strategy to reduce industrial burnout is: A) Increasing work hours with higher pay. B) Promoting emotional intelligence and recovery time. C) Reducing communication among employees. D) Implementing stricter performance monitoring. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Promoting emotional intelligence and recovery time. 6. Which of the following is a potential consequence of low job satisfaction? A) Increased employee motivation. B) Decreased turnover rates. C) Improved teamwork and collaboration. D) Higher rates of burnout and stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Higher rates of burnout and stress. 7. Many ways IO Psychology can be incorporated in Businesses are through all of these EXCEPT: A) Suggest interventions to increase motivation. B) Redefining work and achieving work-life balance. C) Ways to push workers to work harder and longer. D) Balancing reward systems that matter to workforce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ways to push workers to work harder and longer. 8. The specialty of industrial-organizational psychology also called ..... A) Joker. B) Psychologist. C) I/O psychology. D) Pseudoscientific:V. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I/O psychology. 9. The concept "reward" defined as A) Something given in exchange for a useful idea, good behavior, excellent work, etc. B) The process of finding people to work for a company. C) To employ someone or to pay someone to do a particular job. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something given in exchange for a useful idea, good behavior, excellent work, etc. 10. Types of PerceptionA) Visual PerceptionB) Auditory perceptionC) Aromatic PerceptionD) Perception of Taste and TouchE) Perception of sweat A) Only a, b, e. B) Only a, b, c. C) A, b, c, d. D) A, b, c, d, e. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A, b, c, d. 11. The inheritance of behavioral characteristics was emphasized by A) B. F. Skinner. B) John Watson. C) Charles Darwin. D) John Locke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Darwin. 12. They focus on traits, attitudes, and goals of the individual. A) School psychologist. B) Social psychologist. C) Personality psychologist. D) Forensic psychologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personality psychologist. 13. Being a record of the actual behaviour of the child, it has more uses and merits of the Observations are ..... A) Valuable and Reliable. B) Reliable and Objective. C) Reliable and Subjective. D) Objective and Subjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reliable and Objective. 14. What is 'attachment theory' mainly concerned with? A) Social acceptance. B) Emotional bonds between child and caregiver. C) Motor development. D) Language acquisition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional bonds between child and caregiver. 15. Child A hit a classmate (Child B) because he was being bullied by him. The cause of hitting could be: A) Child B bullied him. B) Child A came from a home where hitting was encouraged. C) Child A had a fight with his mother that morning. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. A type of performance dimension that concentrates on employee attributes: A) Goal-focused performance appraisal. B) Competency-focused performance dimension. C) Task-focused performance appraisal. D) Trait-focus performance dimension. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trait-focus performance dimension. 17. What role does reinforcement play in behavior modification? A) Reinforcement increases the likelihood of desired behaviors through rewards or the removal of negative stimuli. B) Reinforcement decreases the likelihood of desired behaviors. C) Reinforcement only applies to negative behaviors. D) Reinforcement has no impact on behavior modification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reinforcement increases the likelihood of desired behaviors through rewards or the removal of negative stimuli. 18. True or False:Some stress can increase athletic performance A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 19. How did the Human Relations Movement contribute to the field of organizational behavior? A) By emphasizing strict adherence to classical management principles. B) By promoting the idea that only financial incentives motivate employees. C) By highlighting the importance of understanding and addressing employees' social and psychological needs. D) By discouraging the formation of strong interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By highlighting the importance of understanding and addressing employees' social and psychological needs. 20. A specialist is brought in to interview someone involved in a high-profile legal case. They are tasked with evaluating the individual's mental state to determine if their actions might have been influenced by underlying psychological factors. A) Forensic Psychology. B) Neuropsychology. C) Community Psychology. D) Educational and School Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forensic Psychology. 21. Freud popularized the idea that most of what exists in the mind is unconscious. This major theory is known as ..... A) Humanism. B) Psychodynamic thinking. C) Behaviorism. D) Biopsychosocial psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychodynamic thinking. 22. Which disorder is characterized by prolonged low mood, loss of interest, and fatigue? A) Bipolar disorder. B) Social anxiety. C) Generalized anxiety disorder. D) Major depressive disorder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Major depressive disorder. 23. Which era marked the beginning of the systematic study of organizational behavior? A) Information Age. B) Scientific Management Era. C) Human Relations Era. D) Industrial Revolution Era. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scientific Management Era. 24. Which school of psychology focused on the adaptive nature of thinking and how our consciousness evolves to meet our needs? A) Structuralist. B) Behavioral. C) Humanistic. D) Functionalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Functionalist. 25. Superior memory for rap lyrics that include the most rhymes best illustrates the value of A) The spacing effect. B) Mood-congruent memory. C) Priming. D) Acoustic encoding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acoustic encoding. 26. Wilhelm Wundt is considered the founder of psychology as an independent science with its own distinct methods of investigation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion A) Random sample. B) Reciprocity. C) Generalizability. D) Control group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Random sample. 28. Leader makes decisions independently with little or no input from others. A) Situational. B) Open/Laissez-Faire. C) Democratic. D) Autocratic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autocratic. 29. Why do spooky ghost stories make people's hearts race, even if they don't believe in ghosts? A) Placebo effect. B) Suggestibility. C) Positive illusion. D) Sensory adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suggestibility. 30. This individual built the hierarchy of needs that gave perspective to human behavior dependent upon the environment in which they live. A) Sigmund Freud. B) Abraham Maslow. C) William James. D) Mary Poppins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abraham Maslow. 31. Forensic psychologists may assist the police with profiling potential suspects, particularly for which type of crimes? A) Serial murders. B) Traffic violations. C) Petty theft. D) Shoplifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Serial murders. 32. It refers to a considerable amount of intrinsic worth, and enormous potential for self-fulfillment. A) Psychoanalytical Approach. B) Evolutionary Approach. C) Cross-cultural Approach. D) Humanistic Approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humanistic Approach. 33. Which is not a benefit of IO Psychology? A) Hire better people. B) Recruit the right people for the organisation. C) Increase productivity. D) Develop individualist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Develop individualist. 34. What refers to a fixed set of beliefs about a group of people that may or may not be accurate? A) Ethnocentrism. B) Prejudice. C) Stereotype. D) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stereotype. 35. What's the term for recalling your first day of school? A) Procedural Memory. B) Semantic Memory. C) Episodic Memory. D) Working Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Episodic Memory. 36. Leader in the Behaviorist Approach who rejected the belief in free will and studied how consequences and reinforcement shape behavior. A) B. F. Skinner. B) John B. Watson. C) John Locke. D) Carl Rogers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B. F. Skinner. 37. Mental process related to A) Mind. B) Situation. C) Thinking process. D) Experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thinking process. 38. What is the primary focus of educational and developmental psychology? A) Helping individuals with severe psychological disorders. B) Assisting with personal wellbeing and relationships. C) Understanding how people develop and learn throughout their lives. D) Providing medical treatment for brain dysfunctions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understanding how people develop and learn throughout their lives. 39. Who wrote Psychology as a Behavior? A) Sigmund Freud. B) John B. Watson. C) B.F. Skinner. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John B. Watson. 40. The psychological perspective concerned with how unconscious instincts, conflicts, motives, and defenses influence behavior. A) Functionalism. B) Psychoanalytic. C) Behavioral. D) Humanistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychoanalytic. 41. Psychologists use different methods and study different behaviors, they all conduct ..... studies. A) Systematic. B) Descriptive. C) Introspective. D) Explanatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Systematic. 42. The standard deviation A) Indicates the average difference between each score in a group and the mean for that group of scores. B) Reveals the degree of skew for a a group of scores. C) Is sensitive to scores at the extremes of a distribution of scores. D) Is used to determine whether a data set is positively or negatively skewed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indicates the average difference between each score in a group and the mean for that group of scores. 43. Some of our most useful knowledge of human perception borrowed from ..... A) Mathematics. B) Physics. C) Sociology. D) Chemistry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physics. 44. How does psychology contribute to understanding behavior? A) Predictions about organisms are not dependable. B) Behavior cannot be studied objectively. C) Quantification is not possible. D) Dependable predictions are possible through psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dependable predictions are possible through psychology. 45. What do Counselling Psychologists provide to help people decide which occupation best suits their abilities and interests? A) Vocational testing. B) Physical training. C) Nutritional advice. D) Legal advice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vocational testing. 46. Temperature, humidity, pollution, etc. have an impact on human behaviour. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 47. Classification of traits into source and surface traits was putforward by A) Raymond B Cattell. B) P T Costa Ricca. C) Eysenck. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Raymond B Cattell. 48. How can sport psychologists help people? A) By improving performance through mental skills training. B) By organizing sports events. C) By designing sports uniforms. D) By prescribing medication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By improving performance through mental skills training. 49. Father of Modern Psychology; established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany. A) Sigmund Freud. B) William James. C) Wilhlelm Wundt. D) G. Stanley Hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wilhlelm Wundt. 50. What is UCS in classical conditioning theory of learning? A) Food. B) Bell. C) Saliva. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food. 51. Scientist and philosopher that promoted a concept called dualism and believed that the fluid in the brain's cavities contained "animal spirits." A) Aristotle. B) Plato. C) Rene Descartes. D) Francis Bacon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rene Descartes. 52. Navya describes herself as a hard-working, empathetic, and friendly person. What aspect of self is she expressing? A) Role identity. B) Personal identity. C) Social identity. D) Self-actualization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personal identity. 53. The Statement "Psychology is the study of human behaviour and human relationships" belongs to A) Lang Feld. B) Crow and Crow. C) Munn. D) Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crow and Crow. 54. An example of ..... is when you like a song after repeatedly listening to it. A) Persuasion. B) Reference group. C) Mere exposure effect. D) Implicit attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mere exposure effect. 55. Which of the following best defines the term 'catharsis' in a literary context? A) A detailed description of a setting. B) The introduction of a new character. C) A sudden plot twist. D) The release of emotional tension. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The release of emotional tension. 56. What are some challenges faced in the field of organizational psychology? A) Increased employee turnover. B) Enhanced communication skills. C) Resistance to change, addressing diversity, and adapting to technology. D) Higher job satisfaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resistance to change, addressing diversity, and adapting to technology. 57. Father of educational psychology? A) Thorndike. B) Aristotle. C) Wilhelm Wundt. D) William James. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thorndike. 58. When failing an exam, blaming the teacher instead of oneself is ..... defense mechanism. A) Reaction Formation. B) Projection. C) Rationalization. D) Denial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Projection. 59. Which perspective in psychology focuses on unconscious drives and early childhood experiences? A) Behavioral perspective. B) Cognitive perspective. C) Humanistic perspective. D) Psychodynamic perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Psychodynamic perspective. 60. What is the literal meaning of the word "Psychology" based on its Greek origins? A) Study of the soul. B) Science of consciousness. C) Study of the mind. D) Science of behavior. 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