This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 10 Industrial Organisational Psychology – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 10 Industrial Organisational Psychology Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which color is associated with nature & health? A) Green. B) Purple. C) Blue. D) Yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green. 2. What was the main drawback of defining psychology as the "Science of Consciousness" ? A) Ignored the study of behavior. B) Too broad. C) Too specific. D) Limited to the conscious level. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limited to the conscious level. 3. Behavior includes observable activity in which of the following? A) Only humans. B) Only animals. C) Both humans and animals. D) Neither humans nor animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both humans and animals. 4. What does functionalism in psychology primarily study? A) The structure of the mind. B) How people and animals adapt to their environments. C) The unconscious mind. D) The influence of culture on behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How people and animals adapt to their environments. 5. This individual won a nobel prize for his work on the digestive system, but also studied conditioned reflexes in dogs. A) Ivan Pavlov. B) Peter Parker. C) B.F. Skinner. D) Jean Piaget. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ivan Pavlov. 6. How Many Years Should Planning Our Company Business Plan? A) 5 & 1/4 Yr. B) 5 & 1/2 Yr. C) 5 & 1/5Yr. D) 5 & 1/3 Yr. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5 & 1/2 Yr. 7. Developmental Psychology deals with the growth and development of an individual throughout which life span? A) Childhood to adolescence. B) Birth to old age and death. C) Middle age to old age. D) Infancy to adulthood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birth to old age and death. 8. Which of the following statements is true about Mary Whiton Calkins? A) She was denied a PhD from Harvard due to her gender. B) She was the first female president of the American Psychological Association in 1894. C) She was the first woman to earn a PhD in psychology. D) She studied animal behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was denied a PhD from Harvard due to her gender. 9. A non-experimental technique for obtaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group A) Case study. B) Interview. C) Focus group. D) Survey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Survey. 10. What is meaning of learning? A) Modification of emotion. B) Modification of memory. C) Modification of education. D) Modification of behaviour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modification of behaviour. 11. An applied field focused on using psychological research and principles in the legal and criminal justice system. A) Social psychology. B) Comparative psychology. C) Foresnic psychology. D) Developmental psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foresnic psychology. 12. A psychologist who analyzes observable behavior & studies conditioning & reinforcement A) Behaviorist. B) Functionalist. C) Structuralist. D) Psychoanalyst. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behaviorist. 13. The activity that occurs in our heads, directed by our brain, that allows us to identify, process, and interpret experiences. A) Recall. B) Cognition. C) Memory. D) Rehearsal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognition. 14. Forces affecting organisational behaviour are ..... A) People. B) Environment. C) Technology. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. Key figure in Behaviorism who studied conditioned learning. A) John B. Watson. B) John Locke. C) Sigmund Freud. D) B. F. Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John B. Watson. 16. A non-experimental technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles. A) Case study. B) Peer review. C) Focus group. D) Naturalistic observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Case study. 17. In a normal distribution, what percentage of the scores in the distribution falls within on standard deviation on either side of the mean? A) 34 %. B) 68 %. C) 40 %. D) 50 %. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 68 %. 18. Training can consist of all of the following except A) Formal training. B) Lunchtime yoga. C) Mentoring. D) Orientation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lunchtime yoga. 19. In a strongly skewed distribution, the best indicator of central tendency is usually the A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Standard deviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 20. What is the primary concern of industrial/organizational psychologists? A) Diagnosing mental health disorders. B) Studying childhood development. C) Improving workplace satisfaction. D) Analyzing historical psychological theories. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Improving workplace satisfaction. 21. Who am I? I am the reflex that makes babies suck anything placed in their mouth. A) Moro. B) Grasp. C) Sucking. D) Rooting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sucking. 22. Humanistic psychologist who developed the hierarchy of needs pyramid. A) Carl Rogers. B) Abraham Maslow. C) William James. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abraham Maslow. 23. Which civilization's understanding contributed to the belief that the brain controls mental processes? A) Romans. B) Egyptians. C) Greeks. D) Persians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romans. 24. If Aristotle and Locke, who both believed that what we know is acquired from experience, were alive today, they would best agree with the A) Psychodynamic. B) Cognitive. C) Behavioral. D) Biological. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behavioral. 25. Psychologists in the area of ..... concentrate on workplace design, man-machine interaction, and physical fatigue. A) Personnel Psychology. B) Training and Development. C) Human Factors Psychology. D) Organizational Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human Factors Psychology. 26. A psychologist studies a rare child prodigy in detail for several years.Which method is this? A) Survey. B) Observation. C) Experiment. D) Case Study. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Case Study. 27. The way in which a person acts in response to a particular situation. A) Attitude. B) Behavior. C) Role Playing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behavior. 28. Which is not law of learning according to Thorndike? A) Law of exercise. B) Law of experience. C) Law of effect. D) Law of readiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Law of experience. 29. What refers to the belief that the presents of other people in a situation makes a person less responsible? A) Hostile aggression. B) Instrumental aggression. C) Audience inhibition effect. D) Diffusion of responsibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diffusion of responsibility. 30. Neuropsychology study the ..... and its impact on a person's thought processes and behavior. A) Functions of brain. B) Structure of the body. C) Stimuli reception. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Functions of brain. 31. What is the significance of behavioral psychology? A) Behavioral psychology is significant for its focus on observable behaviors and its applications in therapy and behavior modification. B) It focuses solely on genetic influences on behavior. C) It disregards the role of environment in shaping behavior. D) It emphasizes the study of dreams and unconscious thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavioral psychology is significant for its focus on observable behaviors and its applications in therapy and behavior modification. 32. First psychological lab was formed in the year and by whom A) 1876, Plato. B) 1875, Kurt Koehler. C) 1874, Sigmund Freud. D) 1879, Wilhelm Wundt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1879, Wilhelm Wundt. 33. Children with mild disabilities like lower level of ..... functioning. A) Intellectual. B) Emotional. C) Social. D) Physiological. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intellectual. 34. Who discovered that all mental process are not accompanied by mental imagery? A) Oswald Kulpe. B) EB Tichner. C) Willhelm Wundt. D) JB Watson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oswald Kulpe. 35. Which type of psychologist studies the effects of the environment on behavior? A) Environmental psychologist. B) Health psychologist. C) Social psychologist. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environmental psychologist. 36. The "foot-in-the-door" technique is used to: A) Make large requests first. B) Gain compliance with small requests first. C) Change attitudes instantly. D) Avoid conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gain compliance with small requests first. 37. Which of the following is an example of how counselling psychologists can help? A) Helping families cope with issues such as separation or divorce. B) Diagnosing severe psychological disorders. C) Providing ideas on how to remember new information. D) Conducting medical research. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Helping families cope with issues such as separation or divorce. 38. It studies similarities and differences in behavior among individuals who have developed in different cultures. A) Evolutionary Approach. B) Cross-cultural Approach. C) Humanistic Approach. D) Behavioral Approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cross-cultural Approach. 39. When a distribution of scores is skewed, which of the following is the most representative measure of central tendency? A) Inference. B) Standard deviation. C) Mean. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Median. 40. What does industrial-organizational psychology focus on? A) Study the human mind. B) Provide clinical therapy. C) Organize parties. D) Applying your knowledge to the solution of problems at workplace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Applying your knowledge to the solution of problems at workplace. 41. A field that uses psychological research to enhance work performance and select employees, inform leaders of organizations, help with employee motivation, employee evauluations, and workplace diversity programs A) Forensics psychology. B) Personality psychology. C) Comparative psychology. D) Industrial-Organizational psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrial-Organizational psychology. 42. Which Psychologists are often hired by professional and college athletics programs? A) Sports Psychologists. B) Social Psychologists. C) Health Psychologists. D) Cognitive Psychologists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sports Psychologists. 43. Private, unmeasurable mental processes such as dreams, perceptions, thoughts, and memories A) Psychology. B) Behavior. C) Action initiative. D) Cognitive activities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cognitive activities. 44. Which of the following professionals is required to have a medical degree? A) Psychiatrist. B) Counselor. C) Clinician. D) Psychologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Psychiatrist. 45. ..... was an early French philosopher who promoted a belief that the mind and body are two separate entities-called interactive dualism. A) Jean Piaget. B) John Locke. C) Mary Calkins. D) Rene Descartes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rene Descartes. 46. Muzafer Sherif found that one of the most effective ways to reduce prejudices between groups is to ..... A) Provide educational classes about each group's culture and history. B) Reduce the mere exposure effect through increased self-disclosure. C) Create a shared goal that requires the groups to cooperate to succeed. D) Eliminate the bystander effect by requiring everyone in the group to speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Create a shared goal that requires the groups to cooperate to succeed. 47. People who provide references are given a conditional privilege, which means they have the freedom to voice their opinions if they feel what they say is true and have acceptable grounds for doing so because of their belief (Ryan & Lasek, 1991; Zink & Gutman, 2005). A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 48. Which theory of Psychology believes we are motivated by our "free will" ? A) Functionalism. B) Gestalt. C) Humanism. D) Biological. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humanism. 49. The media has a big influence on our lives. We can use principles of psychology to understand this with which discipline? A) Law. B) Mass Communication. C) Music. D) Philosophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mass Communication. 50. This area is closely linked to neuroscience and utilizes tools such as MRI and PET scans to look at brain injury or brain abnormalities. A) Biological psychology (biopsychology). B) Clinical pscychology. C) Personality psychology. D) Comparative psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biological psychology (biopsychology). 51. The symmetric, bell shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many human characteristics are dispersed in the population is known as A) Histogram. B) Normal distribution. C) Scatter plot. D) Frequency polygon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Normal distribution. 52. Which of the following best describes the term 'cognitive psychology'? A) The study of emotions and feelings. B) The study of mental processes like thinking and memory. C) The study of physical health and fitness. D) The study of social interactions and relationships. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of mental processes like thinking and memory. 53. What are the potential consequences of neglecting employee mental health in the workplace? A) Lower turnover rates. B) Enhanced team collaboration. C) Increased absenteeism, decreased productivity, and higher healthcare costs. D) Improved employee morale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increased absenteeism, decreased productivity, and higher healthcare costs. 54. An area that looks at human growth and development over the lifespan including cognitive abilities, morality, social functioning, identity, and other life areas.ypically focusing on development in one of four different areas:physical, cognitive, social/emotional, and communication. A) Developmental psychology. B) Forensics psychology. C) Clinical psychology. D) Comparative psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Developmental psychology. 55. The measurement without instruments is called a/an A) Observation. B) Experiment Method. C) Introspection. D) Projective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Observation. 56. A student buys a mobile phone because "all her classmates use the same model, " not based on actual features.This decision shows: A) Conformity Bias. B) Divergent Thinking. C) Rational Choice. D) Insight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conformity Bias. 57. Which of the following is a description of affective commitment. A) I love my job. B) I need the money that this job pays me. C) It's better to stay than leave. D) I think I have to stay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I love my job. 58. This type of job description is solely aligned with the organization's particular job opening, which mostly includes expected duty and performance standards. A) Company job description. B) Specific purpose job description. C) General-purpose job description. D) Organizational job description. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) General-purpose job description. 59. How Many Types of Marketing? A) 4. B) 1. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 60. Which psychological approach emphasizes personal growth and freedom? A) Cognitive psychology. B) Behaviorism. C) Biological psychology. D) Humanistic psychology. 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