Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 10 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which is not a characteristic of clinical psychology
2. The middle point when the data is arranged in ascending order is .....
3. Reinforcement is
4. What is the primary purpose of developmental psychology?
5. What is the Greek term for Psychology?
6. Which of the following crimes would NOT be suitable for profiling?
7. When variability in a data set is large, the standard deviation will be ..... ; when variability is small, the standard deviation will be .....
8. What is the primary principle behind Self-Directed Learning (SDL) in adult education?
9. Not being able to remember an old phone number because you can only remember the new one is an example of:
10. If someone wishes that they had a best friend, they maybe experiencing
11. In what stage would students benefit the most from using a manipulative to solve math problems?
12. Biological explanations for interpersonal attraction tend to focus on:
13. The relationship between the traits of self-esteem and optimism to physical/emotional health may be based on the connection of these two traits to
14. An increase in the intensity of criminal behavior
15. When staff at the same level in the hierarchy exchange emails, what type of communication are they using?
16. What do behaviorists believe is the result of observable behaviors and their consequences?
17. What does Humanistic Psychology emphasize?
18. Read each statement and determine whether it describes an obsession or a compulsion:Needing to have everything in perfect symmetry.
19. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is an upside down pyramid?
20. When analyzing the victimology of a crime, what would investigators consider?
21. Research Methods in Developmental Psychology:This type of research considers groups of subjects of different ages at the same point in time.* Each of the age groups is called a Cohort * A cohort is roughly a group of people of the same age or developmental level.
22. What does "Limited Generalizability" imply about lab experiment results?
23. According to the Robbers Cave experiment, an effective way to end hostilities between two groups would be to
24. The cognitive perspective assumes that a person's cognitions are central to abnormal behavior.
25. ..... design is where one group is research/followed and assessed at different times as the group ages.
26. ..... is a requirement that participants be assigned randomly to experimental conditions in formal experiments rather than in a systematic way.
27. Who developed the psychodynamic technique used to study abnormal behavior?
28. Holistic is .....
29. Operant conditioning is associated with
30. What is cognitive behaviorism?
31. Who developed the theory that the evolutionary perspective is based on?
32. Which literary device requires the reader to use cognitive skills to understand the underlying meaning beyond the literal words?
33. Shivering because it is cold outside is an example of:
34. What is the mere exposure effect?
35. Which describes a clinical psychologist?
36. A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ..... memory.
37. The Gestalt protest arose in opposition to Titchener's structuralism.
38. Strength or Limitation?Asch's research increased our knowledge of why people conform which may help avoid mindless, destructive conformity.
39. The base for Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid is
40. Helps students with their problems and educational needs.
41. Who among the following is NOT mentioned as a contributor to the development of Humanistic Psychology?
42. 'Wearing the colour yellow increases children's levels of happiness'. The population in this scenario is:
43. Developmental Research Designs:-1 cohort-+1 time of testing-Study changes across time in one cohort
44. Critical Social Psychology is a branch of
45. Which of psychology's perspectives says that we should not study mental processes such as cognition or emotion?
46. The stages of sleep are classified into two distinct basic types characterized by
47. What type of attachment is characterized by a child being indifferent or avoiding the caregiver both when they leave and return?
48. Which approach to psychology focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?
49. The first experimental laboratory was established in Leipzig, Germany by Wilhelm Wundt in the year .....
50. The debate between nature and nurture involves which of the following?
51. What are the two factors of Herzberg's Motivational Theory
52. What is the function of dendrites in a neuron?
53. What is the main difference between clinical psychology and psychiatry?
54. What is the empirical method based on?
55. Functionalism considers mental life and behavior in terms of how the mind adapts to changing situations and environments. True or False?
56. Which of the following is something unusual or specific the criminal does or leaves behind at the crime scene?
57. At which stages of the human life cycle do you learn to talk and walk?
58. Information goes into our long term memory through:
59. If you were asked to taste some food and identify it, which coding path would it follow?
60. Initiation rites are intended to increase