This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is a key component of creativity? A) Routine and repetition. B) Conformity to existing norms. C) The generation of novel and valuable ideas. D) The avoidance of risk and uncertainty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The generation of novel and valuable ideas. 2. The lobe of the brain that interprets what we see is the ..... lobe. A) Temporal. B) Parietal. C) Frontal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occipital. 3. Which of these was a reason for tension between Hutu and Tutsis A) Cultural differences between Hutu and Tutsis. B) Rwanda was on the most densely populated countries in Africa. C) Ongoing Civil war. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 4. This psychologist is most famously known for his theory of cognitive development that looked at how children develop intellectually throughout the course of childhood A) Abraham Maslow. B) Jean Piaget. C) Wiliam James. D) Wilhelm Wundt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jean Piaget. 5. A child imitates the adults very easily because of A) Perception. B) Attention. C) Concept formation. D) Sensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perception. 6. This developmental psychologist believed that humans continued to develop over their lifetime rather than just in childhood. A) Jean Piaget. B) Donald Johansson. C) Erik Erikson. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Erik Erikson. 7. If a salesman convinced you to let him into your living room to talk about vacuum cleaners, he is using the A) Foot-in-the-doortechnique. B) Cathartic effect. C) Groupthink dilemma. D) Power of conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foot-in-the-doortechnique. 8. In their study on context, Godden and Baddeley studied: A) Swimmers. B) Deep sea divers. C) Fisherman. D) Rugby players. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deep sea divers. 9. How are implicit attitudes different from explicit attitudes? A) Explicit attitudes are unconscious, but don't tend to impact behavior. B) Both explicit and implicit are conscious, however implicit impacts behavior more strongly. C) Implicit are unconscious attitudes while explicit are conscious. D) Both explicit and implicit are conscious, however implicit impacts behavior more strongly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Implicit are unconscious attitudes while explicit are conscious. 10. A quarter in your hand casts a different image on your retina than a quarter taped to the wall across the room, yet you know that the quarters have exactly the same dimensions. This phenomenon would be best explained by a A) Evolutionary psychologist. B) Structuralist. C) Behaviorist. D) Gestalt psychologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gestalt psychologist. 11. The scores from a standardized group of people, aka the standards against which all others who take the test would be compared is called the ..... A) Subset. B) Norm. C) Baseline. D) Trendsetters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Norm. 12. Tristan tries to understand his world through his senses only, and explains how something makes him feel rather than attempting to record data. He most likely would agree with what school of thought? A) Psychodynamic. B) Evolutionary. C) Structuralism. D) Humanistic. E) Functionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structuralism. 13. Which describes a school psychologist? A) Teaches performers how to focus/concentrate on performance and not the crowd. B) Studies changes in emotions, physical, and social in a life span. C) Looks at student's behavior to see if it interferes with learning. D) Studies effects of health problems on behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Looks at student's behavior to see if it interferes with learning. 14. The difference between hedonic and eudaimonic conceptions of happiness boils down to the difference between A) Serving the self and serving others. B) Short-term and long-term satisfaction. C) Pleasure and happiness. D) Pleasure/happiness and meaning/personal expressiveness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pleasure/happiness and meaning/personal expressiveness. 15. Which of the following can affect how a witness remembers a scene? A) The time of day. B) The age of the witness. C) Who they interacted with after the crime. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. Which of the following is an example of a prelinguistic event? A) Babbling. B) Holophrasing. C) Telegraphic speech. D) Paraphrasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Babbling. 17. Where was Ms. Chiang born? A) Ohio. B) Michigan. C) Taiwan. D) California. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michigan. 18. According to the survey conducted by the POPCOM last year, what is the youngest age of a Filipino girl who gave birth? A) 9. B) 10. C) 11. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 19. A man can become a criminal because of A) Environment. B) Training and education. C) Heredity. D) Heredity and environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heredity and environment. 20. What term is used to describe a child's inability to see the world through anyone else's eyes except his or her own? A) Narcissism. B) Disparity. C) Assimilation. D) Egocentrism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Egocentrism. 21. A strength of Rahe et al.'s (1970) research into the link between life changes, stress and illness is ..... A) The research looked at the long-term effects. B) The research looked at the medium-term effects. C) The research looked at the immediate effects. D) The research looked at the short-term effects. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The research looked at the long-term effects. 22. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of an experiment? A) Enables researchers to identify cause-and-effect relationships. B) Enables researchers to control bias by using a double blind study. C) Creates artificial laboratory conditions that do not correspond to real life situations. D) Enables researchers to manipulate the independent variable and measure the dependent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Creates artificial laboratory conditions that do not correspond to real life situations. 23. A variable that the experimenter manipulates is called a(n) ..... A) Control condition. B) Dependent variable. C) Extraneous variable. D) Independent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Independent variable. 24. A person who has normal emotional attachments begins seeing and hearing things that others do not as a result of traumatic stress. How would this be classified? A) Sociopathy. B) Criminal profiling. C) Psychopathy. D) Psychosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Psychosis. 25. Who founded psychoanalysis? A) William James. B) B.F. Skinner. C) Sigmund Freud. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sigmund Freud. 26. What was the difference between men and women in the powerless condition in the Graveline et al., (2017) study? A) Women were more likely to consider the victim's perspective than men. B) Men took on the victim's perspective while women were more defensive and threatened. C) Men were unaffected while women became more defensive. D) Both men and women did not take the victim's perspective into account. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Men took on the victim's perspective while women were more defensive and threatened. 27. Introspection means A) Observing the behaviour of deviant children. B) To look within. C) A behaviour in specific life situations. D) Observing the behaviour of others. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To look within. 28. Which branch helps athletes with performance problems? A) Sports. B) Social. C) Personality. D) Educational. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sports. 29. What are the ethical considerations in educational psychology? A) Mandatory testing for all students. B) Informed consent, confidentiality, avoiding harm, fairness, and respect for individuals' rights. C) Prioritizing standardized testing over individual needs. D) Public disclosure of student records. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Informed consent, confidentiality, avoiding harm, fairness, and respect for individuals' rights. 30. Independent Variables are A) Notes from experiments. B) Manipulated by the researcher. C) Constantly changing. D) Never controlled. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manipulated by the researcher. 31. What does the term 'empirical' mean in the context of psychology? A) Based on tradition. B) Based on speculation. C) Based on observation. D) Based on theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Based on observation. 32. Who set up the first true scientific psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879? A) Max Wertheimer. B) William James. C) Wilhelm Wundt. D) Edward Titchener. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wilhelm Wundt. 33. Which of the following professionals is also a medical doctor? A) Biiologist. B) Psychiatrist. C) Psychologist. D) Counselor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychiatrist. 34. In John Watson's "Little Albert" studies, a loud noise was paired with a white rat causing Little Albert to be afraid. What is the conditioned response? A) Fearing the white rat. B) The white rat. C) Fearing the loud noise. D) The loud noise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fearing the white rat. 35. Repetition of the methods used in a previous experiment to see whether the same methods will yield the same results. A) Validity. B) Research. C) Replication. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Replication. 36. Modern psychology has developed because of application of the scientific method to study psychological phenomena. This will come under A) Psychology as a social science. B) Psychology as a natural science. C) Psychology as a discipline. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychology as a natural science. 37. With age, mental similarities between adopted children and whom wanes to a correlation of roughly 0? A) Biological parents. B) Cultural leaders. C) Biological siblings. D) Peers. E) Adoptive families. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Adoptive families. 38. What is more important to a long life? A) Education. B) Exercise. C) Relationships. D) Sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relationships. 39. Which branch studies the physical, emotional, cognitive changes throughout one's life? A) Developmental. B) Social. C) Clinical. D) Personality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Developmental. 40. A mental image of a spatial layout is called A) Insight. B) A heuristic. C) An algorithm. D) A mental set. E) A cognitive map. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A cognitive map. 41. What is considered the lethal component of the Type A personality? A) Aggression. B) Hostility. C) Impatience. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hostility. 42. In Spearman's Theory of Intelligence, the ability to reason and solve problems, or general intelligence, is referred to as ..... A) Analytic intelligence. B) Creative intelligence. C) S factor. D) G factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) G factor. 43. Moral principles that govern a persons behavior or the conducting of an activity. A) Confidentiality. B) Ethics. C) Religion. D) Consent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethics. 44. What side of the brain is said to be the creative part? A) Right. B) Left. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right. 45. A Sample in Psychology is A) The results from an experiment. B) The notes from an experiment. C) The population in a study. D) The errors occurred in the experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The population in a study. 46. What does intuition often lead to? A) Empirical data. B) Personal experiences. C) Scientific conclusions. D) Thorough analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personal experiences. 47. What is meant by "debriefing" ? A) Giving participants information about the study before it starts. B) Giving participants information about the study after it is complete. C) Giving participants the right to leave the study. D) Making sure all participants are paid for their role in the study. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Giving participants information about the study after it is complete. 48. To make assumptions or have a generalised belief about a particular type of person is known as what? A) Stereotype. B) Discrimination. C) Prejudice. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stereotype. 49. Analyzing the geographical locations associated with a single offender A) Geographic Profiling. B) Geographic Mapping. C) Victimology. D) Organized Offender. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geographic Profiling. 50. Once participants have started the research study they cannot withdraw unless the researcher gives permission. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. Murdock used lists of words, which means that his study: A) Was a laboratory experiment. B) Tested a wide range of memory skills. C) Only tells us about some of the ways that memory is used in everyday life. D) Was not very well controlled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Only tells us about some of the ways that memory is used in everyday life. 52. The individual associated with the field of psychoanaylsis is A) William James. B) BF Skinner. C) Wilhelm Wundt. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sigmund Freud. 53. All of the individuals in the gorup to which the study applies A) Random sample. B) Population. C) Group. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 54. What does biopsychology focus on? A) The relationship between biology and behavior. B) The study of social interactions. C) The analysis of cultural influences. D) The examination of historical events. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The relationship between biology and behavior. 55. An illusory correlation is best defined as a A) Correlation of 0. B) Correlation of-1.0. C) Causal relationship. D) Correlation of +1.0. E) Perceived relationship where one does not exist. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Perceived relationship where one does not exist. 56. Which describes an experiential psychologist? A) Looks at student's behavior to see if it interferes with learning. B) Studies the law and criminal justice system and how it applies to psychology. C) Studies the nervous system, sensation, motivation, emotion, memory, and thoughts. D) Studies how the environment influences behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Studies the nervous system, sensation, motivation, emotion, memory, and thoughts. 57. When she stands in front of her classmates, Miriam cannot recite a poem she had memorized. Miriam is A) Performing a taskfunction. B) Violating a norm. C) Displaying socialinhibition. D) Engaging ingroupthink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Displaying socialinhibition. 58. What does cognitive development refer to? A) Development of cognition throughout the lifespan. B) Physical development throughout the lifespan. C) Social development throughout the lifespan. D) Emotional development throughout the lifespan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Development of cognition throughout the lifespan. 59. What is the term used to describe the stage in cognitive development where children can think logically about concrete events? A) Sensorimotor stage. B) Preoperational stage. C) Concrete-operational stage. D) Formal operational stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete-operational stage. 60. What is perceptual organization in psychology? A) The process by which our brain ignores sensory information. B) The process by which our brain creates sensory information. C) The process by which our brain forgets sensory information. D) The process by which our brain organizes and makes sense of sensory information. 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