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

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1. Which of the following is a key component of creativity?
2. The lobe of the brain that interprets what we see is the ..... lobe.
3. Which of these was a reason for tension between Hutu and Tutsis
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
5. A child imitates the adults very easily because of
6. This developmental psychologist believed that humans continued to develop over their lifetime rather than just in childhood.
7. If a salesman convinced you to let him into your living room to talk about vacuum cleaners, he is using the
8. In their study on context, Godden and Baddeley studied:
9. How are implicit attitudes different from explicit attitudes?
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
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 .....
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?
13. Which describes a school psychologist?
14. The difference between hedonic and eudaimonic conceptions of happiness boils down to the difference between
15. Which of the following can affect how a witness remembers a scene?
16. Which of the following is an example of a prelinguistic event?
17. Where was Ms. Chiang born?
18. According to the survey conducted by the POPCOM last year, what is the youngest age of a Filipino girl who gave birth?
19. A man can become a criminal because of
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?
21. A strength of Rahe et al.'s (1970) research into the link between life changes, stress and illness is .....
22. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of an experiment?
23. A variable that the experimenter manipulates is called a(n) .....
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?
25. Who founded psychoanalysis?
26. What was the difference between men and women in the powerless condition in the Graveline et al., (2017) study?
27. Introspection means
28. Which branch helps athletes with performance problems?
29. What are the ethical considerations in educational psychology?
30. Independent Variables are
31. What does the term 'empirical' mean in the context of psychology?
32. Who set up the first true scientific psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879?
33. Which of the following professionals is also a medical doctor?
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?
35. Repetition of the methods used in a previous experiment to see whether the same methods will yield the same results.
36. Modern psychology has developed because of application of the scientific method to study psychological phenomena. This will come under
37. With age, mental similarities between adopted children and whom wanes to a correlation of roughly 0?
38. What is more important to a long life?
39. Which branch studies the physical, emotional, cognitive changes throughout one's life?
40. A mental image of a spatial layout is called
41. What is considered the lethal component of the Type A personality?
42. In Spearman's Theory of Intelligence, the ability to reason and solve problems, or general intelligence, is referred to as .....
43. Moral principles that govern a persons behavior or the conducting of an activity.
44. What side of the brain is said to be the creative part?
45. A Sample in Psychology is
46. What does intuition often lead to?
47. What is meant by "debriefing" ?
48. To make assumptions or have a generalised belief about a particular type of person is known as what?
49. Analyzing the geographical locations associated with a single offender
50. Once participants have started the research study they cannot withdraw unless the researcher gives permission.
51. Murdock used lists of words, which means that his study:
52. The individual associated with the field of psychoanaylsis is
53. All of the individuals in the gorup to which the study applies
54. What does biopsychology focus on?
55. An illusory correlation is best defined as a
56. Which describes an experiential psychologist?
57. When she stands in front of her classmates, Miriam cannot recite a poem she had memorized. Miriam is
58. What does cognitive development refer to?
59. What is the term used to describe the stage in cognitive development where children can think logically about concrete events?
60. What is perceptual organization in psychology?