This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a Repeated Measures Design? A) Where the participants take part in each condition of the independent variable. B) It is an experimental design where different participants are used in each condition of the experiment. C) It is where the participants are matched with another participant in another group so that the results can be compared. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where the participants take part in each condition of the independent variable. 2. For which of the following was Harry Harlow known for? A) Contact comfort. B) Displacement. C) Imprinting. D) Stranger anxiety. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contact comfort. 3. Credibility within Psychology is A) An experiment. B) How you present your results. C) Not an important factor. D) How much people can trust your results in reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How much people can trust your results in reality. 4. We tend to believe that our opinions and preferences are objectively true (not just opinions, but actually facts) A) Naive realism. B) False consensus. C) Cognitive dissonance. D) Mere exposure effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naive realism. 5. In literature, which term describes a character's psychological struggle within themselves? A) Resolution. B) Internal conflict. C) Climax. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal conflict. 6. Cognitive Dissonance A) Discomfort when our behavior is inconsistent w/our beliefs. B) Tendency to attribute behavior of others as dispositional. C) Belief that we get what we deserve. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discomfort when our behavior is inconsistent w/our beliefs. 7. What should be added to the study of psychology for better understanding? A) Generalized examples. B) Specific examples of individual differences and complexities. C) Simplified explanations. D) Only genetic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Specific examples of individual differences and complexities. 8. What is Ms. Chiang's Room #? A) 659. B) 562. C) 552. D) 652. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 652. 9. What kind of motivation that Early Career Adults (Ages 25-35) is promoting? A) Extrinsic motivation. B) Balancing responsibilities. C) Intrinsic motivation. D) Intrinsic motivation & Extrinsic motivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intrinsic motivation & Extrinsic motivation. 10. A test has a mean of 80 with a standard deviation of 4. Which of the following scores is within one standard deviation of the mean? A) 77. B) 86. C) 90. D) 99. E) 75. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 77. 11. Psychology can be defined as ..... A) Study of personality. B) Examination of unconscious patients. C) Scientific study of behaviours and its causes. D) A study of people's mental life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scientific study of behaviours and its causes. 12. An example of sensory memory in action is: A) Seeing your name written in the air with a sparkler. B) Repeating someone's phone number back to yourself. C) Recognising a friend in the street. D) Remembering the answer to an exam question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seeing your name written in the air with a sparkler. 13. Correlational research where one specific group of people or person is studied in detail through interviews, file reviews, etc. Not generalizable. A) Case study. B) Naturalistic evaluation. C) Experiment. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Case study. 14. The fact that the Mexican immigrant was judged more harshly than the Canadian immigrant in the Mukherjee et al., (2013) is due to the fact that Mexican immigrant is seen as ..... A) A source of cheap labor compared to the Canadian. B) A symbolic threat to the Anglo-centric US identity. C) Is seen as taking jobs away from other immigrant groups. D) A threat to national security. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A symbolic threat to the Anglo-centric US identity. 15. The prominent feature of mood disorders is the experience of A) Paranoia. B) Social phobia. C) Anxiety. D) Emotional extremes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emotional extremes. 16. Which research method would be most appropriate for investigating the relationship between the religious beliefs of Americans and their attitudes toward abortion? A) Survey. B) Case study. C) Experiment. D) Naturalistic observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Survey. 17. According to Humanistic Psychology, what underlies personal nastiness or niceness? A) They are masks and illusions. B) They are unchangeable. C) They are inherent traits. D) They are determined by genetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are masks and illusions. 18. ..... focuses on how people change and grow throughout life A) Educational psychology. B) Developmental psychology. C) Sports psychology. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Developmental psychology. 19. In the context of reading comprehension, what is the primary function of 'schema'? A) To decode words. B) To organize and interpret information. C) To memorize text. D) To translate language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To organize and interpret information. 20. What does research show about eyewitness confidence? A) They are always accurate. B) They are just as confident when wrong. C) They rely on empirical data. D) They are never confident. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are just as confident when wrong. 21. Seligman's three-part description of happiness describes a pleasant life, an engaged life, and a meaningful life. In his analysis a meaningful life derives from A) The inevitable tragedies of life. B) Involvement in activities that express our strengths and interests. C) Going beyond self-interest through involvements in something larger than the self, such as serving others. D) Events and personal qualities associated with happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Going beyond self-interest through involvements in something larger than the self, such as serving others. 22. The understanding that materials continue to exist even when they cannot be perceived (seen, heard, touched, smelled or sensed in any way) A) Object disappearing. B) Object Permanence. C) Cultural Materialism. D) Stability. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Object Permanence. 23. Dr. Ali is a psychologist who believes that psychology should not attempt to understand the mind, but rather focus on understanding the observable actions that people and animals engage in. Dr. Ali s point of view is most compatible with the approach to psychology known as A) Behaviorism. B) Psychoanalytic theory. C) Functionalism. D) Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behaviorism. 24. Who proposed the cognitive developmental theory of psycho social development? A) Erikson. B) Vygotsky. C) Freud. D) Piaget. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Piaget. 25. The protection of participant's self esteem is not a concern for researchers A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 26. A mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else A) Rage. B) Blame. C) Anger. D) Projection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Projection. 27. Which of the following best represents late adulthood? A) Independence and identity crisis. B) Career building. C) Reflection on life and preparation for death. D) Play and learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reflection on life and preparation for death. 28. Behavior is primarily shaped by learning. The statement applies to the A) Cognitive view. B) Behavioral view. C) Developmental view. D) Trait view. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developmental view. 29. Social Representations are A) System of values, ideas and practices. B) Thoughts, schemes and heuristics. C) Feeling, moods and emotions. D) Beliefs and attributions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) System of values, ideas and practices. 30. A physiological function of the right hemisphere: A) Movement on the left side of the body. B) Recognising emotions. C) Movement on the right side of the body. D) Non-verbal tasks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movement on the left side of the body. 31. Of the following, who is a humanistic psychologist? A) Sigmund Freud. B) William James. C) John Watson. D) Abraham Maslow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Maslow. 32. Who developed the concept of imprinting? A) Lawerence Kohlberg. B) Konrad Lorenz. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Konrad Lorenz. 33. The range of possible (physical) actions by a user on an artefact are A) Affordances. B) Efforts. C) Real affordances. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affordances. 34. The concepts of stranger and separation anxiety were pioneered by which of the following theorists? A) Jean Piaget. B) Carol Gilligan. C) Harry Harlow. D) Mary Ainsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mary Ainsworth. 35. Memory that holds an image of what we have seen is: A) Auditory memory. B) Visual memory. C) Long-term memory. D) Short-term memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visual memory. 36. "when you see a button, you want to push it." A) Strong affordances. B) Weak affordances. C) Singifiers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strong affordances. 37. What does Humanistic Psychology say about human motivation? A) It includes an achievement motivation and need for varied experience. B) It is based on achieving societal standards. C) It is primarily driven by deficiency. D) It is fixed and unchangeable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It includes an achievement motivation and need for varied experience. 38. The psychosocial conflict during adolescence, according to Erikson, is: A) Trust vs. Mistrust. B) Industry vs. Inferiority. C) Intimacy vs. Isolation. D) Identity vs. Role Confusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Identity vs. Role Confusion. 39. Which statement reflects a reasonable attitude for a good student of psychology to have toward any claim about human behavior? A) It is fine to accept an idea until it is proven wrong. B) Skepticism is advisable until an idea is proven right. C) The older an idea is, the more likely it is to be correct. D) The more popular an idea is, the more likely it is to be correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skepticism is advisable until an idea is proven right. 40. Which of the following is NOT one of the nine major research areas in psychology? A) Developmental Psychology. B) Cognitive Neuroscience. C) Social Psychology. D) Health Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognitive Neuroscience. 41. What is a consequence that improves a behavior that it follows?EX:Praising a student for not running in the hallway. A) Conditioning. B) Antecedent. C) Behaving. D) Reinforcer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reinforcer. 42. Our behavior is a direct result of how we feel about ourselves. A) Humanistic perspective. B) Social-cultural perspective. C) Behavioral perspective. D) Psychodynamic perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humanistic perspective. 43. Lorenz's research on attachment in animals is associated with which phenomenon? A) Monotropy. B) Interactional synchrony. C) Reciprocity. D) Imprinting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imprinting. 44. Pavlov is famous for conducting experiments with what animal? A) Cats. B) Rats. C) Monkeys. D) Dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dogs. 45. In Bowlby's attachment theory, what role does the father play in attachment? A) Primary attachment figure. B) Secondary caregiver. C) Tertiary attachment figure. D) Primary caregiver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary caregiver. 46. Freud's efforts to understand and treat psychological disorders stemmed from his puzzlement over ..... disorders. A) Dissociative identity. B) Conversion. C) Biopolar. D) Antisocial personality disorder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conversion. 47. The ..... is the part of the brain that holds the hemispheres together. A) Medulla. B) Corpus callosum. C) Cerebrum. D) Reticular formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corpus callosum. 48. A psychologist that uses ethnicity, gender, culture and socioeconomic status influence our behavior. A) Humanist. B) Socio-cultural psychology. C) Psychoanalyst. D) Behaviorist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Socio-cultural psychology. 49. Seeing one-eyed monsters would be a(n) ..... Believing that you are Christopher Columbus would be a ..... A) Delusion; compulsion. B) Obsession; delusion. C) Hallucination; compulsion. D) Hallucination; delusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hallucination; delusion. 50. The first school of psychological thought was A) Behaviorism. B) Functionalism. C) Philosophy. D) Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structuralism. 51. What is the primary focus of health psychology? A) Measurement of behavior and capacities. B) Human development across the life span. C) Promotion and maintenance of physical health. D) Interpersonal behavior and social forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Promotion and maintenance of physical health. 52. The part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behaviour A) Ego. B) Psycho dynamic theory. C) Super Ego. D) Id. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Super Ego. 53. ..... is known for memorizing nonsense syllables and plotting a curve of forgetting A) Luriab. B) Ebbinghaus. C) Mneumonic. D) Loftus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ebbinghaus. 54. The part of the neuron that insulates the axon and increases the speed of the neural message within the neuron. A) Axon Terminal Button. B) Myelin Sheath. C) Synapse. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myelin Sheath. 55. People who are color blind most likely have deficiencies in their A) Optic nerve. B) Occipital lobe. C) Lens. D) Rods. E) Cones. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Cones. 56. Which literary device requires the reader to use cognition to understand the deeper meaning behind the text? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 57. What is Brain Plasticity? A) The ability of the brain's neural structure or function to be changed by experience throughout the life span. B) The process of forming new synapsis. C) The process of eliminating connections. D) It is the growth and development of the white fatty substance called myelin that wraps around axons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ability of the brain's neural structure or function to be changed by experience throughout the life span. 58. If you want to use your psychological training to make the workplace more productive, which type of psychology would you probably enjoy most as a career? A) Forensic psychology. B) Developmental psychology. C) School psychology. D) Industrial organizational psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrial organizational psychology. 59. Isaac has an intense fear of injections. Although he realizes that this fear is irrational, he becomes fearful just going into a doctor's office for a check-up. Which disorder do these symptoms describe? A) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. B) Agoraphobia. C) Generalized Anxiety Disorder. D) Specific Phobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Specific Phobia. 60. Studies into deep ocean biology is a type of A) Basic research. B) Applied research. C) All the above. D) None of the above. 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