This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Children with secure attachments usually are ..... in romantic relationships A) Distant. B) Clingy. C) Trusting. D) Skeptical and Non-Trusting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trusting. 2. Which of the following describes the central route of processing? A) When the argument is familiar, people will be more likely to agree with it. B) When two opposite ideas are held in the mind at the same time. C) Effortful, conscious consideration where the strength of the argument is what persuades. D) Emotionally charged language that touches on a person's core beleifs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Effortful, conscious consideration where the strength of the argument is what persuades. 3. How many lobes are there in the brain? A) 4. B) 1. C) 5. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 4. Baby Sue loves listening to the music from her crib's mobile while she falls asleep at night. Which stage of cognitive development is Baby Sue in? A) Sensorimotor. B) Concrete. C) Formal. D) Preoperational. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensorimotor. 5. Read each statement and determine whether it describes an obsession or a compulsion:Fear of germs and excessive handwashing. A) Obsession. B) Compulsion. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compulsion. 6. Which silence condition according to Kurtis et al., (2010) involves mentioning the Indigenous People without genocide inflicted onto them? A) Anti-silence. B) Literal silence. C) Quiet Silence. D) Interpretative silence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interpretative silence. 7. What is the focus of social psychology? A) Change and growth through a lifespan. B) Treatment of behavioral problems. C) Internal mental processes. D) Group behavior and interactions among people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Group behavior and interactions among people. 8. Which of the following is NOT a key component of the Social Representation Theory of representation production: A) Object. B) Emotions. C) Subjects. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotions. 9. What is MOOD MODIFICATION? A) The activity produces an arousing 'buzz' or 'high'. B) The activity becomes the most important one in a persons life. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The activity produces an arousing 'buzz' or 'high'. 10. Which development theory did Erik Erikson coin? A) Physical. B) Social. C) Environmental. D) Moral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social. 11. Which is not a dimension of emotion? A) Valence. B) Feeling. C) Approach and avoidance. D) Arounsal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feeling. 12. Which of the following is a factor of affecting cultural differences? A) In South Africa, there is a wide variety of cultures. B) People often pass judgements and make evaluations of people from other cultures in a biased way. C) They see only their attitudes and values as natural and moral. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. The primary goal of functionalism was to A) Focus on the adaptiveness of behavior. B) Study the unconscious mind. C) Investigate the causes of behavior. D) Determine how particular sensations occur at the same time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Focus on the adaptiveness of behavior. 14. The scores given to each of the 43 life events were measured in ..... ? A) Love change units. B) Like change units. C) Life change units. D) Life charge units. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life change units. 15. Name and briefly explain three Gestalt principles. A) Continuity, Figure-ground, Symmetry. B) Proximity, Similarity, Closure. C) Alignment, Repetition, Figure-ground. D) Continuity, Symmetry, Alignment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proximity, Similarity, Closure. 16. Upon entering a bathroom for the first time you will recognize it is a bathroom but noticing the color of the walls and the layout of the room requires A) Encoding. B) Schema. C) Recognition. D) Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Encoding. 17. What is the variable that is manipulated by the researcher in an experiment? A) Control group. B) Dependent variable. C) Random group. D) Independent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Independent variable. 18. How do identity and cultural integration impact Early Career Adults (Ages 25-35)? A) Enhancing the awareness of identity and cultural integration through language learning. B) Promoting comprehensive English skills. C) Improve the pronunciation ability. D) Maintaining the self-discipline learning style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enhancing the awareness of identity and cultural integration through language learning. 19. What describes a collectivist culture? A) High affluence and heterogenous. B) Low affluence and heterogenous. C) High affluence and homogenous. D) Low affluence and homogenous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Low affluence and homogenous. 20. Which of the following statements about protection harm is false? A) Offering the right to withdraw is a way protect from harm. B) Participants should be protected from physical and psychological harm. C) Participants should not be placed at any more risk than they would in their everyday life. D) It is acceptable to place participants under stress as long as they are fully debriefed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is acceptable to place participants under stress as long as they are fully debriefed. 21. Which of the following is not a reason people study developmental psychology? A) They believe childhood is unrelated to later stages of life. B) They are interested in how childhood affects later life stages. C) They hope to learn what causes developmental problems. D) They want to learn how people change over time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They believe childhood is unrelated to later stages of life. 22. What type of communication is a speech by a line manager to subordinates? A) Upward Communication. B) External Communication. C) Diagonal Communication. D) Downward Communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Downward Communication. 23. What are some key theories in educational psychology? A) Behaviorism, Cognitive Development Theory, Social Learning Theory, Constructivism. B) Humanistic Theory. C) Multiple Intelligences Theory. D) Emotional Intelligence Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behaviorism, Cognitive Development Theory, Social Learning Theory, Constructivism. 24. 65 + is which life stage A) Infancy. B) Adolescent. C) Middle adulthood. D) Later adulthood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Later adulthood. 25. An interneuron connects a motor neuron to a ..... neuron and is located in the ..... A) Motor, PNS. B) Sensory, CNS. C) Motor, CNS. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory, CNS. 26. Which psychologist is best known for proposing the concept of multiple intelligences, suggesting that intelligence is not a single, fixed trait? A) Alfred Binet. B) Howard Gardner. C) Charles Spearman. D) Jean Piaget. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Howard Gardner. 27. Some memories are stored in terms of their meaning. Which type of encoding is this? A) Visual. B) Acoustic. C) Semantic. D) Tactile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantic. 28. This theory believes that prejudice results from the justifications we create to determine that our ingroup should receive an unfair amount of limited resources. A) REALISTIC CONFLICT THEORY. B) Scape-Goat Theory. C) SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY. D) FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION THEORY. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) REALISTIC CONFLICT THEORY. 29. Which branch studies people's behavior on the job and in groups? A) Personality. B) I/O-Industrial/Organizational. C) Sports. D) Health. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I/O-Industrial/Organizational. 30. Obtain large samples of abilities, beliefs or behaviors through written or interview questions. A) Case study. B) Naturalistic observation. C) Survye. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Survye. 31. Which of the following is the correct path a neural impulse will follow through the different layers of the retina? A) Rods and cones, ganglion cells, bipolar cells, optic nerve. B) Rods and cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve. C) Bipolar cells, ganglion cells, rods and cones, optic nerve. D) Ganglion cells, bipolar cells, rods and cones, optic nerve. E) Optic nerve, ganglion cells, bipolar cells, rods and cones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rods and cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve. 32. What role does motivation play in the learning process? A) Motivation is essential for engaging students and enhancing their learning outcomes. B) Motivation only affects students' social interactions. C) Motivation is irrelevant in educational settings. D) Motivation has no effect on learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motivation is essential for engaging students and enhancing their learning outcomes. 33. During this stage of sleep, muscle activity and eye movements completely stop, and you become difficult to awaken. A) REM. B) Stage 1. C) Stage 4. D) Stage 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stage 4. 34. The idea that individuals' frustration builds a physical and psychological tension that they feel must be let out, frequently in the form of aggression toward " weaker targets A) FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION THEORY. B) REALISTIC CONFLICT THEORY. C) SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY. D) Scape-Goat Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION THEORY. 35. Hypnosis is an example of A) Psychology. B) Pseuo-psychology. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pseuo-psychology. 36. A young offender might see which psychologist? A) Health. B) Educational. C) Counselling. D) Forensic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forensic. 37. Describe the role of bottom-up processing in visual perception. A) Bottom-up processing involves the analysis of sensory information to form a perception. B) Bottom-up processing is not involved in visual perception. C) Bottom-up processing only occurs in auditory perception. D) Bottom-up processing involves the synthesis of sensory information to form a perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bottom-up processing involves the analysis of sensory information to form a perception. 38. What does cognitive thinking focus on? A) Thoughts and decisions. B) Biological structures. C) Rewards and punishments. D) Natural selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thoughts and decisions. 39. Which term refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses? A) Cognition. B) Emotion. C) Perception. D) Intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cognition. 40. Where is social loafing most likely to occur? A) Individual accountability is high and the task is difficult. B) Individual accountability is low and task is difficult. C) Individual accountability is high and there is a reward. D) Individual accountability is low and task is easy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individual accountability is low and task is easy. 41. Which perspective uses the metaphor of comparing the human mind to a computer? A) Biochemical. B) Cognitive. C) Sociocultural. D) Psychodynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognitive. 42. Holmes & Rahe believed a high score of over 300 LCUs meant an ..... % chance of developing a serious physical illness the following year. A) 65. B) 70. C) 80. D) 75. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 80. 43. In ..... you recruit participants that are more easily available. A) Self-selected sampling. B) Opportunity sampling. C) Random sampling. D) Stratified sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opportunity sampling. 44. Which describes an organizational psychologist? A) Studies changes in emotions, physical, and social in a life span. B) Studies people in fields such as business. C) Studies behavior of shoppers, predict and influence consumer behavior. D) Studies behavior of pilots, passengers, and attendants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Studies people in fields such as business. 45. Because ..... is a sequential process, infants generally learnto sit up before they can crawl and to crawl before they can stand. A) Maturation. B) Continuity. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maturation. 46. Biological Psychology examines the relationship between the body and its surroundings A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 47. Participants in Barlett's study transformed the story to make it: A) More familiar. B) More complex. C) Interesting. D) Longer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More familiar. 48. What is the biopsychosocial model? A) A model that integrates biological, psychological, and social factors. B) A model that focuses solely on biological factors. C) A model that emphasizes psychological factors only. D) A model that considers only social influences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A model that integrates biological, psychological, and social factors. 49. Humanistic psychologists focused attention on the importance of people's A) Childhood memories. B) Genetic predispositions. C) Potential for healthy growth. D) Unconscious thought processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Potential for healthy growth. 50. Lowered serotonin levels in a person's brain could lead to A) Groupthink. B) Social facilitation. C) Violent outbursts. D) Meek conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Violent outbursts. 51. For unanimity, the genuine participants conformed ..... with a dissenter present. A) More often. B) Less often. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less often. 52. Not being able to remember your new boyfriend's name and you keeping calling them by your old boyfriend's name is an example of: A) Reteroactive interference. B) Context. C) Proactive interference. D) Reconstructive memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proactive interference. 53. What role does feedback play in the learning process? A) Feedback has no impact on student motivation. B) Feedback is essential for guiding student improvement and enhancing learning outcomes. C) Feedback should be avoided to prevent discouragement. D) Feedback is only important for students with learning disabilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feedback is essential for guiding student improvement and enhancing learning outcomes. 54. What does Gestalt means? A) Focuses on the assumption that the environment determines an individual's behavior. B) The uniqueness of every individual. C) "a structured, meaningful unity that stand out against a background in the organism/ environment field". D) Each individual have inherent resources that enable us to deal with whatever life brings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "a structured, meaningful unity that stand out against a background in the organism/ environment field". 55. What is object relation theory? A) Refers on how simple objects can cause traumas without explanation. B) Refers in how people or objects form our way to be. C) Refers on how we appreciate objects. D) Refers on how parents force you to be something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refers in how people or objects form our way to be. 56. What best describes social loafing A) The tendency for individuals to put in less effort when working in a group. B) The phenomenon of individuals taking on more responsibility in a group. C) The ability to work more efficiently in a team. D) The practice of collaborating to achieve a common goal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The tendency for individuals to put in less effort when working in a group. 57. Why do teratogens called monster makers? A) These are agents that cause harm to the fetus. B) These are medicines that make the mother sick. C) These are conditions that help the fetus to grow healthy and fully developed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) These are agents that cause harm to the fetus. 58. What is structuralism? A) Concentrated on how behaviour functions and the role of behaviour in allowing people to adapt to their environments. B) Focuses on the organization of perception and thinking in a "whole" sense rather than on the individual elements of perception. C) Focuses on analysing sensations and personal experience into basic elements (structure of mental life). D) Examines how people understand and think about the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Focuses on analysing sensations and personal experience into basic elements (structure of mental life). 59. What is the term for the type of attachment characterized by a child being upset when the caregiver leaves but easily soothed upon their return? A) Secure attachment. B) Insecure-avoidant attachment. C) Disorganized attachment. D) Insecure-resistant attachment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Secure attachment. 60. How do individual differences affect responses in various situations? A) They make predictions easier. B) They have no effect on predictions. C) They make predictions challenging. D) They simplify the analysis. 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