This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 10 Industrial Organisational Psychology – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 10 Industrial Organisational Psychology Quiz 29 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How did the Human Relations Movement contribute to the field of organizational behavior? A) By emphasizing strict adherence to classical management principles. B) By promoting the idea that only financial incentives motivate employees. C) By highlighting the importance of understanding and addressing employees' social and psychological needs. D) By discouraging the formation of strong interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By highlighting the importance of understanding and addressing employees' social and psychological needs. 2. A specialist is brought in to interview someone involved in a high-profile legal case. They are tasked with evaluating the individual's mental state to determine if their actions might have been influenced by underlying psychological factors. A) Forensic Psychology. B) Neuropsychology. C) Community Psychology. D) Educational and School Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forensic Psychology. 3. Freud popularized the idea that most of what exists in the mind is unconscious. This major theory is known as ..... A) Behaviorism. B) Humanism. C) Biopsychosocial psychology. D) Psychodynamic thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Psychodynamic thinking. 4. Which disorder is characterized by prolonged low mood, loss of interest, and fatigue? A) Bipolar disorder. B) Major depressive disorder. C) Social anxiety. D) Generalized anxiety disorder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Major depressive disorder. 5. Which era marked the beginning of the systematic study of organizational behavior? A) Industrial Revolution Era. B) Scientific Management Era. C) Human Relations Era. D) Information Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scientific Management Era. 6. Which school of psychology focused on the adaptive nature of thinking and how our consciousness evolves to meet our needs? A) Functionalist. B) Structuralist. C) Behavioral. D) Humanistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Functionalist. 7. Superior memory for rap lyrics that include the most rhymes best illustrates the value of A) Acoustic encoding. B) Mood-congruent memory. C) Priming. D) The spacing effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acoustic encoding. 8. Wilhelm Wundt is considered the founder of psychology as an independent science with its own distinct methods of investigation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion A) Random sample. B) Reciprocity. C) Generalizability. D) Control group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Random sample. 10. Leader makes decisions independently with little or no input from others. A) Autocratic. B) Democratic. C) Open/Laissez-Faire. D) Situational. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autocratic. 11. Why do spooky ghost stories make people's hearts race, even if they don't believe in ghosts? A) Suggestibility. B) Sensory adaptation. C) Positive illusion. D) Placebo effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suggestibility. 12. This individual built the hierarchy of needs that gave perspective to human behavior dependent upon the environment in which they live. A) Abraham Maslow. B) Sigmund Freud. C) William James. D) Mary Poppins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abraham Maslow. 13. Forensic psychologists may assist the police with profiling potential suspects, particularly for which type of crimes? A) Petty theft. B) Serial murders. C) Traffic violations. D) Shoplifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Serial murders. 14. It refers to a considerable amount of intrinsic worth, and enormous potential for self-fulfillment. A) Evolutionary Approach. B) Humanistic Approach. C) Cross-cultural Approach. D) Psychoanalytical Approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humanistic Approach. 15. Which is not a benefit of IO Psychology? A) Increase productivity. B) Develop individualist. C) Recruit the right people for the organisation. D) Hire better people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Develop individualist. 16. What refers to a fixed set of beliefs about a group of people that may or may not be accurate? A) Stereotype. B) Ethnocentrism. C) Discrimination. D) Prejudice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stereotype. 17. What's the term for recalling your first day of school? A) Episodic Memory. B) Semantic Memory. C) Procedural Memory. D) Working Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Episodic Memory. 18. Leader in the Behaviorist Approach who rejected the belief in free will and studied how consequences and reinforcement shape behavior. A) John B. Watson. B) John Locke. C) Carl Rogers. D) B. F. Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B. F. Skinner. 19. Mental process related to A) Thinking process. B) Experience. C) Mind. D) Situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thinking process. 20. What is the primary focus of educational and developmental psychology? A) Helping individuals with severe psychological disorders. B) Assisting with personal wellbeing and relationships. C) Understanding how people develop and learn throughout their lives. D) Providing medical treatment for brain dysfunctions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understanding how people develop and learn throughout their lives. 21. Who wrote Psychology as a Behavior? A) Sigmund Freud. B) John B. Watson. C) B.F. Skinner. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John B. Watson. 22. The psychological perspective concerned with how unconscious instincts, conflicts, motives, and defenses influence behavior. A) Functionalism. B) Behavioral. C) Psychoanalytic. D) Humanistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Psychoanalytic. 23. Psychologists use different methods and study different behaviors, they all conduct ..... studies. A) Descriptive. B) Introspective. C) Explanatory. D) Systematic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Systematic. 24. The standard deviation A) Indicates the average difference between each score in a group and the mean for that group of scores. B) Reveals the degree of skew for a a group of scores. C) Is sensitive to scores at the extremes of a distribution of scores. D) Is used to determine whether a data set is positively or negatively skewed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indicates the average difference between each score in a group and the mean for that group of scores. 25. Some of our most useful knowledge of human perception borrowed from ..... 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