This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 14 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the Occipital Lobe do? A) Visual Perception, including colour, form and motion. B) Sensory information, including touch, temperature, pressure and pain. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Visual Perception, including colour, form and motion. 2. What is Closure? A) Completing gaps within a figure in order to view the stimulus as a whole. B) Simplifying a scene into figures and backgrounds. C) The perception of objects based on similar features. D) The perception of objects that are physically close together as belonging in a group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Completing gaps within a figure in order to view the stimulus as a whole. 3. Operationalization of a construct A) Means to investigate a reading topic. B) Is doing construction on a building. C) Means expressing it in terms of observable behaviour. D) Is the theory of knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Means expressing it in terms of observable behaviour. 4. Biological psychologists collaborate with zoologists and anthropologists A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. *Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the: A) Amygdala. B) Hypothalamus. C) Sensory cortex. D) Motor cortex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amygdala. 6. The perspective in psychology thst emphasizes how we learn observable responses is the A) Cognitive perspective. B) Behavioral perspective. C) Socio-Cultural perspective. D) Neuroscience perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behavioral perspective. 7. Adults may experience more anxiety or self-doubt when learning a new language compared to younger learners due to: A) Lack of technology access. B) Balancing responsibilities. C) Slower vocabulary acquisition. D) Emotional factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emotional factors. 8. Division of the sample into groups so that every individual has an equal chance of being put in any group or condition. A) Single blind. B) Double blind. C) Random assignment. D) Random sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Random assignment. 9. How is natural selection related to psychology? A) All organisms have been shown to be capable of learning. B) Humans behave as they do in part because that behavior promotes survival. C) Survival depends on environment just as much as it depends on genes. D) Animals share many genes with human beings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humans behave as they do in part because that behavior promotes survival. 10. Which describes a forensic psychologist? A) Treats soldiers with mental illness or emotional distress. B) Helps with psychological adjustments, works in clinics & hospitals, defeating behavior. C) Studies changes in emotions, physical, and social in a life span. D) Studies the law and criminal justice system and how it applies to psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Studies the law and criminal justice system and how it applies to psychology. 11. A person is extremely antisocial. They have trouble relating to others and do not feel empathy. How would this be classified? A) Sociopathy. B) Psychopathy. C) Psychosis. D) Criminal Profiling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sociopathy. 12. What are the two main parts of the human nervous system? A) Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). B) Brain and Spinal Cord. C) Autonomic and Somatic Nervous Systems. D) Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). 13. Which statement signifies the term 'mood' A) Emotion induced by the enjoyment or anticipation of what is felt or viewed as good or desirable. B) Emotions (positive and negative) that are embodied. C) The result of giving the body what it needs in that particular moment. D) A relatively short-lived emotional state. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A relatively short-lived emotional state. 14. What does the humanistic perspective emphasize in psychology? A) The role of unconscious motives. B) The physiological changes in the body. C) The psychological health and free will of individuals. D) The behavior of animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The psychological health and free will of individuals. 15. Which of the following is an example of Physical/Environmental barriers? A) A beautiful female/male. B) An uncomfortable meeting place and noise. C) To be frustrated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An uncomfortable meeting place and noise. 16. For task difficulty-conformity ..... when the task was harder. A) Increased. B) Decreased. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increased. 17. ..... Focuses on the relationship between behaviour and the physical system, including the brain and the rest of the nervous system, immune system etc. A) Developmental psychology. B) Biological psychology. C) Cognitive psychology. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biological psychology. 18. Concerned with discovering the basic elements of consciousness. A) Structuralism. B) Functionalism. C) Psychoanalysis. D) Psychology of Gestalt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Structuralism. 19. If you are claustrophobic, what do you fear? A) Spiders. B) Heights. C) Closed spaces. D) Darkness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Closed spaces. 20. At which stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development do individuals during a critical period become able to be use deductive and hypothetical reasoning? A) Sensorimotor stage. B) Preoperational stage. C) Concrete operational stage. D) Formal operational stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Formal operational stage. 21. This behavioral psychologist studied how the use of rewards and punishment can influence behavior. A) Ivan Pavlov. B) Albert Bandura. C) B.F Skinner. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B.F Skinner. 22. The behavior or mental process that is measured in an experiment (the effect) A) Dependent variable. B) Independent variable. C) Random sample. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dependent variable. 23. ..... is high when confounding variables have been controlled and we are quite certain that it was the change in the IV that caused the change in the DV. A) External validity. B) Population validity. C) Internal validity. D) Ecological validity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal validity. 24. How many different types of psychologists did we cover in last lesson? A) 3. B) 4. C) 5. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 25. In developmental psychology, 'death and dying' is studied under: A) Early childhood. B) Late adulthood. C) Middle adulthood. D) Adolescence. 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