This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 17 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I really believe in doing everything we can to help the environment, but I also drive a car that uses a large amount of gasoline-it's really very bad for the environment. It's probably ok, though, because I recycle regularly, so that must offset the negative impact of the car. A) Cognitive dissonance. B) Mere exposure effect. C) Intersectionality. D) Explicit bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cognitive dissonance. 2. Being able to recall words at the start of a list refers to: A) Recency effect. B) Primacy effect. C) Serial position curve. D) Independent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primacy effect. 3. What does the behaviorism reject? A) The reason. B) People who have a critical thinking. C) Instrospection.it is never possible to objectively observe people's thoughts, motives and meanings. D) The rats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Instrospection.it is never possible to objectively observe people's thoughts, motives and meanings. 4. What types of approaches does modern psychology include? A) Behavioral, cognitive, biological, and sociocultural approaches. B) Philosophical, economic, biological, and social approaches. C) Behavioral, economic, biological, and social approaches. D) Philosophical, cognitive, biological, and sociocultural approaches. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavioral, cognitive, biological, and sociocultural approaches. 5. In Asch's baseline study the genuine participants conformed ..... % of the time. A) 26.8. B) 36.8. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 36.8. 6. The tendency of a test to produce the same scores again and again each time it is given to the same people is called ..... A) Reliability. B) Validity. C) Sustainability. D) Repeatability. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reliability. 7. "Let's take a vote to decide this issue" is a statement that would most likely be made by which type of leader? A) Authoritarian. B) Democratic. C) Laissez-faire. D) Transformational. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Democratic. 8. Which of the following best describes the role of 'working memory' in cognitive psychology? A) Storing long-term memories. B) Processing and holding information temporarily. C) Recalling past experiences. D) Encoding sensory information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Processing and holding information temporarily. 9. Which system is responsible for 'rest and digest' activities? A) Central Nervous System. B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. C) Sympathetic Nervous System. D) Somatic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. 10. Stage of cognitive development when children begin to show signs of adult thinking A) Concrete operational stage. B) Formal operational stage. C) Preoperational stage. D) Sensory-motor stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete operational stage. 11. The bystander effect increases with A) Obedience of thecrowd. B) The socialfacilitation of the crowd. C) The size of thecrowd. D) The altruism of thecrowd. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The size of thecrowd. 12. What do both psychologists and psychiatrists treat? A) Physical injuries. B) Environmental issues. C) Psychological disorders. D) Animal behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Psychological disorders. 13. Laura arrives at a park that is located very close to a factory that produces cookies. She immediately notices the strong odor of chocolate chip cookies, but after a while she no longer detects the smell of the cookies. This can best be explained by which of the following? A) Accommodation. B) Weber's law. C) Sensory adaptation. D) Assimilation. E) Phi phenomenon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory adaptation. 14. Which area of psychology studies how people learn and the best ways to teach them? A) Health Psychology. B) Educational Psychology. C) Developmental Psychology. D) Cognitive Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Educational Psychology. 15. What is one of the goals of psychology that involves understanding the reasons behind behaviors? A) Describe. B) Explain. C) Predict. D) Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explain. 16. A student in ADED 320 reads a book because the subject matter is interesting to them. Is this Intrinsic or Extrinsic motivation? A) Intrinsic. B) Extrinsic. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intrinsic. 17. Which of the following areas focuses on the measurement of behavior and capacities? A) Social Psychology. B) Developmental Psychology. C) Psychometrics. D) Cognitive Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Psychometrics. 18. How do cognitive approaches to learning differ from traditional behaviorist explanations? A) Cognitive psychologists focus on the changes in neural networks that result from learning. B) Cognitive psychologists believe that learning involves some sort of thinking. C) Cognitive psychologists try to explain learning from an evolutionary perspective. D) Cognitive psychologists believe that researchers should only focus on observable behaviors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognitive psychologists believe that learning involves some sort of thinking. 19. It refers to the the mental processes, such as perception, attention, and memory, which is what the mind creates. A) Cognitive Psychology. B) Cognition. C) Learning. D) Mental Health. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognition. 20. DeLongis et al. (1982) suggest the rarity of life events explain the weak correlation between life events and ill-health and suggest that ..... would be a better predictor. A) Daily hassles. B) Personality characteristics. C) Hormones. D) All other options. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daily hassles. 21. An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. A) Prejudice. B) Stereotypes. C) Discrimination. D) Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prejudice. 22. According to this perspective, our environment rewarding and punishing us has a huge impact on our behavior and thought processes. A) Cognitive. B) Psychoanalytic. C) Humanistic. D) Biological. E) Behavioral. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Behavioral. 23. Who is recognized as a pioneer of Humanistic Psychology? A) B.F. Skinner. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Abraham Maslow. D) Carl Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abraham Maslow. 24. A ..... is any stressful experience which requires us to adjust the way we think, feel and behave. A) Daily hassle. B) Life event. C) Daily uplift. D) Life non-event. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life event. 25. Freud's theory of psychology emphasizes on A) The unconscious. B) The underconscious. C) The conscious. D) The super-conscious. 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