This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 19 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dialogical analysis is form of analysis that adopts an interpretivistic framework to study communication that Is embedded within socio-cultural setting. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. In which stage of cognitive development should teachers help children count their fingers, toy, or food? A) Sensorimotor. B) Pre-operational. C) Concrete operational. D) Formal operations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensorimotor. 3. During the night, Alicia stops breathing repeatedly, frequently gasps for air, and snores loudly at regular intervals. Alicia is most likely suffering from which of the following conditions? A) The REM rebound effect. B) Sleep apnea. C) Night terrors. D) Insomnia. E) Narcolepsy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sleep apnea. 4. Which term describes the mental process of focusing on specific stimuli while ignoring others? A) Attention. B) Perception. C) Cognition. D) Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attention. 5. The long, fiber like part of a neuron which the cell sends information to receiving neurons A) Axon. B) Dendrite. C) Myelin. D) Node of Ranvier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axon. 6. According to Freud, what is the unconscious mind a repository of? A) Memories and thoughts. B) Urges and Motivations. C) Skills and habits. D) Knowledge and beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urges and Motivations. 7. How does psychology differ from educational psychology? A) Educational psychology does not involve research on learning. B) Psychology studies mind and behavior, while educational psychology focuses on learning processes and teaching methods. C) Psychology only focuses on mental disorders. D) Educational psychology is a subset of clinical psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychology studies mind and behavior, while educational psychology focuses on learning processes and teaching methods. 8. A Psychopathic personality type tends to be evident when A) A person shows little or no remorse or concern for their actions. B) A person has empathy but cannot control his/her urges to offend. C) A person suffers from depression and Anxiety. D) A person has not been adequately supported in their views about life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person shows little or no remorse or concern for their actions. 9. There are limits to intuition and common sense. What are they? A) Overconfidence, Hindsight Bias, and Random thinking. B) Overconfidence, Hindsight Bias, and perceiving patterns in random events. C) Overconfidence, Hindsight Bias and building a more pleasant, engage and meaningful life. D) Overconfidence and Hindsight Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overconfidence, Hindsight Bias, and perceiving patterns in random events. 10. Health Psychology emphasizes on how:- A) Society influences personal well being. B) Health is a social construct. C) Behaviour influences health. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behaviour influences health. 11. In English grammar, which sentence structure is used to express a psychological state? A) Passive voice. B) Active voice. C) Subjunctive mood. D) Imperative mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subjunctive mood. 12. The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in highly emotional group situations in which people feel anonymous. A) Conformity. B) Deindividuation. C) Prejudice. D) Groupthink. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deindividuation. 13. How do psychological assessments benefit education? A) Psychological assessments benefit education by identifying individual student needs, guiding personalized learning strategies, and supporting mental health interventions. B) They focus solely on academic performance without considering mental health. C) They provide standardized testing scores for all students. D) They eliminate the need for teacher assessments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Psychological assessments benefit education by identifying individual student needs, guiding personalized learning strategies, and supporting mental health interventions. 14. What are the three components of a mental process? A) Perception, facial expression, emotion. B) Prospective, cognition, emotion. C) Perception, cognition, emotion. D) Perception, action, behaviour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perception, cognition, emotion. 15. Which describes an industrial psychologist? A) Studies people in fields such as business. B) Studies technical systems to make more user-friendly things. C) Studies people across different cultures and how they influence behavior. D) Studies relationships between people and work. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Studies relationships between people and work. 16. Fine motor development refers to babies progress in coordinating major muscle groups. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 17. Which describes ation psychologist? A) Studies people in fields such as business. B) Studies behavior of pilots, passengers, and attendants. C) Studies changes in emotions, physical, and social in a life span. D) Focuses on the instructional methods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Studies behavior of pilots, passengers, and attendants. 18. The noted scientist who developed the principles of Classical Conditioning is A) B.F. Skinner. B) Ivan Pavlov. C) Albert Bandura. D) E.L. Thorndike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ivan Pavlov. 19. Who can be considered the father of behaviorism A) Jonathan Watson. B) Pierre Cardin. C) John Watson. D) Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Watson. 20. Which of the following groups changed the definition of Psychology to "the scientific study of observable behavior" ? A) Humanists. B) Psychodynamic psychologists. C) Cognitive psychologists. D) Behaviorists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behaviorists. 21. Narrative perspectives are associated with which of Bruner's two modes of thought: A) Paradigmatic thought. B) Narrative thought. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative thought. 22. What are the three basic components of evolution according to Darwin? A) Inheritance, adaptation, mutation. B) Variation, inheritance, selection. C) Selection, mutation, adaptation. D) Variation, mutation, inheritance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variation, inheritance, selection. 23. Professor Woo noticed that the distribution of students' scores on her last biology test had an extremely small standard deviation. This indicates that the A) Students' scores tended to be very similar to one another. B) Mean test score was lower than the median score. C) Test was given to a very small class of students. D) Students generally performed very well on the test. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Students' scores tended to be very similar to one another. 24. Which one is least likely to cause someone to be stress A) Financial problems. B) Work related pressure. C) Major life changes. D) Academic pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Major life changes. 25. What is the importance of research in psychology? A) Research in psychology has no impact on real-world applications. B) Research in psychology is important for understanding behavior, developing theories, informing practices, and advancing knowledge. C) Research in psychology is only for academic purposes. 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