This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 26 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The goal of Institutional Review Boards in research is to A) Make sure participants feel no unnecessary harm. B) Collect data for researchers. C) Analyze data for researchers. D) Help researchers plan their studies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make sure participants feel no unnecessary harm. 2. What is the process by which some animals form immediate attachments during a critical period? A) Assimilation. B) Contact comfort. C) Imprinting. D) Separation anxiety. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imprinting. 3. A type of fixation that causes one to approach a problem the same way that has been successful in the past is called your A) Echoic memory. B) Mental set. C) Mental capacity. D) Ebbinghaus Curve. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mental set. 4. Dependent variables are A) Never changes. B) Notes you gather after reading. C) Manipulated by researcher. D) Expected to change as the Independent Variable changes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expected to change as the Independent Variable changes. 5. An example of a typical behaviour for a quiet, shy person would be: A) Being quiet and shy in social situations. B) Being the most outgoing person in the room. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Being quiet and shy in social situations. 6. Which major perspective of psychology believed that behaviour is motivated by inner forces and conflicts and we have little awareness or control A) Humanistic. B) Psychodynamic. C) Behavioural. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychodynamic. 7. What is the main focus of the cognitive perspective in psychology? A) Observable behavior. B) Processing, organizing, storing, and retrieving information. C) Emotional responses. D) Biological processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Processing, organizing, storing, and retrieving information. 8. Operant conditioning principles were developed by A) B.F. Skinner. B) Ivan Pavlov. C) Albert Bandura. D) E.L. Thorndike. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B.F. Skinner. 9. What is the primary role of industrial/organizational psychologists? A) To conduct psychological testing. B) To improve workplace productivity. C) To study human development. D) To provide therapy to individuals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To improve workplace productivity. 10. A research project designed o discover the degree to which 2 variables are related to each other A) Experiment. B) Correlation. C) Quasi Experiment. D) Illusory Correlation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correlation. 11. How does Bowlby's attachment theory explain the impact of early attachment on adult relationships? A) It has no long-term impact. B) It creates a fixed and unchangeable internal working model. C) It influences the formation of an internal working model that guides future relationships. D) It only impacts relationships with parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It influences the formation of an internal working model that guides future relationships. 12. The biopsychosocial approach emphasizes the importance of A) Different levels of analysis in exploring behavior and mental processes. B) Basic research over pure research. C) Pure research over basic research. D) Having a single academic perspective to guide research. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Different levels of analysis in exploring behavior and mental processes. 13. What is a PhD in psychology? A) Doctor of Philosophy. B) Doctor of Psychology. C) Doctor of Psychiatry. D) Doctor of Psychoanalysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doctor of Psychology. 14. What is an Independent Group Design? A) Where different participants take part in each condition of the independent variable. B) It is an experimental design where different participants are used in each condition of the experiment. C) It is where the participants are matched with another participant in another group so that the results can be compared. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where different participants take part in each condition of the independent variable. 15. ..... coined the term CLASSICAL CONDITIONING while ..... coined the term OPERANT CONDITIONING. A) Ivan Pavlov; B.F. Skinner. B) Albert Bandura; B.F. Skinner. C) B.F. Skinner; Ivan Povlov. D) Albert Bandura; Ivan Polov. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ivan Pavlov; B.F. Skinner. 16. This branch of psychology focuses on how people change and grow throughout life A) Behavioural Psychology. B) Experimental Psychology. C) Developmental Psychology. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developmental Psychology. 17. A researcher presents his participant with a series of flashing lights at varying intervals. After each presentation of a light, he asks the participant to fully describe her internal experiences, a method known as A) Functionalism. B) Introspection. C) Behaviorism. D) Psychoanalysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Introspection. 18. Which of the following is NOT a reason why women are fearful in certain public places A) Older men making advances on women at a younger age. B) Only women in America fear rape. C) Being shamed for going out alone. D) Messaging from parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Only women in America fear rape. 19. Psychosexual development theory was proposed by: A) Sigmund Freud. B) Jean Piaget. C) Erik Erikson. D) Abraham Maslow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sigmund Freud. 20. Crying is an example of what area of development A) Social. B) Emotional. C) Intellectual. D) Physical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional. 21. If a new mother is struggling with post-natal depression, which type of psychologist might she see? A) Health. B) Clinical. C) Counselling. D) Educational. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clinical. 22. Defining abnormality as deviation from normality A) Is accepted by all psychologists. B) Assumes that what most people do is normal. C) Allows abnormal people to adjust to the label. D) Is psychologically unhealthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assumes that what most people do is normal. 23. What was Mary Ainsworth trying to determine when she devised an experimental method called the "strange situation" ? A) The nature of attachment between caretakers and babies. B) Parental discipline styles in the first year of life. C) Aspects of purposeful exploration as the baby investigates a strange environment. D) The nature of gestural communication between mothers and babies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The nature of attachment between caretakers and babies. 24. What can mitigate the effects of genetic predispositions? A) Poor diet. B) Lack of education. C) Genetic mutations. D) A nurturing environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A nurturing environment. 25. Is the process by which infants learn to make sense of the sights, sounds, tastes, & other sensations to which they are exposed ..... A) Physical Development. B) Motor Development. C) Perceptual Development. D) Cognitive Development. 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