This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 30 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is perceptual organization in psychology? A) The process by which our brain ignores sensory information. B) The process by which our brain creates sensory information. C) The process by which our brain forgets sensory information. D) The process by which our brain organizes and makes sense of sensory information. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The process by which our brain organizes and makes sense of sensory information. 2. Which describes a cross-cultural psychologist? A) Studies people across different cultures and how they influence behavior. B) Measures the traits & determines how they influence behavior and the thought process. C) Treats soldiers with mental illness or emotional distress. D) Studies behavior of shoppers, predict and influence consumer behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Studies people across different cultures and how they influence behavior. 3. All of the following are American Psychological Association ethical guidelines for researchers EXCEPT: A) Participation must be voluntary. B) Participants must be offered alternative activities if research participation is a course requirement. C) Research may not involve deception. D) Participants must be informed of potential risks. E) Participants' right to privacy must be protected. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Research may not involve deception. 4. Which of the following is true about eyewitnesses? A) They are best at identifying suspects of their own race. B) They are best at identifying suspects of a different race. C) They are best at identifying suspects when they are scared and threatened. D) They are best at identifying suspects when they are in an unfamiliar location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are best at identifying suspects of their own race. 5. The electrical signal that travels down an axon is called? A) Axon potential. B) Action potential. C) Axon terminal. D) Action terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Action potential. 6. The average score within a group of scores, calculated by adding all of the scores and then dividing by the number of scores is the ..... A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Standard deviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 7. Which branch studies how behavior and thoughts are related to physical health? A) Environmental. B) Behavior. C) Biopsychology. D) Health. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Health. 8. Identification is A) Going along with the majority even though we privately do not agree. B) Going along with the majority because we dont know how to behave in situation. C) Temporarily adopting the behaviours of a role model. D) Loss of personal self awareness as a result of being in a group. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temporarily adopting the behaviours of a role model. 9. Health Psychology explains how social factors does not influence our choices about our health A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. Which describes a human factor psychologist? A) Studies people in fields such as business. B) Studies technical systems to make more user-friendly things. C) Focuses on the instructional methods. D) Studies the law and criminal justice system and how it applies to psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Studies technical systems to make more user-friendly things. 11. An ethical question is one about what is ..... (best answer) A) Costs the most or least. B) Wrong or right. C) Easiest versus hardest. D) Most beneficial to the most people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrong or right. 12. During which of Piaget's stages would the individual begin to look at the world through a view without egocentrism? A) Sensorimotor stage. B) Preoperational stage. C) Concrete operational stage. D) Formal operations stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete operational stage. 13. What are neurons responsible for? A) Communicating through electrical impulses and neurotransmitters. B) Digesting food. C) Pumping blood. D) Filtering waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communicating through electrical impulses and neurotransmitters. 14. After George learned that Mrs. Min suffered from schizophrenia, he mistakenly concluded that her tendencies to laugh easily and smile frequently were symptoms of her disorder. This best illustrates the A) Unreliability of DSM-5. B) Shortcomings of the medical model. C) Biasing power of diagnostic labels. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biasing power of diagnostic labels. 15. An approach to abnormal psychology that emphasizes physiologically based causative factors, such as the amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease, and consequently tends to focus primarily upon physiological therapies. A) Clinical. B) Cognitive. C) Experimental. D) Biological. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biological. 16. Studied children to learn more about developing minds A) Margaret Floy Washburn. B) Socrates. C) Wilhelm Wundt. D) Jean Piaget. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jean Piaget. 17. What did the results of John B. Watson's "Little Albert" experiment show? A) Emotions can be conditioned. B) Children can learn behaviors through observation and imitation. C) Children cannot effectively be trained using classical conditioning until they are at least 4 years old. D) There are major biological constraints on what can be learned. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotions can be conditioned. 18. What is the definition of behavior? A) The manner of acting. B) The manner of thinking. C) The manner of speaking. D) The manner of dressing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The manner of acting. 19. Rene Descartes introduced the idea of ..... A) Introspection. B) Behaviorism. C) Dualism. D) Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dualism. 20. A psychologist did an experiment to see if different teaching methods affected people's scores on a math test. In this example, scores would be the ..... variable. A) Independent. B) Dependent. C) Extraneous. D) Random. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent. 21. What is a psychologist? A) A scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals. B) A medical doctor who prescribes medicine. C) A professional who treats physical injuries. D) A person who studies the environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals. 22. The study and application of how the brain learns and the study of mental processes like thinking, knowing and remembering refers to which school of thought? A) Cognitive Psychology. B) Behavioral Psychology. C) Social Learning Theory. D) Operant Conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cognitive Psychology. 23. ''Conformity is a change in a person's opinions or behaviour as a result of real or imagined pressure from a person or a group of people" A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. *HistoricalBaby Biographies: A) Charles Darwin. B) G. Stanley Hall. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Darwin. 25. Approach that believes people are influenced by consequences, in the form of reinforcement and punishment. A) Humanism. B) Cognitive. C) Behaviorism. D) Psychoanalytic. 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