This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 38 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which psychological field focuses on the relationship between behavior and the environment? A) Behavioral Psychology. B) Cognitive Psychology. C) Social Psychology. D) Clinical Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavioral Psychology. 2. Which describes a health psychologist? A) Studies effects of health problems on behavior. B) Studies the nervous system, sensation, motivation, emotion, memory, and thoughts. C) Looks at an individual's thoughts, behaviors, and feelings in social situations. D) Compares the behaviors of different species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Studies effects of health problems on behavior. 3. The term critical period refers to: A) Prenatal development. B) The initial two hours after a child's birth. C) The preoperational stage. D) A restricted time for development and/or learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A restricted time for development and/or learning. 4. The Car Crash Experiment examines people's schemas for different: A) Audible Sounds. B) Descriptive Words. C) Physical Feelings. D) Life Stressors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Descriptive Words. 5. The 2 developmental theories are? A) Theory of cognitive development social cognitive theory. B) Human development theory brain change theory. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theory of cognitive development social cognitive theory. 6. What is the sequence that Humanistic Psychology suggests for a fulfilling life? A) DO-BE-HAVE. B) BE-DO-HAVE. C) DO-HAVE-BE. D) HAVE-DO-BE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BE-DO-HAVE. 7. In a normal distribution of scores, approximately what percentage of all scores will occur within 1 standard deviation of the mean? A) 34. B) 68. C) 95. D) 97.5. E) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 68. 8. Which of the following is not the components of Professional competence A) Knowledge. B) Skills. C) Diligence. D) Communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Communication. 9. Focuses on how to help human beings prosper and lead healthy, happy lives (increase well-being) A) Developmental Psychology. B) Biological Psychology. C) Positive Psychology. D) Abnormal Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive Psychology. 10. Manuel is extremely shy and is so easily embarrassed when he is with other people that he often misses his college classes just to avoid social interactions. Manuel appears to suffer from a(n) A) Dissociative disorder. B) Dysthymic disorder. C) Antisocial personality disorder. D) Social anxiety disorder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social anxiety disorder. 11. Stresses the human capacity for self-fulfillment and the importance of consciousness, self-awareness, and the capacity to make choices. A) Biological Perspective. B) Evolutionary Perspective. C) Cognitive Perspective. D) Humanistic Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humanistic Perspective. 12. When you hold two or more conflicting ideas in your mind or act in ways that conflict with each other. A) Implicit bias. B) Cognitive dissonance. C) Confirmation bias. D) Mere exposure effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognitive dissonance. 13. ..... development happens gradually over a long period oftime. A) Continuous. B) Stage. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continuous. 14. All of the following psychologists studied some form of development except: A) Kohlberg. B) Freud. C) Piaget. D) Clark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clark. 15. Which describes a personality psychologist? A) Helps with psychological adjustments, works in clinics & hospitals, defeating behavior. B) Studies behavior of shoppers, predict and influence consumer behavior. C) Studies people across different cultures and how they influence behavior. D) Measures the traits & determines how they influence behavior and the thought process. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Measures the traits & determines how they influence behavior and the thought process. 16. Inability to see another person's point of view, one dimensional thinking A) Animism. B) Egocentric. C) Maturation. D) Assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Egocentric. 17. ..... involves random allocation of participants into groups and a comparison b/w these groups. A) Repeated measures design. B) Matched pair design. C) Independent measures design. D) Correlational measures design. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Independent measures design. 18. What demonstrates causation in an experiment? A) A hypothesis that succesfully predicts the outcome. B) Operationalization of independent and dependent variables. C) A manipulation of 1 variable that always leads to predicted changes in another. D) A positive correlation between the variables. E) Succesful manipulation of the way a subject responds to some aspect of the experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A manipulation of 1 variable that always leads to predicted changes in another. 19. Research design in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the experimental group and who is in control group. A) Single blind study. B) Case study. C) Double blind study. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Double blind study. 20. Developmental psychology is concerned with the study of how people grow, develop and change throughout their life. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 21. Which of these cognitive factors can slow down language learning in adults? A) Mature cognitive skills. B) Working memory and short-term memory. C) Faster processing speed. D) Emotional intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Working memory and short-term memory. 22. What types of Quantitative research is there? A) None. B) Only experimental. C) Only Correlational. D) Experimental, Correlational, Descriptive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Experimental, Correlational, Descriptive. 23. Priming refers to: A) The sense that one has been in a particular situation before. B) Better recall for experiences that are consistent with one's current mood. C) Attributing a memory to an erroneous source. D) The activation of associations in memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The activation of associations in memory. 24. This is a self-correcting process for asking questions and observing nature's answer. A) The observational method. B) The theory method. C) The scientific method. D) The hypothetical method. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The scientific method. 25. Which of the following is a reason to study psychology? A) To understand why people do the things they do (mental process). B) To learn a new language. C) To improve artistic skills. D) To gain knowledge about astronomy. 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