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AN ASSIGNMENT ON MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

(PSYCHOLOGY)

SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY Mr. JAI KISHAN (Lecturer) Roll No. 16 C lass 7TH Sem. INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES ANU NAIN

(KUK)

CONTENTS
Chapter No.
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Title
Personality Motivation & Emotion Perception Learning Sensation

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CHAPTER -1 PERSONALITY

Personality

1. Id is to "Just do it" as superego is to a. "Wait till later." b. "Do your own thing." c. "Don't do it." d. "Oh, sit on it." ANSWER: C 2. The unconscious contains a. material that can easily be brought to awareness. b. everything we are aware of at a given moment. c. repressed memories and emotions. d. thoughts, perceptions, and memories. ANSWER: C 3. The concept of traits is used to account for personal characteristics that are a. biologically determined. b. relatively permanent and enduring. c. situation specific. d. shared by a group. ANSWER: B

4. Which of the following is an unconscious personality structure made up of biological urges seeking fulfillment? a. Ego b. Id c. Superego d. Subconscious ANSWER: B

5 To understand personality, trait theorists attempt to a. create traits that fit people. b. increase the number of basic traits that have been identified. c. classify traits and discover how they are related to behavior. d. reduce the common traits to measures of temperament. ANSWER: C 6. According to Freud, the energy from life instincts that drives personality is called the a. ego. b. libido. c. life force. d. eros. ANSWER: B

7 According to Freud, the id is governed by the . a. pleasure principle. b. reality principle. c. ego ideal.

CHAPTER -2 MOTIVATION & EMOTION

Motivation and Emotion

1. You and a friend play three hours of racquetball. Afterwards, you are most likely to prefer a. plain water. b. a slightly salty liquid. c. a beverage containing some alcohol. d. milk. ANSWER: B 2. Which is a cause of anorexia? a. sibling rivalry b. an overly realistic view of normal size c. food allergies d. Perfectionism ANSWER: D

3. People from different cultures can recognize which facial expressions? a. Fear b. Anger c. Disgust d. all of these ANSWER: D

4. Kinesics refers to the study of a. body language. b. emotional expression. c. ANS arousal during emotional states. d. emotional expression in animals and humans. ANSWER: A 5. Stimulus motives are a. needs that are learned, such as the needs for power or for achievement. b. innate but not necessary for survival. c. not innate but necessary for survival. d. innate and necessary for survival. ANSWER: B

6. The polygraph or "lie detector" primarily measures which component of emotion? a. Attribution b. emotional expression c. physiological arousal

47. Buford complains that he can play his tuba beautifully at home, but each time he tries to play at the local talent show he sounds like a bull elk in rutting season. His problem is explained by a. the Yerkes-Dodson Law. b. the effects of homeostasis. c. habituation. d. biorhythms. ANSWER: A 48. Which is a cause of anorexia? a. sibling rivalry b. an overly realistic view of normal size c. food allergies d. perfectionism ANSWER: D 49. At the highest levels of arousal, a. the individual becomes emotional, frenzied, and disorganized. b. only biological needs can be met. c. performance on the most complex tasks improves. d. intellectual products exhibit great creativity. ANSWER: A 50. According to the Cannon-Bard theory, a. the thalamus plays a central role in producing emotions. b. the cerebellum must give the go-ahead for emotion. c. activity in the occipital and parietal lobes happens simultaneously to produce emotion. d. the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work in concert. ANSWER: A

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CHAPTER -3 PERCEPTION

Perception

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1. Internal standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as a. adaptation level. b. context. c. intuition. d. frames of reference. ANSWER: D 2. Illusions are a. distortions of existing stimuli. b. the same as hallucinations. c. the result of innate mechanisms. d. not based on external reality. ANSWER: A 3. An industrial psychologist interested in human factors would most likely participate in a. the collection of bio data. b. vocational interest testing. c. an assessment center evaluation. d. machine design. ANSWER: D 4. The fact that we can walk and chew gum at the same time illustrates that a. our attention depends on different motor systems. b. we use selective attention. c. we use divided attention. d. we use sequential attention. ANSWER: C 5. You are sitting in the pit area at the Indianapolis 500. You closely watch one of the cars whiz around on the track in front of the seething mass of humanity crammed into the stands. You have organized this visual scene such that the race car is __________ and the people and the stands are __________. a. figure; ground b. ground; figure c. figure; common region d. common region; camouflage ANSWER: A

6. The fact that objects that are near each other tend to be grouped together is known as a. closure. b. continuation. c. similarity. d. nearness. ANSWER: D

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CHAPTER-4 LEARNING

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Learning

1. In __________ reinforcement, the reinforcer follows every correct response. a. Intermittent b. Partial c. Negative d. Continuous ANSWER: D 2. In Pavlov's experiments with dogs, salivation was the a. conditioned response. b. unconditioned stimulus. c. conditioned stimulus. d. unconditioned response. ANSWER: D

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3 In Thorndike's law of effect, events critical for conditioning . a. occur after the response. b. occur before the response. c. occur simultaneously with the response. d. are unrelated to the response except during extinction. ANSWER: A 4. If you have a snake phobia because you once heard a loud noise while looking at a snake, for you a snake is a(n) a. US. b. CS. c. UR. d. CR. ANSWER: B 5. A series of responses that gradually approach a desired pattern of behavior are called a. adaptations. b. gradients. c. successive approximations. d. conditioning trials. ANSWER: C

6. If the conditioned stimulus is presented many times without reinforcement, we can expect a. an increase in stimulus generalization. b. the strength of the UR to increase. c. an increase in response generalization. d. extinction to occur. ANSWER: D

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CHAPTER-5 SENSATION

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Sensation

1. In bright light, the iris __________ and the pupil __________ to control the amount of light entering the eye. 17 a. expands; constricts b. constricts; expands c. focuses; constricts d. constricts; focuses ANSWER: A 2. Information picked up by the body's receptor cells is termed a. cognition b. perception. c. adaptation. d. sensation. ANSWER: D 3. The function of the lens is to a. locate an image. b. focus an image on the retina. c. combine the location and projection on the blind spot. d. project an image on the cornea. ANSWER: B 4. Hearing aids are of no use to an individual with __________ deafness. a. ossicle b. nerve c. conduction d. auditory ANSWER: B

5. Seeing out of the corner of your eye, often important in sports activities and driving, is called a. tunnel vision. b. peripheral vision. c. astigmatism. d. feature detection. ANSWER: B

6. Brain cells that analyze incoming sensory information into lines, angles, shading, and movement are called a. sight cells. b. second stage sensors. c. feature detectors. d. vision neurons. ANSWER: C