MCQs of Psychology – Miscellaneous

Which of the following contains the instructions for the production of proteins in your body?

All of the following are structures of the limbic system EXCEPT

Which lobe is reasonable for sensation and spatial ability?

The motor cortex lies in which lobe?

Wernicke’s area is responsible for:

The brainstem consist mainly of the

The limbic system is responsible for

There is more somato-sensory cortex for the

An innovative scanning technique that uses magnetic to visualize brain activity is called

The brain structure that controls unconscious but essential functions such as breathing and circulation is the

Imprinting, habituation, conditioned reflex type I and conditioned reflex type II are example of:

Which of the following is important for animals with short life spans and with little or no parental care?

The behaviour that involves the pairing of an irrrelevant stimulus within:

A relatively simple part of stimulus configuration is termed:

When you are walking, the brain sends messages to the skeletal muscles in the legs by way of

Who developed the theory of drive reduction?

Who placed more emphasis on the innate desire for self-fulfillment and a saving for superiority?

A postconventional level of morality is most likely to be found in cultures that value:

Who is a structuralist?

Who suggested that back people were over represented in special needs?

who said back people who do badly at school do so because they are socially deprived?

What innate human faculty allow natural man to discover how to escape the state of nature?

What is the theory called that suggest that tension exists when individuals hold incompatible thoughts?

Instructing employees on specific parts of the job that they may not have experience with is called

Where do most qualified job applicants come from?

The job Content Questionaire includes all of the following subscales except:

Which of the following is not one of the three major concentrations of I-O psychology?

Motivation, stress, leadership, and teamwork are addressed by:

The Hawthorne studies were used to examine the effects of:

All of the following are aspects of organizational citizenship behavior except:

Whose theory of ‘cognitive dissonance’ received acclaim in the ’60’s?

For Kohlberg, the development of morality primarily involves

Which one of the following is correctly matched?

A psychologist interested in knowing how young children think while learning ‘how to play games’, is a (an)

Perceptual schema is

Beatrice and Allen Gardner taught the chimpanzee Washoe to communicate by means of:

Prohibiting gestures disrupts speech_______content.

Which of the following might serve as a secondary reinforcer?

A term coach who benches a player for poor performance is using

Stimulus motives are:

The poly graph or “lie detector” primarily measures which component of emotion?

The chief antidote for test anxiety is

Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average.This belief best illustrates:

Thinking that moves from specific cases to general principles is

Which profession is cognitive psychology particularly useful in helping?

What do cognitive psychologists compare the mind to?

Levonne was careful to avoid the use of dangling participles and run-on sentences in her essay because she did not want to lose points for faulty:

The mobilization of the body for action when an individual is faced with a stressful situation is known as

Which form of therapy is most likely to be criticized for being too expensive and time-consuming?

Which of the following is not popularly presumed to have had AD/HD?

The DSM-IV defines three types of AD/HD

How would you know when a depressed person is contemplating suicide?

Which of the following is an example of apotemnophilia?

Which is a possible pradigm to explain apotemnophilia?

Who coined the term “apotemnophilia”?

What is the slang term for a person with apotemnophilia?

Bipolar disorder develops at least once in the lifetime of approximately what percent of the population?

Which of the following celebrities did not have Bipolar Disorder?

Which of these drugs is not used to combat either mania, depression, or bipolar disorder?

Which of these drugs is used to treat seasonal allergic rhinits?

Who do anxiety disorders most commonly afflict?

Electroconvulsive therapy has proven to be effective in the treatment of:

Psychopharmacotherapy involves the treatment of mental disorders with:

The most commonly co-occuring disorder along with PTSD is

What is the most commonly desired amputation?

Which out of the five most common anxiety disorders, is the most frequently diagnosed?

Systematic desensitization involves the use of:

Which of these would be considered a negative symptom of schizophrenia?

What is the name for a partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement?

If a person is experiencing akathisia,what are they unable to do?

What are the frightening, terrifying and repetitive thoughts that an OCD sufferer cannot get out of his or her head called?

What is the most common medication for temporary relief of panic attacks?

Which of the below would NOT be considered a symptom of OCD?

What is the bipolar disorder also commonly called?

All but this common drug trade name are used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia:

A person with a severe form of antisocial personality disorder can be classified as which of the following?

Aggression and violent conduct can be best predicted by:

The second stage in the development of violent behavior includes:

The qualities of successful rehabilitation programs to treat offenders include:

Our levels of fear may be influenced by:

Which of the following sources provide information about crime in society?

Phallometry is:

The legal definition of rape now includes:

The illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession is called:

Which school of painting applied the theory of feature analysis to canvas by building figures out of simple features?

What is it called when light rays impact our visual system?

The tendency to see all the individual spokes in a bicycle wheel as part of a larger single unit best illustrates the principle of:

The influence of schemas on our interpretations of ambiguous sensations best illustrates:

The collection of rod and cone receptors that funnel signals to a particular visual cell in the retina make up that cell’s

The study of phenomena such as claivoyance and telepathy is called:

The organizational principles identified by Gestalt psychologists best illustrate the importance of:

The visual perceived distance between ourselves and an object provides an important cue for our perception of the objects:

Which stimulus is closer to the observer?

Weber’s law state that the just Noticeable Difference between stimuli is a (n):

All of the following are parts of the eye human EXCEPT:

Which part of the eye acts like the film in a camera?

The process where the lens of the eye changes shape is called:

Internal standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as:

The fact that we can walk and chew gum at the same time illustrates that:

The fact that objects that are near each other tend to be grouped together is known as:

Closure, nearness, similarity, and continguation are categories of:

The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called:

The tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape, color, or form is known as:

Receptors for the kinesthetic sense are found in the:

We often a series of dots on a printed form as a “solid” line because of the Gestalt principle of:

Almost half the birds in the yard were brown cardinals and the rest were bright red cardinals, so jimmy perceived them as two distinct groups of birds. This best illustrates the principle of:

Which of the following is a cue used by artists to convey depth on a flat canvas?

The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates the importance of:

The volley principle is most directly revelant to our perception of:

The sense associated with the perception of smell is:

The sense associated with the perception of taste is referred to as the:

In the above diagram, the part of the eye labeled #3 is the:

Where there is a conflict between bits of information received by two or more senses, which sense tends to dominate the others?

The cocktail party effect provides an example of:

Which eye structure is responsible for dark adaptation?

Which of the following is the psychological dimension that captures the purity and vividness of color?

The fact that we tend to see stars in the sky as constellations to the Gestalt principle of:

Information picked up by the body’s receptor cells is termed:

Information processed below the normal level of awareness is called:

A postconventional level of morality is most likely to be found in cultures that value:

Comparative psychologists are primarily interested in:

Which of the following considered by the text to be a pseudo-psychology?

Behaviorism helped make psychology a:

Comparative psychologists are primarily interested in:

Which area in psychology would be most likely to study the phenomenon of “peer influence”?

When someone does something for you, you should do something for that person, This is known as the:

People are likely to discount information that is inconsistent with their stereotyped beliefs.This can cause a:

One way to reverse prejudice as shown in the Robber’s Cave experiment is to:

Parents in Westernized cultures are more likely than parents in Asian cultures to encourage children to value:

The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank is called:

The sociological perspective always focuses on:

When we think about culture in our lives and in research we often highlight the:

Life-threatening weight loss due to self-inflicted starvation is called:

What is a major problem experienced by those researching deviance?

Durkheim used the multivariate approach to write a pioneering and influential analysis of:

What is the first step in the scientific method?

Which of the following is the main problem with pseudo-surveys?

Diffusionist approach is Associated with which Sociologist

Psychological approach is associated with which Sociologist:

Dependency theory approach is associated with which Sociologist:

All of the following are motivations for prosocial behavior EXCEPT:

A behavioral guideline for a specific setting is a (n):

The tendency for people to adopt the behavior and opinions of other group members is known as:

What kind of aggression is produced in reaction to situations and is emotion driven?

Social position in a group determines one’s:

Prejudice based on displaced aggression represents a form of:

All of the following are components of attitudes EXCEPT:

A positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, or ideas is known as a (n)

Parsuassion will be more likely if it is:

The state of conflict someone experiences after making a decision is known as:

Who is commonly recognized as the father of modern sociology?

The systematic study of social behavior and human groups is called:

The sociology is derived from two words? Identify.

The highest form of learning is:

A neural impulse is initiated when a neuron’s charge momentarily becomes less negative, or even positive.This event is called:

Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:

Alternations in activity at dopamine synapses have been implicated in the development of:

Sounds presented to the right ear are registered:

The outward appearance and repertory of behaviors of an organism is known as the

The DSM stands for

Which disorder has been called “the common cold of mental illness”?

There is a correlation between the incidence of depression and the:

The psycho dynamic explanation of depression is: