MCQ Bank
In Allport’s view, which of the following qualities or characteristics that do have an effect on our personality but are much less influential than cardinal or central traits?
- A) Secondary traits
- B) Primary traits
- C) Fictional traits
- D) Formal traits
Mc Dougall divided “Emotions” into three types. Among those, secondary emotions are:
- A) Basic emotions
- B) Mixture of various instincts
- C) Learn through experiences
- D) Simple emotions
In which of the following need a person has a desire to maintain a relationship with other people; making friends, social contact with other people?
- A) Achievement
- B) Need for affiliation
- C) Curiosity
- D) Need for appraisal
Hunger, thirst and sleep are what?
- A) Primary motives
- B) Social motives
- C) Learnt motives
- D) None of the given options
Which of the following hormones are secreted into the blood stream in excessive amounts during strong emotional states such as anger or fear?
- A) Adrenaline and nor adrenaline
- B) Androgens
- C) Thyroid
- D) Estrogens
Which of the followings are examples of a concept that is typical and highly representative of a concept?
- A) Images
- B) Prototypes
- C) Constructs
- D) Ideas
Which of the following type of deductive thinking is largely influenced by cultural backgrounds of people?
- A) Driving
- B) Stitching
- C) Evaluating syllogisms
- D) Cooking
A German psychologist Wolfgang Kohler was one of the first psychologists who observed which of the following phenomenon?
- A) Insight
- B) Trial and error
- C) Deductive reasoning
- D) Inductive Thinking
Secondary motives are also known as:
- A) Emotional motives
- B) Biological motives
- C) Psychosocial motives
- D) Psychological motives
The phenomenon of “Insight” was first introduced by whom?
- A) Wolfgang Kohler
- B) Kurt Kafka
- C) Max Wertheimer
- D) J.B. Watson
The approach that focuses upon the unconscious determinants of personality is:
- A) Humanistic approach
- B) Psychodynamic approach
- C) Behaviorist approach
- D) Cognitive approach
Which of the following refers to inherited automatic species-specific behaviors?
- A) Emotions
- B) Instinct
- C) Drives
- D) Motives
According to Allport, which of the following are those major characteristics that make up the core of someone’s personality?
- A) Cardinal traits
- B) Central traits
- C) Primary traits
- D) Secondary traits
Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer gave which of the following theory of emotion?
- A) Cognitive Labeling/Two Factor Theory
- B) Activation Theory: Lindsley
- C) Cognitive Appraisal Theory
- D) Opponent- Process Theory
All of the followings are the types of problems EXCEPT:
- A) Problems of inducing structures
- B) Artificial problem
- C) Arrangement problems
- D) Transformation problems
Who postulated that dreams have two levels or types of content: manifest content and latent content?
- A) Sigmund Freud
- B) Carl Jung
- C) Alfred Adler
- D) Karen Horney
Amnesia has __________types.
- A) 1
- B) 3
- C) 4
- D) 2
In which of the following diseases memory impairment occurs because of brain damage caused by thiamine deficiency and alcoholism?
- A) Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- B) Korsakoff’s Syndrome
- C) Huntington’s disease
- D) Alzheimer’s disease
Self-actualization is associated with which of the following psychologists?
- A) Freud
- B) Maslow
- C) Cannon
- D) Hull
Which of the following memory impairment occurs because of brain damage caused by thiamine deficiency and alcoholism?
- A) Huntington’s disease (HD)
- B) Alzheimer’s disease
- C) Korsakoff’s Syndrome
- D) Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)