MCQ Bank
The approach to personality stresses that people possess a basic goodness, and have a natural
tendency to grow to higher levels of functioning is:
- A) Biological
- B) Humanistic
- C) Cognitive
- D) Social
The notion that a stable, well-maintained state of internal biological balance is required for the proper functioning of the body. This refers to what?
- A) Instinct
- B) Motive
- C) Homeostasis
- D) Drive
Which of the following is the storehouse for facts and general knowledge about the world e.g., historical facts or scientific formula?
- A) Implicit memory
- B) Episodic memory
- C) Procedural memory
- D) Semantic memory
Which of the following operates on the “Reality Principle”?
- A) Id
- B) Archetypes
- C) Ego
- D) Super ego
Which of the following is the most advanced need based on the desire to grow and utilize one’s potential up to the optimal level?
- A) Physiological needs
- B) Safety needs
- C) Self-actualization
- D) Love & Belongingness
Which one of the following processes is not the part of cognition?
- A) Reasoning
- B) Problem solving
- C) Motivation
- D) Thinking
Taking instructions or asking questions for solving puzzles are example of which of the following problem solving technique?
- A) Insight
- B) Heuristics
- C) Sub goals
- D) Means- ends analysis
All of the followings are the types of emotions gave by Mc Dougall EXCEPT:
- A) Primary
- B) Positive
- C) Secondary
- D) Derived
Critical thinking means making judgments about world based on which of the following?
- A) Reason and logical evaluation
- B) Keeping a close mind
- C) Authority and expertise
- D) Emotion
Which of the following motivation from within energizes the person to satisfy or accomplish the goal in which no external tangible reward is involved?
- A) Intrinsic
- B) Curiosity
- C) Extrinsic
- D) Achievement
All of the following can be considered the causes of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon EXCEPT:
- A) Accumulation of pieces of similar and confusing information
- B) Preoccupation
- C) Information overload
- D) Amnesia
Which of the following is a statistical method whereby relationships between a large numbers of variables are summarized into fewer patterns?
- A) Factor analysis
- B) Internal consistency
- C) Q-sort
- D) Devil’s Advocate
All of the following are important for an individual in assessing emotions EXCEPT:
- A) Type of association with that person
- B) Deriving clues from own emotional experiences
- C) Dressing
- D) Acquaintance with the other person
Which of the following is the characteristic feature of achievement motive?
- A) Curiosity
- B) Need for affiliation
- C) Achievement
- D) Need for appraisal
Who among the following gave the Cognitive Appraisal Theory of emotions?
- A) Richard Lazarus
- B) Richard Solomon and John Corbit
- C) Albert Ellis
- D) Cannon-Bard
Mc Dougall divided “Emotions” into three types. Among those, derived emotions are:
- A) Simple emotions
- B) Learn through experiences
- C) Mixture of various instincts
- D) Basic emotions
Memory, intelligence and language are important aspects of:
- A) Motivation
- B) Cognition
- C) Imagination
- D) Emotion
John Jenkins and Karl Dallenbach (1924) were the first ones to experimentally prove the role of _____________ theory of forgetting.
- A) Explicit
- B) Repression
- C) Decay
- D) Interference
Which of the following is not one of the steps involved in emotions according to Magda Arnold cognitive theory?
- A) Perception
- B) Determining emotions
- C) Motivation
- D) Appraisal
Human behavior is determined by the environment. This was proposed by which of the followings?
- A) Humanists
- B) Psychoanalysts
- C) Cognitivists
- D) Behaviorists