MCQ Bank
In which of the following age, the process of trephining for treating mental disorders was used to perform this procedure?
- A) Stone age
- B) Islamic age
- C) Middle age
- D) Ancient age
Which of the following period lasted from the fall of the Roman Empire in 5th century AD till the 15th century?
- A) The islamic world
- B) Ancient times
- C) Europe
- D) Middle ages
Identify a particular label that usually psychologists’ assign, when a child’s IQ is more then 140.
- A) Gifted
- B) Boarder line
- C) Superior
- D) Retarded
Tying shoelaces, riding a bicycle, swimming, and hitting a football are examples of ______________.
- A) Procedural memory
- B) Semantic memory
- C) Declarative memory
- D) Episodic memory
Who postulated that dreams have two levels or types of content: manifest content and latent content?
- A) Sigmund Freud
- B) Alfred Adler
- C) Karen Horney
- D) Carl Jung
All of the followings are included in Lateral thinking EXCEPT:
- A) Considers the irrelevant
- B) Progresses by avoiding the obvious
- C) Finds what is right: seeks “yes” or “no” justifications
- D) Avoids looking for what is “right” or” wrong”.
We may not necessarily understand their logical basis but ____________ are always accurate.
- A) Algorithms
- B) Heuristics
- C) Inductive reasoning
- D) Deductive reasoning
Memory for information pertaining to life events, episodes and biographical details is known as:
- A) Episodic memory
- B) Implicit memory
- C) Semantic Memory
- D) Procedural memory
Problems that require understanding and that should be solved in a manner that involves series of methods so that the initial problematic state can be changed into the goal attaining state are known as:
- A) Agreement problems
- B) Arrangement problems
- C) Transformation problems
- D) Problems of inducing structures
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) Achievement
- C) Curiosity
- D) Extrinsic
Secondary motives are also known as:
- A) Psychological motives
- B) Emotional motives
- C) Biological motives
- D) Psychosocial motives
Which of the following disease refers to a progressive loss of memory including effect on person’s language and recognition of people?
- A) Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- B) Korsakoff’s Syndrome
- C) Huntington’s disease (HD)
- D) Alzheimer’s disease
Mc Dougall divided “Emotions” into how many types?
- A) Three
- B) One
- C) Two
- D) Five
Which statement is true about Flashbulb memories?
- A) Usually concern events that clear and vivid as a snapshot
- B) Are not subject to periodic revision
- C) Are almost always highly accurate
- D) Usually concern events from early childhood
Which of the following is not one of the steps involved in emotions according to Magda Arnold cognitive theory?
- A) Determining emotions
- B) Motivation
- C) Appraisal
- D) Perception
While talking about Eysenck’s Dimensions of Personality, moody, touchy and anxious people are:
- A) Extrovert
- B) Introvert
- C) Neurotics
- D) Stable
Which of the following is a statistical method whereby relationships between a large numbers of variables are summarized into fewer patterns?
- A) Q-sort
- B) Factor analysis
- C) Devil’s Advocate
- D) Internal consistency
General knowledge, language, and concepts are seen as parts of which of the following?
- A) Episodic memory
- B) Declarative memories
- C) Semantic memory
- D) Procedural memories
Which one of the following processes is not the part of cognition?
- A) Reasoning
- B) Thinking
- C) Problem solving
- D) Motivation
______ is synonymous with short-term memory.
- A) Working memory
- B) Sensory registers
- C) Secondary memory
- D) Shadow memory