MCQ Bank
Which of the following states that learned expectations which one is capable of performing a certain behavior, or producing a desired outcome?
- A) Self-esteem
- B) Self-concept
- C) Self-efficacy
- D) Self-realization
The notion that motivational state of the organism is understood and explained in terms of positive or negative environmental stimuli BEST connects to:
- A) Arousal Approaches
- B) Incentive Approaches
- C) Drive-reduction Approaches
- D) Instinct Approaches
According to Freud, the part that cannot be accessed directly, although impulses, ideas, and feelings may permeate out through other sources e.g. dreams, slips of tongue:
- A) Unconscious
- B) Sub-conscious
- C) Preconscious
- D) Conscious
Concepts that have unique sets of traits and features, easy to define and elaborate are known as what?
- A) Prototype concepts
- B) Prolonged concepts
- C) Artificial concepts
- D) Natural concepts
Who among the following gave the Cognitive Appraisal Theory of emotions?
- A) Richard Solomon and John Corbit
- B) Albert Ellis
- C) Richard Lazarus
- D) Cannon-Bard
Which of the following type of deductive thinking is largely influenced by cultural backgrounds of people?
- A) Driving
- B) Cooking
- C) Evaluating syllogisms
- D) Stitching
Which of the following is the capacity to think about the certain phenomena in its most typical use or form?
- A) Functional fixedness
- B) Deductive reasoning
- C) Problem solving
- D) Inductive reasoning
Which one of the following is not the synonym of primary motives?
- A) Learnt
- B) Biological
- C) Physiological
- D) Unlearnt
All of the followings are the types of problems EXCEPT:
- A) Artificial problem
- B) Arrangement problems
- C) Transformation problems
- D) Problems of inducing structures
Which part of the nervous system arouses us for defensive action?
- A) Parasympathetic Nervous System
- B) Cerebral cortex
- C) Sympathetic Nervous System
- D) Limbic system
Which of the following refers to a detailed and vivid memory that is stored on one occasion and retained for a lifetime e.g. an interview room, an accident, first day at class?
- A) Semantic memory
- B) Procedural memory
- C) Flashbulb memory
- D) Implicit memory
The approach to personality that emphasizes upon the significance of biological variables and inherited personality characteristics is:
- A) Moral
- B) Social
- C) Cognitive
- D) Biological
The rate at which food converts into energy and then is expended by the body is known as what?
- A) Oxytocin
- B) Calcitonin
- C) Metabolism
- D) Deuteranopia
Ahmad has a childhood fear of bleeding which hinders his performance of becoming a doctor. This refers to which of the following type of memory?
- A) Explicit memory
- B) Working memory
- C) Implicit memory
- D) Associative memory
All of the following can be considered the causes of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon EXCEPT:
- A) Amnesia
- B) Preoccupation
- C) Accumulation of pieces of similar and confusing information
- D) Information overload
Emotional wheel belongs to:
- A) Mc Dougall
- B) Freud
- C) Watson
- D) Plutchik
J.B.Watson talked about ______________ main emotions.
- A) Five
- B) One
- C) Two
- D) Three
The phenomenon of “Insight” was first introduced by whom?
- A) J.B. Watson
- B) Kurt Kafka
- C) Wolfgang Kohler
- D) Max Wertheimer
Which of the following theories posited that thalamus played the most important role in emotions?
- A) Schachter- Singer theory of emotions
- B) James- Lange theory of emotions
- C) Cannon- Bard theory of emotions
- D) Cognitive Labeling Theory
Which of the following part of the brain concerned with hunger and operates on it by regulating its activity?
- A) Cortex
- B) Pia matter
- C) Thalamus
- D) Hypothalamus