MCQ Bank
According to the humanistic approach, ______________ is a state of self-fulfillment in which people realize their optimal potential.
- A) Happiness
- B) Projection
- C) Psychic determinism
- D) Self-actualization
Practicing an intelligence test will improve which of the following?
- A) Your IQ test score
- B) Your intelligence
- C) Your general level of ability
- D) Your ability to a specific intelligence
The study of the agencies under social control that may improve or repair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally is:
- A) Determinism
- B) Eugenics
- C) Intelligence
- D) Heredity
Which one of the following axis of DSM-IV-TR deals with Global Assessment Functioning?
- A) Axis IV
- B) Axis I
- C) Axis III
- D) Axis V
All of the following are correct with reference to super ego, EXCEPT:
- A) Demands of the family and society
- B) Opposes the id and represents the moral
- C) It is the immoral self of and individual
- D) Governed by the moral constraints
Who said that intelligence must be bred, not trained?
- A) Charles Spearman
- B) Thorndike
- C) Francis Darwin
- D) James McKeen Cattell
Who among the following argued that it would be quite practicable to produce a highly gifted race of men by judicious marriages during several consecutive generations?
- A) James McKeen Cattell
- B) Francis Galton
- C) Charles Darwin
- D) Kurt Koffka
Identify the year in which DSM IV was published.
- A) 1994
- B) 1987
- C) 1968
- D) 1980
Tests in which the subject is first shown the stimulus card and then asked as to what the figures represent to them?
- A) Rorschach inkblot test
- B) Word association test
- C) Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
- D) Thematic apperception test
All of the following are basis of Neo-Freudian’s disagreement with Freud EXCEPT:
- A) Their emphasis on the functions of ego, and the control that it had over routine-life activities
- B) Their emphasis on the role of society and culture on personality development
- C) The impact of biological variables
- D) Freud’s idea of the primary importance of sexual urges
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) Fictional traits
- C) Primary traits
- D) Formal traits
Critical thinking means making judgments about world based on which of the following?
- A) Reason and logical evaluation
- B) Authority and expertise
- C) Keeping a close mind
- D) Emotion
Above 115 scores on an IQ test is that an individual is:
- A) Superior
- B) Retarded
- C) Borderline
- D) Average
Two major dimensions of personality i.e. introversion-extroversion and neuroticism-stability are given by:
- A) Hans Eysenck
- B) Gordon Allport
- C) Abraham Maslow
- D) Raymond Cattell
A type of thinking which is aimed at solving problems or creating something new is called:
- A) Autistic thinking
- B) Symbolic thinking
- C) Creative thinking
- D) Directed thinking
Which of the followings are enduring dimensions of personality characteristics that differentiate a person from others?
- A) Archetypes
- B) Traits
- C) Behavior
- D) Persona
The phobia of closed spaces is known as:
- A) Acrophobia
- B) Claustrophobia
- C) Agoraphobia
- D) Aerophobia
Who among the following differentiated between ‘dementia praecox’ (now known as schizophrenia) and depressive psychosis?
- A) Kraepelin
- B) Pinel
- C) Mesmer
- D) Tuke
DSM-IV-TR contains definitions of more than how many mental disorders?
- A) 100
- B) 300
- C) 200
- D) 400
Which of the following can be understood as the typical intelligence level found for people at a given chronological age?
- A) Intelligence Quotient
- B) Intellectual level
- C) Mental age
- D) Emotional Quotient