MCQ Bank
People have a tendency to think that others are similar to us. This may happen even when we see someone for the first time. This is an example of which of the following attribution biases?
- A) Assumed similarity bias
- B) The halo effect
- C) The fundamental attribution
- D) Societal and environmental biasness
Which of the following is a technique used as a written contract between the client and the therapist, specifying all goal-behaviors as well as consequences?
- A) Systematic desensitization
- B) Aversive therapy
- C) Token Economy
- D) Contingency Contracting
When our initial perception about a person is positive then we tend to expect that same person has other positive characteristics too is known as ___________.
- A) Halo effect
- B) Positive effect
- C) Social influence
- D) Hello effect
Which of the following is incorrect with reference to Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy?
- A) Focused on altering the irrational beliefs into more acceptable way
- B) A written contract between a client and therapist
- C) Clients are forbidden to use “should”, “must”,” ought” etc.
- D) Developed by Albert Ellis
In ABC model, ‘C’ refers to which of the following?
- A) Cognition component
- B) Conversational component
- C) Conversion component
- D) Conservative component
Which of the following branch of psychology concerned with how people’s thoughts, feelings and actions are affected by others?
- A) Educational
- B) Social
- C) Health
- D) Industrial
All of the following are important techniques of behavior therapy EXCEPT:
- A) Systematic desensitization
- B) Aversive therapy
- C) Flooding and implosive therapy
- D) Analysis of resistance
Which of the following therapy involves members of the family for finding solutions to problems?
- A) Psychoanalysis
- B) Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
- C) Family therapy
- D) Group therapy
Name the concept when there is a feeling of integration between the self and ideal self.
- A) Empathy
- B) Congruence
- C) Respect
- D) Genuineness
Which of the following is a process through which people’s attitudes are changed?
- A) Cognition
- B) Perception
- C) Acquisition
- D) Persuasion
How many divisions APA has?
- A) 55
- B) 56
- C) 57
- D) 58
APA is an abbreviation of ___________.
- A) American psychological association
- B) Albania psychological association
- C) American publication association
- D) Australian psychological association
Humanistic approach emphasizes on all of the followings EXCEPT:
- A) Capacity for personal growth
- B) Potential for self-fulfillment
- C) Observable behavior
- D) Intrinsic worth
Which of the following is a technique used in behavior therapy in which a stimulus that generates pleasant feeling is repeatedly paired with the anxiety provoking stimulus in hope to alleviate?
- A) Aversive therapy
- B) Systematic desensitization
- C) Free association
- D) Flooding and implosive
Which of the following therapy focuses on a form of therapy in which people discuss problems and difficulties with the group members?
- A) Directive therapy
- B) Group therapy
- C) Family therapy
- D) Psychoanalysis
Carl Rogers is best known for his contributions to therapy known as:
- A) Directive therapy
- B) Psychoanalysis
- C) Family therapy
- D) Client- centered therapy
According to Freud, the content of dreams the patient describes about the dream and its surface interpretation is:
- A) Plain content
- B) Evident content
- C) Manifest content
- D) Latent content
People have a tendency to attribute the behavior of other people to dispositional causes; they give less importance to the situational causes. . This is an example of which of the following attribution biases?
- A) Assumed similarity bias
- B) Societal and environmental biasness
- C) The fundamental attribution error
- D) The halo effect
Which of the following technique used to kept patient in a comfortable position and asked to talk aloud and say whatever comes to his mind without considering whether or not it is relevant?
- A) Interpretation
- B) Dream analysis
- C) Free association
- D) Transference
The conflict arises when an individual holds two contradictory cognitions i.e., attitudes or thoughts refers to which of the following?
- A) The fundamental attribution
- B) Cognitive dissonance
- C) Assumed similarity bias
- D) The halo effect