MCQ Bank
During strong emotional states such as anger or fear, excessive amounts of which of the following hormone(s) are secreted?
- A) Adrenaline and nor adrenaline
- B) Estrogens
- C) Endorphin
- D) Adrenocorticotropic
While talking about Eysenck’s Dimensions of Personality, moody, touchy and anxious people are:
- A) Extrovert
- B) Neurotics
- C) Stable
- D) Introvert
Which one of the following is not the synonym of primary motives?
- A) Learnt
- B) Biological
- C) Physiological
- D) Unlearnt
Secondary motives are also called:
- A) Physiological motives
- B) Unlearnt motives
- C) Biological motives
- D) Psycho-social motives
Which of the following model is also known as “Sequential model”?
- A) Magda Arnold’s Cognitive Theory
- B) Opponent- Process Theory
- C) Cannon- Bard Theory of Emotions
- D) Activation Theory
According to which of the following theory, physiological changes create specific sensations and our brain interprets these sensations as different emotions?
- A) Activation Theory
- B) Cannon- Bard Theory of Emotions
- C) Opponent- Process Theory
- D) James- Lange Theory of Emotions
Amnesia, Dementia and Alzheimer’s diseases are the disorders of which of the following?
- A) Motivation
- B) Personality
- C) Memory
- D) Learning
According to the humanistic approach, ______________ is a state of self-fulfillment in which people realize their optimal potential.
- A) Self-actualization
- B) Happiness
- C) Projection
- D) Psychic determinism
While talking about Eysenck’s Dimensions of Personality, outgoing, sociable and active people are:
- A) Introvert
- B) Extrovert
- C) Neurotics
- D) Stable
Galvanic skin response; in combination with the respiration and blood pressure is used for:
- A) Virus detection
- B) Measuring sugar in blood
- C) Antibodies detection
- D) Lie detection
Which of the following refers to an arousal or motivational tension that provides energy for action or behavior?
- A) Stimulus
- B) Behavior
- C) Drive
- D) Motive
Which statement is true about Flashbulb memories?
- A) Are not subject to periodic revision
- B) Usually concern events from early childhood
- C) Are almost always highly accurate
- D) Usually concern events that clear and vivid as a snapshot
Which of the following activity doesn’t involve thinking?
- A) Finding facts and exploring reality
- B) Seeking answers to questions
- C) Reflex actions in sudden conditions
- D) Problem solving
Which of the following theory of forgetting states that stored information decays and is disintegrated with the passage of time?
- A) Repression
- B) Decay
- C) Explicit
- D) Interference
Darwin was the first person to identify:
- A) Pupillometrics
- B) Galvanic skin response
- C) Changes in blood pressure
- D) Changes in blood pressure
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) Primary traits
- C) Fictional traits
- D) Formal traits
Mc Dougall divided “Emotions” into three types. Among those, secondary emotions are:
- A) Basic emotions
- B) Mixture of various instincts
- C) Learn through experiences
- D) Simple emotions
In which of the following need a person has a desire to maintain a relationship with other people; making friends, social contact with other people?
- A) Achievement
- B) Need for affiliation
- C) Curiosity
- D) Need for appraisal
Hunger, thirst and sleep are what?
- A) Primary motives
- B) Social motives
- C) Learnt motives
- D) None of the given options
Which of the following hormones are secreted into the blood stream in excessive amounts during strong emotional states such as anger or fear?
- A) Adrenaline and nor adrenaline
- B) Androgens
- C) Thyroid
- D) Estrogens