MCQ Bank
Which of the following is CORRECT in the views of Ernst Kris?
- A) Ego is maturity
- B) Ego controls regression
- C) Ego is pleasure principle
- D) Ego is unreal
Which of the following psychologists is known by the title of Instrumental Conditioning?
- A) Watson
- B) Freud
- C) Skinner
- D) Hull
When you touch something hot, in Alexei Leontiev view, it is:
- A) Simple stimulus
- B) Common stimulus
- C) Symbolic stimulus
- D) Ordinary stimulus
Operant conditioning is based on the principle that behaviors occur more often when they are:
- A) Ignored
- B) Reinforced
- C) Punished
- D) Modeled
According to the ancient Greeks and Romans mentally ill people were possessed by which of the followings?
- A) Magicians
- B) Souls
- C) Bishops
- D) Spirits
Leontiev tried to look at ________________in human beings therefore; he is included among the Historico-Evolutionary psychologists.
- A) How verbal ability developed
- B) How the interaction takes place
- C) How conscious works
- D) How consciousness developed
Which of the followings refers to the idea that there is kind of a mental map of the objects in environment, and this mental map helps in learning by insight?
- A) Aphorism
- B) Isomorphism
- C) Dimorphism
- D) Orphism
Clark Hull was basically a:
- A) Physicist
- B) Mathematician
- C) Sociologist
- D) Biologist
If you see many dots close to each other, and then some dots separated, you see the closely located dots as one group of gestalt. This concept is known as what?
- A) Similarity
- B) Proximity
- C) Closure
- D) Continuity
A variable that is a part of the subject such as age, gender etc. and it impacts its behavior. This refers to ___________ variable.
- A) Situational
- B) Demographic
- C) Antecedent
- D) Relational
In defense mechanism, a person uses which way of alleviating anxiety by retreating to an earlier period of life?
- A) Compartmentalization
- B) Repression
- C) Regression
- D) Projection
Mad or mentally ill were regarded as witches and wizards, and instead of treating them they were tortured and some were burnt to death in which of the following eras?
- A) Prevalent till present day
- B) In 20th century
- C) In 14th and the 15th century
- D) Up to the 14th and the 15th century
Kurt Lewin belongs to which of the following school of thought?
- A) Behavioral
- B) Humanistic
- C) Psychoanalysis
- D) Gestalt
In Mesmer's point of view, which force's imbalances makes a person mad or insane?
- A) Inner energy
- B) Animal magnetism
- C) Human spirit
- D) Hypnotism force
In which of the following defense mechanism, a person might intellectually know that his beloved has died but refuses to accept it?
- A) Denial
- B) Repression
- C) Projection
- D) Regression
Who regarded as the pioneer in helping society recognize the fact that mental symptoms are a kind of disease?
- A) Sigmund Freud
- B) Philippe Pinel
- C) Charles Darwin
- D) Wilhelm Wundt
How many styles of leadership were recognized by Kurt Lewin?
- A) Five
- B) Three
- C) Two
- D) Four
When we see one image moving from one place to another, although there is no physical movement, this concept is known as:
- A) Phi-Phenomenon
- B) Proximity
- C) Closure
- D) Distance movement
Who proposed that in the mind of individuals, there is a map which according to him is the explanation of the things around him?
- A) William Mcdougall
- B) Kurt Lewin
- C) Wolfgang kohler
- D) Edward De Bono
Phi-phenomenon is concerned with the illusion of:
- A) Moon
- B) Motion
- C) Distance
- D) Lines