MCQ Bank
Complete the following: Predisposition + trauma = ____________.
- A) Allergy
- B) Psychosis
- C) Cancer
- D) Neurosis
who among the following is specialized in Child Psychology?
- A) Carl Jung
- B) Ernst Kris
- C) Anna Freud
- D) Alfred Adler
Which of the following is best known as the “architect of the notion of flow”?
- A) Kurt Koffka
- B) Wolfgang Kohler
- C) Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
- D) Max Wertheimer
Which of the following school of thought started to concert efforts to develop a system of psychology that took into view the unity of human beings?
- A) Functionalism
- B) Gestaltists
- C) Behaviorism
- D) Structuralism
According to Karl Lashley, activity of which part of the brain produces behaviour?
- A) Medulla oblongata
- B) Right hemisphere
- C) Cerebellum
- D) Cerebral cortex
Edward Tolman is also called a ______________ behaviorist.
- A) Objective
- B) Motivational
- C) Purposive
- D) Empirical
As proposed by Darwin, environment has an impact on man, but according to whom not only environment but in turn man tries to change the environment in his own way?
- A) Edward De Bono
- B) Leon Vygotsky
- C) Philippe Pinel
- D) Wilhelm Wundt
Who believed hypnotism as "nervous sleep" as compare to ordinary sleep?
- A) William Mcdougall
- B) James Braid
- C) Sergei Rubenstein
- D) Karen Horney
Which of the following field’s contributors tried to see how consciousness in humans developed?
- A) Gestalt
- B) Historico-Evolutionary
- C) Biological
- D) Behavioral
Which of the following belongs to Historico-Evolutionary Psychology?
- A) Jung
- B) Freud
- C) Vygotsky
- D) Adler
According to Hull, for learning to take place, a response must be followed by which of the following?
- A) Confirmation
- B) Electrical stimulation
- C) Satisfction
- D) Drive-reduction
According to Clark Hull, behavior is dependent upon all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Incentive
- B) Drive
- C) Variance
- D) Valance
In Clark Hull’s equation “K” stands for which of the following term?
- A) Behavior
- B) Need
- C) Motivation
- D) Stimulus intensity
Köhler is best known for his experiments with problem-solving in:
- A) Dogs
- B) Cats
- C) Apes
- D) Pigeons
According to Freud, which element of personality expresses the unconscious urges?
- A) Id
- B) Persona
- C) Ego
- D) Superego
The concept of Lateral Thinking which is akin to creative or problem solving thinking was introduced by whom?
- A) Edward De Bono
- B) Wolfgang Kohler
- C) Max Wertheimer
- D) Kurt Koffka
Jean Charcot wrote an article in a medical journal showing that hypnotism can be used to treat what?
- A) Amnesia
- B) Depression
- C) Schizophrenia
- D) Hysteria
Skinner developed the basic concept of which of the following?
- A) Operant conditioning
- B) Classical conditioning
- C) Trial-and-Error learning
- D) Conditioned reinforcement
Lashley postulated that the more the cortex in mass, the better the learning. Among the followings, which term we use to describe the above mention concept?
- A) Principle of mass action
- B) Principle of equi-potentiality
- C) Principle of generalization
- D) Principle of phenomenology
Which of the following field of Psychology tried to see how consciousness developed and role it played in different historical stages of man’s development?
- A) Historico-Evolutionary
- B) Developmental
- C) Psychoanalytical
- D) Forensic