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Free download PDF of Psychology previous years multiple choice questions (MCQs) and answers of PSC exams. These general awareness quiz objective questions with answers are useful to preparing PSC, UPSC exams etc.
(31)
Basic characteristics of tasks that result in social loafing is that they are:
[A]
Additive
[B]
Negative
[C]
Subtractive
[D]
Multiplicative
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(32)
Job satisfaction is enhanced by tasks that are:
[A]
Very easy to accomplish
[B]
Overwhelming and rewarding
[C]
Unrelated to one’s personal needs
[D]
Challenging but not overwhelming
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(33)
Piaget’s stage for infancy is:
[A]
Formal operation
[B]
Preoperational thought
[C]
Sensory motor thoughts
[D]
Concrete operations
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(34)
When a researcher tests several groups of people at the same time each group at a different age, he is conducting
a(n) ______ study.
[A]
Sequential
[B]
Cross-sectional
[C]
Longitudinal
[D]
Observational
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(35)
An individual becomes a member of social group through the process of:
[A]
Aging
[B]
Learning
[C]
Maturation
[D]
Socialization
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(36)
The first two weeks of life are referred to as:
[A]
Early childhood
[B]
The neonatal period
[C]
The period of infancy
[D]
The preoperational stage
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(37)
It would be more accurate to say that maturation:
[A]
Can be delayed by illness or poor nutrition
[B]
Is dramatically accelerated by good nutrition
[C]
Is not affected by any environmental factors because it is genetic
[D]
Is greatly accelerated by good health care and delayed by illness
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(38)
Which of the following is part of the psychosocial domain?
[A]
Memory
[B]
Judgment
[C]
Motor skills
[D]
Style of behaving
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(39)
The stage of prenatal development during which the developing organism is most vulnerable to injury is the:
[A]
Embryonic stage
[B]
Fetal stage
[C]
Germinal stage
[D]
Zygotic stage
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(40)
The child’s increasing skill at using his muscles is due chiefly to:
[A]
Maturation
[B]
Learning
[C]
Pushing by parents
[D]
An opportunity to exercise
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