Psychology Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams | Psychology Quiz Set 13
Questions
1
A process in which our judgements, emotions or behaviour are influebced by mental processing that is not really under our control is called
Answer:Mental Contamination
2
Adler’s developmental path to psychological health consists of following sequence :
Answer:Feeling of Inferiority → Striving for superiority to attain completion → Constructive life style → Psychological health
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3
Complex cognitive activities such as thinking and reasoning involve the role of
Answer:Association cortex
4
“The inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenge, to extend and exercise one’s capacities, to explore and learn” describes
Answer:Intrinsic Motivation
5
A tendency to search for information that confirms one’s own preconceptions refers to
Answer:Confirmation bias
6
Bilingual children and adults appear to do better ________ tasks that drawn heavily on memory and _______ control resources.
Answer:non-verbal; cognitive
7
The following term is no longer used as a subtype of the Schizophrenia spectrum.
Answer:Hebephrenic
8
Painful and unpleasant experience hurts the ego of a person. In order to get rid of this one tends to forget it is repressed to unconscious. This Freudian concept highlighted by –
Answer:Rosenzweig
9
Cognitive theories of motivation conceive of an action sequence as instigated by some _______.
Answer:Source of Information
10
While drawing inferences about people or events which type of information is given more weight ?
Answer:Negative information
11
When an employee is paid in accordance to his performance measure, it refers to……. but when an employee is paid a fixed sum for each unit of performance, then it refers to
Answer:Variable-pay ; piece rate pay
12
A number of types of amnesia have been mentioned below. Which one of these is not due to physiological reasons
Answer:Defensive amnesia
13
According to Weiner, most of the attributed causes for school successes or failures can be characterised in terms of three dimensions. These are
Answer:Locus, Stability, Controllability
14
According to Cattell-Horn-Caroll theory of Intelligence, which of the following sequences of second-stratum-abilities in rank order from highest to lowest loadings ?
Answer:Fluid intelligence → crystallized intelligence → general memory & learning → broad visual perception → broad auditory perception → broad retrieval ability → broad cognitive speediness → processing speed
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