Psychology
.1. The experiment on maze learning was done with the help of:
o (a) Rats
o (b) Dogs
o (c) Men
o (d) Cats
o Correct Answer: (a) Rats
2. Learning is a sort of behavioral:
o (a) Modification
o (b) Withdrawal
o (c) Continuation
o (d) Extension
o Correct Answer: (a) Modification
3. Law of effect was given by:
o (a) Freud
o (b) Thorndike
o (c) Thurstone
o (d) Hull
o Correct Answer: (b) Thorndike
4. Contrast, continuity are the laws of:
o (a) Association
o (b) Action
o (c) Learning
o (d) Extension
o Correct Answer: (a) Association
5. Stimuli provide for:
o (a) Responses
o (b) Thinking
o (c) Withdrawal
o (d) Action
o Correct Answer: (a) Responses
6. Learning is an association between stimulus and:
o (a) Animal
o (b) Response
o (c) Past experience
o (d) Behavior
o Correct Answer: (b) Response
7. Learning is a behavior which comes by:
o (a) Practice
o (b) Inheritance
o (c) Imitation
o (d) Effort
o Correct Answer: (a) Practice
8. The hierarchy of learning process is associated with:
o (a) Maslow
o (b) Gagne
o (c) Pavlov
o (d) Bruner
o Correct Answer: (b) Gagne
(Note Maslow’s Theory is hierarchy of needs or hierarchy of motivation while Robert Gagne theory is hierarchy of learning, Gagne 8 types of learning or theory of conditions of leaning)
9. Forgetting the picture with the passage of time can be explained as:
o (a) Motivated forgetting
o (b) Retroactive inhibition
o (c) Proactive inhibition
o (d) Decay through disuse
o Correct Answer: (d) Decay through disuse
10. While the rapid learner progresses quickly through the program material, the slow learner moves less rapidly. The principle of learning applied in this situation is:
o (a) Active participation
o (b) Information feedback
o (c) Individualization of instruction
o (d) All of the above
o Correct Answer: Active participation
11. One who has learned to drive a Maruti car drives an Ambassador with little difficulty. The phenomenon illustrated is called:
o (a) Relearning
o (b) Overlearning
o (c) Automatic learning
o (d) Transfer of learning
o Correct Answer: (d) Transfer of learning
12. In the Wright brothers’ experience from flying kites to building an aeroplane, there has been a:
o (a) Mediated transfer
o (b) Mastering principles
o (c) Stimulus changes
o (d) Response changes
o Correct Answer: (b) Mastering principles
13. A father promised to buy his son a transistor if he mows the lawn each week. The transistor is:
o (a) An intrinsic reward
o (b) An extrinsic reward
o (c) Both (a) & (b)
o (d) Neither (a) nor (b)
o Correct Answer: (b) An extrinsic reward
48. A college student who often performs better in simple condition situations belongs to the group having:
· (a) No anxiety
· (b) Low anxiety
· (c) High anxiety
· (d) No emotional significance
· Correct Answer: (b) Low anxiety
49. An ergograph primarily measures:
· (a) Reaction
· (b) Response
· (c) Work
· (d) Fatigue
· Correct Answer: (c) Work
50. The word association “engine steam” indicates a relation to:
· (a) Continuity
· (b) Contrast
· (c) Causality
· (d) Part whole
· Correct Answer: (c) Causality
51. The Zeigarnik effect indicates the continuing tension over a task that is:
· (a) Pleasant and completed
· (b) Pleasant and unfinished
· (c) Unpleasant and completed
· (d) Unpleasant and unfinished
· Correct Answer: (b) Pleasant and unfinished
52. Memory is the mental power by which past experiences are:
· (a) Only recognized
· (b) Only recalled
· (c) Both recognized and recalled
· (d) United with new experiences
· Correct Answer: (c) Both recognized and recalled
53. In creativity, sex and culture tend to:
· (a) Inhibit
· (b) Improve
· (c) Maintain
· (d) Cultivate
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54. Creativity refers to:
· (a) New production
· (b) Raw production
· (c) Assimilated production
· (d) Repetition
· Correct Answer: (a) New production
54- Creativitiy is counterpart of
· (a) Intelligence
· (b) Raw production
· (c) Assimilated production
· (d) Repetition
· Correct Answer: (a) Intelligence
55. Scientific and Artistic creativity are:
· (a) Same
· (b) Different
· (c) Unrelated
· (d) Highly correlated
56. Test of creativity measuring three aspects of divergent thinking was given by:
· (a) Torrance
· (b) Cropley
· (c) Guilford
· (d) Goel
· Correct Answer: (a) Torrance
57. Artistic creativity involves:
· (a) Flexibility
· (b) Conventionality
· (c) Uniqueness
· (d) Originality
57- Who investigated that scientists are low in social desirability
Answer= Hussain
58. Among the non-test measurements of creative ability in the laboratory is:
· (a) Zeigarnik Phenomena
· (b) T.A.T.
· (c) Interview technique
· (d) Objective tests
· Correct Answer: (c) Interview technique
59. The creative potential can be improved by:
· (a) Proper training
· (b) Competitive feeling
· (c) Sanction of activities
· (d) Punishment
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60. Who asserted that a highly creative man must have a high level of intelligence?
· (a) British psychologists
· (b) American psychologists
· (c) Russian psychologists
· (d) German psychologists
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61. Which test can measure adult creativity?
· (a) T.T.C.T.
· (b) Guilford’s
· (c) Anastasi
· (d) R.T.
· Correct Answer: (a) T.T.C.T.
62. What can the questionnaires and items in inventories measure?
· (a) Child creativity
· (b) Adult creativity
· (c) Creativity at all ages
· (d) Pre-school creativity
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63. Signal learning, one of the eight types of Gagne’s hierarchical classification of learning, is commonly termed as:
· (a) Chain learning
· (b) Classical conditioning
· (c) S-R learning
· (d) Associated learning
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64. In creativity, ruralization always:
· (a) Fosters it
· (b) Inhibits it
· (c) Stops it
· (d) Cultivates it
· Correct Answer: (b) Inhibits it
65. Creativity increases with:
· (a) Age
· (b) Education
· (c) Practice
· (d) Experience
