List of top Psychology Questions

Agastya is a highly motivated executive who lacks patience, feels short of time, and is forever burdened with work. He finds difficulty in slowing down. Identify his personality type on the basis of Friedman and Rosenman's Classification.

Which characteristic does not determine the effect of noise on task performance?

We perceive a person’s face as a whole, and not as a collection of eyes, nose, mouth, etc. A face therefore is an example of:

Which of the following is not a part of the Nervous System?

A parent who fails to set firm limits on age-appropriate behavior required for a young child would be using which parenting style?

Match List I with List II:

LIST I(Theory)		LIST II(Scholar)
A	Psychosexual Perspectives	I	Erikson
B	Psychosocial Theory	II	Festinger
C	Moral Development Theory	III	Freud
D	Cognitive Dissonance Theory	IV	Kohlberg

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A sudden and extreme disturbance of memory in which individuals wander off, adopt a new identity, and are unable to recall their own past is known as:

Arrange the correct sequence in Simple Random Sampling:
(A) Select n cases randomly (using fishbowl method or random number table)
(B) Determine the size of the present population
(C) Decide on the sample size (n)
(D) Identify sampling units in the population
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Parul remembers things from the past very well but cannot incorporate present events into her memory. She is suffering from:

Conscious forcing of desires or thoughts out of consciousness is called:

“Personality is fixed in the early years of life and subject to little change thereafter.” This view is known as:

When Libido is attached to or invested in an object, it is known as:

Excessive competitive drive even when it is unnecessary, is observed in which of the following types of personality?

Ravi believes that experiences throughout his life continually change his personality. Which theorist would probably not agree with this?

Match List I with List II:

LIST I(Theory of Motivation)		LIST II(Key Assumptions)
A	Drive Theory	I	Behavior is “pulled” by expectation of de sired outcomes
B	Arousal Theory	II	Biological needs produce unpleasant states of arousal that people seek to reduce
C	Expectancy Theory	III	Setting specific and challenging but at tainable aims and objectives
D	Goal Setting Theory	IV	General level of activation varies throughout the day, which can motivate many forms of behavior

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Central Traits, Cardinal Traits, and Secondary Traits were prominent in the trait theory of:

Match List I with List II:

LIST I(Defense Mechanism)		LIST II(Basic Nature)
A	Repression	I	Retreating to an earlier period of life
B	Regression	II	Forgetting unacceptable thoughts or impulses
C	Projection	III	Redirecting an emotional response from a dangerous object to a safer one
D	Displacement	IV	Transferring unacceptable motives or impulses to others

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