List of top Psychology Questions

Assigning test conditions to one group of participants while keeping others neutral to test the effect of a variable under study is a practice in research. The group not assigned test conditions is known as:

What do intelligence tests successfully predict?

Which of the following is least likely to be included in a Binet intelligence test?

Match List I with List II:

LIST I (Erikson’s Developmental Task)		LIST II (Developmental Stage)
A	Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt	I	Late Adulthood
B	Initiative vs. Guilt	II	Toddler
C	Generativity vs. Stagnation	III	Early Childhood
D	Ego Integrity vs. Despair	IV	Middle Adulthood

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The field of Artificial Intelligence is most closely related to which psychological approach?

Information organized in Long-Term Memory (LTM) stores is aided by the reminders which direct memory search to appropriate parts of the LTM repository. These are called:

The behavior of avoiding a noxious stimulus by a responder is called:

Which kind of intelligence represents the accumulation of abilities gained through formal and informal instruction?

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?

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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The characteristics of a fully functioning person are:
(A) Aware of all experiences
(B) Able to face difficulties
(C) Inhibited and not free to make choices
(D) Adapt to the changing environmental conditions
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Unlike the Stanford-Binet, the Wechsler test provides:

Match List I with List II:

LIST I (Theory)		LIST II (Proposed By)
A	‘g’ Factor Theory	I	Guilford
B	Hierarchical Theory	II	Spearman
C	Multifactor Theory	III	Vernon
D	Cubical Model	IV	Thurstone

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What can be calculated by comparing the performance of those who have obtained very low test scores with those who have obtained very high test scores?

Match List I with List II:

LIST I(Theory of Emotion)		LIST II(Basic Assumptions)
A	Cannon-Bard Theory	I	Emotional reactions to a stimulus are fol lowed automatically by an opposite reaction
B	James-Lange Theory	II	Emotional states are determined by the cognitive labels attached to feelings of arousal
C	Schachter-Singer Theory	III	Subjective emotional experience results from physiological changes within our body
D	Opponent Process Theory	IV	Emotion-provoking events induce simultaneous subjective experiences (labeled as emotions) and the physiological experi ences that accompany them

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The school of Psychology which aimed to study the adaptive functions of the mind is called:

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?

The schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement occurs only after a fixed number of responses have been emitted is called:

You are walking through a forest and a bear jumps out at you. The Nervous System that is immediately called into play is the: