Top 80+ Solved Basic Psychology MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Cognitive events, often vivid but disconnected that occur during sleep are ____________
a. dreams
b. hypnosis
c. consciousness
d. none of the above
Q. Our ability to pay attention to only some aspects of the world around us whilelargely ignoring others is called___________
a. span of attention
b. division of attention
c. distraction of attention
d. selective attention
Q. The feeling that we can almost, but not quite, remember some information wewish to retrieve from memory is _________________
a. long-term memory
b. short-term memory
c. partial amnesia
d. tip-of-the-tongue phenomena
Q. The finding that the first and the last items in a series are more likely to berecalled than are intervening items is called_____________________
a. serial position effect
b. rote memorization
c. free recall
d. serial recall
Q. The tendency to think of wing objects only as they have been used in the pastis __________
a. mental set
b. algorithms
c. functional fixedness
d. analogy
Q. A theory of omissions suggesting that emotion provoking eventssimultaneously produce subjective reactions and physiological arousal is ________________
a. james lange theory
b. cannon-bard theory
c. activation theory
d. cognitive arousal theory
Q. Consideration of what is practical and possible in gratifying instinctive needscharacteristic of the ego is called__________________
a. defense mechanism
b. pleasure principle
c. reality principle
d. psychic structure
Q. The process requiring time during which memory trace becomes more resistantto extinction is _________________
a. consolidation
b. organization
c. retention
d. reminiscence
Q. In Maslow’s hierarchy of motives, the most highly evolved motive is ____________
a. ambition
b. fear
c. self-actualization
d. the need to explore
Q. The ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed imagery of somethingthat has been previously seen is called_________________
a. flashbulb memory
b. mnemonics
c. eidetic memory
d. repression
Q. A mental category for classifying specific people, object, or experiences is a(n) _____________
a. image
b. concept
c. phoneme
d. algorithm
Q. Classifying people on the basis of body build is an example of __________approach to personality.
a. trait
b. dynamic
c. type
d. behavioral
Q. _______________ tests attempt to measure general mental abilities, rather thanaccumulated knowledge or aptitude for a specific subject or area.
a. attitude
b. personality
c. intelligence
d. creativity
Q. During World War 1 _________ test was developed which was administeredorally to those who could not read, later adapted for civilian use.
a. aptitude
b. army alpha
c. army beta
d. intelligence
Q. _______________ defined intelligence as the global capacity to think rationally,act purposefully, and deal effectively with the environment.
a. stanford binet
b. david wechsler
c. lewis terman
d. robert woodworth