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Psychology 6084 MCQs [All-Courses]

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Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior, mental processes, emotions, and personality. It is an important subject for competitive exams such as PPSC, FPSC, NTS, OTS, KPPSC, BPSC, AJKPSC, CSS, and PMS.

Petra locked directly into a very bright light and damaged her retina. The ophthalmologist has told her that she has sustained massive damage to her cones, but for the most part her rods have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Petra’s vision is that she will now have:
A Poor vision in bright light
B No color vision
C Poor vision in low illumination
D More accurate depth perception
Correct Answer: No color vision
The local fire department sounds the 12 o’clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of:
A Transduction
B Sensory adaptation
C Parallel processing
D Accommodation
Correct Answer: Transduction
Waqas was having his hearing tested and a number of the tones that were presented were so faint he was not able to detect them. These faint sounds would:
A Inhibit action potentials from reaching the terminal buttons
B Cause action potentials that were took weak to reach the terminal buttons
C Fall below William’s absolute threshold for sound
D Cause more inhibitory than excitatory synapses
Correct Answer: Fall below William’s absolute threshold for sound
The text’s illustration of the police officer’s faulty “eyewitness” identification is an example of:
A The fact that perceptions are often reconstructions of events
B The low degree of accuracy of human psi phenomena
C Perceptual closure operating in a real life situation
D An “innocence of vision” in stressful situations
Correct Answer: The fact that perceptions are often reconstructions of events
According to J.W.B Douglas’s study which of the following classes are deprived of parental supports?
A Middle class
B Working class
C gentry
D Petit bourgeoisie
Correct Answer: Working class
In Which of Freud’s works did he introduce his famous Oedipus complex?
A On Narcissism
B Mourning and Melancholia
C Beyond the Pleasure Principle
D The Interpretation of Dreams
Correct Answer: The Interpretation of Dreams
Who developed a measure of ‘ego strength’ from some items of the MMPI?
A Brown
B Barron
C Black
D Barrett
Correct Answer: Barron
Tolman’s experiment with rats in the maze was aimed to study:
A Operant conditioning learning
B Trial-and-error learning
C Latent Learning
D Classical conditioning learning
Correct Answer: Latent Learning
In the Harlow’s research surrogate mothers were used for studying the attachment behaviour of infant monkeys. The surrogate mothers were:
A Adult female monkeys not related to the infants
B Older sister of the infant monkeys
C Human adults who acted as mothers
D Wire and cloth objects placed in the monkey cages
Correct Answer: Wire and cloth objects placed in the monkey cages
Who was Freud’s biographer?
A Kari Abraham
B Wihelm Reich
C Sandor Ferenczi
D Ernest Jones
Correct Answer: Ernest Jones