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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.

Why should early problem behavior not by neglected?
A Early interventions may be costly, but they are more cost effective than ignoring the problem- this would result in higher costs of society for dealing with delinquent children later in life
B If acted on interventions can be effective at reducing future delinquency
C It is predictive of later more serious behavior
D All of the above
Correct Answer: All of the above
Statutory rape is:
A penile penetration of any child below the age of consent to sexual intercourse
B rape of a female adult
C any form of sexual act that a woman may not wish
D rape of someone under mitigating circumstances
Correct Answer: penile penetration of any child below the age of consent to sexual intercourse
Which of the following is?
A Rape is frequently viewed as a crime of power, control and violence rather than sexual gratification
B There is a general trend that sexual offending begins in the early life of an offender
C Rapists have claimed to have experienced more psychological abuse than nonsexual violent offenders
D Rape of older women by strangers tends to feature more strongly in rape statistics
Correct Answer: Rape of older women by strangers tends to feature more strongly in rape statistics
Learning is based on:
A Knowledge
B Comprehension
C Understanding
D Practice
Correct Answer: Practice
Sexual fantasy is accepted as a driving force in sexual offending. Which of the following raises over this assumed simple link between fantasy and offending?
A Sexual offences are often non- consummatory
B When treatment is mainly directed at reducing fantastic recidivism actually increases
C Unacceptable themes are found in the fantasy of ‘normal’ individuals but they don’t have to be acted upon in order to have erotic effects
D All of the above
Correct Answer: All of the above
Which of the following can be identified as a typology of rape based on the psychological motive of the rapist?
A Paranoid- aggressive, depressive, psychopathic, over controlled repressors
B Power- assurance, power- assertive, anger retaliatory and anger excitement
C Feminist, social learning and evolutionary
D Fixated and regressed sexual offender
Correct Answer: Power- assurance, power- assertive, anger retaliatory and anger excitement
which of the following problems regarding phallometry is?
A Using phallometry to elicit confessions can increase the risk of false confessions
B It is not effective at deciding who is a pedophile and who is not from any group of men
C Normal men show erections to pubescent children and rape scents
D It does not assume sexual motives underlie rape
Correct Answer: It does not assume sexual motives underlie rape
Rape is:
A a relatively under reported crime
B tend to be carried out by men know to women rather than by strangers
C more commonly carried out by younger offenders
D all of the above
Correct Answer: all of the above
Because Ken is 6 6, people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his college’s basketball team. The mistaken judgement best illustrates the impact of:
A the availability heuristic
B confirmation bias
C the representativeness heuristic
D the belief perseverance phenomenon
Correct Answer: the representativeness heuristic
The sentences “Mario is easy to please” and “Mario is eager to please” have_______-surface structure and______deep structure.
A a different; the same
B no; the same
C a different; a different
D the same; a different
Correct Answer: the same; a different