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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.

Freud was a: ____________?
A Behaviorist
B Structuralist
C Psychologist
D Physician
Correct Answer: Psychologist
Which of the following early school of psychology included emotions, self, will, values, and even religious and mystical experience?
A Functionalism
B Psychoanalysis
C Gestalt
D Structuralism
Correct Answer: Psychoanalysis
When Edward Titchener founded a psychology laboratory at Cornell University, he used the approach called ____________?
A Behaviorism
B Structuralism
C Functionalism
D Psychoanalysis
Correct Answer: Structuralism
Which goal of psychology is the most powerful?
A Describe
B Explain
C control
D Predict
Correct Answer: control
All of the following are goals of psychology EXCEPT:
A Evaluate
B Describe
C Control
D Predict
Correct Answer: Evaluate
One difference between sociology and psychologists is that psychologist study:
A Behavior in individuals
B biological processes more than psychological processes
C Religion, philosophy and epistemology
D Animal behavior rather than group behavior
Correct Answer: Behavior in individuals
The best definition of psychology is the __________?
A Study of the mind
B Study of personality and mental illness
C Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
D None of these
Correct Answer: Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Critical thinking skills: ____________?
A are abstract abilities that cannot be identified
B usually develop spontaneously through normal content instruction
C usually develop spontaneously without any instruction
D need to be deliberately taught because they often do not develop by themselves with standard content instruction
Correct Answer: need to be deliberately taught because they often do not develop by themselves with standard content instruction
Psychology’s answer to the of whether we are born or made tends to be _____________?
A we are born.
B we are made.
C we are both born and made.
D neither.
Correct Answer: we are both born and made.
The study of the endocrine system and genetic mechanisms would most likely be undertaken by a: _____________?
A Clinical psychologist
B physiological psychologist
C social psychologist
D educational psychologist
Correct Answer: physiological psychologist