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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.

Moral behavior in conformity with the moral code of the social group “moral” comes from the____word mores, meaning manners, customs and folkways:
A Greek
B Latin
C English
D Arabic
Correct Answer: Latin
Which of the following is NOT one of the Ainsworth’s categories of attachment?
A Avoidant
B Negative attached
C Ambivalent/Resistant
D Securely attached
Correct Answer: Negative attached
At the moment of conception, when a male’s sperm fertilizes the female’s egg’ the single cell that is formed is called the:
A Blastula
B Embryo
C Fetus
D Zygote
Correct Answer: Zygote
“Give me a child and I will move him as you desire” this was said by:
A Freud
B Skinner
C Watson
D Pavlov
Correct Answer: Watson
The Law “similar things give rise to similar things” is called law of:
A Similarity
B Dissimilarity
C Recurrence
D None of these
Correct Answer: Similarity
The ‘quantitative changes’ of body are called:
A Activity
B Growth
C Maturation
D Adolescence
Correct Answer: Growth
When you go over to visit your friend’s new baby, your friend exclaims, “Watch this! Every time I touch his cheek he turns his mouth towards my finger!” Because you’ve taken psychology, you know that this phenomenon is called the______reflex.
A grasping
B complementary
C rooting
D startle
Correct Answer: rooting
Children’s thought processes are particularly egocentric during which Piagetian stage?
A post operational
B sensorimotor
C preoperational
D formal operations
Correct Answer: preoperational
Critics of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development have suggested that postconventional morality is more characteristic of_______than of______.
A Democrats; Republicans
B men; women
C socialists; capitalists
D African Americans; white Americans
Correct Answer: men; women
Five-year-olds who were surprised to discover that a Blind-Aids box contained pencils subsequently delighted in anticipating their friend’s false belief about the contents of the box. This best illustrates that the children had developed a(n):
A conventional morality
B theory of mind
C concept of conservation
D secure attachment
Correct Answer: theory of mind