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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.

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DSM – IV is the fourth edition of a manual listing categories of psychiatric disorders and the criteria that must be met in order for a mental health professional to diagnose a disorder. What is DSM short for?
A Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
B Disorders and Statistical Mental illness
C Disorders and Statistics in Mental Health
D Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Correct Answer: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
Which of these mood stabilizing drugs does NOT have any anticonvulsive affect?
A Sodium valproate
B Lithium carbonate
C Carbamazepine
D Gabapentin
Correct Answer: Lithium carbonate
If a person is experiencing akathisia, what are they unable to do?
A Sit still
B Move their arms
C Speak
D Breathe
Correct Answer: Sit still
The side – effects of antipsychotic medications can often mimic the symptoms of which other disease?
A Huntington’s disease
B Coeliac disease
C Paget’s disease
D Parkinson’s disease
Correct Answer: Parkinson’s disease
What is the name for a partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement?
A Anhedonia
B Amnesia
C Aphasia
D Ataxia
Correct Answer: Ataxia
Defensive Pessimists set low expectations and ruminate over the worst possible outcomes; however research has shown that they perform similarly in terms of academic performance compared to which group of people?
A Pessimists
B Optimists
C Neurotics
D Extraverts
Correct Answer: Extraverts
Which. if any, of the following statements about self-consciousness is?
A Carver and Scheier’s control theory of human functioning states that there are stable individual differences in the extent to which we attend to aspects of the self
B In control theory, if we perceive ourselves to have reached too high a standard of behavior, the personality system will increase the discrepancy between the standard and the perceived level
C Fenigstein, Scheier and Buss (1975) developed a self-consciousness scale to measure what they considered to be stable what they considered to be stable individual and difference in private and public self-consciousness
D None of the above-all are correct
Correct Answer: In control theory, if we perceive ourselves to have reached too high a standard of behavior, the personality system will increase the discrepancy between the standard and the perceived level
Which dimension of personality can predict individual preferences for study areas, number of study breaks and performance on long vigilance tasks?
A External-internal
B Experimenting-conservative
C Neuroticism-stability
D Extraversion-introversion
Correct Answer: Extraversion-introversion
Identify the FALSE statement relating to affects, from those given below:
A The way we feel can determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur
B The way we feel can be determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur
C Feeling angry anxious or happy might impact on any of the other types of cognition, changing the way we respond
D A dispositionally calm person will not become anxious even when the elevator they are travelling in becomes stuck between floors
Correct Answer: A dispositionally calm person will not become anxious even when the elevator they are travelling in becomes stuck between floors
Students who experiences a persistent depressed mood after failing an exam probably have which type of attribution style?
A Stable, global
B Unstable, specific
C External, global
D External, specific
Correct Answer: Stable, global
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