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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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In the 1957 Sidney Lumet film Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors have to decide over the guilt or innocence of a young man changed with the murder of his father. At the outset, all but one of the jurors are convinced of the youth’s guilt. The lone juror (played by Henry Fond (a) actively attempts to change their minds, standing firm, committed self-confident and unwavering. One by one the other jurors change sides, until in the end they all agree that the accused in not guilty. Which form of social influence is this an example of?
A Conformity
B Minority influence
C Normative influence
D Informational influence
Correct Answer: Minority influence
According to social identity theory, from what do we derive a large part of our identity and feelings about ourselves?
A Where we were born
B The amount of prejudice experienced
C The groups we belong to
D Competition between groups
Correct Answer: The groups we belong to
Why did Zimbardo and his collaborators (1982) have to terminate their Stanford Prison Study?
A The participants were not conforming to their roles
B The guards were not prepared to harass, humiliate and intimidate the prisoners
C The prisoners increasingly showed signs of individual and group disintegration
D The experiment was set in a real prison with real prisoners, which raised a fierce human rights debate
Correct Answer: The prisoners increasingly showed signs of individual and group disintegration
According to Piaget, the preoperational stage refers to the development of which cognitive abilities in children?
A Child begins to speak for the first time
B Child begins to recognize faces of primary caregivers
C Child begins to solve problems logically
D Child begins to represent the world symbolically but remains intutive and egocentric
Correct Answer: Child begins to represent the world symbolically but remains intutive and egocentric
An infant acts relatively indifferent to her mother’s presence, does not seem greatly disturbed by her departure, and does not go to her when she returns. This is an example of which type of infant attachment style according to Marry Ainsworth and colleagues?
A Secure attachment
B Increase attachment /resistant
C Insecure attachment/avoidant
D Preoperational attachment
Correct Answer: Insecure attachment/avoidant
Which of the following assertions about social development is ?
A The development of the two aspects of social selectivity-attachment and wariness of strangers-are cosely related in onset and development significance
B According to Powlby through the course of the first attachment the infant begins to formulate an internal working model of what a relationship involves.
C Through forming attachment the infant minimizes opportunities for nurturing and protection
D Many social developmentalists believe that the formation of attachments is a vital aspect of early relations.
Correct Answer: Through forming attachment the infant minimizes opportunities for nurturing and protection
Language in the form of phonemes of words is typically apparent in children of which age?
A Six months
B One year
C Three months
D Two years
Correct Answer: One year
Which of the following statements is true in language development?
A In their first few months of life, infants can discriminate among sounds in foreign languages that are not used in their own community
B In their first few months of life, infants can only discriminate among sounds in the language of their own community
C Towards the end of our teens, we begin to lose our sensitivity to phonetic contrasts in languages other that one(s) we learned as children
D Language acquistion is complete by about age 4
Correct Answer: In their first few months of life, infants can only discriminate among sounds in the language of their own community
According to Jean Piaget, what is the first stage of cognitive development, occurring from birth to two years of age?
A Sensorimotor stage
B Infant cognition stage
C Object permanance
D Sensory information stage
Correct Answer: Sensorimotor stage
Which of the following statements about Jean Piaget is NOT true?
A Piaget developed a model of cognitive development which holds that children’s thinking progresses through a series of orderly stages.
B According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage extends from approximately 2 to 7 years of age.
C Piaget regarded the child in the sensorimotor stage as acting to learn about itself and its relations to the environment.
D Piaget believed that children learn by doing.
Correct Answer: According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage extends from approximately 2 to 7 years of age.
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