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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Lewis Terman’s approach to measuring and defining intelligence as a single, overall IQ score was in thetradition of British psychologist ________________. |
| A. | charles spearman |
| B. | david wechsler |
| C. | lazarus |
| D. | robert woodworth |
| Answer» B. david wechsler | |
| 2. |
If a test measures what it is supposed to measure, it is said to be _______________. |
| A. | valid |
| B. | reliable |
| C. | true |
| D. | standardized |
| Answer» B. reliable | |
| 3. |
If a test consistently produces similar scores on different occasions, it is said to be _______________. |
| A. | valid |
| B. | reliable |
| C. | true |
| D. | standardized |
| Answer» C. true | |
| 4. |
_______________ calculated the IQ by comparing an individual’s score to the scores of others in thesame general age group whose average score was statistically fixed at 100. |
| A. | charles spearman |
| B. | david wechsler |
| C. | lazarus |
| D. | robert woodworth |
| Answer» C. lazarus | |
| 5. |
_______________ defined intelligence as the global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, anddeal effectively with the environment. |
| A. | stanford binet |
| B. | david wechsler |
| C. | lewis terman |
| D. | robert woodworth |
| Answer» C. lewis terman | |
| 6. |
During World War 1 ________________ test was developed which was administered orally to thosewho could not read, later adapted for civilian use. |
| A. | aptitude |
| B. | army alpha |
| C. | army beta |
| D. | intelligence |
| Answer» D. intelligence | |
| 7. |
_______________ tests attempt to measure general mental abilities, rather than accumulated knowledgeor aptitude for a specific subject or area. |
| A. | attitude |
| B. | personality |
| C. | intelligence |
| D. | creativity |
| Answer» D. creativity | |
| 8. |
Who proposed that “feeling of inferiority” is control to human behavior? |
| A. | jung |
| B. | sigmund freud |
| C. | adler |
| D. | william james |
| Answer» D. william james | |
| 9. |
The use of mental images and concepts, problem solving and decision making, and language capabilitiesare cognitive abilities that are aspects of what is commonly called _______________. |
| A. | personality |
| B. | intelligence |
| C. | mental strength |
| D. | creativity |
| Answer» C. mental strength | |
| 10. |
Classifying people on the basis of body build is an example of ____________ approach to personality. |
| A. | trait |
| B. | dynamic |
| C. | type |
| D. | behavioral |
| Answer» D. behavioral | |
| 11. |
Freud believed that the Oedipal conflict took place during the ___________________ |
| A. | phallic stage |
| B. | anal stage |
| C. | genital stage |
| D. | oral stage |
| Answer» B. anal stage | |
| 12. |
The intelligence model consists of _______________ dimensions. |
| A. | three |
| B. | four |
| C. | six |
| D. | ten |
| Answer» B. four | |
| 13. |
The term Intelligent Quotient (IQ) was first introduced by_________________ |
| A. | binet |
| B. | terman |
| C. | simon |
| D. | wechsler |
| Answer» B. terman | |
| 14. |
A mental category for classifying specific people, object, or experiences is a(n) ________________ |
| A. | image |
| B. | concept |
| C. | phoneme |
| D. | algorithm |
| Answer» C. phoneme | |
| 15. |
The ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed imagery of something that has been previouslyseen is called_________________ |
| A. | flashbulb memory |
| B. | mnemonics |
| C. | eidetic memory |
| D. | repression |
| Answer» D. repression | |
| 16. |
In Maslow’s hierarchy of motives, the most highly evolved motive is_______________ |
| A. | ambition |
| B. | fear |
| C. | self-actualization |
| D. | the need to explore |
| Answer» D. the need to explore | |
| 17. |
The process requiring time during which memory trace becomes more resistant to extinction is _________________ |
| A. | consolidation |
| B. | organization |
| C. | retention |
| D. | reminiscence |
| Answer» B. organization | |
| 18. |
Improved retention after an interval is called_______________ |
| A. | reminiscence |
| B. | relearning |
| C. | recognition |
| D. | eidetic imagery |
| Answer» C. recognition | |
| 19. |
Consideration of what is practical and possible in gratifying instinctive needs characteristic of the ego iscalled__________________ |
| A. | defense mechanism |
| B. | pleasure principle |
| C. | reality principle |
| D. | psychic structure |
| Answer» D. psychic structure | |
| 20. |
The triarchic theory of intelligence is given by _______________ |
| A. | spearman |
| B. | guilford |
| C. | sternberg |
| D. | gardner |
| Answer» D. gardner | |
| 21. |
A theory of omissions suggesting that emotion provoking events simultaneously produce subjectivereactions and physiological arousal is_____________________ |
| A. | james lange theory |
| B. | cannon-bard theory |
| C. | activation theory |
| D. | cognitive arousal theory |
| Answer» C. activation theory | |
| 22. |
The finding that the first and the last items in a series are more likely to be recalled than are interveningitems is called_____________________ |
| A. | serial position effect |
| B. | rote memorization |
| C. | free recall |
| D. | serial recall |
| Answer» B. rote memorization | |
| 23. |
The tendency to think of wing objects only as they have been used in the past is _____________ |
| A. | mental set |
| B. | algorithms |
| C. | functional fixedness |
| D. | analogy |
| Answer» D. analogy | |
| 24. |
The feeling that we can almost, but not quite, remember some information we wish to retrieve frommemory is _________________ |
| A. | long-term memory |
| B. | short-term memory |
| C. | partial amnesia |
| D. | tip-of-the-tongue phenomena |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
Cognitive events, often vivid but disconnected that occur during sleep are ________________ |
| A. | dreams |
| B. | hypnosis |
| C. | consciousness |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. hypnosis | |
| 26. |
Our ability to pay attention to only some aspects of the world around us while largely ignoring others iscalled_______________ |
| A. | span of attention |
| B. | division of attention |
| C. | distraction of attention |
| D. | selective attention |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
Disorder involving the inability to fall asleep or to maintain sleep at once it is attained is called__________________ |
| A. | amnesia |
| B. | insomnia |
| C. | apathy |
| D. | narcolepsy |
| Answer» C. apathy | |
| 28. |
_________________ is the cause of autism. |
| A. | improper child rearing |
| B. | neurological abnormality |
| C. | emotional instability |
| D. | abnormal personality |
| Answer» C. emotional instability | |
| 29. |
________________ is the cause of stress. |
| A. | family |
| B. | temperament |
| C. | frustration |
| D. | activity |
| Answer» D. activity | |
| 30. |
________________ is the one of the determinants of individual differences. |
| A. | intelligence |
| B. | hereditary |
| C. | creativity |
| D. | reactivity |
| Answer» C. creativity | |
| 31. |
Unconscious mind consists of _________________ |
| A. | biological drives |
| B. | violent behaviors |
| C. | conflict |
| D. | empathy |
| Answer» D. empathy | |
| 32. |
A reluctant child forced to bring sugar from a shop, spills half on the way. This is an example of ______________________ |
| A. | hysteria |
| B. | passive aggression |
| C. | disobedience |
| D. | active aggression |
| Answer» C. disobedience | |
| 33. |
Which one of the pairs is not correct? |
| A. | structure of intellect model- guilford |
| B. | pass theory- j.p.das |
| C. | triarchic theory- goleman |
| D. | multiple intelligence- gardner |
| Answer» D. multiple intelligence- gardner | |
| 34. |
According to Erickson, the crisis in adulthood is ___________________ |
| A. | initiative vs. guilt |
| B. | industry vs. inferiority |
| C. | intimacy vs. isolation |
| D. | identity vs. role confusion |
| Answer» D. identity vs. role confusion | |
| 35. |
__________________ theory advocates that emotions spring from physiological reactions. |
| A. | cannon-bard |
| B. | james-lange |
| C. | mcdougall |
| D. | schachter and singer |
| Answer» C. mcdougall | |
| 36. |
___________________ is the father of intelligence testing. |
| A. | alfred binet |
| B. | spearman |
| C. | cattell |
| D. | sternberg |
| Answer» B. spearman | |
| 37. |
________________ is the tendency to perceive a stationary point of light in a dark room as moving. |
| A. | stroboscopic motion |
| B. | phi-phenomenon |
| C. | autokinetic effect |
| D. | illusion |
| Answer» D. illusion | |
| 38. |
Two-factor theory of intelligence was proposed by __________________ |
| A. | thurstone |
| B. | spearman |
| C. | guilford |
| D. | sternberg |
| Answer» C. guilford | |
| 39. |
The variable which the experimenter manipulates is called __________________ |
| A. | independent variable |
| B. | dependent variable |
| C. | continuous variable |
| D. | intervening variable |
| Answer» B. dependent variable | |
| 40. |
Need hierarchy theory was introduced by _______________ |
| A. | alder |
| B. | maslow |
| C. | mc clelland |
| D. | jones and davis |
| Answer» C. mc clelland | |
| 41. |
‘Archetypes’ is the concept of__________________ |
| A. | freud |
| B. | adler |
| C. | horney |
| D. | jung |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
Standard Progressive Matrices was developed by ___________________ |
| A. | binet |
| B. | weschler c. j. |
| C. | raven |
| D. | simon |
| Answer» D. simon | |
| 43. |
Mental pictures of objects or events are known as ________________ |
| A. | visual images |
| B. | logical concepts |
| C. | natural concepts |
| D. | mental models |
| Answer» B. logical concepts | |
| 44. |
_________________ is a faint copy of the visual input which persists in the visual sensory register for afew seconds, before it gradually decays. |
| A. | iconic image |
| B. | short-term memory |
| C. | long-term memory |
| D. | episodic |
| Answer» B. short-term memory | |
| 45. |
_____________________ is condition in which there is no inclination to eat, even under conditions ofsevere food deprivation. |
| A. | apraxia |
| B. | astropine |
| C. | aphasia |
| D. | aphagia |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
Any disorder in which the comprehension or the expression of language is impaired is _____________ |
| A. | apraxia |
| B. | astropine |
| C. | aphagia |
| D. | aphasia |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
Forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar,more recently learned material is_________________ |
| A. | retroactive interference |
| B. | proactive interference |
| C. | replacement |
| D. | amnesia |
| Answer» C. replacement | |
| 48. |
Memories of general knowledge, including facts, rules, concepts, and propositions are referred as _____________________ |
| A. | procedural memories |
| B. | declarative memories |
| C. | semantic memories |
| D. | episodic memories |
| Answer» D. episodic memories | |
| 49. |
Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred is ______________ |
| A. | declarative memories |
| B. | semantic memories |
| C. | episodic memories |
| D. | procedural memories |
| Answer» D. procedural memories | |
| 50. |
The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material is ______________ |
| A. | explicit memory |
| B. | recall |
| C. | recognition |
| D. | relearning |
| Answer» C. recognition | |