1. The means by which information acquired via the sense organs is transformed into experiences of objects, events, sounds, tastes, etc. is called

Perception

Intelligence

Motivation

Emotion

2. An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event is called

Semantic network

Conceptual hierarchy

Schema

Retrieval cue

3. According to Psychoanalytic theory, the inability to remember based on resistant forces in the unconscious is called

Suppressive forgetting

Repressive forgetting

Regressive memory loss

Response extinction

4. Which of the following is an example of discrete data?

Height of students in a class

Weight of students in a class

Age of students in a class

Number of students in a class

5. Which of the following levels of measurement is associated with rank?

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

6. Which of the following graphs is also known as cumulative frequency polygon?

Interaction graph

Ogive curve

Bar graph

Normal probability curve

7. Who among the following is not a Psychologist?

Durganand Sinha

Vygotsky

Girishwar Misra

Stephen Hawking

8. Pituitary, pancreas, thyroid, adrenal gonads are associated with

Hormonal system

Glandular system

Endocrine system

Metabolic system

9. The tendency for the conditioned response to reappear after being extinguished even in the absence of conditioning trials is called

Extinction

Spontaneous Recovery

Generalization

Experimental neurosis

10. In an experiment, which of the following variables is considered as a cause?

Extraneous variable

Dependent variable

Independent variable

Confounding variable

11. Which of the following Psychologist is associated with sign learning?

Albert Bandura

E.Thorndike

Edward Debono

Edward Tolman

12. Actions by individuals that help others with no immediate benefit to the helper refers to

Perseverance effect

Prevention focus

Prosocial behaviour

Promotional behaviour

13. Which of the following indicates the correct group of Physiological responses to emotions?

Increase in Blood pressure, rapid respiration, decrease in blood sugar level, increase in heart rate

Increased blood flow to brain, increase in blood sugar level, blood loses the power to clot

Increased blood flow to skeletal muscles, dilation of pupils, increased electrical resistance of skin

Decreased electrical resistance of skin, power of clotting increases in blood, Pupils dilate

14. The key components of groups are

Status, roles, norms, and cohesiveness

Power, dominance, roles, and identity

Aims, objectives, norm, and status

Cohesive, norming, control, and collectivism

15. Ratan and Raza met with a severe accident while they were travelling by a bike. Both of them underwent brain surgery. Ratan was not able to recall events preceding the accident including his own childhood incidents, but was accurately able to recall events immediately after the trauma and queries about happenings after the accident were readily answered. He is supposed to suffer On the otherhand, Raza was able to recall experiences prior to the trauma, including those from his childhood, but was unable to recall any event after the trauma. He is supposed to suffer

Amnesia; Fugue

Dissociative identity disorder; Retrograde amnesia

Retrograde amnesia; Anterograde amnesia

Anterograde amnesia; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

16. Attitudes which are automatic and non-conscious evaluative responses are called

Dual attitudes

Private attitudes

Explicit attitudes

Implicit attitudes

17. Identify the correct statement

Pattern recognition, abstract reasoning and problem solving refer to crystalized intelligence

Adler's theory of personality talked about 'anima-animus' 'persona'

Howard Gardner talked about multiple intelligence

Hans Selye propounded the concept of eustress

18. Cynthia was resistant to write the sentences in her new School as she was not confident with words and grammar. Her teacher then followed a progressive procedure where each step involved a reinforcement of writing sentences correctly in a step-wise manner such that each response is slightly more complex than the preceding step. The teacher reinforced the appropriate writing of a word, and went to the next word and reinforced it when correctly written. This procedure was followed till a meaningful sentence was written. The method is called__and the principle used is

Method of approximations; Operant conditioning

Stimulus shaping; Classical conditioning

Multi-level exposure method; Remedial framework

Individual attention method; Insightful learning

19. Shyam seeks counseling as he is unhappy in his life about his relationship with his parents, spouse, children, neighbours and colleagues. While he says he is a good, honest, hardworking person who always starves to help others, the others rebuff and reject him and his experiences with others are always bitter. According to Rogers, this indicates

Lacunae in actualizing tendency

Erroneous concept of self

Incongruence

Phenomenology

20. Which of the following constitutes limbic system?

Hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus thalamus

Hypothalamus, thalamus cingulate gyrus

Thalamus, hypothalamus medulla

Thalamus, hypothalamus, medulla hippocampus

21. The ability to perceive the smallest increase or decrease in the intensity of a stimulus, called Just Noticeable Difference was the contribution of

Hebb

Liller

Weber

Wundt

22. A teacher makes use of a variety of tasks to cater to different learning styles of her learners. She is influenced by

Kohlberg's moral development theory

Gardner's multiple intelligence theory

Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory

Piaget's cognitive development theory

23. __involves distinguishing one illness from another, __refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness, is a forecast about the probable course of an illness.

Diagnosis; Etiology; Prognosis

Etiology; Prognosis; Diagnosis

Prognosis; Diagnosis; Etiology

Etiology; Diagnosis; Prognosis

24. According to Albert Ellis, problematic emotional reactions are caused by

The fight-or-flight response

Catastrophic thinking

Catharsis

Excessive reliance on defense mechanisms

25. A Psychologist is interested to measure happiness in a group of children using a happiness scale. The scores obtained from the happiness scale belong to

Nominal level of measurement

Ordinal level of measurement

Interval level of measurement

Ratio level of measurement

26. The difference between a parameter and a statistic is known as

Standard error

Statistical error

Sampling error

Variance

27. Which of the following can be interchangeably used for 'sampling statistics'?

Inferential statistics

Descriptive statistics

Population statistics

Applied statistics

28. Which of the following graphs is suitable to represent the correlation between memory and intelligence?

Pie diagram

Stacked Bar Graph

Line graph

Scatter diagram

29. A young woman who conceived soon after marriage felt disturbed about her early pregnancy. She did not want to have the child so soon and wanted to terminate the pregnancy. But she could not do so as her husband was against it. After the child was born, she was trying to show lot of love and was indulging in taking care of the baby girl. This behaviour of the mother is termed as

Sublimation

Regression

Reaction formation

Rationalization

30. According to whom, intimacy is the common core of all love relationships

Sigmund Freud

Sher Shah

Solomon

Stemberg

31. The elaboration likelihood model is a cognitive framework to understand the process of

Social comparison

Planned behaviour

Attitude

Persuasion

32. A strategy for making judgements on the basis of how easily specific kinds of information can be brought to mind is called

Informational heuristic

Availability heuristic

Generalizability

Information processing

33. A type of conflict which involves two or more alternatives, each of which has positive and negative characteristics indicates

Approach-approach conflict

Approach-avoidance conflict

Multiple alternative-choice conflict

Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

34. According to Vygotsky, the range between what a child can do alone and what a child can do with assistance is referred to as

Higher mental functions

Scaffolding

Egocentric speech

The zone of proximal development

35. Classifying individuals into Type A and Type B personalities has been done by

Sheldon; Kretschmer

lung; Adler

Friedman; Rosenman

Kahneman; Morris

36. The word big is flashed on a screen. A mental picture of the word big represents a the definition "large in size" represents a code; "sounds like pig" represents a __code

Structural; phonemic; semantic

Phonemic; semantic; structural

Structural; semantic; phonemic

Phonemic; structural; semantic

37. Which of the following refers to Eysenck's characteristics of an introvert?

Peaceful, pessimistic, rigid, careful

Even tempered, sober, responsive, touchy

Quiet, passive, sober, reliable

Impulsive, relaxed, calm, reserved

38. Which type of mental ability is generally assumed to increase over the life span of an individual?

Fluid intelligence

Crystallized intelligence

Deductive reasoning

Inductive reasoning

39. If someone sees stealing as wrong because of the harm it brings to someone, which of the stages in Kohlberg's theory is displayed?

Punishment and obedience orientation

Good boy-good girl orientation

Legalistic orientation

Social order orientation

40. A mother and her infant son are being tested by 'Aisworth's strange situation' procedure. The mother leaves the room. When she returns after sometime the child displays his displeasure and anger towards his mother. This child is said to be

Insecure

Avoidant

Neurotic

Anxious

41. Which of the following refers to Short term memory?

Holds items for 2 to 30 seconds and holds about five items

Holds items for 20 to 30 seconds and holds about seven items

Holds items for 7 to 9 seconds and holds about five items

Holds items for 2 to 30 seconds and holds about seven items

42. Which of the following statements is totally correct?

Semantic memory involves remembering facts, concepts words while episodic memory is non-declarative

Episodic memory involves personal experiences while semantic memory involves cognitive skills like learning to read

Procedural memory is non-declarative while semantic memory is remembering words, definitions and language rules

Semantic memory and episodic memory are classified under non-declarative while procedural memory comes under declarative memory

43. A deviant form of pleasure that is sexual in nature, gained from subjecting oneself to pain is

Sadism

Masochism

Frotteurism

Fetishism

44. Social loafing can be reduced by

Increasing group members' commitment to successful task performance

Reducing self-awareness brought on by external conditions

The arousal and cognitive views of social facilitation

Common bond with members in the group

45. A client stated, "My therapist is wonderful! She always points out my positive traits. She dwells on my uniqueness and strength as an individual. I feel much more confident about myself-as if really growing and reaching my potential." The approach followed by the therapist is likely to be

Psychodynamic

Humanistic

Behaviouristic

Functionalist

46. The values of the central tendencies in respect of four distributions are given below. Identify the positively skewed distribution

Mean 20; Median 22; Mode 24

Mean 20; Median 20; Mode 20

Mean 18; Median 20; Mode 22

Mean 20; Median 18; Mode 16

47. In a distribution, the Mean is 10 and the Median is 15. What is the Mode?

15

20

25

35

48. Match the following

1. Libido Instinctual energy turned inwards

2. Schema ii) Intense preoccupation about normal physical signs misinterpreted as illness

3. Introjection iii) Facilitates perception, cognition interpretation using mental representation

4. Hypochondriasis iv) Energy regarded as quantitative but not measurable

2-iii; 4-ii

1-iii; 4-iv

4-iii

2-iii; 4-iv

49. A paradigm is

A shift in the behavioural pattern attributed to developmental factors

Stereotypical response pattern that is discovered through a new theory

General conceptual framework within which theories in an area of research are constructed

Specific theoretical framework from which an applied research design is constructed and tested

50. Heena is currently taking courses in several academic departments and doing voluntary work to help identify and develop her interests. She also spends a lot of time thinking about her values and goals but has not chosen a career path. Heena's identity status is referred to as

Identity achievement

Identity diffusion

Identity foreclosure

Identity moratorium

51. According to David Elkind, egocentrism during adolescence is most likely to be manifested in which of the following ways?

Creation of an imaginary audience

Unwillingness to share with one's peers

Cheating in highly competitive situations

Attention-getting behaviour

52. Information-processing theorists argue that one of the major changes that takes place from two to five years of age is

An increase in the ability to form abstract thoughts and use logical reasoning

An increase in the complexity and power of working memory

A decrease in the complexity of schemata associated with everyday experiences

A decrease in fluid intelligence

53. Although Sheela's seven-year-old son wants to stay up past his bedtime to watch a television special, she insists that he go to bed at the usual time. She explains that he will be too tired to do well in school if he does not get his rest, and she promises to record the show for him. Sheela's parenting style can be classified as

Uninvolved

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Permissive

54. If an individual undergoes a divorce and shortly there after manifests serious mal adjustment, the divorce may be termed as factor. If an individual is physically ill and loses his job, his circumstances increase the chances of emotional disturbance in him; such conditions are termed as factors

Predictive; compulsive

Precipitating; predisposing

Necessary; possible

Primary; secondary

55. The typology of personality based on physique and temperament includes of the following, and the typology based on emotional aspect of personality includes of the following:

A. Endomorphic

B. Mesomorphic

C. Viscerotonic

D. Somatotonic

E. Ectomorphic

F. Cerebrotonic

and

and

and

and

56. Match the following techniques used in behaviour modification and the procedures used based on these principles

1. Counter conditioning A situation in operant conditioning wherein each person keeps the other responding because the response of one is reinforcing the other

2. Covert conditioning ii) An organism discriminates between stimuli, giving a conditional response to one stimulus and not to a similar yet different one

3. Differential conditioning iii) When a negative stimulus is not actually present but only imagined by the fearful individual, conditioning procedures are applied to eliminate the fear

4. Reciprocal conditioning iv) A positive stimulus is presented such that it outweighs the potential negative response to the fear evoking stimulus

2-iii; 4-ii

2-iii; 4-i

I-iii; 4-i

2-iii; 4-i

57. In the area of measurement of personality, who are the pioneers behind the development of the following tests: TAT, Rep test

A. Murphy

B. Murray

C. Rorschach

D. Kelly

E.Sullivan



B,D



A,E

58. Match the following

1. Retrograde amnesia A condition where there is no memory for one's action

2. Fugue ii) Inaccessibility of memory because of unacceptability of the same

3. Consolidation Theory iii) Loss of memory of events actions prior to an accident

4. Repression iv) Changes in nervous system produced by learning are time dependent

4-iii

3-iv 4-iii

2-iii; 3-ii 4-i

I-iii; 4-ii

59. A stress scale has been administered to a group of 32 patients. It has been observed that the patients are in high stress. Therefore, they are exposed to a psychological intervention programme for 15 days to manage their high stress. At the end of the intervention, their stress scores have been measured again. To examine whether there is a significant difference between the level of stress prior to intervention and after the intervention, which of the following statistical test would you like to use?

Mann-Whitney U test

Independent t-test

Paired t-test

Friedman test

60. Match the type of reinforcement schedule with its definition

1. Reinforcement occurs after a set time period Fixed-ratio

2. Reinforcement occurs after a set number of responses ii) Variable-interval

3. Reinforcement occurs after a varying time period iii) Fixed-interval

4. Reinforcement occurs after a varying number of responses iv) Variable-ratio

2-iii, 4-ii

2-iii, 4-iv

I-iii, 4-iv

2-iii, 4-i

61. A person who renounces the world and practices self-discipline in order to attain salvation

Sceptic

Ascetic

Devotee

Antiquarian

62. Jagan wants to quit smoking and at the same time does not know whether he can and will really do so for ever. This refers to his state of

Certitude

Ambivalence

Indubitableness

Momentous

63. In certain psychotic reaction, creation of certain newly coined words, loosely using an established word or phrase in an entirely new way is seen as one of the characteristic features. Such usages are termed as

Word salad

Oxymorons

Neologisms

Neopalliums

64. A peculiar behavioural characteristic of an individual is known as

Pretentious

Ubiquitous

Idiosyncrasy

Delusion

65. Which of the following sentences is correct?

The management decided to go along the recommendations of the committee

The management decided to go on the recommendations of the committee

The management decided to go for the recommendations of the committee

The management decided to go by the recommendations of the committee

66. Identify the correct sentence

The student's of the school decided to go on a picnic

Whenever he speaks up in a meeting it reflects his colleague's ideas

Childrens play area should be colourful and attractive

The flat in which I am staying belongs to my parents'

67. Identify the correct sentence

The only lake in my village had dried up last year as there were no rains

I have reserved two seats in Rajdhani express for my planned travel but could not go

I had been trying to contact you since this morning but was not able to due to weak signals

I planned to go on a long holiday but could not able to go due to sudden illness

68. Identify the correct sentence

The Government imposed demonetization with a goal to curb corruption

The Government imposed demonitization with a goal to curb corruption

The Government imposed demoneytization with a goal to curb corruption

The Government imposed demontization with a goIe to curb corruption Find the synonym for the word in bold letters

69. People might quibble with different terminology of statistics. In general, the language of statistics is not as standardized as you might like, and sometimes different people will use different terms for essentially the same model

Satisfaction

Objection

Search

Comfortable Find out which part of a sentence has an error and mark that part

70. I did not want her to have spent(C) all her money at the fair yesterday

I did not

Want her

To have spent

All her money at the fair yesterday

71. We erect monuments in the memory of the great, lest their achievements might be forgotten

We erect

Monuments in the memory

Of the great lest their achievements

Might be forgotten

72. In the following item, some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to re-arrange these parts which are labelled as Rand 8 to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence

Question:

Nelson Mandela modem country in a modem wav and could run a shifted the beliefs of the people so they could heal the racial conflict

RSQP

QPRS

RSPQ

QSRP

73. In the following item, some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to re-arrange these parts which are labelled as Rand 8 to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence

Question:

Which of the following is correct?

The applicant has a taste for Psychology

The applicant has a taste in Psychology

The applicant has a taste about Psychology

The applicant has a taste on Psychology

74. In the following item, some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to re-arrange these parts which are labelled as Rand 8 to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence

Question:

Which of the following is incorrect?

Reena prefers this book to that

No one is more intelligent than me

He will accompany us

The king built a wall ten feet high

75. In the following item, some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to re-arrange these parts which are labelled as Rand 8 to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence

Question:

Which of the following is the passive voice of "Ask him to meet me"?

Let him meet me after asking

Let him be asked me and meet

Let him be asked to meet me

Let him to ask to meet me