1. The part of Psyche that could be called as psychic inheritance according to Jung is

Ego

Personal unconscious

Persona

Collective unconscious

2. The greater the number of passive onlookers who witness an emergency, the less likely anyone of them is to help is called

Diffusion of responsibility

Bystander effect

Pluralistic ignorance

Altruism

3. Which of the following is related to Piaget's theory?

Pre-conventional morality

Object Permanency

Stimulus Generalization

Cognitive Restructuring

4. The problem with the research method using introspection was that

It couldn't be verified

It relied on expensive equipment

It ignored the level of the group

It didn't focus on mental processes

5. The experience of sensory events without any input from the surrounding environment is

Possession

Extra sensory perception

Hallucination

Intuition

6. Much of human behaviour is learnt by observation and forms a guide for subsequent behaviour. This is known as

Insight ful learning

Mental mapping

Social learning

Medial influence

7. Chutki is a four year old girl. She goes to pre-school and enjoys her time in school. During the week-ends she loves to use her mother's dupatta like a saree and plays in her tent house. She acts out like her mother working in kitchen. Talks to her imaginary husband imitating her mother and pretends that she is very busy. What Chutki does may be termed as

Egocentric behaviour

Sex typing

Fixation

Delusion

8. Social learning theory employs all of the following except
Observational learning
Modeling
The social context
Extinction

9. The quantitative characteristics of a population is known as

Measurement

Parameter

Statistics

Probability

10. Cognitive Dissonance theory was proposed by

Festinger

Fester

Francis

Feldmann

11. Chetan is five year old He loves to participate in the kitchen activities when his mother is busy. When his mother prepares rotis he helps her by making small round balls out of the dough. One day his mother wanted to use the dough to play a little game with Chetan. She asked Chetan to make two equal dough balls. When he did she asked if they were equal or one has more dough in it. Chetan looked at both of them and said they both are equal. Then Chetan's mother took one of them and flattened it till it looked like a small plate. Now she took the dough ball and the one which was flattened and asked chetan "these two are the dough balls you had made as equal. Now, tell me if both are equal or one has more dough in it. Chetan did not take much time to say that the flattened one has more dough in it. Chetan's mother was checking his conservation of

Size

Mass

Volume

Number

12. Children take in information from the outside world and convert it to fit in with their existing ideas and concepts. This process is known as

Assimilation

Accommodation

Enculturation

Internalization

13. Which among the following is not a criticism related to Freud?

Reliance on deductive reasoning

Usage of rigorous research methods and quantification of data

Subjective observations

Small sample, most of them from upper strata of the society

14. What is the mean of the given distribution?

X f
8 1
6 2
8 4
4 2
5 1

5. 5

6. 5

7.5

5.0

15. Which of the following areas of Psychology explains the statement -People have positive values, free will, and a deep inner creativity, which in combination allow us to choose life-fulfilling paths to personal growth

Cognitive

Developmental

Humanistic

Psychoanalytic

16. The theory that involves Consensus, Consistency and Distinctiveness as the dimensions that influence our judgement of others' behaviour is

Theory of Causal Attribution

Theory of Constancy

Theory of Connectedness

Correspondent inference

17. Identify the Psychologist associated with laboratory experiment related to 'Obedience to Authority'

Hebb

Schacter

Fechner

Milgram

18. Cumulative frequencies of data that have at least some rank order can be displayed graphically as a cumulative frequency polygon. This graph is known as

Histogram

Scatter diagram

Bar graph

Ogive curve

19. Large scale research conducted to identify risk factors that lead to the development of certain diseases is termed as

Epidemiological study

Longitudinal study

Chronicle study

Disease tapping study

20. Simple rules that reduce mental effort are called

Norms

Halo effect

Impact factor

Heuristics

21. A renowned cricketer was recently appointed as coach to a cricket team. He is struggling to remember the names of the players in his new team because he keeps mixing them up with the players from his previous team. The coach's problem illustrates the operation of

Retroactive interference

Proactive interference

Transfer-inappropriate processing

Parallel distributed processing

22. Raj appears charming, mature and sincere, but his behaviour is totally inconsistent with his words. He deceives and defrauds other people. He may be categorized under

Histrionic personality disorder

Paranoid delusionary disorder

Antisocial personality disorder

Bipolar disorder

23. In a normal distribution, the quartile coefficient of skewness amounts to

Less than zero

Greater than zero

Zero

One

24. Reduction in motivation and effort when individuals work in a group compared to when they work individually is known as

(a)Social Driving

Social Loafing

Social facilitation

Social modeling

25. A basic law of learning that states that the power of a stimulus to evoke a response is strengthened when the response is followed by a reward and weakened when it is not followed by a reward

Law of common fate

Law of strength and weakness

Law of effect

Law of spontaneous recovery

26. Sonu is a four and a half year old chil(d) He is very fond of outings. One day his father took him to the beach which is about 100 kms. from where they stay. Sonu had a wonderful time playing in the waves. He also saw the full moon in the sky. Since it was late they started their journey back. On their return home Sonu's father entered into a conversation with him. He asked Sonu if he enjoyed the sea. Sonu said he did He asked if loved the moon. Sonu said he did Then Sonu's father asked if the sea and moon were still there in the beach. To this Sonu said They are gone". Sonu is in

Denial mode

Cognitive dissonance state

Ego-Centric Stage

Ego-Defence mode

27. A group of 35 women is compared to a group of 33 men with respect to stress. To test whether these two groups differ significantly from each other, which of the following statistical test would you like to use?

Independent t-test

Paired t-test

z test

Friedman test

28. A researcher investigates whether the age of groups (adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and senior citizens) affects performance on a test of short-term memory. Because the researcher cannot randomly assign participants into the various age groups, this research is referred as

Experimental

Quasi-experimental

Semi-experimental

Naturalistic

29. A researcher wants to use a parametric statistical test. Out of the following which statistical test he would prefer?

Mann-Whitney U

Wilcoxon

Student's t

Chi-square

30. The study of behaviour in terms of general principles across a large number of subjects is called

Idiographic Approach

Morphogenic approach

Nomothetic approach

Structural approach

31. The principle that Jung borrowed from Physics and in his theory which refers to the tendency for oppositions to come together and leading to an energy decrease over a person's life time is called

Entropy

Dexterity

Refraction

Complex

32. Which of the following is not an example of a semantic memory?

Knowing that Pluto is the outermost planet

Knowing the chemical formula for salt

Remembering the definition of semantic memory

Knowing where you parked your car

33. I did well on the test because I am smart or I did poor on the test because I didn't get enough sleep. This is an example of

Self-serving bias

Distinctiveness

Discounting principle

Actor-observer effect

34. Which of the following statistical test does have the assumption of homogeneity of variance?

ANOVA

Friedman Test

Kruskal-Wallis Test

Spearman Rho

35. Which of the following principles is used in Token economy?

Classical conditioning

Operant conditioning

Insightful learning

Observational learning

36. The technique that allows researcher to combine the results from all previous studies on a question to determine what they conclude is

Meta-analysis

Psycho-analysis

Transactional analysis

Analysis of variance

37. Which of the following talks about the validity verified by comparing test scores with some specific standard?

Construct

Content

Criterion

Discriminant

38. For simple tasks, moderate arousal helps performance; for new or difficult tasks, low arousal is better; and for easy or well-learned tasks, high arousal may facilitate performance. This relationship between arousal and performance is known as

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Yerkes-Cannon Dodson Law

Lazarus Law of Facilitator

Schacter -Singer Law

39. According to Psychoanalysis, the principle that nothing in the psyche happens by chance and all mental activity has a prior cause is termed as

Psychodynamics

Deterministic analysis

Psyche principle

Psychic determinism

40. Suppose you have very vivid memories of your 16th birthday party, when all your friends got together and threw you a surprise party. Even though a number of years have passed, you may still recall every detail of the party, right down to what everyone was wearing. Psychologists refer to memories of this type as

Procedural memory

Flashbulb memory

Semantic memory

Deja vu

41. After extensive experience, information processing becomes effortless, involuntary, unintentional, and non-conscious. This is known as

Controlled Processing

Automatic Processing

Thematic Processing

Sensory Processing

42. Kanak is trying to remember the names of the cranial nerves for her anatomy exam. She read the names several times, and then tested herself on how well she could recall them. According to the serial position curve, you should predict that Kanak will show the worst memory for the names of the nerves

At the beginning of the list

At the end of the list

In the middle of the list

Both at the beginning and the end of the list

43. A personality type characterized by a general tendency to cope with stress by keeping negative emotions to oneself is

Type A

Type D

Introversion

Conscientious

44. Robert Sternberg views love as a triangle whose three sides include all of the following except

Friendship

Passion

Intimacy

Companionship

45. Rajesh is pursuing his (b)Tech programme. He has always been known as a studious student. Throughout his schooling he has been standing first in class. He obtained his seat in Engineering in IIT and has been staying in hostel. However, he has been showing bizarre behaviour for the past few days. Normally a reserved student Rajesh was observed to be very conversant with everyone. Surprisingly he was found to enter into arguments with his teachers and seniors. Instead of sleeping at night he was found to be playing in the football ground all alone. He ate large quantity of food in the mess. He called his childhood friends and talked to them for long hours well past midnight. Rajesh showed the symptoms of

Bi-polar disorder

Schizophrenia

Mania

Hysteria

46. A dying person would like to promise that if he can just live long enough to see his grandson married, he will willingly accept death later. This tendency suggests that the person is at

Denial

Acceptance

Bargaining

Depression

47. The belief that many organic and mental disorders arise from an interaction between a predisposition towards an illness and some form of precipitating environmental stress is called

Dissociation

Diathesis-stress conception

Counter transference

Nature-nurture transference

48. The branch of Health Psychology was launched by American Psychological Association in the year

1978

1988

1998

2008

49. Which of the following parameters can be found on the X-axis for a frequency polygon of a population distribution?

Kurtosis

Skewness

Q

Median

50. Which therapy used retroflection and deflection as its techniques?

Gestalt therapy

Rogerian therapy

Psychoanalytic therapy

Behaviour therapy

51. Identify the correct set of goals of Health Psychology

To promote and maintain mental health, to prevent and treat illness, to identify causes of illness, to analyse and improve mental health policies

To identify diagnostic correlates of health, illness and dysfunction, to prevent and treat mental health and to promote and maintain health

To anaylse and improve health policies, to prevent and treat illness, to identify etiology and diagnostic correlates of health and illness

To analyse and improve policies related to mental health, to promote and maintain mental health and to identify etiology and diagnostic correlates of mental health and mental illness

52. A Statistics teacher wanted to know whether all the students who were enrolled in Statistics class were regularly attending the class. He noted down the number of students who were present in the class for 30 days and prepared a data set. The data, thus obtained, fall under which level of measurement?

Ratio

Interval

Ordinal

Nominal

53. Match Category A with Category B

Category A

1. The ability to transfer one's thoughts to another or to read the thoughts of others

2.The ability to foretell events

3.The ability to perceive events or objects that are out of sight

4.The ability to exert mind over matter

Category B
i. Telepathy

ii. Clairvoyance

iii. Precognition

iv. Psychokinesis

3-iii, 4-i

2-iii, 4-iv

1-iii, 4-iv

2-iii, 4-iv

54. Match Category A with Category B Category A

1.Lateral and ventromedial hypothalamus

2.Overeating when stressed or depressed, going on food binges

3.Changes in blood chemistry or signals from digestive organs, which secrete various hormones

4.Narrow down a list of alternatives to arrive at a single correct answer

Category B

i. Bulimia nervosa

ii. Peripheral cues

iii. Convergent thinking

iv. Hunger

3-iii, 4··i

4-iii

1-iii, 4-iv

2-iii, 4-iv

55. WHO has identified 'top ten' leading health risk factors globally. One of the four sets given below consists of factor(s) not included in the 'top ten' risks identified by WHO. Which is that?

Being underweight, unprotected sex, vitamin D deficiency

High blood pressure, tobacco consumption, unsafe water

Alcohol consumption, iron deficiency, obesity

Indoor smoke from solid fuels, high cholesterol, poor sanitation

56. Which is the correct sequence of cognitive elements of play?

Sensorimotor play-Constructive play-Pretend play-Mastery play-Garnes with rules play

Sensorimotor play-Constructive play-Mastery play-Pretend play-Garnes with rules play

Sensorimotor play-Pretend play-Constructive play-Mastery play-Garnes with rules play

Sensorimotor play-Constructive play-Pretend play-Garnes with rules play­Mastery play

57. Match the examples in Category A with types of memory in Category B Category A

1. Assassination of a leader

2. Conditioned responses and habits

3. Birds fly, the sun rises in the east

4. How to ride a bicycle

Category B

i. Procedural memory

ii. Semantic memory

iii. Flashbulb memory

iv. Implicit memory

I-iii, 4-i

4-iii

1-iii, 4-iv

4-iii

58. Identify the correct answer

Hypoglycaemia is a condition caused by excessive sugar level in the blood of those suffering from diabetes mellitus where the patient forgets to take insulin as a result of which s/he suffers from bouts of vomiting, sweating, nausea and fainting

Hypoglycaemia is a condition caused due to eating a lot of sweets by a patient suffering from diabetes where the patient manifests the symptoms of excessive urination, excessive hunger and lack of sleep

Hypoglycaemia is a condition that a patient of diabetes mellitus suffers when the body's glucose level falls too low because the patient taking the insulin has not taken sufficient food and hence has· the' symptoms of excessive sweating, paleness, fainting and loss of consciousness

Hypoglycaemia is a condition caused because of low blood pressure where the patient suffers from breathlessness, excessive sweating, pain in the chest' and fainting, if neglected leading to a state of comatose

59. According to Cumming and Henry mutual withdrawal between elders and society takes place in anticipation of death. This phenomenon is explained by

Socio-emotional selectivity theory

Disengagement theory

Activity theory

Socio-cultural theory

60. Match the following

i. Idea that psychic energy that is X. Teleology
withdrawn from one part of
personality reappears elsewhere
within the psyche

ii. Idea that we are led by our Y. Synchronicity
ideas about a future state

iii. Idea that occurrence of events Z. Equivalence
is meaningfully related

iii-Y

iii-X

iii-Y

iii-X


61. Which of the alternatives best expresses the meaning of the word Delusion

False realization

False Illusion

False belief

False reality

62. Choose the correct spelling

Surveilance

Surveillance

Survelance

Sarveillance

63. Choose the appropriate pair of prepositions from the options that fits the blanks Shyam was indignant his friends. The professor was indignant carelessness

With, at

For, about

For, to

From, in

64. Ruffle: Equanimity:

Bewilderment: Confusion

Disturb: Balance

Interest: Astound

Flounce: Turmoil

65. Which of the following are correctly matched on the basis of antonym

Levity-Haste

Sequester-Separate

Punitive-Punishment

Plethora-Scarcity

66. In the game of chess when we check-mate, we the opposite king

Decimate

Decipher

Declaim

Decline

67. Kishore is a person who is shy, timid, and unwilling to face a situation. He is best described as

Diffident

Egocentric

Saturnine

Complacent

68. You need not brand me a Schizophrenic when I use the words such as podcast and spendy. Being latest additions to language, they are

Nexus words

Nascents

Necromancies

Neologisms

69. Which of the following is correct?

I expect to keep pass marks in Psychology

Sagar walked fast lest he should miss the train

Shyam is trying to acquire money by writing books

Here are three qualities of product; what quality do you prefer?

70. There are two sentences written below. If these two sentences are combined into one sentence using' although', which will be the correct sentence from the given options? I have been in Hyderabad for a long time. I have never seen such an event here before.

Although I have been in Hyderabad for a long time, I have not seen such an event here before.

Although I have been in Hyderabad for a long time, I never saw such an event here before.

I have not seen such an event here before, although I am in Hyderabad for a long time.

I did not see such an event here before, although I was in Hyderabad for a long time.

71. Which of the following is correctly matched on the basis of synonym

Prolific -Imitator

Hedonist -Pleasure

Nepotism -Self-disciplined

Scion -Ancestry

72. Which of the following term is most appropriate to describe a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work?

Tramp

Jogger

Itinerant

Wanderer

73. The Professor smiled approvingly when the students sought his permission for their programme, but gave no written or oral permission. His consent is

Tacit

Zealous

Complete

Impulsive

74. Choose the correct spelling

Quiescence

Quiesence

Queiscence

Quiesaence

75. What does the underlined word mean? Freud is regarded as a seminal thinker who brought a change in the field of Psychology.

Appropriate

Thorough

Original

Separate