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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.

Which of the following would be one the key concepts of behaviorism?
A Individualism
B Unconscious
C Environment
D Self-actualization
Correct Answer: Environment
In regard to changing to changing answers multiple-choice tests, research indicates that changes tend to be more common than other types of changes.
A wrong to right
B right to wrong
C wrong to wrong
D None of these
Correct Answer: wrong to right
A multifactorial causation approach to behavior suggests that ____________?
A most behaviors can be explained best by single-cause explanations.
B data must be subjected rigorous statistical analysis in order to make sense.
C explanations of behavior tend to build up from the simple to the complex in a hierarchical manner
D most behavior is governed by a complex network of interrelated factors
Correct Answer: most behavior is governed by a complex network of interrelated factors
The fact that psychologists do not all agree about the nature and development of personality demonstrates:
A that there are many ways of looking at the same phenomenon
B the fundamental inability of psychologists to work together in developing a single theory.
C the failure of psychologists to communicate with one another.
D the possibility that personality may simply be incomprehensible.
Correct Answer: that there are many ways of looking at the same phenomenon
The tendency to view one’s own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways is know as: _____________?
A Behaviorism
B ethnocentrism
C humanism
D functionalism
Correct Answer: ethnocentrism
Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human nature?
A humanism
B behaviorism
C psychoanalysis
D structuralism
Correct Answer: humanism
Fred, a tennis coach, insists that he can make any reasonably healthy individual into and internationally competitive tennis player. Fred is echoing the thoughts of: ____________?
A Sigmund Freud
B John, B watson
C Abraham Maslow
D Wiliam james
Correct Answer: John, B watson
Of the following who was structuralist?
A B.F. Skinner
B John Watson
C Wihelm wundt
D William James
Correct Answer: Wihelm wundt
Behaviorism helped make psychology a __________?
A fad
B science
C specialty
D hoax
Correct Answer: science
Psychology is: _____________?
A the study of human origins evolution, and cultures
B the scientific study of behavior and mental processes of any living creature.
C a natural science integrating physiology and neurology
D the deductive study of forms and functions of human group
Correct Answer: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes of any living creature.