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Psychology 6084 MCQs [All-Courses]

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 school of thought would be most likely to reject the method introspection to study human experience?

A Behaviorism

B Psychoanalysis

C Structuralism

D Functionalism

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Correct Answer: Structuralism

Psychologists employ a variety of tools and methods to study human behaviour which of the following methods to psychologists rely on to make systematic observations and draw conclusions about human behaviour.

A Speculation and common sense

B Generalisation and common sense

C Hindsight and experimentation

D Controlled Measurement and experimentation

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Correct Answer: Controlled Measurement and experimentation

According to the information-processing framework, which of the following is NOT true?

A Both the brain and the computer consist of millions components yet the behaviour of compute can be understood by studying the programs that run them.

B A useful account of human behaviour is considered possible by using terms abstract enough to transcend to transcend the operation of the brain’s approximately 180 billion nerve cells.

C From the human information-processing perspective, information delivered to the senses is translated into a cognitive code.

D Two types of processing which is conscious, and controlled processing which in unconscious.

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Correct Answer: Two types of processing which is conscious, and controlled processing which in unconscious.

the cognitive revolution psychology was a response to the limitations of which school of thought?

A Psychoanalysis

B Behaviorism

C Human information-processing

D Gestalt psychology

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Correct Answer: Behaviorism

Which of the following is FALSE regarding Piaget?

A Piaget argued that a child understands an object by acting on in either physically or mentally’ and thereby constructs knowledge.

B Infants develop cognitive structures or schemes, which are organized particular way of interacting with the environment.

C Cognitive structures of younger children, under the age of 7 reflect abstract mental operations.

D The Cognitive operations of alder children allow them to realized that conserved despite changes in appearance.

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Correct Answer: Cognitive structures of younger children, under the age of 7 reflect abstract mental operations.

Which of following statements is true of Ebbinghaus?

A He proposed an important theory about how memory works

B He founded an influential school of psychology

C His work stood the test of time as his findings were later replicated by others and many remain valid today.

D However, he was unable to convert (or ‘operationalize’) unobserbales mental processes into observable behaviour

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Correct Answer: His work stood the test of time as his findings were later replicated by others and many remain valid today.

Which of the following researchers had a profound impact in developmental psychology despite the limitations of his methodology?

A Sigmud Freud

B Francis Galton

C Jean Piaget

D B.F. Skinner

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Correct Answer: Jean Piaget

According to many, the founder of modern day psychology and first psychologist’ was: _________?

A Wundt

B Fechner

C Weber

D Helmholtz

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Correct Answer: Wundt

David Hume regarded the laws of association as being the mental counterpart of laws governing the physical universe. According to Hume, which of the following is NOT a fundamental law of association?

A Similarity

B Gravity

C Contiguity

D Causality

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Correct Answer: Gravity

Herman von Helmholtz (1821-94)?

A Investigated the speed of neural impulses

B Suggested that thought and movement do not occur instantaneously as previously believed, but that thought occur first, followed by movement

C Made Significant contributions to sensory psychology, especially audition and vision

D All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Which of the following school of thought would be most likely to reject the method introspection to study human experience?

Psychologists employ a variety of tools and methods to study human behaviour which of the following methods to psychologists rely on to make systematic observations and draw conclusions about human behaviour.

According to the information-processing framework, which of the following is NOT true?

the cognitive revolution psychology was a response to the limitations of which school of thought?

Which of the following is FALSE regarding Piaget?

Which of following statements is true of Ebbinghaus?

Which of the following researchers had a profound impact in developmental psychology despite the limitations of his methodology?

According to many, the founder of modern day psychology and first psychologist’ was: _________?

David Hume regarded the laws of association as being the mental counterpart of laws governing the physical universe. According to Hume, which of the following is NOT a fundamental law of association?

Herman von Helmholtz (1821-94)?