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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.

A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status is called:
A Social change
B Vertical mobility
C Social role
D None of these
Correct Answer: Social role
Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society’s stratification system to another is called:
A Social change
B Social mobility
C Vertical mobility
D None of these
Correct Answer: Social mobility
Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs:
A Culture lag
B Social mobility
C Social change
D Social institutions
Correct Answer: Social institutions
A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power is called:
A Social change
B Vertical mobility
C Social inequality
D None of these
Correct Answer: Social inequality
The technique and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society is called:
A Vertical mobility
B Social change
C Social control
D None of these
Correct Answer: Social control
Significant alternation over time in behavior patterns and culture, including norms and value is called:
A Social mobility
B Social change
C Control theory
D None of these
Correct Answer: Social change
A hypothesis concerning the role of language is shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought is called:
A legal- rational authority
B Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
C Routine activities theory
D None of these
Correct Answer: Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
The nation of the criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets
A Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
B Legal- rational authority
C Routine activities theory
D None of these
Correct Answer: Routine activities theory
Which theory of social change would predict that all societies eventually experience the same kinds of social changes?
A functionalist
B conflict
C unilateral evolutionary
D evolutionary
Correct Answer: unilateral evolutionary
Which of the following theories is not macro nature?
A Functionalism
B Marxism
C Feminism
D Interactionism
Correct Answer: Interactionism