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Psychology 6096 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.

The side – effects of antipsychotic medications can often mimic the symptoms of which other disease?

A Huntington’s disease

B Coeliac disease

C Paget’s disease

D Parkinson’s disease

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Correct Answer: Parkinson’s disease

What is the name for a partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement?

A Anhedonia

B Amnesia

C Aphasia

D Ataxia

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Correct Answer: Ataxia

Defensive Pessimists set low expectations and ruminate over the worst possible outcomes; however research has shown that they perform similarly in terms of academic performance compared to which group of people?

A Pessimists

B Optimists

C Neurotics

D Extraverts

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Correct Answer: Extraverts

Which. if any, of the following statements about self-consciousness is?

A Carver and Scheier’s control theory of human functioning states that there are stable individual differences in the extent to which we attend to aspects of the self

B In control theory, if we perceive ourselves to have reached too high a standard of behavior, the personality system will increase the discrepancy between the standard and the perceived level

C Fenigstein, Scheier and Buss (1975) developed a self-consciousness scale to measure what they considered to be stable what they considered to be stable individual and difference in private and public self-consciousness

D None of the above-all are correct

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Correct Answer: In control theory, if we perceive ourselves to have reached too high a standard of behavior, the personality system will increase the discrepancy between the standard and the perceived level

Which dimension of personality can predict individual preferences for study areas, number of study breaks and performance on long vigilance tasks?

A External-internal

B Experimenting-conservative

C Neuroticism-stability

D Extraversion-introversion

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Correct Answer: Extraversion-introversion

Identify the FALSE statement relating to affects, from those given below:

A The way we feel can determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur

B The way we feel can be determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur

C Feeling angry anxious or happy might impact on any of the other types of cognition, changing the way we respond

D A dispositionally calm person will not become anxious even when the elevator they are travelling in becomes stuck between floors

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Correct Answer: A dispositionally calm person will not become anxious even when the elevator they are travelling in becomes stuck between floors

Students who experiences a persistent depressed mood after failing an exam probably have which type of attribution style?

A Stable, global

B Unstable, specific

C External, global

D External, specific

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Correct Answer: Stable, global

The extent to which people believe that they can bring about an outcome is referred to as________.

A Extraversion

B Neuroticism

C Self-efficacy

D Self-regulation

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Correct Answer: Self-efficacy

According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?

A Competencies

B Goals and values

C Affects

D Encodings

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Correct Answer: Encodings

The nomothetic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_whereas the idiographic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_.

A Introverts: extroverts

B Extroverts; introverts

C Similar; unique

D Unique; similar

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Correct Answer: Similar; unique

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The side – effects of antipsychotic medications can often mimic the symptoms of which other disease?

What is the name for a partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement?

Defensive Pessimists set low expectations and ruminate over the worst possible outcomes; however research has shown that they perform similarly in terms of academic performance compared to which group of people?

Which. if any, of the following statements about self-consciousness is?

Which dimension of personality can predict individual preferences for study areas, number of study breaks and performance on long vigilance tasks?

Identify the FALSE statement relating to affects, from those given below:

Students who experiences a persistent depressed mood after failing an exam probably have which type of attribution style?

The extent to which people believe that they can bring about an outcome is referred to as________.

According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?

The nomothetic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_whereas the idiographic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_.

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Psychology 6096 MCQs [All-Courses]

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All Topics 6096

The side – effects of antipsychotic medications can often mimic the symptoms of which other disease?

What is the name for a partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement?

Defensive Pessimists set low expectations and ruminate over the worst possible outcomes; however research has shown that they perform similarly in terms of academic performance compared to which group of people?

Which. if any, of the following statements about self-consciousness is?

Which dimension of personality can predict individual preferences for study areas, number of study breaks and performance on long vigilance tasks?

Identify the FALSE statement relating to affects, from those given below:

Students who experiences a persistent depressed mood after failing an exam probably have which type of attribution style?

The extent to which people believe that they can bring about an outcome is referred to as________.

According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?

The nomothetic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______whereas the idiographic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______.

The nomothetic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_whereas the idiographic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_.