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.

A disease believed to be caused because of cell death in a brain area that produces dopamine:

A Alzheimer’s disease

B Drug abuse

C Epilepsy

D Parkinson’s disease

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Correct Answer: Parkinson’s disease

There is a genetic predisposition to the disease________in some people so it ends to run in families:

A Epilepsy

B Alzheimer’s disease

C Parkinson’s disease

D None of these

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Correct Answer: Alzheimer’s disease

The area of cerebrum that sends impulses to voluntary muscles controlling movements:

A Corpus coliseum

B Cerebral cortex

C Cerebral hemispheres

D None of these

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Correct Answer: Cerebral cortex

If a food causes sickness, or simply precedes sickness caused by something else, a learned________may result.

A psychosomatic illness

B taste aversion

C anorexia

D specific hunger

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Correct Answer: taste aversion

According to sociobiological explanations from sexual behavior, women seek out partners who will provide the most______.

A DNA

B Sex

C Parental investment

D Sexual investment

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Correct Answer: Parental investment

Current research considers human sexual behavior to be motivated by what factors in the brain?

A External sensory stimuli and organism’s internal state

B Pre-optic area and estrogen

C Interpersonal attraction and financial stability

D Intelligence and physical attractiveness

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Correct Answer: External sensory stimuli and organism’s internal state

Which of the following are actual factors confirming the involvement of the preoptic area in the control of male sexual behavior?

A Lesions of the preoptic area can elicit copulatory activity

B Electrical stimulation of the preoptic area can permanently abolish male sexual behavior

C Neuronal and metabolic activity is induced the preoptic area during copulation

D Small implants of the female hormone estrogen into the preoptic area restore sexual behavior is castrated rats

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Correct Answer: Neuronal and metabolic activity is induced the preoptic area during copulation

The pleasantness of touch is located in the_________.

A Human orbitofrontal cortex

B Human renin-angiotensin system

C Human hypothalamus

D Peacock hypothalamus

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Correct Answer: Human orbitofrontal cortex

Which, if any, of the factors below has probably NOT influenced human sexual behavior in evolution?

A Women might choose a partner likely to provide reliability and stability

B Women might be attracted to men who are successful and powerful

C Men might guard the partner from the attentions of other men

D None of the above-all are true

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Correct Answer: None of the above-all are true

Why do we keep drinking even when our bodies are deprived of water?

A Wide range of drinks available stimulate desire to drink

B We drink more when offered variety as opposed to only one type of drink

C Eating can stimulate drinking behavior

D All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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A disease believed to be caused because of cell death in a brain area that produces dopamine:

There is a genetic predisposition to the disease________in some people so it ends to run in families:

The area of cerebrum that sends impulses to voluntary muscles controlling movements:

If a food causes sickness, or simply precedes sickness caused by something else, a learned________may result.

According to sociobiological explanations from sexual behavior, women seek out partners who will provide the most______.

Current research considers human sexual behavior to be motivated by what factors in the brain?

Which of the following are actual factors confirming the involvement of the preoptic area in the control of male sexual behavior?

The pleasantness of touch is located in the_________.

Which, if any, of the factors below has probably NOT influenced human sexual behavior in evolution?

Why do we keep drinking even when our bodies are deprived of water?