EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND GUIDANCE MCQs TEST NO.4

The value that one places on one s characteristics, abilities or behaviours is

What we think and how we feel in our altered states of awareness is the subject area of:

Human beings are motive primarily by social urges and therefore human motivation can be explained only in term of a single drive or motive known as security motive:

Semantic refers to the:

Fred, a tennis coach, insists that he can make any reasonably healthy individual into an internationally competitive tennis player. Fred is echoing the thoughts of:

Bronfenbrenner's theory consist of environmental systems:

A form of communication based on a system of symbols is:

Gestalt is a German word which means:

Jim just barely avoided a head-on collision on a narrow road. With heart pounding,hands shaking, and body perspiring, Jim recognizes that these are signs of the body's fight-or-flight response, which is controlled by the:

In people whose corpus callosums have not been severed, verbal stimuli are identified more quickly and more accurately:

Memory that holds lot of information in a relative permanent fashion is:

Human behaviour includes conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious by school of thought called as:

Punishment is an example of :

Adopted children's similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to _______; adopted children's similarity to their adoptive partents I generally attributed to _________.

Jenny has brown hair and blue eyes and is 5'6" tall. What is being described is Jenney's

Approach to motivation that emphasizes personal freedom, choice, self-determination and striving for personal growth is

Which of the following approaches might suggest that forgetting to pick his mother up at the airport was Henry's unconscious way of saying that he did not welcome her visit?

Memory that holds the information from the world its original form for only an instant is:

For which of the following is Wilhelm Wundt primarily known:

The scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work with split-brain patients is:

Alterations in activity at dopamine synapses have been implicated in the development of:

Hormones are to the endociine system as______ are to the nervous system:

Which of the following is a statement with which Skinner's followers would agree:

The tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways is known as:

Main instinct picked up by Freud to account for all human behaviours in his psychoanalytical theory of motivation is:

A general approach that views learning as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering and using knowledge is:

Psychology's answer to the question of whether we are born or made tends to be:

Approach of psychology that focuses on the analysis of components of consciousness is:

Area of classroom where the greatest amount of interaction takes place is:

A neural impulse is initiated when a neuron's charge momentarily becomes less negative, or even positive. This event is called:

An individual perceives the things as a whole and not as a mere collection of its constituents:

According to William James, understanding the activities of mind for adjustment to the environment is important rather than the composition:

After repeated pairings of a tone with meat powder, Pavlov found that a dog will salivate when the tone is presented. Salivation to the tone is a(n):

The fact the psychologists do not tall agree about the, nature and development of personality demonstrates:

The sound system of the language, including the sounds that are used and how they may be combined is:

Learning in which students construct on understanding on their own is:

Willingness to begin new activities and explore new directions is

A technique that involves changing the level of support for learning is:

A spontaneous, heritable change or error in DNA replication is called:

The study of the endocrine system and genetic mechanisms would most likely be undertaken by a:

Sounds presented to the right ear are registered:

A setting in which the individual spends considerable time is:

Sense of self acceptance and fulfillment is:

The _______ lobe is to hearing as the occipital lobe is to vision:

Motivation associated with activities that are their own reward is:

The characteristics of language development at the age of 2 years:

Learning in which the consequences Of behavior produce changes in the probability that the behavior will occur is:

Bronfenbrenner's theory emphasizes:

The hindbrain consist of the:

A multifactorial causation approach to behavior suggests that:

Which of the following approaches might William James criticize for examining a. movie frame by frame instead of seeing the motion in the motion picture"

For which of the following assertions is the empirical evidance strongest?

Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:

A continuous process which never comes to an end is:

Leaming in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response is:

Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human nature?

The thalamus can be characterized as:

School of thought that focuses its attention totally on .observable and measurable aspects is:

McDaugall, maintained that all human behaviour could be explained in terms of some:

Clark Hull, through his drive reduction theory emphasized that in the form of stimulation gives birth to a drive or motive which in turn produces motivation:

Sam s wife always wears the same black nightgown whenevere she is "in the mood" for outing. Sam becomes aroused to go out as soon as he sees his wife in the nightgown. For Sam, the nightgown is a(an):

The way words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences:

The reason the SQ3R method is effective is that:

Memory in which information is retained as long as 3 seconds is:

Banduras social learning theory emphasized that most of what we learn is acquired through:

The unit of meaning involved in word formation is:

Critical thinking skills:

G. Stanley Hall is noteworthy in the history of psychology because he:

The roles of training and experiences for shaping and modeling of behaviour is emphasized in: