EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND GUIDANCE MCQs TEST NO.4

Sounds presented to the right ear are registered:

Bronfenbrenner's theory emphasizes:

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:

Critical thinking skills:

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

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

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

Bronfenbrenner's theory consist of environmental systems:

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

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

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

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:

Gestalt is a German word which means:

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

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

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:

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

Motivation associated with activities that are their own reward is:

Sense of self acceptance and fulfillment is:

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

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:

For which of the following is Wilhelm Wundt primarily known:

Willingness to begin new activities and explore new directions is

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

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"

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:

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

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

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

The thalamus can be characterized as:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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):

Punishment is an example of :

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

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

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

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

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

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):

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

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

Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:

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

A setting in which the individual spends considerable time is:

The unit of meaning involved in word formation is:

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

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

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

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:

A continuous process which never comes to an end is:

The reason the SQ3R method is effective is that:

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

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

The hindbrain consist of the:

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

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

Semantic refers to the:

A multifactorial causation approach to behavior suggests that:

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:

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