NMAT SOCIAL SCIENCE SIMULATIONS (MOCK 1) 9.

Bandura’s work suggests that the best model for a

young six – year old who is trying to learn how to swim
1. When a car’s headlights shone in Allan’s eyes, he raised might be ……
his arm to block out the light. The _____neurons sent a. An Olympic swimming champion
information from light receptors in the eyes to the brain; b. A professional swimming coach
the _____neurons sent information from the brain to c. The boy’s mother
Allan’s muscles. d. The boy’s older brother, who swims.
a. Sensory ; motor
b. Motor ; sensory 10. A behavioral psychologist is interested in behaviour
c. Internuerons ; motor that
d. Sensory ; internuerons a. can be observed
b. is shown in major body movements
2. Proverbs often provide useful insights into a people’s: c. an organism displays voluntarily
a. value system c. legal processes d. can be inferred
b. political processes d. value origins
11. Intelligence can most thoroughly be defined as….
3. The behavior of heroin user differs from the behavior of a. The ability to memorize and perform well in school.
a person consuming alcohol is that the heroin user b. The global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully
a. is more likely to become more aggressive or assaultive and deal effectively with the environment.
b. can produced skilled responses to agility and intellectual c. The number of IQ points an individual receives on a
tests standard IQ test.
c. has a depressed nervous system d. Book of academic learning that differs significantly from
d. none of these real - life learning or street smarts.

4. Which of the following examples of social norms are 12. The most common sexual arousal appears to be:
folkways? a. visual cues c. smell cues
I. going to the cemetery to visit the dead on b. auditory cues d. none of the above
All Saints’ Day
II. performing one’s duties as head of the family 13. When faced with tragic situation, women are allowed
III. showing compassion for unfortunates in society to express their grief freely while men are expected to be
IV. Santacruzan in May quiet and stoic. This illustrates a:
a. I and IV c. II, III, IV a. norm c. more
b. I, II, III d. I, II, III, IV b. value d. folkway

5. Which of the following refer to patterns of beliefs that 14. Ethnic minorities, adolescent gangs, religious groups,
serve to guide, control and regulate conduct? and exclusive clubs for the elite are examples of groups
a. values b. norms c. mores d. folkways usually present in complex societies. They exhibit their
own peculiar or unique behavior which is tolerated by the
6. Any human action which is considered sufficiently out of greater society as long as they do not endanger societal
the ordinary so as to be regarded as unique or values. These groups fall under a category called:
unprecedented is: a. institution c. subculture
a. a deviant act c. an innovation b. kinship d. community
b. a diffusion d. an invention
15. Lou and Luv want to train their dog to fetch the
7. Multiple sclerosis is a disease that destroys patches of newspaper. First they give their dog a treat when he
the myelin sheath. This causes: approaches the newspaper. Next, he gets a treat when he
a. The interruption or slowing of the transmission of the sniffs the paper, then when he picks up in his mouth, etc.
neural message This method of training is called……
b. The complete stoppage of all neural transmissions of a. Satiating c. Extinguishing
the neuron. b. Flooding d. Shaping
c. An increase in the sensations that are felt by the
patient. 16. If Watson and Rayner had fine tuned Albert’s
d. The neural message to be transmitted too quickly for conditioning so that Albert feared only the rat, this have
the remainder of the neurons. demonstrated the concept of _____
a. Extinction
8. A goal of Cognitive Psychology is to b. Stimulus generalization
a. develop theories about how emotions function c. Stimulus discrimination
b. develop theories about how mental processes are d. Spontaneous recovery
organized
c. conduct experimentation on behavior data 17. According to Freud, we do not remember traumatic
d. conduct psychological studies of stimuli incidents in our past because:
a. They are too traumatic to be remembered.
b. Forgetting is motivated
c. We repress them in our unconscious
d. All of the above
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18. The philosophy of Gestalt psychology is that: 26. If one could influence the bending of a metal rod by
a. The study of psychology should be confined to the merely thinking about it, this would be an example of:
study of what is observable, namely, behavior. a. clairvoyance c. precognition
b. The whole is different from the sum of its parts. b. psychokinesis d. telepathy
c. Consciousness is adaptive
d. The mind has mental agencies that account for its 27. The preference of infant monkeys for the cloth
activities. mothers rather than the wire mothers even if the feeding
bottle is attached to the wire mother illustrate:
19. Which of the ff. is most accurate statement about the a. stranger anxiety c. contact comfort
determinants of human development? b. separation anxiety d. unconditioned love
a. The interaction between biological predisposition and
individual experiences governs development 28. Your alarm goes off at 7:00 AM and you must decide
b. Development results from combination of cultural and whether or not to get out of bed and go to class. Your
environmental influences ______encourages you to go ahead and sleep because
c. Biological predispositions combine with maturational that’s what you really want, whereas your ______tells you
time tables to determine development that you must be a productive member of the society.
d. Heredity (“nature”) is more important than environment a. id ; superego
(“nurture”) in determining the course of human b. ego ; id
development c. superego ; id
d. ego ; superego
20. Since the process of social interaction conditions as
individual to accept his social class, then its effect on 29. Jason gets candy every time he asks for it. Jan gets a
social classes is: candy only occasionally when he asks for it. Jason is on a
a. modifying c. replacing ______ schedule of reinforcement whereas Jan is on a
b. preserving d. reordering _____ schedule.
a. partial ; continuous
21. When a newborn infant’s cheek is touched by a bottle b. continuous ; partial
or breast, the infant will turn her head toward the bottle c. variable ratio ; fixed ratio
or breast and open her mouth. This illustrates the d. fixed interval ; variable interval
_____reflex.
a. Sucking c. Grasping 30. Long ago, teachers realized that publicly reprimanding
b. Rooting d. Feeding certain students only served to increase the need to
further reprimand them. In these instances, the attention
22. Archeologists have found evidence to show the that the teacher gives to the student during the reprimand
widespread use of local pottery wares throughout the acts more as a ________ rather than the desired ______.
Philippines during the latter part of the New Stone Age. a. Punishment ; reinforcer
This would imply that prehistoric Filipinos must have: b. Reinforcer ; punishment
a. already discarded their use of stone tools c. Conditioned response ; unconditioned response
b. developed new ways of preparing food d. Unconditioned response ; Conditioned response
c. discovered clay deposits throughout the country
d. had enough food and water receptacles for their needs 31. According to Piaget’s stages of cognitive growth, an
adult who makes decisions based on what fortune tellers
23. A puff of air to your eye will make you blink. If a bell tell him is functioning at the:
is sounded just prior to the puff of air and is repeated over a. operational level c. preoperational level
a number of trials, you will soon blink your eye when the b. sensorimotor level d. formal operational level
bell is sounded without the puff of air. In this example,
the UCS is the ________and the CS is the ______ 32. Under relaxed circumstances, most people remember
a. Puff of air ; blinking uncompleted tasks better than they do completed tasks.
b. Bell ; puff of air This is known as the:
c. Blinking ; puff of air a. Von restorff effect c. Greenspoon effect
d. Puff of air ; bell b. Zeigarnik effect d. Muller-Lyer illusion

24. Which of the following descriptions refers to 33. Which of the following is not a Gestalt principle of
discovery? perceptual organization?
a. combining known elements to produce something new a. proximity c. differentiation
b. spread of cultural elements from one individuals of b. continuation d. closure
group to another
c. initial awareness of existing but unobserved elements of 34. Which of the following is an example of negative
nature reinforcement?
d. all of the above a. A child receiving a candy bar after crying
b. A rat escaping shock by pressing a lever
25. Paying workers on an hourly basis constitutes what c. A teenager losing driving privileges for getting home
schedule of reinforcement? late.
a. Variable ratio c. Fixed Ratio d. A chicken receiving shock for failing to respond quickly.
b. Variable interval d. Fixed interval
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35. If a child does not stomp on the flowers in a garden
because she does not want to be punished, she is
probably at Kohlberg’s _____stage of moral development.
a. Conventional c. Post-conventional
b. Pre-conventional d. Unconventional
36. Two-year old Thomas plays happily as long as his
mother was in the room. However, Thomas became upset
when his mother left the room and was very happy when
his mother returned. A psychologist would probably
describe Thomas as being ……
a. Securely attached
b. Insecurely attached
c. In the middle of a mistrust crisis
d. In the middle of a trust crisis.
37. A child is conditioned to fear a furry black cat. Soon,
she becomes fearful of any black object. This response is
an example of:
a. negative transfer c. operant conditioning
b. spontaneous recovery d. stimulus generalization
38. In conducting her research, Rex examines early
childhood memories and experiences and relates them to
adult personality. Rex is doing researching personality
during the _____ perspective.
a. Psychoanalytic
b. Humanistic
c. Social cognitive
d. Trait
39. Which of the following are problems in experimental
research in psychology?
I. Demand Characteristics
II. The Hawthorne Effect
III. The Halo Effect
IV. Random Assignment
a. I and IV only c. II and III only
b. I, II, III only d. all are correct
40. Which of the following best illustrates heuristic
availability?
a. to determine whether someone is an accountant, I
compare his traits to the average accountant
b. to determine whether someone is trustworthy, I try to
recall instances of such behavior
c. to determine my impression of someone, I combine the
available bits of information to find an average
d. to determine whether someone is trustworthy, I engage
in decoding
41. The view that psychopathy is the result of inadequate
resolution of certain development stages rather than
learned ways of behaving separates:
a. gestalt therapy from reality therapy
b. psychoanalysis from behavior therapy
c. client-centered therapy from psychoanalysis
d. rational – emotive therapy from behavior therapy
42. Tolman believes that rats running mazes, through
experience, eventually build up____
a. A sequence of responses
b. A cognitive map of maze
c. An association with the stimulus
d. A strengthened behavior to a rewarding outcome
43. Losing one’s job, having three exams in one day and
giving a speech are all examples of ……
a. Indirect mass
b. Negative affective outcomes
c. Stressors
d. Conflict
44. Learning may be more difficult for deaf children
because:
a. the hearing area in the brain is connected to the
comprehension area.
b. they cannot imitate information immediately
c. they learn a private language which affects real
language
d. they have to learn with a reduced level of feedbacks
45. A subject attempt to name a card that an
experimenter is thinking of, the experiment is testing
a. precognition
b. clairvoyance
c. psychokinesis
d. telepathy
46. According to Piaget, a child has attained the concept
of object permanence when he/she is aware that objects
a. continue to exist
b. have a constant mass
c. have a constant shape
d. vary in color
47. Humanistic theorist believe that an important force
motivating individuals is a tendency
a. toward growth & self-actualization
b. toward effective cognitive conditioning
c. to recognized and categorized life experiences
d. to bring unconscious impulses to conscious awareness
48. If a conditioned stimulus (CS) consistently precedes an
unconditioned stimulus (UCS), the CS comes to serve as a
signal for the UCS and will elicit a conditioned response
(CR) that often resembles the UCR. This is a statement of:
a. classical conditioning c. complex learning
b. operant conditioning d. habituation
49. Which of the following are the two major criteria used
to identify psychological disorders?
a. Significant interpersonal problems and low self- esteem
b. Occasional inappropriate behaviour and socially
unacceptable impulses
c. Significant personal distress and inability to function
d. Occasional inappropriate behaviour and inability to
function.
50. A 13 y/o boy was brought by his mother to you for
diagnosis. He is unable to conform to social norms.
Sometimes, he is normal and even charming but more
often he lies and manipulates people. He has a history of
running away from home, theft and substance abuse.
What personality disorder does he most probably have?
a. borderline c. histrionic
b. schizotypal d. antisocial
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