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INDEX
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1. Jamia Millia Islamia 2021 6
5. Pondicherry University 2018 43
12. Aligarh University 2020 110
15. Delhi University 2020 (Applied Psychology) 133
16. Delhi University 2019 143
18. Delhi University 2018 166
20. Hyderabad University 2020 185
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27. Hyderabad University 2012 (Health Psychology) 271
30. Kalady University 2021 297
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Jamia Millia Entrance Examination 2021

1. Deepak is 34 years old. But his mind has (C) Dream Interpretations.
never gone beyond the level of a second (D) Transference.
grade child. Deepak would be classified
As______ developmentally delayed 8. Compared to traditional psychoanalysis,
(A) Mildly modern psychodynamic therapy is
(B) Severely (A) More directive
(C) Profoundly (B) More action oriented
(D) Moderately (C) Less directive
(D) More focused on the id
2. Rekha is 4 years old. The intelligence test
that would most likely be used to 9. Psychotherapies that attempt to change
determine her IQ is the disorder behaviour directly arc known As
(A) WAIS-IV ....
(B) WI -C-IV (A) Insight.
(C) Dove test (B) Action.
(D) WPPSI-III (C) Biomedical.
(D) Psychoanalytic.
3. Which of the following disorder is a type
of cultural sexual fear? 10. Which of the following types of therapy
(A) Taijin- kyafu- sho makes the greatest use of body Language?
(B) Susto (A) Psychoanalysis.
(C) Amok (B) Person-centred Therapy.
(D) Koro (C) Gestalt Therapy.
(D) Rogerian Therapy.
4. Which term does not belong?
(A) Bipolar 11. occurs hen people do what they are asked
(B) Dysthymia to do whether or not they Want to do it.
(C) Hypochondria (A) Normative influence.
(D) Major depression (B) Compliance
(C) Obedience
5. Which mood disorder is a consistently sad (D) None of the above.
mood? .
(A) Bipolar 12. ____ is the tendency to change one's
(B) Mania beliefs or behaviours in ways that
(C) Cyclathymia Consistent with group standard.
(D) Major depression (A) Commitment
(B) Compliance
6. When anxiety is unrelated to any known, (C) Conformity
realistic factor it is called. (D) None of the above
(A) Free-floating anxiety
(B) Panic 13. ____ is the subjective discomfort we feel
(C) Phobia when our social relations are
(D) Acute Deficient in quantity and quality.
(A) Social rejection
7. In a psychoanalyst encouraged the patient (B) Loneliness
to talk about whatever Came to mind. (C) Social integration
(A) Free association. (D) Jealously
(B) Resistance.
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14. ____- 1s the sharing of personal (A) Self -Esteem

feelings and information with another (B) Self Concept
Individual. (C) Self regulation
(A) Self disclosure (D) Self promotion
(B) Exchange relationship
(C) Social Power 21. The most likely predictor of the
(D) None of the above development of prejudice and
discrimination between two groups is the
15. ______ refers to the positive forces that degree e of between the group
cause members to want to stay in (A)Similarity (B)Conflict
Group and also to the negative forces that (C)Distance (D)Motionality
discourage members from leaving a group
(A) Cohesiveness 22. The theory attitude-to-behaviour process
(B) Social dilemma modal propose d by
(C) Social compensation (A)Fazio (B)Ajzen
(D) None of the above (C)Fishman (D)Krosnick
16. Social Support is an example of in the 23. On the managerial grid, managers
stress process. performed beat under style
(A) Demand (A)5,5 (B)1,9
(B) Resources (C)9,1 (D)9,9
(C) Challenge
(D) Anxiety 24. 'Balance Theory' is proposed by _
(A) Doob
17. ____ 1s helping someone with no (B) Leon Fistinger
expectation of reward or personal (C) Green Wald
Benefit. (D) Heider
(A) Altruism
(B) Empathy 25. If you express an attitude to a friend who
(C) Sympathy then provides positive reinforcement. Your
(D) None of the above attitude is likely to be _
(A) Weakened.
18. ____ is defined as action that is (B) Strengthened.
intended to hurt· another person. It has (C) Both (A) and (B).
both biological and social origins. (D) None of the above.
(A) Frustration
(B) Aggression 26. Who gave theory of cognitive dissonance?
(C) Disinhibition (A) Likert
(D) None of the above (B) Doob
(C) Leon Festinger
19. Which is NOT the Maslow's hierarchy of (D) None of the above.
needs
(A) Ego 27. If behaviour is assumed to be caused by
(B) Physiological internal personality characteristics, this Is
(C) Safety known as
(D) Esteem (A) Situational cause
(B) Dispositional cause
20. The collection of the beliefs that we hold (C) Fundamental attribution error
about ourselves is known as _ (D) Actor-observer bias
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28. Which type of light do rods responds . (A)Memogram (B)Engram

(A) Low intensity light such as at night (C)Sonogram (D)Pachygram
(B) Bright light.
(C) Sun light. 36. The best method for encoding long-term-
(D) None of the above. memories is probably to use is
(A) Maintenance rehearsal
29. Which of the following structures perform (B) Elaborative rehearsal
transduction. (C) Sleep learning
(A) Vitreous humor (D) None of the above
(B) Lens
(C) Retina 37. Memory can best be described as
(D) Corneas (A) A series of storage bins.
(B) A process of storage
30. Rods and cones are which type of cell? (C) An active system that encodes, stores
(A) Cell mutation. and retrieves information .
(B) Photoreceptor cell (D) A series of passive data files.
(C) Ganglion cell
(D) None of the above 38. What is the basic unit of sound in a
language?
31. Form of feedback using brain- scanning (A) Morphemes
devices to provide feedback about brain (B) Phonemes
activity in an effort to modify behaviour. (C) Semantics
(A) Biofeedback (D) Syntax
(B) Neuro-feed back
(C) Cognitive learning 39. In Gardner view, astronauts, navigators
(D) None of the above and artist would be high in _
intelligence.
32. Cognition refers to (A) Verbal/ linguistic
(A) Behavior that is observable and (B) Visual/spatial
external. (C) Interpersonal
(B) Behaviour that is directly measurable. (D) Intrapersonal
(C) The mental events that take place
while a person is behaving. 40. Sternberg has found that……. intelligence
(D) Memories. is a good…….. but has a low
relationship……. to intelligence
33. Seligman found many similarities (A) Practical; academic
between his 'helpless' dogs and people (B) Academic: creativity
Suffering from (C) Intelligence ,Practical; creativity
(A) Aggressive behaviour syndrome. (D) None of the above
(B) Mental illness.
(C) Schizophrenia. 41. IRS series satellites are used for which of
(D) Depression. the following?
(A) Communication
34. Who added the concept of reinforcement (B) Astronomy
to learning theory (C) Remote Sensing
(A)Watson (B)Skinner (D) Forestry
(C)Thorndike (D)Pavlov
42. Sunderbans in India example of which
35. The physical trace of memory in the brain among the following kind of forest
is called the
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(A) Dry Forests. 49. India's National Sports Awards includes

(B) Wet Deciduous Forests. how many sports awards presented by
(C) Tidal Forests The President of India?
(D) Deciduous Forests. (A) 2 (B) 6
(C) 3 (D) 9
43. The birth anniversary of which National
leader is being observed as Ra htriya Ekta 50. In which of the following the sound cannot
Diwas? travel?
(A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (A)Gas (B)Liquid
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru (C)Solid (D)Vacuum
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) VD Savarkar 51. Optical Fibre technology works on which
of these principles of Physics?
44. When is the International Day of Rural (A) Bernoulli's Principle.
Women observed every year? (B) Newton's law of Motion
(A) October IO (C) Total internal reflection of Light
(B) October 15 (D) Photoelectric effect
(C) October 20
(D) October 25 52. Louise Gluck. Who has won the 2020
Nobel Prize for Literature, belongs to
45. For how much time a person who is not a Which country?
member of either House of Parliament can (A) Russia
also be appointed as a minister? (B) United States
(A) 2 months (C) Australia
(B) 3 months (D) Germany
(C) 6 months
(D) 9 months 53. The foundation stone of Jamia Millia
Islamia was laid on
46. Which article protects a person's right to (A) 29 October 1918
travel abroad under Indian Constitution? (B) 29 October 1920
(A) Article 15 (C) 29 October 1947
(B) Article 21 (D) 29 October 1987
(C) Article 19
(D) None of the above 54. The Nalanda University was founded by
which Gupta ruler mentioned as
47. Who among the following is the ex- Shakraditya?
officio Chairman of the Council of States? (A) Samudragupta
(A) Governor (B) Kumargupta l
(B) Chief Minister (C) Skandgupta
(C) President (D) Chandragupta I
(D) Vice-President
55. Where is the headquarters of the Inter
48. Which country won the inaugural ICC Parliamentary Union (IPU) located?
World Test Championship (WTC)? (A)Geneva (B)Rome
(A) India (C)Paris (D)Nairobi
(B) New Zealand
(C) Australia 56. National public broadcaster , Prasar
(D) England Bharati , is a body?
(A) Regulatory
(B) Statutory
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(C) Quasi-Judicial (A) Median.

(D) Constitutional (B) Mode.
(C) Mean.
57. Guiljain-Barre Syndrome is reported to be (D) None of the above.
associated with which vaccine?
(A) Astrazeneca-Oxford Vaccine 65. Which scale has a true zero point md
(B) Covaxin constitutes the highest type of scale in
(C) Sputnik terms of meaning.
(D) Sinovac (A) Nominal scale
(B) Ordinal scale
58. K4 l 7N mutation is associated with (C) Interval scale
which classification of SARS-cov-2 virus? (D) Ratio scale
(A)Alpha (B)Beta
(C)Delta (D)Delta Plus 66. When the group is made up of individuals
of nearly the same ability it is ailed
59. Who was the first Vice Chancellor of (A) Homogeneous
Jamia Millia Islamia. · (B) Heterogeneous
(A) Dr. Zakir Hussain (C) Complex
(B) Hakim Ajmal Khan (D) None of the above
(C) Mohamed Ali Jauhar
(D) Maulana Mehmud Hasan 67. Variables are:
(A) Something that we can measure
60. W- World mental health day is celebrated (B) The main focus of research.
on (C) Something that can vary in terms of
(A) October 1 0 Precision.
(B) March 10 (D) All of the above
(C) October 15
(D) None of the above 68. What is type I error ___
(A) Type one error is obtaining a non --
61. Cumulative frequency graph is called significant result when it should be
(A) Histogram significant.
(B) Ogive (B) Type one error 1s obtaining a non-
(C) Bar diagram significant result by sampling error
(D) None of the above alone.
(C) Type one error is where we reject the
62. What is range null hypothesis when it is true.
(A) Measure of variability (D) None of the above
(B) Measure of central tendency
(C) Measure of progression 69. set up an experiment known as Stanford
(D) Measure of mode Prison Experiment
(A) Stanley Milligram
63. What is Speannan's Rho (B) Philip Zimbardo
A. Measure of correlation (C) Muzafer Sherif
B. Measure of dispersion (D) Soloman Asch
C. Measure of normal probability
D. None of the above 70. The is also called as small brain
(A) Cerebrum
64. The value in a series of observation (B) Hypothalamus
which occurs with highest frequency is (C) Limbic system
called (D) None of the above
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71. Which of the following glands secrets 78. ----- is the difference between the extreme
serotonin and melatonin hormones values of the variate.
(A) Thyroid (A) Dispersion
(B) Pineal (B) Quartile deviation
(C) Thymus (C) Range
(D) Pancreas (D) None of the above
72. The information is passed from one 79. If the same relative score levels are
neuron to another neurons by chemical preserved on the two measurements, the
Known as test
(A) Cell membrane (A) Valid
(B) Neurotransmitters (B) Reliable
(C) Nerve impulses (C) Connect
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
73. Which is the lowest part of the brain 80. Douglas Mc Gregor is associated with
stem? which of these
(A) Medulla oblongata (A) A.Two Factor theory
(B) Pons (B) B.Theory X And Y
(C) Cerebellum (C) C.Goal Setting theory
(D) None of the above (D) D.ERG theory
74. Psychological tests are connected with 81. The process by which inhibitory and
assessment of excitatory .p0stsynaptic potentials
(A) Personality only summate and control the rate of firing of a
(B) Perception only neuron.
(C) All aspects of psychological (A) Enzymatic deactivation
functioning (B) Neural integration.
(D) Sociability (C) Auto receptors.
(D) None of the above.
75. Content validity requires
(A) Item validity 82. A receptor molecule located on a neuron
(B) Sampling validity that responds to the neurotransmitter
(C) Both item and sampling validity released by that neuron.
(D) None of the above (A) Auto receptors.
(B) Neurons.
76. If 8 curve can be folded along a vertical (C) Post synaptic membrane.
line o that the two halves of it coincide It is (D) None of the above.
called
(A) Proper curve 83. on of a foundation cell that give rise to
(B) Symmetrical curve two identical founder cell is known as:
(C) Skew curve (A) Synapse
(D) None of the above. (B) Glia Cell
(C) Symmetric division
77. The coefficient of congelation between (D) Founder cell
the two sets of test scores is a
(A) Validity coefficient 84. Death of a cell caused by a chemical
(B) Real Coefficient signal that activates a genetic mechanism
(C) Reliability coefficient inside the cell.
(D) None of the above (A) Asymmetrical division.
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(B) Choroid Plexus. 91. Who was deeply interested in personality

(C) Neural Tube. and identified several kinds of trait
(D) Apoptosis. (A)Freud (B)Maslow
(C)Cattle (D)Allport
85. Controls the autonomic nervous system
and the endocrine system and organizes 92. During which of the following psycho
behaviour related to survival of the sexual stages the male child develops the
species. Oedipus complex
(A) Neuroreceptor cells (A)Anal stage (B)Latency stage
(B) Hypothalamus (C)Genital stage (D)Phallic stage
(C) Basal ganglia
(D) Fornix 93. According to Jung, the part of the mind
containing universal human memories is
86. ---- have both organizational and Called the unconscious.
activation effects on aggression in Males (A)Personal (B)Cognitive
and females. (C)Collective (D)Animistic
(A) Androgen
(B) Cortex 94. Which of Freud's parts of the personality is
(C) Serotonin most like a director?
(D) None of the above (A) Id
(B) Ego
87. Which of the following endocrine glands (C) Superego
releases sugar stored in the liver to (D) Unconscienced
Maintain the proper balance of sugar in the
blood? 95. According to behaviour approach
(A)Pituitary (B)Adrenal personality….. is
(C)Pancreas (D)Thyroid (A) ,Driven by unconscious forces.
(B) A set of learned responses.
88. The osmoreceptors located in the (C) Motivated by a striving for success
hypothalamus just above the stimulate (D) Collection of Specific traits.
The release the antidiuretic hormone
(ADH). 96. Rogers believed that in order for people to
(A) Pituitaiy Gland become fully functioning, they must
(B) Thyroid Gland Receive from the important people in their
(C) Adrenal Gland lives
(D) Pinal Gland , (A) Unconditional positive regard
(B) Conditional positive regards
89. Protrusion on the top of the mid brain, (C) Positive reinforcement
part of the visual system. (D) Positive modelling.
(A) Inferior colliculi
(B) Substantia niagra 97. In the Big Five theory of personality 'A '
(C) Brainstem stands for
(D) Superior colliculi (A) Agreeableness
(B) Anxiousness
90. _______consists of the portion of the (C) Anxiety
mesencephalon beneath the tectum. (D) Affectionate
(A)Hind brain (B)Cerebellum
(C)Metencephalon (D)Tegmentum 98. Which or the following methods would
never be used by a behaviourist
(A) Interview
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(B) Projective Test (C) Direct observation

(C) Direct Observation (D) Personality inventory
(D) Personality inventory 100. How many source traits did Cattel USC
99. bserver bias would be a problem for any in developing his personality inventory.
of the following method except (A)5 (B)16
(A) Interview (C)10 (D)23
(B) Projective test
Answer key
Q. NO ANSWER Q.NO ANSWER

1 A 51 C
2 B 52 B
3 D 53 B
4 C 54 B
5 D 55 A
6 C 56 B
7 A 57 A
8 A 58 C
9 B 59 B
10 C 60 A
11 C 61 B
12 C 62 A
13 B 63 A
14 A 64 B
15 A 65 D
16 A 66 A
17 A 67 D
18 B 68 C
19 A 69 B
20 B 70 D
21 B 71 B
22 A 72 B
23 D 73 A
24 D 74 C
25 B 75 C
26 C 76 B
27 B 77 C
28 A 78 C
29 C 79 B
30 B 80 B
31 B 81 D
32 C 82 A
33 D 83 D
34 B 84 D
35 B 85 B
36 B 86 A
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37 C 87 C
38 B 88 A
39 B 89 D
40 D 90 D
41 D 91 D
42 C 92 D
43 A 93 C
44 B 94 B
45 C 95 B
46 B 96 A
47 D 97 A
48 B 98 B
49 C 99 D
50 D 100 B
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Jamia Millia Entrance Examination – 2020

1. What is the theme of the World Sustainable 6. An example of an ‘internet search engine’ is
Development Summit, 2020? (A) Windows
(A) Towards 2030 goals: Making the (B) LINUX
Decade Count (C) Bing
(B) Sustainable Energy across the world (D) MS word
(C) Attaining SDG before 2030
(D) Energy and resources for all 7. India is a Republic which implies that –
(A) The head of the State is elected
2. What is the planned percentage of the (B) The country is free
government's stake in Air India to be (C) The country possess a democratic
divested? system of government
(A) 50 (B) 60 (D) The Final Authority in the country is
(C) 75 (D) 100 reset with the parliament
3. The Transport Department of which state 8. The ‘thickness’of Stratosphere Ozone layer
recently launched a helpline for women is measured in/on:
called ‘Damini’? (A) Sieverts
(A) Uttar Pradesh (B) Dobson units
(B) Maharashtra (C) Melson units
(C) Uttarakhand (D) Beaufort Scale
(D) Rajasthan
9. The use of microorganism metabolism to
4. The Prime Minister of India recently remove pollutants such as oil spills in the
inaugurated five Young Scientists Labs of water bodies is known as:
which. organisation? (A) Biomagnification
(A) Indian Space Research Organisation, (B) Bioremediation
ISRO (C) Biomethanation
(B) Defence Research and Development (D) Bioreduction
Organisation, DRDO
(C) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 10. Which of the following Indian States/U T
BARC has the maximum percentage of mangrove
(D) Department of Atomic Energy, DAE cover in the country?
(A) Gujarat
5. Which state has recently declared 2020 as (B) West Bengal
the year of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and (C) Andaman and Nicobar
has signed MoUs with tech firms for AI (D) Orissa
research?
(A) Andhra Pradesh 11. As of February, 2020, which country is
(B) Telangana India's top trade partner?
(C) Odisha (A) China (B) Russia
(D) Assam (C) United States (D) France
12. The term "JavaScript sniffers", that was

making news recently, is associated with
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(A) Authorization software 18. Municipal Performance Index (MP1), is an

(B) Malware index recently launched by which
(C) Encryption Software organisational Ministry?
(D) Firewall (A) NITI Aayog
(B) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
(C) Ministry of Industrial Research
13. What is the rank of India in the 'Global (D) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Flourishing index' released by WHO
Commission and UNICEF? 19. What is the rank of India in the recently
(A)91 (B)121 released International intellectual property
(C)111 (D)131 India 2020?
(A)36 (B)40
14. As per the annual "Nature Ranking Index- (C)42 (D)44
2020", which Indian institution is ranked in
the first place in the country? 20. Which country recently launched the
(A) Homi Bhaba National Institute ‘International Religious Freedom Alliance'
(B) Indian Institute of Science for protection religious freedom across the
(C) Council of Scientific and Industrial world?
Research (A)Russia (B)United States
(D) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (C)Japan (D)India
15. Which Indian player was recently named 21. When we conform to a group's typical
"Player of the Year for 2019', by the behavior to become liked and accepted, it is
International Hockey Federation (FIH)? called
(A) Manpreet Singh (A) normative social influence.
(B) Mandeep Singh (B) informational social influence.
(C) Harmanpreet Singh (C) ambiguous societal influence.
(D) Sheeraj (D) situational influence.
16. As of 2020, which Indian Telecom operator 22. A minority can sometimes influence
is the second most valuable mobile operator majority opinions if they
in Asia? (A) are extremely vocal
(A) Bharti Airtel (B) are innovative
(B) Jio (C) are in a laboratory situation
(C) Vodafone idea (D) remain consistent
(D) BSNL
23. The findings of Milgram's study suggest that
17. Which Metro rail service in India has obedience to authority, even if it involves
become the second largest operational metro hard to another person.
rail network in the country? (A) implies that the obedient person has
(A) Delhi internalized the authority's values
(B) Hyderabad (B) would be displayed by most people
(C) Kochi (C) is only possible in cases where the
(D) Mumbai person receiving orders identifies with
the authority figure
(D) is unlikely to occur in a democratic
society like United States
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24. According to Milgram, the potential for 29. The capacity of working memory
obedience is (A) varies widely from culture to culture
(A) probably a symptom of psycho (B) is seven items, give or take two
pathology (C) depends on the sense used to encode the
(B) probably built into the species by items
evolution. (D) is about 5 items for children and about
(C) a recent development related to the 10 items for most adults
occurrences of large-scale warfare.
(D) enhanced by models shown in the me 30. Memory span refers to the
(A) duration of storage in working memory.
25. The two neurotransmitters that are most (B) duration of storage in long-term
likely involved in mood disorders are memory.
(A) dopamine and norepinephrine (C) capacity of working memory storage.
(B) GABA and serotonin (D) capacity of long-term memory storage.
(C) norepinephrine and serotonin.
(D) dopamine and GABA. 31. A subject is read a list of nine digits and is
immediately asked to repeat as many of
26. Many of the symptoms of schizophrenia them as possible in order. This subject is
seem to be associated with changes in involved in a test of
dopamine levels in what areas of the brain? (A) the usefulness of mnemonic devices.
(A) prefrontal and mesolimbic (B) long-term memory capacity.
(B) basal ganglia and thalamus (C) working memory capacity
(C) hippocampus and hypothalamus (D) the presence of eidetic imagery.
(D) ventricular
32. Research evidence shows that the______ is
27. The key feature of borderline personality essential for long-term memory. While the
disorder is ______is essential for short-term memory,
(A) rejection (A) temporal lobes: parietal lobes.
(B) instability (B) frontal lobes: parietal lobes
(C) anxiety (C) hippocampus; hypothalamus
(D) depression (D) prefrontal lobes; hippocampus
28. Which one of the following statements is 33. Retrieval paths in long-term memory are
true about encoding verbal material in best created by
working memory? (A) using eidetic imagery.
(A) A phonological code is favored, but (B) elaborating the meaning of the material.
other sensory codes may be used. (C) rehearsing the material.
(B) A visual code is favored, but other (D) using non-emotional cues.
sensory codes may be used.
(C) Semantic codes are used more often 34. Autism entails-
than phonological codes. (A) Significant deficits in communication.
(D) Semantic codes are favored for written (B) Significant deficits social interaction,
words; phonological codes are favored bonding and play activities
for spoken words. (C) Engages in repetitive stereotyped
behaviors and self-damaging acts.
(D) All of the above
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35. The sensation that we know something and (C) in a particular orientation, in a particular
that it's somewhere in our memory but just place in the receptive field.
out of our reach is known as the (D) in a particular orientation and of a
(A) serial position effect particular length
(B) flashbulb memory effect.
(C) memory span effect. 41. When simple two-dimensional features, such
(D) tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. as lines and angles are combined, a new
object is perceived that cannot be
36. The stimulation of specialized motion cells understood by examining the component
appear to be responsible for our perception parts. The new characteristics are known as
of (A) emergent features.
(A) motion aftereffect. (B) connectionist features.
(B) motion parallax. (C) spatial networks.
(C) stroboscopic motion. (D) network detection features.
(D) induced motion.
42. A suitcase can be described as the
37. If you stare at the steps on an up escalator combination of a cube and an arc, a pail as a
for a short time and then look at the wall cylinder and an arc, and a flashlight as two
beside it, the wall appears to move cylinders and a block. These descriptive
downward because of what perceptual geometric features are known as
phenomenon? (A) connectionist nodes.
(A) absolute motion (B) hypercomplex features.
(B) selective adaptation (C) geons.
(C) relative motion (D) models.
(D) stroboscopic motion
43. When you see your professor in the
38. Perceiving a large dark object as a cow fills supermarket, you have trouble recognizing
which function of perception? him What best explains this?
(A) localization (A) The relations between geons are
(B) recognition contrary to your expectations.
(C) tracking movement (B) A familiar stimulus in an unfamiliar
(D) assigning causality context is difficult to recognize.
(C) You have used bottom-up processing
39. Characteristics of objects in the visual field instead of top-down processing.
such as shape and color are called ________ (D) Ambiguous stimuli are easiest to judge
features. in familiar surrounding
(A) primitive
(B) integration 44. Because of __________ you may perceive a
(C) illusory red ball on the kitchen table as an apple
(D) conjunction (A) top-down processing
(B) bottom-up processing
40. Simple cells respond to visual stimuli (C) feature extraction
which are (D) geon analysis
(A) of a particular length
(B) in a particular orientation, anywhere in
the receptive field
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45. Prosopagnosia is an inability to recognize (C) means

faces. It is an example of a breakdown of (D) proportions
recognition called a(n)
(A) agnosia 51. What is a research design?
(B) aphasia. (A) A way of conducting research that is not
(C) visual ambiguity grounded in theory
(D) detail deficit (B) The choice between using qualitative or
quantitative methods
46. Thumbing through a picture book, (C) The style in which you present your
identifying a wide variety of zoo animals research findings, e. g. a graph
would be good exercise for a child to (D) A framework for every stage of the
practice collection and analysis of data
(A) operational thinking.
(B) object permanence. 52. If a study is "reliable", this means that:
(C) conservation (A) It was conducted by a reputable
(D) assimilation and accommodation researcher who can be trusted
(B) The measures devised for concepts are
47. __________ is the degree to which an stable on different occasions
employee identifies with a particular (C) The findings can be generalized to other
organization and its goals and wishes to social settings
maintain membership in the organization. (D) The methods are stated clearly enough
(A) Job involvement for the research to be replicated
(B) Organizational commitment
(C) Job involvement 53. "Internal validity" refers to:
(D) Job satisfaction (A) Whether or not there is really a causal
relationship between two variables
48. _________ commitment refers to an (B) Whether or not the findings are relevant
employee's obligation to remain with an to the participants' everyday lives
organization for moral or ethical reasons. (C) The degree to which the researcher feels
(A) Affective that this was a worthwhile project
(B) Continuance (D) How accurately the measurements
(C) Theoretical represent underlying concepts
(D) Normative
54. In an experimental design, the dependent
49. If the content of a test looks as though it is variable is:
measuring what it is supposed to, it is said to (A) The one that is not manipulated and in
have high _______ which any changes are observed
(A) Content validity. (B) The one that is manipulated in order to
(B) Criterion validity. observe any effects on the other
(C) Face validity. (C) A measure of the extent to which
(D) Ecological validity personal values affect research
(D) An ambiguous concept whose meaning
50. Analysis of variance is a statistical method depends on how it is defined
of comparing the of several populations.
(A) standard deviations 55. What is a cross-sectional design?
(B) variances
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(A) A study of one particular section of 60. Which of the following is not a
society, e.g. the middle classes characteristic of quota sampling?
(B) One that is devised when the researcher (A) The researcher chooses who to
is in a bad mood approach and so might bias the sample
(C) The collection of data from more than (B) Those who are available to be surveyed
one case at one moment in time in public places are unlikely to
(D) A comparison of two or more variables constitute a representative sample
over a long period of time (C) The random selection of units makes it
possible to calculate the standard error
56. Survey research is cross-sectional and (D) It is a relatively fast and cheap way of
therefore: finding out about public opinions
(A) High in replicability but low in internal
validity. 61. The process by which rods and cones
(B) High in internal validity but low in convert electromagnetic energy into the
reliability activity of neurons is an example of
(C) High in ecological validity but low in (A) transduction.
external validity (B) feature detection.
(D) None of the above (C) sensory adjustment.
(D) accommodation.
57. Panel and cohort designs differ, in that:
(A) Cohort studies involve quantitative 62. What is the transparent, protective, outer
research, whereas panel studies are layer that is first point of the eye through
qualitative which light passes as it enters the human
(B) A panel study does not need rules to eye?
handle new entrants to households. (A) retina
(C) Only a cohort study will suffer from (B) lens
sample attrition (C) cornea
(D) A panel study can distinguish between (D) aqueous humor
age effects and cohort effects, but a
cohort design can only detect ageing 63. The purity of light is its
effects (A) brightness
(B) saturation.
58. Cross cultural studies are an example of: (C) wavelength.
(A) Case study design (D) hue.
(B) Comparative design
(C) Experimental design 64. After sound waves pass through the auditory
(D) Longitudinal design canal, they reach the
(A) eardrum
59. Accepting a false null hypothesis is an (B) middle ear.
example of what? (C) tunnel of Corti.
(A) Experimenter bias (D) oval window
(B) Type 1 error
(C) Chance 65. The smoke alarm occasionally goes off
(D) Type II error when you are cooking. The first time this
happens your dog whines and becomes
frightened. Each succeeding time the alarm
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sounds, the dog gets more frightened. The (A) validity

dog is showing what basic kind of learning? (B) reliability.
(A) dissociative (C) consistency
(B) associative (D) factor structure.
(C) sensitization
(D) habituation 71. The first attempts to measure intellectual
abilities were made by
66. In complex learning (A) Francis Galton.
(A) classical conditioning occurs. (B) Charles Darwin.
(B) operant conditioning occurs (C) Alfred Binet.
(C) habituation always is apparent. (D) Lewis Terman.
(D) something must be formed in addition
to simple associations. 72. The purpose of Binet's original intelligence
test was to
67. Because you enjoy talking with your best (A) identify the components of intellectual
friend, she can modify your behavior by processing.
refusing to speak to you each time you (B) investigate racial differences in
smoke a cigarette in her presence. She is intelligence
using an operant conditioning technique (C) identify children who would not benefit
called ___________ from regular schooling.
(A) negative reinforcement (D) determine how the intellectual abilities
(B) punishment of children differ from those of adults.
(C) extinction
(D) reinforcement 73. Spearman proposed that all individuals
possess a _______called "g"
68. Your prior beliefs about relationships (A) global abilities
between two variables may lead you to (B) general intelligence
make nonexistent but plausible relationships (C) generative capacities
called (D) genetic intelligence
(A) learned associations.
(B) spurious associations. 74. One of the most unique aspects of the MMPI
(C) conditioned responses. is that it was first major personality
(D) selective associations. inventory to incorporate
(A) a criterion control.
69. You have just found an well constructed, (B) neuroticism scales.
objectively scored. Each item on the test (C) validity scales.
correlates highly with the test taker's final (D) keyed responses.
score This test would have
(A) test-retest reliability 75. Which of the following is a major emphasis
(B) temporal stability. of a social-learning theorist?
(C) alternate form reliability. (A) consistency of an individual's behavior
(D) Internal consistency. (B) situational influences
(C) biological motives
70. A criterion measure is used in assessing a (D) self report methods of collecting data
test's
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76. One of the most important contributions of 81. Larry experiences short episodes of acute
the behaviorist approach to personality has and overwhelming apprehension or terror.
been He is experiencing
(A) an over emphasis of situational (A) generalized anxiety disorder.
variables. (B) panic attacks.
(B) recognition of the importance of (C) parasympathetic discharge.
environmental variables. (D) a phobia
(C) down playing the role of cognitive
variables. 82. An irresistible urge to carry out certain acts
(D) detailing the role of unconscious or rituals is a(n)
motives. (A) compulsion
(B) obsession.
77. Bandura noted that most behavior occurs in (C) delusion
the absence of external rewards and (D) phobia.
punishment so that most behavior stems
from 83. Patients evidencing OCD who respond to
(A) negative reinforcement. behavioral therapies and those who respond
(B) self-regulation. to drug therapies show reductions in the rate
(C) reciprocal dualism. of activity in the __________ in response to
(D) behavioral determinism. treatment.
(A) hypothalamus
78. The personality test that presents an (B) thalamus
ambiguous stimulus picture to which the (C) hippocampus
person may respond as he or she wishes is a (D) frontal cortex
(A) Q Sort.
(B) personality inventory. 84. ___________ is the inability to experience
(C) Rorschach joy, even in response to extremely joyous
(D) MMPI occasions
(A) A motivational syndrome
79. An analysis of brain structure functioning (B) Anhedonia
in mental disorders is among the interests of (C) An emotionality
researchers following the______ (D) Aboulia
perspective.
(A) cognitive 85. The top-down processing technique of
(B) psychoanalytic comparing our preexisting organized beliefs
(C) biological and knowledge to assess a new situation is
(D) cultural described as
(A) categorization processing
80. The ________ model of mental disorders (B) organizational processing.
emphasizes the interaction between a (C) explicational processing.
predisposition and environmental conditions (D) schematic processing.
encountered by the individual.
(A) behavioral-physiological 86. At a party you are introduced to Anthony
(B) psychoanalytic-medical who you know is a semi-professional boxer.
(C) humanistic-psychoanalytic Contrary to your expectations he is
(D) vulnerability-stress articulate, clever and charming. This new
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information will probably conflict with your (D) Recognition

preexisting ______________ about boxers.
(A) categorization processes 92. ___________ is known as "the father of
(B) stereotypes scientific management."
(C) priming (A) Fredrick W. Taylor
(D) organization processes (B) Henry Fayol
(C) Robert Owen
87. Current research suggests that the primacy (D) None of these
effect occurs because of
(A) the recency phenomenon. 93. The Hawthome experiment was conducted
(B) stereotypes. by
(C) top-down thinking. (A) William Gilbreth
(D) impression formation. (B) Hendry Fayol
(C) F. W. Taylor
88. Self-fulfilling prophecies arise because our (D) Elton mayo
stereotypes
(A) lead us to misperceive the actual 94. ____________ focuses on how to set goals
characteristics of those we stereotype. for people to reach
(B) affect our own behavior toward those (A) Equity Theory.
stereotypes. (B) Expectancy theory
(C) cause those we stereotype to dislike us (C) Goal attain theory
and, hence, to act negatively toward us. (D) Goal setting Theory
(D) lead us to avoid contact with those we
stereotype -thereby preventing us from 95. In order from lowest to highest, what are
overcoming our stereotypes. Maslow's Ove classes of needs?
(A) Social-esteem-physiological safety-self-
89. The task of attempting to infer the causes of actualization
behavior is called (B) Physiological-safety-social-self-
(A) attribution actualization-esteem
(B) detecting covariation (C) Physiological-safety-social-esteem-self-
(C) schematic processing actualization
(D) implication detection. (D) Self-actualization-esteem-safety-social-
physiological
90. Interring that something internal to a person
is responsible for his or her behavior is 96. What name is given to data which is made
called a(n) up of frequencies?
(A) innate tendency (A) Interval data
(B) internal inference. (B) Ratio data
(C) dispositional attribution. (C) Categorical data
(D) self-fulfilling stereotype (D) Ordinal data
91. According to Herzberg, which of the 97. The feeling of losing personal identity and
following is a maintenance factor? merging anonymously into the group is
(A) Salary called
(B) Work itself (A) bystander apathy
(C) Responsibility (B) diffusion of responsibility
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(C) conformity (B) factors that would cause subjects to

(D) deindividuation. rebel against group pressure
(C) differences between conformity to a
98. The lack of intervention by bystanders to group and obedience to an authority
emergency situations appears to be due to figure.
(A) conformity to social norms. (D) amount of public conformity that would
(B) diffusion of responsibility and defining be produced pressure to conform
the situation as a non-emergency
(C) deindividuation 100. When we conform because we believe that
(D) apathy other people's interpretations of an
ambiguous situation are more correct than
99. Solomon Asch's studies were specifically our own, it is called
designed to study the (A) situational influence.
(A) amount of private opinion change that (B) ambiguous societal influence.
would be produced by group pressure to (C) informational social influence
conform (D) nonnative social influence.
ANSWER KEY
Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer

1 A 26 A 51 D 76 B
2 D 27 C 52 B 77 D
3 A 28 D 53 A 78 C
4 B 29 B 54 A 79 A
5 C 30 C 55 C 80 D
6 C 31 C 56 A 81 B
7 A 32 D 57 D 82 A
8 B 33 B 58 B 83 D
9 B 34 D 59 D 84 B
10 B 35 D 60 A 85 C
11 C 36 D 61 A 86 B
12 B 37 D 62 C 87 D
13 D 38 D 63 B 88 A
14 C 39 D 64 A 89 A
15 A 40 B 65 D 90 C
16 A 41 A 66 D 91 A
17 B 42 B 67 B 92 A
18 B 43 B 68 B 93 D
19 B 44 A 69 D 94 D
20 B 45 A 70 A 95 C
21 A 46 D 71 C 96 A
22 D 47 B 72 C 97 D
23 C 48 D 73 B 98 B
24 C 49 C 74 C 99 A
25 A 50 C 75 B 100 C
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1. Cumulative frequency graph is also called 8. Cronbach alpha is a measure of which kind
(A) Ogive of reliability?
(B) Histogram (A) Internal consistency
(C) Bar diagram (B) Temporal coefficient
(D) None of the above (C) Coefficient of equivalence
(D) None of the above
2. Range is what of the following:
(A) A measure of variability 9. Normal probability curve has how many
(B) A measure of central tendency mode(s)?
(C) A measure of progression. (A) One (B) Two
(D) A measure of Mode (C) Three (D) Four
3. What is Spearman's Rho? 10. What percentage of area falls between the
(A) A measure of correlation plus minus one Sd unit from the mean?
(B) A measure of dispersion (A) 34% (B) 99.09%
(C) A measure of normal probability (C) 68 26% (D) 95.04%
,11. In which year Binet Simon test of
4. The mode of the following data series is: intelligence became Stanford-Binet test?
3,3,4,5,4,4,5,5,2,1 (A) 1916 (B) 1909
(A) 4 (B) 3 (C) 1917 (D) 1923
(C) 2 (D) 1
12. Reliability of a test is highest when the items
5. Out of the following which one is the most of the test is _____
dependable measure of dispersion: (A) Heterogeneous (B) Homogenous
(A) Standard Deviation (C) Mixed (D) Difficult
(B) Average deviation
(C) Quartile Deviation 13. Two major components of Construct validity
(D) None of the above are ___________
(A) Content and criterion related validity
6. In the presence of extreme scores in the data, (B) Convergent and divergent validity.
which out of the following is a better (C) Concurrent and predictive
measure of central tendency (D) Factorial and predictive
(A) Mean
(B) Median 14. In an experiment, the researcher is interested
(C) Mode in comparing boys and girls on the academic
(D) Arithmetic mean achievement scores, which kind of t-test will
be used?
7. The Celsius scale of temperature is at what (A) Independent group
level of scaling? (B) Correlated t-test
(A)Nominal (B)Interval (C) Matched group t-test
(C)Ordinal (D)Ratio (D) None of the above
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15. The sum of the deviation from the mean is (D) All are fertilizers
always ________
(A) Zero (B) One 22. Enzymes are
(C) Two (D) Three (A) Vitamins (B) Carboxylic acids
(C) Proteins (D) Bases
16. In which kind of the research design, the
researcher explores the event which has 23. In Gardner's view, astronauts, navigators
already occurred _______ and artists would be high in_________
(A) Pure experimental design intelligence
(B) Ex-post facto design (A) Verbal/linguistic intelligence
(C) Field experiments (B) Visual/ spatial
(D) Field studies (C) Interpersonal
(D) Intrapersonal
17. The Standard deviation from the following
data would be ________ 24. The systems of rules for combining words
2,4,6,8, 10, 12 and phrases to make meaningful sentence is
(A) -3.41 (B) 2.89 called
(C) 2.25 (D) 4:45 (A) Syntax (B) Grammar
(C) Phonics (D) Morphology
18. Number of testees who answered the item
correctly is divided by (/) Total number of 25. Which of the following is not one of the
testees who took the test measures physiological factors in hunger
_________ (A) Stomach
(A) Item validity (B) Pancreas
(B) Item discrimination index (C) Corpus callosum
(C) Distraction ability of the item (D) All of the above
(D) Item difficulty
19. Out of the following which one is not the 26. One of the main difference between
example of probability sampling? anorexia and bulimia is that the anorexia
(A) Simple random sampling (A) Never binges on food
(B) Stratified sampling (B) is obsessed about body weight
(C) Cluster sampling (C) Can suffer from heart problem
(D) Quota sampling (D) All of the above
20. Who gave the concept of t-test? 27. Which of the following is NOT one of the
(A) Ronald Fisher three elements of emotions
(B) Henry Garrett (A) Subjective experience
(C) Le Sir William Gossett (B) Physical reaction
(D) None of the above (C) Behaviour
(D) Attention
21. Which of the following is NOT a fertilizer
product? 28. The theory of emotion that states the
(A) Urea thalamus sends sensory information to the
(B) Di Amonium Phosphate cortex and the sympathetic organ at the
(C) Calcium Carbonate same time is the _______theory
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(A) James-Lange 35. According to Cattell, traits that are

(B) Cannon-Bard numerous and can easily be seen by other
(C) Schachter Singer people are called
(D) Facial Feedback (A) Surface (B) Central
(C) Source (D) Complexity
29. Developing a person's sense of being male
or female is called 36. In Big Five theory of personality, "C" stands
(A) Gender identity for
(B) Gender role (A) Conscientiousness
(C) Gender typing (B) Contrariness
(D) Gender stereotyping (C) Consciousness
(D) Complexity
30. The optimal amount of stress that people
need to promote their health and sense of 37. Which of the following is not one of the
wellbeing is called traits found to have a genetic component in
(A) Intensity (B) Distress studies of identical twins?
(C) Acute stress (D) Eustress (A) Intelligence
(B) Leadership ability
31. According to Lazarus, secondary appraisal (C) Antagonism
involves (D) Aggressiveness
(A) Estimating the severity of the stressor
(B) Classifying the stressor as a threat or 38. Which of the following methods would
challenge never be used by a behaviourist?
(C) Deciding whether the stressor is a (A) Interview
problem (B) Projective Test
(D) Estimating the resource a person has (C) Direct Observation
available for coping (D) Personality inventory
32. When people have to work harder, do more 39. Observer bias would be a problem for any of
work or work faster, they experience the following methods except
(A) Frustration (A) Interview
(B) Uncontrollability (B) Projective test
(C) Pressure (C) Direct Observation
(D) Conflict (D) Personality Inventory
33. The first response that people typically 40. Which type of assessment would have the
make to frustration is least problem with reliability?
(A) Persistence (A) Personality Inventory
(B) Increasing efforts (B) Projective Technique
(C) Personal (C) Subjective test
(D) Aggression (D) Observational Study
34. Who believed that traits existed as part of 41. Which of the following is not a type of
the nervous system behavioural assessment?
(A)Costa and McCree (B) Allport (A) Direct Observation
(C) Cattell (D) Rogers (B) Thematic Appreciation Test
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(C) Rating Scale 50. Rajya Sabha members are elected by

(D) Frequency Count (A) Lok Sabha
(B) Legislative assembly
42. Which of the following is based on the five (C) The people
factor model? (D) Legislative Council
(A) NEO-PI (B) MMPI-2
(C) MBTI (D) 16 PF 51. World AIDS day is celebrated on
(A) 1 December
43. When a light wave is reflected from a (B) 2 December
mirror, there is a change in its (C) 1 November
(A)Frequency (B)Amplitude (D) 3 December
(C)Wavelength (D)Velocity
52. Find the relationship as expressed in the
44. India's Space Rocket Launching Centre is given pair-
in ________ Circle: Circumference:: Square:?
(A)Portblair (B)Hassan (A)Volume (B)Area
(C)Kochi (D)Sri Harikota (C)Diagonal (D)Perimeter
45. With which of the following festivals 53. Find the relationship as expressed in the
Jallikattu is associated? given pair-
(A) Onam (B) Pongal Import: Export::Expenditure:?
(C) Vishu (D) Shivarathri (A)Deficit (B)Revenue
(C)Debt (D)Tax
46. Black soils are best suited for the
cultivation of? 54. "Where the mind is without fear" were lines
(A)Cotton (B)Rice by-
(C)Cereals (D)Sugarcane (A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Swami Vivekananda
47. Due to the outbreak of which virus did the (C) Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
WHO declare a Public Health Emergency of (D) Sardar Bhagat Singh
International Concern in February 2016
(A) Zika (B) Ebola 55. Pyorrhoea is a disease of the
(C) Swine flu (D) Chikungunya (A)Nose (B)Gums
(C)Heart (D)Lungs
48. VAT is imposed-
(A) Directly on consumer 56. Which committee has recommended change
(B) On the first stage of production in the structure and ecosystem in the Indian
(C) On all stages between production and cricket board?
sale (A) RM Lodha committee
(D) On final stage of production (B) Kirit Parikh committee
(C) Bibek Debray committee
49. Sigmund Freud began his professional (D) Naresh Chandra committee
career as a
(A) Neurologist (B) Psychiatrist 57. Which car brand was sold to Peugeot
(C) Psychoanalyst (D) Philosopher recently (2017)?
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(A)Datsun (B)Maruti 64. In the definition of Psychology, mental

(C)Ambassador (D)Fiat processes means
(A) Internal, covert processes
58. Which telecom company launched its first (B) Outward behaviour
payment bank on 12th Jan 2017? (C) Overt actions and reactions
(D) Only animal behaviour
(A) Vodafone (B) Airtel
(C) Idea (D) None of the above 65. Who is the most associated with the
techniques of introspection
59. Dronacharya Award is given for excellence (A)Wundt (B)James
in ________ (C)Walton (D)Wertheimer
(A) Literacy Work 66. The entire group that a researcher is

(B) Social Service interested is called a
(C) Coaching in Sports (A) Sample (B) Subject pool
(D) Journalism (C) Population (D) Survey
60. Carrot is orange in colour because? 67. Double blind studies control for
(A) It grows in the soil (A) The placebo effect
(B) It is not exposed to sunlight (B) The experimenter effect
(C) It contains carotene (C) Extrinsic motivation
(D) The entire plant is orange in colour (D) The placebo effect and the experimenter
effect.
61. Which perspective is known as the "third
force" in Psychology 68. In the structure of the neuron, the
(A) Psychoanalysis __________ sends the information to other
(B) Behaviourism cells
(C) Cognitive Psychology (A)Axon (B)Cytoplasm
(D) Humanism (C)Soma (D)Myelin.
62. Which of the following historical 69. Learning is ___________

perspective gave rise to the evolutionary (A) Any temporary change in the behaviour
perspective? (B) A change in behaviour due to
(A) Behaviourism maturation
(B) Structuralism (C) Any permanent change in behaviour
(C) Psychoanalysis brought about by experience
(D) Functionalism (D) Any permanent change in behaviour
due to maturation
63. Critical thinking means making judgments
based on 70. Who added the concept of reinforcement to
(A) Emotional issues learning theory?
(B) Keeping a closed mind (A) Watson (B) Thorndike
(C) Reason and logical evaluation. (C) Skinner (D) Pavlov
(D) Authority and expertise.
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71. The physical trace of memory in the brain (C) Fetal period
is called the (D) Last trimester period
(A)Memogram (B)Engram
(C)Sonogram (D)Pachygram 78. Using the Stanford-Binet formula, what IQ
would a person have whose mental age is 20
and whose chronological age is 20.
(A)150 (B)1.50
72. In Erikson’s __________ stage of (C)50 (D)None of the above
Psychosocial development, the child learns
self control and begins to feel more 79. Sonu is four year old. The intelligence test
comfortable that would most likely be used to determine
(A) Trust vs. mistrust his IQ is
(B) Autonomy vs. shame and doubt (A)WAIS-IV (B)WISC-IV
(C) Initiative vs guilt (C)WPPSI (D)Dove test
(D) Industry vs. inferiority
80. According to Spearman, a traditional IQ test
would most likely measure
73. According to Kohlberg, most adolescents (A) Practical intelligence
are at the __________ level of maturity (B) Specific intelligence
(A) Pre-conventional (C) General intelligence
(B) Conventional (D) Emotional intelligence
(C) Post-conventional
81. The study of the inherited portions of
(D) Preliminary
personality is called
74. In Erikson's last crises, the life review is (A) Twin studies
(A) A process of assigning blame (B) Behavioral genetics
(B) Looking back on the life one has lives (C) Adoptive studies
(C) An analysis of one’s parent’s lives (D) Adoptive genetics
(D) The writing a biography
82. The Rorschach test has people
75. Difference between age groups would
cause the most serious problems for which (A) Tell stories about a picture with people
developmental research method in it.
(A) Longitudinal (B) Answer hundreds of questions about
(B) Cross-cultural their feelings and thoughts
(C) Cross-sectional (C) Perform tasks while an observer
(D) Cross-sequential
watches through a one way mirror
(D) Look at ambiguous visual stimuli and
76. Which of the newborn's series is the most tell what they think it is.
fully developed at birth?
(A) Hearing (B) Vision 83. How many source traits did Cattell use in
(C) Smell (D) Touch developing his personality?
(A)5 (B)10
77. The critical period for pregnancy is the (C)16 (D)23
(A) Germinal period
(B) Embryonic period
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84. The striving for fulfillment of one's 91. Memories of specific things that have
potential is called happened to a person are kept in _________
(A)Self-concept (B) Self-efficacy (A) Episodic memory
(C)Self Actualization (D) The ideal Self (B) Semantic memory
(C) Long-term memory
85. For Bandura, one of the most important (D) Short-term memory
person variables in determining personality
is 92. Dyslexia is associated with
(A) Self Efficacy (A) Mental disorder
(B) Self Control (B) Mathematical disorder
(C) Self Determination (C) Reading disorder
(D) Self-Motivation (D) Behavioral disorder
86. Research has begun to show some support 93. The stage in which a child begins to think
for which of Freud's concepts? logically about objects and events are known
(A) The existence of an id, ego, and as
superego (A) Sensory-motor stage
(B) The order of the psychosexual stages (B) Formal operational stage
(C) The concept of an unconscious mind (C) Pre-operational stage
(D) The existence of the Oedipus complex (D) Concrete operational stage
87. Which structure of the personality, 94. The hallucinations of schizophrenic are most
according to Freud, works on the reality likely to be
principle? (A) Auditory (B) Visual
(A)Id (B)Ego (C) Tactual (D) Olfactory
(C)Superego (D)Libido
95. Theory of cognitive dissonance was offered
88. Freud's emphasis on sex and sexual by:
development was mostly due to (A) Skinner (B) Bandura
(A) His own problems with sexuality (C) Festinger (D) None of these
(B) The culture within which he and his
patients existed at the time 96. Maintenance of an internal biological
(C) An increase in sexual deviancy across balance is called
Europe in 19th century. (A) Instinct (B) Need
(D) The influence of his colleagues. (C) Homeostasis (D) None of these
89. Physical attractiveness is most involved in 97. Systematic desensitization is used in

which of the following aspects of treatment of
persuasion? (A) Schizophrenia
(A)The source (B)The message (B) Mood disorders
(C)The audience (D)The Media (C) Phobias
(D) Somatoform disorders
90. The area of the brain that is most involved
in aggression is the 98. John B. Watson is best known as the
(A) Amygdala (B) Pineal Body founder of
(C) Cerebellum (C) Cortex
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(A)Behaviorism (B)Functionalism (C) Discrimination

(C)Rationalism (D)Structuralism (D) Spontaneous recovery
99. Conditioned response may be eliminated by 100. Axis III in DSM-IV address:
withdrawing reinforcement. This is known (A) The major abnormal disorders
as: (B) Primary personality disorders
(A) Stimulus generalization (C) WC Physical disorders
(B) Extinction (D) coding general medical conditions
ANSWER KEY

1 A 26 A 51 A 76 A
2 A 27 D 52 D 77 C
3 A 28 B 53 B 78 D
4 A 29 A 54 C 79 B
5 A 30 D 55 B 80 C
6 B 31 D 56 A 81 B
7 B 32 C 57 C 82 D
8 A 33 A 58 B 83 C
9 A 34 C 59 C 84 C
10 C 35 A 60 C 85 A
11 A 36 A 61 D 86 C
12 B 37 C 62 D 87 B
13 B 38 B 63 C 88 B
14 A 39 D 64 A 89 A
15 A 40 D 65 A 90 A
16 B 41 B 66 C 91 A
17 A 42 A 67 A 92 C
18 D 43 B 68 A 93 D
19 D 44 D 69 C 94 A
20 C 45 B 70 C 95 C
21 D 46 A 71 B 96 C
22 C 47 A 72 B 97 C
23 B 48 C 73 B 98 A
24 A 49 A 74 B 99 B
25 C 50 B 75 C 100 D
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1. Which among the following branches of (A)Observation (B)Interview

Psychology specifically studies behavior in (C)Field study (D)Case study
relation to genetic inheritance?
(A) Evolutionary psychology 7. Who among the following study how
(B) Developmental psychology psychological processes may differ among
(C) Health psychology people of different cultures?
(D) Experimental Psychology (A) Cultural psychologists
(B) Cross-cultural psychologists
2. Which among the following Schools of (C) Social psychologists
Thought used Introspection as a method of (D) None of the above
analysis?
(A) Functionalism 8. Double-Blind Study refers to:
(B) Behaviorism (A) An experimental procedure in which
(C) Structuralism both researchers and participants are
(D) Psychoanalysis uninformed about the nature of the
independent variable.
3. Who among the following is credited with (B) A study where participants are
the book titled Principals of Psychology? uninformed about the dependent
(A) Wilhelm Wundt variable under study.
(B) William James (C) An experimental procedure in which
(C) B.F. Skinner part of the information about the nature
(D) None of the above of the study is withheld from the
participants
4. Who among the following was the first (D) A study where one group of participants
female president of the American is subjected to place of effect
Psychological Association (APA)?
(A) Margaret Floy Washburn 9. Chemical messengers that relay neural
(B) Leta Stetter Hollingworth messages across the synapse are known as:
(C) Karen Homey (A) Neurotransmitters
(D) Mary Calkins (B) Hormones
(C) Neural chemicals
5. Which among the following suggests that all (D) Synaptic vesicles
individuals posses an innate tendency to
grow and develop? 10. The ability of brain to adapt or modify itself
(A) Psychodynamic perspective as the result of experience is known as:
(B) Humanistic perspective (A) Maturation
(C) Cognitive perspective (B) Plasticity
(D) All of the above (C) Neural growth
(D) Both a & c
6. The following involves an in-depth,
comprehensive, and intensive investigation
of an individual or small group of people:
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11. Neurons that communicate information 17. Salivation and eye blinks are examples of:
from the nervous system to muscles and (A) Reflexes
glands are known as: (B) Biological responses
(A) Sensory neurons (C) Acquisition
(B) Inter-neurons (D) Physiological reactions
(C) Mirror neurons
(D) Motor neurons 18. A program in which reinforcement depends
on pre-decided number of correct responses
12. Which among the following regulates brain is known as:
activity during sleep and dreaming? (A) Fixed interval schedule
(A) Medulla (B) Variable Interval Schedule
(B) Cerebral cortex (C) Variable Ratio Schedule
(C) Pons (D) Fixed Ratio schedule
(D) Spinal chord
19. Instinctive Drift refers to:
13. What section of a nerve cell receives (A) The tendency of an organism's innate
incoming information? responses to interfere with learned
(A) Axon behavior.
(B) Terminal button (B) The tendency of an organism to pay
(C) Synapse attention to multiple stimuli at the same
(D) Dendrite time.
(C) The tendency of an organism to respond
14. Transformation of stimulus information to multiple stimuli instinctively.
into nerve signals by the sense organs such (D) All of the above.
as eyes, ears, and nose is known as:
(A) Perception 20. A highly preferred activity used to reinforce
(B) Sensation a least preferred activity is known as:
(C) Transduction (A) Token economy
(D) All of the above (B) Secondary reinforce
(C) Premack principle
15. According to Signal Detection Theory, the (D) Chaining
process of sensation of a particular stimulus
depends on: 21. The application of an aversive stimulus after
(A) Characteristics of the stimulus, a response is known as:
(B) Background stimulation (A) Negative reinforcement
(C) Detector (B) Aversion training
(D) All of the above (C) Negative punishment
(D) Positive punishment
16. The Gestalt principles suggesting that
human brains prefer to group stimulus 22. The concept of Insight Learning was
elements together to form a percept are popularized by:
known as: (A) Ivan Pavlov
(A) Laws of perception (B) J. B. Watson
(B) Law of Figure-ground relationship (C) Wolfgang Kohler
(C) Laws of perceptual organization. (D) B. F. Skinner
(D) Laws of perceptual set
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23. Which among the following are true about (C) Language Acquisition Region
Cognitive Learning? (D) Language Acquisition Mechanism
(A) Inferences are made about mental
processes that are not directly 29. In Piaget's theory, the inability to realize that
observable. there are other viewpoints beside one's own
(B) Learning involves. insight, is known as:
observational learning, cognitive maps, (A) Egocentricism
and other more complex forms of (B) Object permanence
learning. (C) Mental representation
(C) Developed as a rebellion against the (D) Assimilation
narrow perspective of behaviorism
(D) All of the above. 30. The authoritative style of parenting is
characterized by:
24. The inability to remember events during the (A) Parent permits child to make decisions
first two or three years of life known as: in accord with developmental readiness,
(A) Early amnesia listen to child's viewpoint
(B) Childhood amnesia (B) Parent is warm, attentive and sensitive
(C) Long-term amnesia to child's needs and interests.
(D) None of the above (C) Parent is warm, but may spoil the child.
(D) Both A & B
25. Which among the following are common in
highly emotional experiences? 31. When one engages in an activity regardless
(A) Working memory of an external reward, the behavior is guided
(B) Semantic memory by:
(C) Flashbulb memory (A) Need for achievement
(D) Sensory memory (B) Intrinsic motivation
(C) Extrinsic motivation
26. Cognitive strategies or "rules of thumb" (D) None of the above
used as shortcuts to solve complex mental
tasks are known as: 32. A socially acceptable reason for actions that
(A) Heuristics are really based on motives believed to be
(B) Algorithms socially unacceptable is known as:
(C) Cognitive maps (A) Rationalization
(D) Scripting (B) Reaction Formation
(C) Sublimation
27. Creative intelligence is a component of: (D) Displacement
(A) Cattel's Theory of Intelligence
(B) Gardner' Theory of Intelligence 33. Who among the following is considered as
(C) Spearman's Theory of Intelligence the proponent of Word Association Test to
(D) Stemberg's Theory of Intelligence understand the unconscious conflicts in an
individual:
28. A biologically organized mental structure (A) Henry Murray
in the brain that facilitates the learning of (B) Carl Jung
language is called: (C) Sigmund Freud
(A) Language Acquisition Device (D) Donald Winicott
(B) Language Acquisition Centre
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34. The process in which cognitions, behavior, 40. If you wanted to stop ragging in your school
and the environment mutually influence or college, what would most likely be an
each other is known as: effective strategy to follow?
(A) Situational-Interactionist Approach (A) Punish the perpetrator publicly.
(B) Reciprocal Determinism (B) Teach the victim to fight back.
(C) Interaction Activism (C) Reward the perpetrator for not ragging
(D) Interactionism any victims.
(D) Change the entire school/college system
35. The concept of Locus of Control was given to have zero tolerance for ragging.
by:
(A) Albert Bandura 41. The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of
(B) Walter Mischel Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5) was published
(C) Julian Rotter in the
(D) None of the above year:
(A)2010 (B)2011
36. A group's expectations regarding what is (C)2012 (D)2013
appropriate and acceptable for its members’
attitudes and behaviors is known as: 42. Which among the following types
(A) Social Norms schizophrenia is characterized by
(B) Situationism motionlessness for hours or days?
(C) Compliance (A) Disorganized type
(D) Conformity (B) Paranoid type
(C) Catatonic type
37. Weakening of each group member's (D) Residual type
obligation to act when responsibility is
perceived to be shared with all group 43. The practice of attaching diagnoses of
members is known as: mental disorders to people and then using
(A) Bystander effect them as stereotypes is called:
(B) Diffusion of responsibility (A) Labelling
(C) Social conformity (B) Bias
(D) Obedience (C) Stereotyping
(D) Miss-diagnosis
38. In Milgram's original study, about what
proportion of the subjects gave the 44. The relationship between the therapist and
maximum shock? the client, with both parties working
(A) about two-thirds together to help the client deal with mental
(B) about 70 percent or behavioral issues is known as:
(C) about 50 percent (A) Therapist-Client Relationship
(D) Nearly 100 percent (B) Therapeutic Relationship
(C) Therapeutic Alliance
39. The phenomenon of blaming an innocent (D) Therapist-Client Alliance
person or a group for one's own troubles and
then discriminating against them is known 45. Which among the following personality
as: disorders is characterized by instability and
(A) Stereotyping (B) Prejudicing impulsivity, unpredictable moods and
(A) Discriminating (B) Scapegoating stormy interpersonal relationships?
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(A) Schizoaffective Personality Disorder (C) Hans Eysenck

(B) Narcissistic Personality Disorder (D) Raymond Cattel
(C) Avoidant Personality Disorder
(D) Borderline Personality Disorder 52. The following is true of Nomothetic
approach to personality:
46. The commonly used statistic to test the (A) All people are governed by the same
significance of difference between two basic behavioural principles.
groups is: (B) Each individual is unique and cannot be
(A) F-test. compared with another
(B) t-test (C) Individuation and uniqueness of people
(C) Chi-Square accounts for personality differences
(D) None of the above (D) All of the above
47. A number typically describing population 53. The reliability of a diagnostic category
characteristic is known as: indicates:
(A) Statistic (B) Parameter (A) It acknowledges the uniqueness of each
(C) Datum (D) Median individual.
(B) It has explicitly stated criteria.
48. In the following, there is a meaningful zero (C) Clients with the label respond to
to the measurement: treatment the same.
(A) Nominal measurement (D) Diagnosticians apply it consistently.
(B) Ordinal measurement
(C) Interval measurement 54. The characteristic pattern of explanation
(D) Ratio measurement people use to make sense of life-events is
called:
49. The average amount by which the (A) Self-serving bias
characteristics of samples from the (B) Attributional style
population differ from the characteristic of (C) Cognitive appraisal
the whole population is known as: (D) None of the above
(A) Estimation Error
(B) Researchers' Bias 55. In psychological research, debriefing refers
(C) Standard Error to:
(D) Statistical Insignificance (A) Providing information about the true.
purpose of the study
50. When the frequency curve is lopsided (B) Participants learning more about the is
rather than symmetrical, it is known as: benefits of the research to them and to
(A) Skewness society in general
(B) Kurtosis (C) Researcher has the opportunity to
(C) Asymmetrical curve alleviate any discomfort participants
(D) Bimodal curve may be experiencing
51. The Sixteen Personality Factor (16 PF) 56. A reliability coefficient that assesses the
Questionnaire was developed by: agreement of observations made by two or
(A) Gordon W. Allport more raters or judges is known as:
(B) Carl Gustav Jung (A) Split-half reliability
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(B) Alternate-forms reliability (A) The degree to which employees believe

(C) Inter-Rater reliability that the employer values their
(D) Test-Retest reliability contribution to the organization
(B) The degree to which employees believe
57. The score occurring with greatest frequency that the employer cares about
in a distribution is known as: employee's well-being
(A)Mean (C) The degree to which employees believe
(B)Medium that the employer will not fire them if
(C)Mode their performance is consistently
(D)Standard deviation deteriorating
58. The hypothesis stating that the independent
variable has no effect and that there is no 63. An employee's emotional attachment to,
difference among the groups is known as: identification with, and involvement in the
(A) Null Hypothesis organization is known as:
(B) Alternate Hypothesis (A) Affective commitment
(C) Directional Hypothesis (B) Normative commitment
(D) Non-directional Hypothesis (C) Continuance commitment
59. Which among the following represents the
'applied' branch in Organizational Behavior? 64. Which among the following involves
(A) Human Resource Management exposure to a hierarchy of stimuli while
(B) Organizational Development relaxing to decrease fears:
(C) Both a & b (A) Flooding
(D) None of the above (B) Systematic Desensitization
(C) Aversive Conditioning
60. According to Bandura's SCT, which among (D) Implosion
the following does NOT represent a Basic
Human Capability? 65. Exaggerated sense of self-importance is a
(A) Forethought characteristic feature of
(B) Self-Reflective (A) Paranoid personality disorder
(C) Symbolizing (B) Narcissistic personality disorder
(D) Cognitive Orientation (C) Schizoid personality disorder
(D) Schizotypal personality disorder
61. The voluntary and involuntary withdrawal
from an organization is called: 66. The re-channeling of sexual or aggressive
(A) Absenteeism impulses in a socially acceptable direction is
(B) Turnover known as:
(C) Layoff (A) Displacement
(D) All of the above (B) Overcompensation
(C) Projection
(D) Sublimation
62. Which among the following is NOT true of 67. Among the following theories, which one
the Perceived Organizational Support: states that emotion is a result of
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interpretation of the causes of the (B) Actions and behaviors for the welfare
physiological arousal? an employee's formal job of the
(A) James-Lange Theory organization that are not part of
(B) Cannon-Bard Theory requirements.
(C) Cognitive Labelling Theory (C) Completion of requirements of the
(D) None of the above contract with the organization
(D) Both A & B
68. Which among the following speed up the
nervous system activity? 74. The tendency of an individual to
(A) Opiates underestimate the influence of external
(B) Depressants factors and overestimate the influence of
(C) Stimulants internal factors when making judgments
(D) Psychedelic Drugs about the behaviour of others is known as:
(A) Self-serving bias
69. Which among the following approaches to (B) Selective perception
therapy explores issues such as death, (C) Fundamental attribution error
freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness? (D) Distinctive perception
(A) Existential Approach
(B) Humanistic Approach 75. Judging an individual on the basis of one's
(C) Psychoanalytic Approach perception of the group to which he/she
(D) All of the above belongs is called:
(A) Stereotyping
70. The NEO personality inventory consists of (B) Prejudice
the following number of facets: (C) Projection
(A) 25 (B) 30 (D) Discrimination
(C) 35 (D) 40
76. A personality trait that describes the degree
71. Which among the following considers the to which an individual is responsible,
central core of dysfunctional behavior to be dependable, persistent, and achievement
due to irrational beliefs? oriented and dutiful is known as:
(A) Cognitive Behavior Therapy (A) Extraversion.
(B) Dialectical Therapy (B) Agreeableness
(C) Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (C) Openness
(D) Behavior Therapy (D) Conscientiousness
72. The use of statistics to pool and analyze 77. Which among the following is NOT a
results of different studies is known as: component of emotional intelligence?
(A) Mega-Analysis (A) Self-awareness
(B) Meta-Analysis (B) Self-motivation
(C) Multiple-Analysis (C) Social skills
(D) Mediated-Analysis (D) Sympathy
73. Organization Citizenship Behavior refers 78. Which among the following is true of Type
to: A Personality?
(A) Promoting the effective functioning of (A) Are always moving, walking, and eating
the organization. rapidly.
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(B) Feel impatient with the rate at which (C) The pigment cells in the skin get
most events take place stimulated and produce a healthy tan
(C) Strive to think or do two or more: things (D) Skin oil gets converted into Vitamin D
at once
(D) All of the above 84. The First Afghan War took place in year:
(A)1839 (B)1843
79. The extent to which a measuring instrument (C)1833 (D)1848
appears valid on its surface is known as:
(A) Content validity 85. The abbreviation ICAO stands for:
(B) Face Validity (A) International Civil Aviation
(C) Criterion Validity Organization
(D) Construct Validity (B) Indian Corporation of Agriculture
Organization
80. Which among the following is an (C) International Company of Accounts
inferential statistical test for comparing the Organization
means of three or more groups using a (D) Indian Civil Aviation Organization
between participants design and one
independent variable? 86. The following country has largest deposits
(A) One-Way ANOVA of mica in the world:
(B) Two-Way ANOVA (A) USA (B) Japan
(C) Three-Way ANOVA (C) India (D) North Korea
81. For which of the following disciplines is 87. The state of Rajasthan has the following
the prestigious Nobel Prize awarded? number of seats in Lok Sabha:
(A) Physics and Chemistry (A) 32 (B) 25
(B) Physiology or Medicine (C) 30 (D) 17
(C) Literature, Peace and Economics
(D) All of the above 88. How many red blood cells are found in a
normal human body?
82. Which among the following is true about (A) 15 trillion (B) 20 trillion
Galileo, the Italian astronomer: (C) 25 trillion (D) 30 trillion
(A) Developed the telescope
(B) Discovered four satellites of Jupiter 89. In the game of cricket, what is the distance
(C) Discovered that the movement of between the two sets of wickets?
pendulum produces a regular time (A)18 yards apart (B)20 yards apart
measurement (C)22 yards apart (D)24 yards apart
90. Penicillin was discovered by
83. Exposure to sunlight improves an (A) Alexander Fleming
individual's health due to: (B) Albert Einstein
(C) Archimedes
(A) Kills the skin bacteria (D) Aryabhatta
(B) Helps in maintaining the homeostasis in
the body
91. The official languages of the United
Nations are:
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(A) Hindi, Chinese, English, French, (A)John Van Thio (B)Htin Kyaw
Korean and Spanish (C)Tung Swe (D)Suu Kyi San
(B) Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
Russian and Spanish 99. India has launched the Fulbright – Kalam
(C) Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, English, Climate Fellowship in collaboration with?
French and Hindi (A) United Kingdom
(D) Korean, English, French, Hindi, (B) Australia
Japanese and Spanish (C) United States of America
(D) Germany
92. In the series, 7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12, ... What 100. Which among hosted the 2016 the
number should come next? following countries World Congress of
(A)10 (B)11 Biosphere Reserves?
(C)12 (D)13 (A) United States (B) Peru
(C) Belgium (D) Switzerland
93. Bowl is to soup as cup is to:
(A)Dish (B)Liquid
(C)Coffee (D)Food
94. Enlightened is to Ignorant as Elated is to:

(A)Worries (B)Irritable
(C)Intolerant (D)Despondent
95. Which among the following words does

NOT belong with the others in the series?
(A)Book (B)Index
(C)Glossary (D)Chapter
96. The national sport of Canada is:

(A)Soccer (B)Lacrosse
(C)Cricket (D)Rugby
97. The normal threshold of hearing is around

(A)70-80 db (B)50-60 db
(C)90-100 db (D)25-45 db
98. Who is the newly elected President of

Myanmar?
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ANSWER KEY

1 A 26 A 51 D 76 D
2 C 27 D 52 A 77 D
3 B 28 A 53 C 78 B
4 D 29 A 54 B 79 A
5 B 30 D 55 A 80 A
6 D 31 B 56 C 81 D
7 B 32 C 57 C 82 D
8 A 33 B 58 A 83 D
9 A 34 A 59 A 84 A
10 B 35 C 60 A 85 A
11 D 36 A 61 B 86 C
12 C 37 B 62 C 87 B
13 D 38 A 63 A 88 C
14 C 39 D 64 B 89 C
15 A 40 D 65 B 90 A
16 C 41 D 66 D 91 B
17 A 42 C 67 A 92 A
18 D 43 A 68 C 93 C
19 A 44 B 69 A 94 C
20 C 45 D 70 B 95 A
21 D 46 B 71 C 96 B
22 C 47 B 72 B 97 D
23 D 48 D 73 D 98 B
24 B 49 C 74 C 99 C
25 C 50 C 75 A 100 B
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Pondicherry University Entrance Examination 2018

1. Team building begins with (C) Abraham Maslow
(A) diagnostic meetings (D) Watson
(B) benchmarking
(C) a plan of action 8. Proximo-distal pattern refers to:
(D) unobtrusive measures (A) the sequence in which growth starts at
the peripheral regions of the body and
2. The sex of the foetus is determined by: moves toward the centre
(A) Only Y-chromosome of the father (B) the sequence in which the earliest
(B) X-chromosome of the mother growth occurs at the top and feature
(C) Only X-chromosome of the father differentiation gradually working from
(D) Both X- and Y-chromosomes of the top to bottom;
father (C) the sequence in which growth starts at
the center of the body and moves
3. According to Piaget, schemata toward the extremities
(A) Refers to the organization of elements in (D) the sequence in which growth occurs at
the environment the bottom and moves toward the top
(B) Are elements of cognitive organization
(C) Are deceptive indicators of the 9. Stranger anxiety appears usually in the:
appearance of cognitive development (A) 2nd half of the 2nd year of life
(D) Are assimilated into concrete operations (B) 1st half of the 1st year of life
(C) 1st half of the 2nd year of life
4. Friendship groups or cliques begin to (D) 2nd half of the 1st year of life
develop during which of the stages of
cognitive development? 10. ________ is also called the gang-age.
(A) concrete operational (A) Early childhood
(B) sensorimotor (B) Late childhood
(C) formal operational (C) Adolescence
(D) preoperational (D) Adulthood
5. The final stage of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's 11. In the following question, the first two
theory is labeled words (given in italics) have a definite
(A) acceptance (B) denial relationship. Choose one word out of the
(C) bargaining (D) aggressive given four alternatives which will fill the
blank space and show the same relationship
6. --------- is the non-parametric counterpart of with the third word as between the first two.
t-test. Orange is to peel as Tooth is to ………?
(A) Chi square ………..
(B) Rank difference correlation (A) Joints (B) Brush
(C) Mann-Whitney U test (C) Enamel (D) Gums
(D) Kruskal Wallis One-way ANOVA
12. Symptoms, according to the behaviouristic
7. The father of humanistic approach is: perspective, are produced because of:
(A) Sigmund Freud (A) Faulty attributions
(B) Wilhelm Wundt (B) Faulty memories
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(C) Faulty thinking (D) the ways a company's profits are

(D) Faulty learning distributed
13. According to psychologist Kurt Lewin, 18. A man complete a journey in 10 hours. He
which of the following is not a stage in the travels the first half of the journey at the rate
change process? of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24
(A) refreezing (B) mediating km/hr. Find the total journey in km.
(C) unfreezing (D) changing (A) 230 (B) 250
(C) 220 (D) 224
14. Study the following information carefully
and answer the question below it 19. are toxic agents of the environment.
In a family, Isha is the granddaughter of (A) Virus (B) Teratogens
Ash(A) Deepa is the mother of Hans(A) (C) Germs (D) Bacteria
Charan is the son of Anan(D) Radha is the
mother of Ish(A) Deepa is the sister of 20. The tendency to see all three following
Vinod and Charan. Nagesh has two children, figures as completely drawn is an example
Gita and Hans(A) Emesh is the only of:
grandson in the family. Charan is not (A) Right brain dominance
marrie(D) Radha is the daughter-in-law of (B) Chunking
Anand (C) Movement
Who is the daughter of Anand? (D) Closure
(A) Gita (B) Hansa
(C) Deepa (D) Isha 21. Which of the following is NOT a symptom
of mania?
15. The mode is (A) Pressured speech
(A) the most frequently occurring score in a (B) Euphoria
distribution (C) Increased Activity
(B) the arithmetic average of all of the (D) Decreased Self-Esteem
scores in a distribution
(C) a reliable indicator of the variability 22. Choose the best antonym of the italicized
within a distribution wor(D)
(D) all of the above Keerthi did not like her husband being
obsequious to his boss.
16. _______ is not a determinant of learning. (A) courteous (B) gentle
(A) Reinforcement (C) defiant (D) indifferent
(B) Extent of errors
(C) Degree of association 23. What statistical test would be used with
(D) Practice interval or ratio data with multiple
dependent variables?
17. Industrial and Organizational psychologists (A) Wilcoxon
study all of the following except (B) MANOVA
(A) the basic personnel functions within (C) Independent t-tests
organizations (D) Mixed ANOVA
(B) the psychological processes underlying
work behavior
(C) group processes in the workplace
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24. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are 31. Industrial and Organizational psychology
effective for the treatment of: made its first major impact in
(A) Generalized anxiety disorder (A) the Antebellum Period
(B) Obsessive compulsive disorder (B) World War II
(C) Major depression (C) the Hawthorne Studies
(D) Schizophrenia (D) World War I
25. Raw score_ Mean/ Standard deviation = 32. An advantage of nonparametric statistics is
(A) Stanine score (B) z score that
(C) T score (D) Percentile score (A) they are distribution free analyses
(B) you need a random sample calculate
26. Frederick W. Taylor analyzed work them
behavior using ______ studies, which (C) they have many assumptions to meet
involved breaking a task down into specific (D) they are very powerful
movements and recording the time needed to
perform each movement 33. Which of the following writings viewed
(A) time-and-motion mental illness as a punishment from God?
(B) manual labor (A) The Deception of Dreams
(C) process management (B) A Mind that Found itself
(D) sensitivity training (C) Papyrus Ebers
(D) The Old Testament
27. Identify the adverb in the following
sentence: 34. Statements: All dogs are tall, All cats are
We started early in order to see the sunrise. tall.
(A) early (B) in order Conclusion:
(C) to see (D) started I. All dogs are cat
II. All cats are dogs
28. A person diagnosed as having schizoid (A) If neither I nor II follows
personality disorder would not exhibit: (B) If only conclusion II follows
(A) Eccentricities of thought, behaviour or (C) If either I or II follows
speech (D) If only conclusion I follows
(B) Emotional coldness and distance
(C) Indifference to praise or criticism of 35. What name is given to data which is made
others up of frequencies?
(D) Indifference to feelings of others (A) Ordinal data (B) Nominal data
(C) Ratio data (D) Interval data
29. Only after food has been dried ________
(A) that is should be stored for later 36. A child detects a ray of light from the photo-
consumption spectrometer in a dark room/ chamber. This
(B) should it be stored for later consumption is an instance of crossing the
(C) it should be stored for later consumption (A) Reiz Limen
(D) should be stored for later consumption (B) Difference Limen
(C) Terminal Limen
30. Choose the missing term: FLP, INS, LPV, ? (D) None of the above
(A) UXZ (B) ORY
(C) VXZ (D) SYZ
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37. The process of converting sensory 43. The term "Childhood amnesia" was coined
information into neural activity is: by
(A) Coding (B) Detection (A) Bandura (B) Piaget
(C) Input (D) Transduction (C) Freud (D) Skinner
38. The importance of schemas was most 44. A nerve structure that commands a hand to
clearly highlighted by move a pencil is:
(A) Erikson's psychosocial development (A) Parasympathetic
theory (B) Afferent
(B) Harlow's attachment theory (C) Efferent
(C) Kohlberg's moral development theory (D) Sympathetic
(D) Piaget's cognitive development theory
45. Which of the following parenting styles is
39. Each of the following is true regarding the most likely to be associated with physical
climacteric except discipline?
(A) it eventually leads to menopause in (A) democratic (B) permissive
women (C) authoritative (D) authoritarian
(B) about half of women experience
discomfort during menopause 46. In Freudian theory, the superego develops:
(C) there are widespread psychological and (A) After resolving the Oedipus conflict
sexual effects in men (B) After attaining the genital stage
(D) it is characterized by a decline in (C) During latency
reproductive capacity of men (D) After resolution of the anal stage
40. Theories by Aldefer and McClelland are 47. Which of the following is NOT a treatment
two examples of _________ motivation developed from classical conditioning
(A) Process (B) Content principles?
(C) Expectancy (D) Equity (A) Token economies
(B) Aversion therapies
41. La belle indifference is a characteristic (C) Systematic desensitization
feature of: (D) Flooding
(A) Conversion disorder
(B) Schizophrenia 48. Which of these measures can be used to
(C) Phobic disorder present an average for data?
(D) Dissociative disorder (A) Mean, median and mode
(B) Standard deviation, range and mean
42. Let Z stand for the dominant gene, z for the (C) Median, range, normal distribution
recessive gene. If a male ZZ genes is mated (D) Mode, alpha, range
with a female with zz genes, the resulting
offspring will: 49. Both endogenous as well as exogenous
(A) Be half phenotype Z and half phenotype factors are responsible for explaining:
z (A) Behaviour (B) Genotype
(B) Be one quarter phenotype Z and half (C) Genetics (D) Phenotype
phenotype z
(C) All will be genotype ZZ. 50. Mid-life crisis: Middle age :: Identity crisis:
(D) All have the same genotype
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(A) Adulthood (B) Old age (A) Speaking cheerfully

(C) Childhood (D) Adolescence (B) Speaking sharply
(C) Speaking kindly
51. Noted psychologist Mary Ainsworth (D) Speaking sadly
studied early attachment in human using
which of the following methods? 56. A list of 5 pulse rates is: 70, 64, 80, 74, 92.
(A) industry versus inferiority What is the median for this list?
(B) strange situation (A) 74 (B) 80
(C) psychosocial development (C) 77 (D) 76
(D) social attachment
57. Which of the following brain abnormalities
52. is NOT associated with schizophrenia?
(A) shrinking of the ventricles
(B) deficits in the temporal lobes
(C) deficits in the limbic system
(D) atrophy of the frontal cortex
58. Consolidation refers to the

(A) Process whereby memory storage is
speeded by the use of electroconvulsive
shock treatment
(B) Ability to see relationships between
objects or events
(C) Forming of a long-term memory
(A) 4 (B) 1 (D) Time taken for short-term memory to be
(C) 2 (D) 3 complete
53. Flooding is used as a technique to treat: 59. When polarized, an axon:

(A) Hallucinations (A) Has potassium ions concentrated on the
(B) Anxiety inside of its membranes
(C) Mood fluctuations (B) Causes the synaptic vesicle to burst
(D) Delusions (C) Is firing an impulse
(D) Is essentially unable to fire or is frozen
54. An anxiety disorder in which the person has
recurrent, intrusive thoughts and recurrent 60. The structure of intellect model has been
urges to perform ritualistic actions is known propounded by
as: (A) Spearman (B) Goleman
(A) Obsessive-compulsive disorder (C) Thorndike (D) Guilford
(B) Panic disorder
(C) Generalized anxiety disorder 61. REM sleep is called “paradoxical” because:
(D) Phobias (A) While the sleeper sleeps, the usual
restorative functions of sleep are
55. Choose the correct meaning of the italicized dormant
idiom. (B) Dreaming occurs during REM sleep, but
The father was right in giving a piece of his the sleeper is most easily aroused
mind to the son.
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(C) The muscles are at rest while the brain 68. What is the first stage in statistics?
and eyes are active (A) Review the materials
(D) The sleeper’s muscles seem to relax and (B) Summarize data
tense in no relation to dream content. (C) Identify the group of people to be
studied
62. What statistical test would be used to find (D) Organize data
correlation with ordinal data obtained from
one sample? 69. Make-believe play is a type of play in
(A) Related t-test which:
(B) Spearman's rank order correlation (A) children engage in parallel play
(C) Kruskal-Wallis (B) children engage in monotonous games
(D) Mann-Whitney (C) children pretend, act out every day and
imaginary activities
63. According to Piaget, the cognitive process (D) children engage in creative activities
that interprets new information in light of
existing schemas is known as 70. Chemical substances secreted by endocrine
(A) object permanence glands are called:
(B) conservation (A) Enzymes (B) Neurotransmitters
(C) accommodation (C) Hormones (D) Catalysts
(D) assimilation
71. Choose the best synonym of the italicized
64. Alcohol primarily affects which wor(D) The security arrangements made for
neurotransmitter? the visiting dignitary were impeccable.
(A) Glutamate (B) Anandamide (A) Tight (B) Elaborate
(C) Dopamine (D) GABA (C) Grand (D) flawless
65. ESP stands for: 72. Hawthorne experiment was conducted by

(A) Extra-sensory power (A) F.W. Taylor (B) Henry Fayol
(B) Extra-sensory prevalence (C) Elton Mayo (D) Max Weber
(C) Extra-sensory potentiality
(D) Extra-sensory perception 73. A disorder that is commonly confused with
somatization disorder is
66. If you have nominal data which (A) chronic fatigue syndrome
nonparametric statistic should you use? (B) Korsakoff's syndrome
(A) the t-test (C) ataque de nervios
(B) Spearman's rho (D) conversion disorder
(C) Wilcoxon
(D) Chi-square 74. Which of the following symptoms would
least likely be found among patients
67. When null hypothesis is true, rejecting it diagnosed as obsessive- compulsive?
leads to (A) Ruminations
(A) none of the above (B) Cognitive rituals
(B) Type II error (C) Motor rituals
(C) Both Type I and Type II error (D) Amnesia
(D) Type I error
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75. Based on the information given, answer the

below question. 80. The most stable measure of variability:
1. A, B, C, D, E and F are travelling in a (A) Quartile deviation
bus. (B) Median
2. There are two reporters, two mechanics, (C) Mean
one photographer and one writer in the (D) Standard deviation
group.
3. Photographer A is married to D who is a 81. Which of the following does not fall under
reporter. Autism Spectrum Disorders?
4. The writer is married to B who is of the (A) Autism
same profession as that of F. (B) Mental retardation
5. A, B, C, D are two married couples and (C) Rett’s Disorder
no one in this belong to the same profession. (D) Asperger’s Disorder
6. F is the brother of (C). Which of the
following is the pair of mechanics? 82. Study the following information carefully
(A) Cannot be determined and answer the question below it
(B) BF (i)There is a group of five persons- A, B, C,
(C) CE D and E
(D) AF (ii)One of them is manual scavenger, one is
sweeper, one is watchman, one is human
76. The class of psychological disorders scarecrow and one is grave-digger
characterized by grossly impaired social, (iii)Three of them – A, C and grave-digger
emotional, cognitive, and perceptual prefer tea to coffee and two of them – B and
functioning refers to: the watchman prefer coffee to tea
(A) Personality disorder (iv)The human scarecrow and D and A are
(B) Generalized anxiety disorder friends to one another but two of these
(C) Major depression prefer coffee to te(A)
(D) Schizophrenia (v)The manual scavenger is C’s brother
Who is a sweeper?
77. Disorders characterized by intense, (A) D (B) A
unrealistic, irrational fears are called: (C) E (D) C
(A) Schizotypal disorder
(B) Anxiety disorders 83. A student’s score falls at the 30th percentile
(C) Affective disorders on a 220 item test administered to a group of
(D) Schiphreniform disorder 100 students. This means that:
(A) His score is higher than 30 other
78. If BAT= 40, AT= 20 then CAT=? students
(A) 43 (B) 60 (B) He has got 30 items correct
(C) 80 (D) 50 (C) His score is higher than 70 other
students
79. The medication(s) most consistently shown (D) He has got 70 items correct
to reduce risk of suicide is/are:
(A) Lithium 84. If Priya was selected, she_________ a good
(B) MAOIs surgeon.
(C) Antipsychotics (A) will make (B) would have made
(D) SSRIs (C) can make (D) would make
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(D) Dispositional
85. Psychologists in the area of _________
concentrate on workplace design, man- 91. Groups which are formed as the
machine interaction, and physical fatigue consequence of organisational structure and
(A) training and development work division are known as
(B) personnel psychology (A) informal groups
(C) human factors (B) formal groups
(D) organizational psychology (C) operational groups
(D) target groups
86. During one’s first few months in a new 92. Erikson's psychosocial developmental stage
culture, one should learn the manners that in which success is achieved by having a
are customary and___________ secure social attachment with a caregiver is
(A) to be speaking language known as
(B) the language that is speaking (A) autonomy versus shame and doubt
(C) the spoken there language (B) trust versus mistrust
(D) the language that is spoken there (C) generativity versus stagnation
(D) integrity versus despair
87. Compared to individuals in their 20s,
individuals in their 70s show declines in 93. Development of gero-transcendence
(A) solving life problems involves the unfurling of:
(B) fluid intelligence (A) Spirituality in young adulthood
(C) understanding mathematical concepts (B) Spirituality in late adulthood
(D) knowledge of word meanings (C) Spirituality in middle adulthood
(D) Spirituality in adolescence
88. Which of the following is often considered
a characteristic of self- actualising people? 94. What is probability of Null hypothesis?
(A) They tend to be competitive against (A) The likelihood that your results are true
other people (B) The central tendency
(B) They want close relationships with (C) The likelihood that something occurs
work-mates due to chance
(C) They are capable of establishing (D) The dispersion of the data
meaningful relationships
(D) They easily become bored 95. An interviewer prepares the questions that
he would be asking his clients before he
89. An example of non-parametric correlation meets them in an orderly fashion. This is an
is: example of:
(A) Chi Square (A) Unstructured interview
(B) Product Moment correlation (B) Semi-structured interview
(C) Rank order correlation (C) Case study
(D) Partial Correlation (D) Structured interview
90. Free association is a technique put forward 96 .13, 35, 57, 79, 911,?
by the______ perspective. (A) 1315 (B) 1113
(A) Humanistic (C) 1112 (D) 1311
(B) Behaviouristic
(C) Psychodynamic
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97. Study the following information carefully (C) Peptide bonds

and answer the question below it: (D) None of the alternatives
Aasha, Bhuvnesh, Charan, Danesh, Ekta,
Farhan, Ganesh and Himesh are sitting
around a circle, facing the centre. Aasha sits
fourth to the right of Himesh while second
to the left of Farhan. Charan is not the
neighbour of Farhan and Bhuvnesh. Danesh
sits third to the right of Charan. Himesh
never sits next to Ganesh.
Three of the following are alike in a certain

way based on their positions in the seating
arrangement and so form a group. Which is
the one that does not belong to that group?
(A) BhuvneshDanesh
(B) Ganesh Ekta
(C) Himesh Farhan
(D) DaneshCharan
98. Statement: Among all the articles, Prices of

laptops show the highest decline from June
2017 to December 2017.
Assumptions:
I. Comparative prices of all articles were
available from June 2017 to December
2017.
II. The prices laptops were higher in the first
6 months than the last 6 months.
(A) If only assumption I is implicit
(B) If neither I nor II is implicit
(C) If both I and II are implicit
(D) If only assumption II is implicit
99. Choose the correct meaning to the italicized

idiom. Vijay does not see eye to eye with me
in this matter.
(A) To have same opinion
(B) To have the same eyesight
(C) To obtain suitable punishment
(D) To give a correct decision
100. Memory molecule: _____ :: Proteins:

Amino acids
(A) RNA
(B) DNA
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ANSWER KEY
1 A 26 A 51 B 76 D
2 D 27 A 52 B 77 B
3 B 28 A 53 B 78 B
4 A 29 C 54 A 79 A
5 A 30 B 55 B 80 D
6 C 31 D 56 A 81 B
7 C 32 A 57 A 82 D
8 C 33 D 58 C 83 D
9 B 34 D 59 D 84 B
10 B 35 B 60 D 85 C
11 C 36 A 61 C 86 D
12 D 37 D 62 B 87 B
13 D 38 D 63 D 88 C
14 C 39 C 64 D 89 C
15 A 40 B 65 D 90 C
16 B 41 A 66 D 91 B
17 D 42 D 67 D 92 B
18 D 43 C 68 C 93 B
19 B 44 B 69 D 94 A
20 A 45 C 70 C 95 B
21 D 46 A 71 D 96 B
22 C 47 A 72 C 97 D
23 B 48 A 73 D 98 C
24 C 49 D 74 A 99 A
25 B 50 D 75 B 100 B
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1. Find the next term in the series: BMO, EOQ, (A) I didn’t expect
HQS, ? (B) this kind of treatment
(A) KSU (C) from your hands
(B) LMN (D) this morning
(C) SOV
(D) SOW 7. Many rural children go to school______
(A) by foot
2. Choose a word from the given options which (B) by walk
bears the same relationship to the third (C) on foot
word, as the first two bears: Misogamy: (D) on their feet
Marriage:: Misogyny:?
(A) Children 8. ________ is facing the threat of extinction.
(B) Husband (A) Tigers
(C) Relations (B) Tiger
(D) Women (C) The Tiger
(D) A Tiger
3. Select the lettered pair that has the same
relationship as the original pair of words: 9. Choose the option closet in meaning to the
Indolence: Beaver given word: TERSE
(A) Elegance: Peacock (A) concise
(B) Ferocity: Lamb (B) curt
(C) Passivity: Cow (C) rude
(D) Joviality: Hyena (D) poetic
4. Select the lettered pair that has the same 10. Choose the antonymous option you consider
relationship as the original pair of words: the best:
Man: Humanity RETICENT
(A) Frame: Picture (A) communicative
(B) Scholar: Books (B) clamorous
(C) Flowers: Fragrance (C) reserved
(D) Drop: Ocean (D) dormant
5. Choose the set that has the same relationship 11. In each of the following questions some
as in the original: statements are followed by two conclusions
Horse: Foal: Mare (i) and
(A) Sheep: lamb: Goat (ii). Read the statements carefully and then
(B) Lion: Cub: Den decide which of the conclusions follow
(C) Man: Child: Woman beyond a reasonable doubt. Mark your
(D) Cat: Kitten: Puppy answer as:
Statement: I am a Kashmiri Pandit and feel
6. Spot the defective segment from the proud that Indira Gandhi belonged to the
following: same community
Conclusions:
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(i) Indira Gandhi is proud of being a (A) 5 (B) 11

Kashmiri Pandit (C) 29 (D) 19
(ii) All Kashmiri Pandits feel proud of Indira
Gandhi 17. Mean of the first 10 even numbers is
(A) If only conclusion (i) follows (A) 12 (B) 11
(B) If only conclusion (ii) follows (C) 14 (D) 9
(C) If neither conclusion (i) nor (ii) follows
(D) If both the conclusions follow 18. If you were to spell out the numbers, how
far would you have to go before
12. What value should come in place of encountering the letter ‘A’?
question mark (?) in the following number (A) 91 (B) 21
series? (C) 51 (D) 101
48, ?, 94, 123, 156, 193
(A) 74 (B) 65 19. A man starts from his office and goes 5kms
(C) 69 (D) 77 east., Then he turn to the left and again
walks for 3kms, he turns left and walks
13. If in a certain language CARROM is code 5kms. At what distance is he from the
as BZQQNL, which word will be coded as starting point?
HOUSE? (A) 3 (B) 4
(A) IPVTF (B) GNTRD (C) 6 (D) 7
(C) INVRF (D) GPTID
20. The first person is 100cm tall. Each
14. Teeth: Chew in the same ways as subsequent person is 20% taller than the
(A) Mind: Think (B) Food: Taste previous person. What is the Median height
(C) Sweater: Heart (D) Eyes: Flicker of 5 persons.
(A) 173 (B) 120
15. The following information given: Eight (C) 144 (D) 207
persons P, Q, R, S T, U, V and W ae sitting
around a rectangular table in such a way that 21. Sculptor: Statue:: Poet:?
two persons sit on each of the four sides of (A) Verse (B) Chisel
the table facing the centre. Persons sitting on (C) Canvas (D) Pen
opposite sides are exactly opposite to each
other. S faces North and sits exactly 22. A study to determine the degree of
opposite W.T is on the immediate left to W. relationship between two events is called:
P and V sit on the same side. V is exactly (A) the correlational method
opposite Q, who is on the immediate right of (B) naturalistic observation
R, U is next to the left of S. (C) a controlled experiment
Who is sitting opposite to P? (D) the survey method
(A) V (B) S
(C) T (D) R 23. The word big is flashed on a screen. A
mental picture of the word big represents a
16. There are 4 prime numbers written in _______ code; the definition "large in size"
ascending order. The product of the first represents a code; " sounds like pig"
three is 385, and that of the last three is represents a code.
1001, Find the first number (A) Structural; Phonemic; Semantic
(B) Structural; Semantic; Phonemic
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(C) Phonemic; Structural; Semantic (A) Stopping others from behaving

(D) Phonemic; Semantic; Structural inappropriately
(B) Suppressing bad memories or current
24. A person who is preoccupied with fears of thoughts that cause anxiety
having a serious disease suffers from: (C) Stopping yourself from behaving the
(A) a conversion reaction way you want to
(B) hypochondriasis (D) Suppressing your natural instincts
(C) a traumatic disorder
(D) an obsession 31. Mind is a clean slate is known as:
(A) Somnambulism
25. The occurrence of a conditioned response (B) Tabula rasa
after experimental extinction has been (C) Dualism
followed by a period of rest is called: (D) Empiricism
(A) disinhibition
(B) spontaneous recovery 32. According to Freud, the energy that drives
(C) relearning personality is called the:
(D) stimulus generalization (A) libido (B) eros
(C) life force (D) ego
26. Newborn infants spend about______
percentage of their sleep time in REM, while 33. Which of the following tools is not suitable
adults spend about_______ percentage of for measurement of personality?
their sleep time in REM. (A) MBTI (B) TAT
(A) 20;20 (B) 20; 50 (C) NEOPI (D) FIROB
(C) 50;50 (D) 50;20
34. A clinical psychologist:
27. Psychologists mostly use _________data (A) diagnoses and treats psychological
for their research problems
(A) Primary (B) Graph (B) conducts experiments in an attempt to
(C) Secondary (D) Tertiary discover the basic principles of behavior
and mind
28. Who among the following is not a (C) is a medical doctor specializing in
motivation theorist? psychological problems
(A) Maslow (B) Vroom (D) extends the principles of psychology to
(C) Pavlov (D) Herzberg practical, everyday problems in the real
world
29. Which of the following schools of
psychology had the aim to observe the 35. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
contents of consciousness? Inventory - 2 is an example of a ______test.
(A) Functionalism (A) self-scoring
(B) Structuralism (B) performance
(C) Gest School (C) self-report
(D) Behaviourism (D) criterion-referenced
30. Which of the following is an example of 36. Which of the following were historical
repression? explanations of psychopathology?
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(A) Social class (B) General paresis (C) Approach-Avoidance

(C) Witchcraft (D) The plague (D) Approach-Approach
37. Which of the following lobe is involved in 43. Memories of specific things that have
vision? happened to a person is known as __.
(A) Parietal (B) Occipital (A) Semantic Memory
(C) Frontal (D) Temporal (B) Echoic Memory
(C) Iconic memory
38. The disappearance of symptoms due to the (D) Episodic Memory
mere passage of time is termed:
(A) active remediation 44. Watson and Rayner (1920) conditioned
(B) reversal "Little Albert" to fear white rats by banging
(C) catharsis a hammer on a steel bar as the child played
(D) spontaneous remission with a white rat. Later, it was discovered
that Albert feared not only white rats but
39. Which form of therapy places responsibility white stuffed toys and Santa's beard as well.
for the course of therapy on the client? Albert's fear of these other objects can be
(A) non-directive therapy attributed to:
(B) analytic therapy (A) An overactive imagination
(C) directive therapy (B) The law of effect
(D) action therapy (C) Stimulus discrimination
(D) Stimulus generalization
40. In the cochlea mechanical energy caused by
the flexing of the basilar membrane is 45. Sensory experiences that occur in the
converted into neural activity by specialized absence of a stimulus are called:
receptor cells. This process is referred to as: (A) affect episodes
(A) transduction (B) hallucinations
(B) the Purkinje shift (C) delusions
(C) transposition (D) illusions
(D) central adaptation
46. Bandura maintains that reinforcement
41. A clinical psychologist is conducting a mainly determines the ----- of a response.
diagnostic interview with a client. Her (A) Development
impression that the client is suffering from (B) Performance
schizophrenia would be supported by the (C) Acquisition
presence of each of the following symptoms (D) Generalization
EXCEPT:
(A) hallucinations 47. The community psychology is described as .
(B) social withdrawal (A) community development
(C) panic attacks (B) social work
(D) delusions (C) education
(D) clinical psychology and community
42. Which of the following types of conflict is mental health
extremely disruptive?
(A) Relational conflict
(B) Avoidance-Avoidance
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48. A child bitten by a white dog is not afraid 55. Rational Emotive Therapy is a type of -------
of black dogs. This is an example of: therapy.
(A) discrimination (A) Psychodynamic therapy
(B) generalization (B) Behavioural Therapy
(C) spontaneous recovery (C) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
(D) shaping (D) Person centered therapy
49. Food: Stomach: : Fuel : ? 56. Which of the following does not play a
(A) Automobile significant role during a critical period in
(B) Truck attitude formation?
(C) Engine (A) Information
(D) Plane (B) Peer Influence
(C) Education
50. The acquisition of dog phobia can be (D) Parental Influence
empirically demonstrated and explained best
by: 57. Id refers to _______.
(A) Behavioural model (A) Emotionality (B) Morality
(B) Psychodynamic model (C) Reality (D) Pleasure
(C) Humanistic model
(D) Medical model 58. The Mental Measurements Yearbook is
published by the:
51. A psychologist who is studying (A) Australian Psychological Society
extrasensory perception, will be termed (B) Buros Institute of Mental Measurement
as________. (C) American Psychological Association
(A) Clinical Psychologist (D) Australian Council of Educational
(B) Industrial Psychologist Research
(C) Parapsychologist
(D) Experimental Psychologist 59. Which of the following best describes
punishment?
52. ____ launches the Positive Psychology (A) withdrawal of a negative event
Movement. (B) addition of a positive event
(A) Erik Erikson (C) declining response frequency
(B) Abraham Maslow (D) addition of an aversive event
(C) Martin Seligman
(D) Elizabeth Loftus 60. Titchner led a movement of psychology
known as ______.
53. Fire: Ashes:: Explosion:? (A) Functionalism
(A) Sound (B) Death (B) Interactionism
(C) Debris (D) Flame (C) Behaviourism
(D) Structuralism
54. In the childhood, individual's behaviour is
most influenced by: 61. Which is the lowest level of learning?
(A) Community (A) Correlation
(B) Education (B) Rote learning
(C) Parents (C) Understanding
(D) Relatives (D) Application
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62. Giving placebos in drug experiments is 68. Systematic desensitization is particularly

necessary to: effective for the treatment of ____disorders.
(A) control for the effects of suggestion and (A) Obsessive-compulsive
expectation (B) Phobia
(B) counteract the random assignment of (C) Generalized anxiety
subjects (D) Panic
(C) keep control subjects from knowing
they have been given the drug 69. Curve of forgetting was developed by
(D) counteract the side effects of the drug _____.
(A) Ebbinghaus (B) Freud
63. The Flynn Effect refers to the observation (C) Piaget (D) Watson
that:
(A) The raw score mean on intelligence 70. Which one of these models of
tests has remained constant over the psychopathology would suggest that
years psychological disorders result from
(B) The raw score mean on intelligence acquiring dysfunctional ways of thinking
tests has been increasing over the years and acting?
(C) The standard deviation of scores on (A) Behavioural model
intelligence tests has remained constant (B) Cognitive model
over time (C) Client centred model
(D) The raw score mean on intelligence (D) Medical model
tests has been decreasing over the years
71. Learning for the sake of acquiring
64. Ocean: Water:: Glacier:? knowledge is an example of ------------
(A) Ice (B) Mountain motivation.
(C) Refrigerator (D) Cave (A) Social (B) Intrinsic
(C) Extrinsic (D) None of these
65. Saying whatever comes to mind, even if it
seems senseless, painful, or embarrassing, is 72. A person had a blue car that was in the shop
part of the Freudian technique known as: more than it was out. Since then the person
(A) non-directive therapy could not think of owning a blue or green
(B) unconditional regard coloured car. The person's aversion even to
(C) free association green cars is an example of:
(D) transactional analysis (A) Generalization
(B) The over justification effect
66. The fortune teller who studies your palm (C) Latent learning
carefully before announcing that “great (D) Discrimination
fortune lies in your immediate future” is
practicing ________science. 73. The portion of the brain that appears to be
(A) Applied (B) Pseudo the last area to mature fully is the:
(C) Empirical (D) Cognitive (A) Corpus Callosum
(B) Hypothalamus
67. A cognitive therapist is concerned primarily (C) Prefrontal cortex
with helping clients change their: (D) Occipital lobe
(A) habits (B) life-styles
(C) thinking patterns (D) behaviors
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74. Persons high in achievement motivation 79. The levels of processing view of memory
tend to prefer tasks that are ______. was proposed by:
(A) Moderately difficult (A) Craik & Tulving
(B) Very easy (B) Craik & Lockhart
(C) All types of task (C) Godden & Baddeley
(D) Extremely difficult (D) Schachter & Kihlstrom
75. Given below are the three types 80. Logo therapy was given by:
psychological investigations: (A) Maslow (B) Frankl
(1) Field experiments, (C) Rogers (D) Fritz Perls
(2) Laboratory experiments, and
(3) Ex post facto field studies. 81. Who has emphasized the linguistic relativity
hypothesis?
If the above investigations are arranged in (A) Whorf (B) L
descending order in terms of researchers (B) Steven Pinker
ability to control secondary variance, the (C) Jean Piaget
typical order would be: (D) Noam Chomsky
(A) 2, 1, 3 (B) 2, 3, 1
(C) 3, 2, 1 (D) 3, 1, 2 82. Mirror drawing apparatus is used to measure
__ learning.
76. The improved recall of items presented at (A) Sensory-motor (B) Serial
the end of a list compared to the middle of a (C) Social (D) Maze
list is referred to as the ________.
(A) Limited capacity effect 83. The visual cliff experiment on perception
(B) Last rehearsed effect shows that perception is:
(C) Recency effect (A) Organised (B) Induced
(D) Delayed effect (C) Innate (D) Learned
77. After the recent heavy catastrophic floods 84. Processing of information with minimal
in a given state, a psychologist interviewed conscious awareness is known as ____.
120 participants to understand the (A) Motivated forgetting
psychological consequences of the event. (B) Automated processing
This is an example of: (C) Easy processing
(A) Controlled experiment (D) Controlled processing
(B) Ex post facto field research
(C) Field experiment 85. The most recent addition to Baddeley's
(D) Psychometric research working memory model describes a
component that integrates and manipulates
78. Which of the following is NOT addressed by material in working memory. This
the medical model? component is referred to as the ___.
(A) Abnormal physical development (A) Central executive
(B) Genetic disorders (B) Visio-spatial sketchpad
(C) Biochemical imbalances (C) Phonological loop
(D) Biased information processing (D) Episodic buffer
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86. The scales to measure the psychological (A) Negative reinforcement

distance between any two stimuli was (B) Motivation
developed by ________. (C) Churning
(A) Titchner (B) Fechner (D) Inequity
(C) Binet (D) Weber
93. I create paintings and Art works because it
87. ____________ plays a significant role in gives me a sense of satisfaction and vitality.
emotional behaviour. My Art is primarily promoted by:
(A) Thalamus (B) Frontal Lobe (A) Discriminatory Rewards
(C) Parietal Lobe (D) Hypothalamus (B) Intrinsic Rewards
(C) Extrinsic Rewards
88. The process of changing your behavior to (D) Selective Rewards
match that of others in a group is:
(A) conformity 94. The glands which plays a key role in the
(B) standardization development of personality is the ______.
(C) norming (A) Thyroid (B) Adrenal
(D) forming a social contract (C) Pituitary (D) Thymus
89. When the previously learned task affects 95. Memories outside of conscious awareness
the retention of task being currently are called:
acquired, the phenomenon referred to as: (A) proactive memories
(A) Retroactive effect (B) reactive memories
(B) Proactive effect (C) implicit memories
(C) Retroactive interference (D) explicit memories
(D) Proactive interference
96. World Mental Heh Day is observed on:
90. ______ is regarded as a culture-fair test of (A) September 10
intelligence. (B) October 10
(A) WISC-R (C) December 10
(B) Stanford-Binet (D) November 10
(C) Raven's Progresive Matrices
(D) WAIS-R 97. In-basket exercise is used as a ________
training method.
91. Students who experience a persistent (A) Non-experiential
depressed mood after falling an exam (B) Project oriented
probably have which type of attributional (C) Experiential
style? (D) Practical
(A) External, specific
(B) External, global 98. Among the following: who was associated
(C) Unstable, specific with transition theories?
(D) Stable, global (A) Virginia Satir
(B) Nancy Schlossberg
92. In a firm in the last six months 70 to 90 (C) Fritz perls
employees have been terminated while 63 (D) Mary Ainsworth
applicants have been hired to replace them.
This type of strategy is best described: 99. To Gestaltists perception is a __________.
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(A) Non-mentalistic process

(B) Mechanical
(C) Unitary process
(D) Two-step process
100. Mental Retardation is associated with:

(A) Trisomy 23 (B) Trisomy 14
(C) Trisomy 21 (D) Trisomy 12
ANSWER KEY
1 A 26 D 51 C 76 C
2 D 27 C 52 C 77 B
3 A 28 C 53 C 78 D
4 C 29 B 54 C 79 B
5 C 30 B 55 C 80 B
6 D 31 B 56 A 81 A
7 C 32 A 57 D 82 A
8 C 33 D 58 B 83 C
9 B 34 A 59 D 84 B
10 A 35 C 60 D 85 D
11 C 36 B 61 B 86 B
12 C 37 B 62 A 87 D
13 D 38 D 63 B 88 A
14 A 39 A 64 A 89 B
15 A 40 A 65 C 90 C
16 A 41 C 66 B 91 D
17 B 42 C 67 C 92 C
18 D 43 D 68 B 93 B
19 A 44 D 69 A 94 B
20 C 45 B 70 B 95 C
21 A 46 B 71 B 96 B
22 A 47 A 72 A 97 C
23 B 48 A 73 C 98 B
24 B 49 C 74 A 99 D
25 B 50 A 75 A 100 C
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1. Watson and Rayner (1920) conditioned "Little (C) flooding
Albert" to fear white rats by banging a hammer (D) token economies
on a steel bar as the child played with a white
rat. Later, it was discovered that Albert feared 7. Bogus Pipeline is used for measuring:
not only white rats but white stuffed toys and (A) cognitive Dissonance
Santa's beard as well. Albert's fear of these other (B) Attitude
objects can be attributed to: (C) Personality
(A) The law of effect (D) Persuasion
(B) Stimulus discrimination
(C) An overactive imagination 8. Shaping is an extension of __________ principle
(D) Stimulus generalization of learning?
(A) Operant conditioning
2. Comparative psychologists are primarily (B) Social learning
interested in: (C) Insightful learning
(A) the comparison of functional and behavioral (D) Classical conditioning
psychology
(B) stimulus-response connections 9. The brain stem comprises:
(C) animal behavior (A) Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Reticular
(D) the comparison of different types of Formation
psychotherapy (B) Cerebellum, Medulla Oblongata, and Basal
Ganglia
3. The _______ theory explains how sounds up to (C) Pons, Basal Ganglia, and Reticular
4000 hertz reach the brain. Formation
(A) place (D) Medulla Oblongata, Pons, and Cerebellum
(B) tone
(C) auditory 10. The theory of bounded rationality was originally
(D) frequency developed by:
(A) Steven Pinker
4. World Mental Health Day is observed on: (B) Noam Chomsky
(A) September 10 (C) Herbert Simon
(B) November 10 (D) Gerd Gigerenzer
(C) December 10
(D) October 10 11. What is the full form of APA?
(A) Australian Psychological Association
5. Emotional Intelligence is: (B) American Psychiatric Association
(A) The ability to feign emotions when (C) American Psychological Association
necessary (D) American Psychology Association
(B) The ability to recognise and control one's
own and others' emotions 12. ___________ plays a significant role in
(C) The emotional reaction that occurs when emotional behaviour.
completing an intelligence test (A) Thalamus
(D) Knowledge of emotional states (B) Frontal Lobe
(C) Parietal Lobe
6. Which of the following is not a treatment (D) Hypothalamus
developed from classical conditioning
principles? 13. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
(A) aversion therapies Inventory – 2 is an example of a _____ test
(B) systematic desensitization (A) Criterion-referenced
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(B) Performance (B) Simon

(C) Self-report (C) McElwain
(D) Self-scoring (D) Terman
14. Psychiatrists endorse ________________ model 21. Jacobson's progressive relaxation is very similar
of illness. to_________ asan
(A) Ecological (A) Chakasan
(B) Social (B) Savasan
(C) Biological (C) Padmasana
(D) Humanistic (D) Bhujangasana
15. The process of excluding from the 22. Seeing a ghost in a dark room is an example of
consciousness the ideas and feelings which _________.
cause guilt and shame is known as: (A) Perceptual defense
(A) Repression (B) Illusion
(B) Projection (C) Hallucination
(C) Reaction formation (D) Delusion
(D) Regression
23. The word big is flashed on a screen. A mental
16. Electrooculogram (EOG) records: picture of the word big represents a ________
(A) Electrical activity within the brain code; the definition "large in size" represents a
(B) Changes in electrical activity in the muscles ________ code; "sounds like pig" represents a
(C) Electrical activity in various muscles ________ code.
(D) Changes in electrical potential in the eyes (A) Phonemic; Semantic; Structural
(B) Phonemic; Structural; Semantic
17. _______________ launches the Positive (C) Structural; Semantic; Phonemic
Psychology Movement. (D) Structural; Phonemic; Semantic
(A) Martin Seligman
(B) Erik Erikson 24. In the case of the 't' test, the distribution of the
(C) Elizabeth Loftus scores has a __________ shape.
(D) Abraham Maslow (A) Leptokurtic
(B) Positively skewed shape
18. In trace conditioning: (C) Platykurtic
(A) the CS precedes UCS and they do not (D) Mesokurtic
overlap
(B) the CS and UCS begin and end at the same 25. According to the James-Lange theory of
time emotion:
(C) The CS precedes UCS and they overlap (A) Different patterns of autonomic activation
(D) The UCS precedes CS lead to the experience of different emotions
(B) The experience of emotion depends on
19. What is the Id? autonomic arousal and on one's cognitive
(A) part of the psyche that controls our morals interpretation of that arousal
(B) part of the psyche that controls the impulses (C) Emotions develop because of their adaptive
(C) part of the psyche that reduces anxiety value
(D) a description of the innate instinctual needs (D) Emotion occurs when the thalamus sends
signals simultaneously to the cortex and to
the autonomic nervous system
20. The first self-report test of personality was
developed by: 26. Conditioning method was introduced by
_________.
(A) Woodworth (A) Pavlov
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(B) Thorndike
(C) Kohler 34. Biofeedback is based upon which principle of
(D) Skinner learning?
(A) Insightful learning
27. The term cognition refers to: (B) Classical conditioning
(A) thinking or knowing (C) Social learning
(B) analysis and synthesis (D) Operant conditioning
(C) predicting the future
(D) introspection 35. The three basic emotions which appear to be
unlearned but take time to develop are:
28. Howard Gardner theorizes that there are (A) excitement, jealousy, anger
__________ different kinds of intelligence (B) affection, anger, fear
(A) 3 (C) anger, fear, joy
(B) 120 (D) delight, jealousy, fear.
(C) 2
(D) 8 36. Which of the following is not a common
symptom of depression?
29. Mirror drawing apparatus is used to measure (A) Delusions
_________ learning (B) Insomnia
(A) Serial (C) Poor appetite
(B) Sensory-motor (D) Lack of energy
(C) Social
(D) Maze 37. The Multiple Components Model of working
Memory was proposed by:
30. Which of the following tests is likely to have the (A) Atkinson & Shiffrin
highest reliability? (B) Baddeley
(A) The MMPI (C) Miller
(B) TAT (D) Posner & Rossman
(C) Draw-a-Person test
(D) Rorschach inkblot test 38. Therapists who focus on altering faulty thought
process are:
31. What proportion of scores in a normal (A) Humanistic therapists
distribution lie above a z score of 1? (B) Psychodynamic therapists
(A) 16 per cent (C) Cognitive therapists
(B) 10 per cent (D) Behavioural Therapists
(C) 50 per cent
(D) 25 per cent 39. Which one of these models of psychopathology
would suggest that psychological disorders
32. Mean is an example of ___________ statistic result from acquiring dysfunctional ways of
(A) Multivariate thinking and acting?
(B) Univariate (A) cognitive model
(C) Variance (B) behavioral model
(D) Bivariate (C) medical model
(D) client- centered model
33. Drawing specific conclusions without evidence is
known as ________. 40. In which stage in Piaget's theory does children
engage in symbolic play?
(A) Personalisation (A) Sensorimotor stage
(B) Arbitrary inference (B) concrete operations
(C) Dysfunctional belief (C) formal operations
(D) Convergent thinking (D) preoperational stage
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48. Thinking in 'either-or' conditions is known as

41. Trichromatic theory states that there are three _________.
kinds of __________ in the eye. (A) Cognitive lapse
(A) Bipolar cells (B) Generalisation
(B) Ganglion cells (C) Inferential thinking
(C) cones (D) Dichotomous thinking
(D) Rods
49. Median is an example of ___________ statistic.
42. Curve of forgetting was developed (A) Bivariate
by_______ (B) Multivariate
(A) Watson (C) Kurtic
(B) Piaget (D) Univariate
(C) Freud
(D) Ebbinghaus 50. Which of these is a stage in the Stages of Change
Model?
43. Persons with Down Syndrome have IQ's: (A) contemplation
(A) Above 50 (B) Study
(B) below 40 (C) deliberation
(C) below 50 (D) meditation
(D) above 40
51. ____________ are drugs whose primary effect is
44. The __________ hypothesis states that to produce general increases in neural and
frustration tends to lead to aggression. behavioral activity.
(A) cognitive dissonance (A) Depressives
(B) social learning (B) Sedatives
(C) frustration-aggression (C) Barbiturates
(D) biological instinct (D) Stimulants
45. The first theory of intelligence was developed 52. The first President of APA was:
by: (A) Wilhelm Wundt
(A) Stanford and Binet (B) John B. Watson
(B) Binet and Simon (C) G. Stanley Hall
(C) Terman and Wechsler (D) William James
(D) Spearman
53. Organized structure of information about a
46. Which law of learning states that things most particular domain of life is known as
often repeated are best retained? _____________.
(A) attributes
(A) Law of effect (B) Cognitive structuring
(B) Law of readiness (C) plan
(C) Law of exercise (D) Schema
(D) Law of recency
54. _________________ is a persistent pattern of
47. When a neuron is at rest, the electrical charge is psychological distress following exposure to
(difficult). extreme stress.
(A) Post traumatic stress disorder
(A) -70 millivolts (B) Generalized Anxiety Disorder
(B) ±70 millivolts (C) Panic disorder
(C) no electric charge (D) Phobic disorder
(D) +70 millivolts
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55. Milgram's experiment with electric shock was (D) Preparation---- Incubation----Illumination ---
used to measure: -Evaluation----Revision
(A) Conformity
(B) Compliance 62. 'A child learned to be kind to others'-This an
(C) Prejudice example of _________
(D) Obedience (A) General Motive
(B) Biological Motive
56. The components of evolution are: (C) Intrinsic Motive
(A) Inheritance (D) Social Motive
(B) Variation & selection
(C) variation, inheritance & selection 63. Fetal alcohol syndrome is characterized by:
(D) variation & inheritance (A) addiction to alcohol in the newborn.
(B) miscarriage, premature birth, and bodily
57. The Serial Position Curve is a (Difficult): defects.
(A) Straight line (C) increased birth weight.
(B) C Shaped Curve (D) genetic defects.
(C) U shaped Curve
(D) Inverted U 64. Of the theorists listed below, who helped to
develop the humanistic approach in psychology?
58. In India, the licensing body for Clinical (A) Freud
Psychologists is _________. (B) Rogers
(A) Medical council of India (C) Skinner
(B) Mental Health Council (D) Titchener
(C) Clinical Psychologist Council
(D) Rehabilitation Council of India 65. According to Latané (1981), social loafing is due
to:
59. Putting forward a large request followed by a (A) A bias toward making internal attributions
smaller one is a technique of: about the behavior of others
(A) Foot in the door technique (B) Duplication of effort among group members
(B) Ingratiation (C) Diffusion of responsibility in groups
(C) door in the face (D) Social norms that stress the importance of
(D) playing hard to get positive interactions among group members
60. The kind of therapy developed by Freud is 66. The amount of change in a stimulus required for
called: a person to detect is called:
(A) absolute threshold
(A) Gestalt therapy (B) subliminal perception
(B) Psychoanalysis (C) Difference threshold
(C) S-R therapy (D) just noticeable difference
(D) behavior modification
67. During counselling asking for minute and
61. The correct series of activities in the creative obscure details about the client is known as ---
process is _____________. (A) Understanding
(B) Probing
(A) Preparation---- Incubation----Illumination --- (C) Clarifying
-Revision----Evaluation (D) Deepening
(B) Incubation ----Preparation ----Illumination---
-Evaluation----Revision 68. Who among the following emphasized upon
(C) Preparation---- Illumination---- Incubation -- 'Archetypes'
--Evaluation----Revision (A) Jung
(B) Freud
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(C) Adler 75. Counselling is different from psychotherapy

(D) Horney primarily because, in counselling we deal with
_________ problems.
69. According to Freud, the Oedipus and Electra
conflicts occur during the: (A) Cultural
(A) Oral stage (B) Marital
(B) Genital stage (C) Adjustment
(C) Anal stage (D) Academic
(D) Phallic stage
76. NEO-PI is an assessment of ----
70. Sleep spindles and K complexes occurs at (A) Intelligence
_________ sleep (average) (B) Attitude
(A) stage 4 (C) Personality
(B) stage 2 (D) Career interests
(C) Stage 1
(D) stage 3 77. Jung believed that there are basic universal
concepts in all people regardless of culture
called:
71. The levels of processing view of memory was (A) Mandalas
proposed by: (B) archetypes.
(A) Godden & Baddeley (C) collective consciousness
(B) Craik & Tulving (D) persona.
(C) Schachter & Kihlstrom
(D) Craik & Lockhart 78. Reinforcement which occurs after a fixed number
of responses.
72. The view that "A counsellor is an authentic (A) variable-ratio schedule
Chameleon" was given by: (B) Fixed-ratio schedule
(C) fixed-interval schedule
(A) Rogers (D) variable-interval schedule
(B) Seligman
(C) Maslow 79. The portion of the brain that appears to be the
(D) Lazarus last area to mature fully is the:
(A) Corpus Callosum
73. Which of the following lobe is involved in (B) Hypothalamus
hearing? (C) Occipital lobe
(D) Prefrontal cortex
(A) Frontal
(B) Parietal 80. The cephalocaudal trend in the motor
(C) Occipital development of children can be described
(D) Temporal simply as a:
(A) Foot-to-head direction
74. An IQ of 100 Suggest ________ level of (B) Center-outward direction
intelligence (C) Body-appendages direction
(D) Head-to-foot direction
(A) average
(B) high 81. Analysing pre and post scores of a client on a
(C) low given parameter is a method of evaluation in
(D) Very high counselling. This is known as _________
method of evaluation.
(A) Critical
(B) Process
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(C) Outcome
(D) Feedback 89. Who among the following is not a motivation
theorist?
82. Term flashbulb memories was proposed by: (A) Maslow
(A) Kassin & Kiechel (B) Herzberg
(B) Neisser (C) Vroom
(C) Brown and Kulik (D) Tolman
(D) Loftus
90. Who is considered as the "spiritual father of
83. The famous book 'Authentic Happiness' was humanism in America"?
authored by: (A) J B Watson
(A) Viktor Frankl (B) R S Woodworth
(B) Rollo May (C) Abraham Maslow
(C) Martin Seligman (D) Carl Rogers
(D) Robin Sharma
91. The glands which plays a key role in the
84. In Adler's view, the main striving of personality development of personality is the
is for: _________
(A) instincts (A) Pituitary
(B) superiority (B) Thyroid
(C) sophistication (C) Thymus
(D) dominance (D) Adrenal
85. The water jar problem demonstrated by Luchins 92. What is the smallest unit of Speech Perception?
was used to study the impact of _______ on (A) Words
problem solving (difficult) (B) Phonemes
(A) trial and error (C) Syllable
(B) Functional fixedness (D) Morphemes
(C) algorithm
(D) mental set 93. Persons having low IQ with exceptional musical
talents are referred as:
86. Which of the following types of conflict is (A) Williams syndrome
extremely disruptive? (B) savant syndrome
(A) Discount-discount (C) Gifted
(B) Avoidance-Avoidance (D) prodigies
(C) Approach-Approach
(D) Approach-Avoidance 94. Illusion is a kind of __________________
(A) Perception
87. A man redirects anger from his boss to his child (B) Hallucination
is an example of which defense mechanism? (C) Trick
(A) displacement (D) Misperception
(B) repression
(C) regression 95. Resulting data from a test of academic
(D) Projection knowledge are positively skewed. This suggests
that:
88. The variance of a population: (A) Some students benefited from a "halo
(A) equals SS / df effect".
(B) M1- M2 (B) The test was too easy
(C) is represented by s2 (C) The test was too difficult
(D) equals the mean of the squared deviation (D) an unbiased estimate must be calculated.
scores.
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96. The scales to measure the psychological distance

between any two stimuli was developed by
(A) Weber
(B) Titchner
(C) Fechner
(D) Binet
97. Statistical way of controlling quality in

organisations is known as:
(A) Feedback training
(B) KAIZEN
(C) Six Sigma
(D) Quantitative training
98. A teacher offers her student a reward for each

five correct answers. This is an example of
______ reinforcement schedule?
(A) Intermittent ratio
(B) Fixed ratio
(C) Intermittent interval
(D) Fixed interval
99. Cognitive Dissonance theory is based on the:

(A) Self- actualization
(B) Consistency
(C) Gain-loss
(D) Cognitive dissonance
100. Traits that exert relatively specific and weak

effects on behavior are called (Average)
(A) central traits
(B) secondary traits
(C) source traits
(D) Cardinal traits
ANSWER KEY

1 D 26 A 51 D 76 C
2 C 27 A 52 C 77 B
3 D 28 D 53 D 78 B
4 D 29 B 54 A 79 D
5 B 30 A 55 D 80 D
6 D 31 A 56 C 81 C
7 B 32 B 57 C 82 C
8 A 33 B 58 D 83 C
9 D 34 D 59 C 84 B
10 C 35 C 60 B 85 D
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11 C 36 A 61 D 86 D
12 D 37 B 62 A 87 A
13 C 38 C 63 B 88 D
14 C 39 A 64 B 89 D
15 A 40 D 65 C 90 C
16 D 41 C 66 D 91 D
17 A 42 D 67 C 92 B
18 A 43 A 68 A 93 A
19 D 44 C 69 D 94 A
20 A 45 D 70 B 95 C
21 B 46 C 71 D 96 C
22 C 47 A 72 D 97 C
23 C 48 D 73 D 98 B
24 A 49 D 74 A 99 B
25 A 50 A 75 C 100 B
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1. Filter Model theory of attention given by 8. A response that is invariably elicited by the
(A) Shannon and Weaver unconditioned stimulus without prior
(B) Treisman learning is called
(C) Broadbent (A) Unconditioned response
(D) Schacter (B) Unconditioned stimulus
(C) Conditioned response
2. The concentration of mental effort on (D) Conditioned stimulus
sensory or mental events is called
(A) Attention (B) Perception 9. The act of bringing to mind material that has
(C) Adaptation (D) Sensation been stored in memory is called
(A) Retrieval (B) Encoding
3. Impairment of learning of a task caused by (C) Storage (D) Recognition
having previously learnt similar information
is called 10. The duration of short-term memory is
(A) Retroactive inhibition (A) 250 msec to 4 sec
(B) Proactive inhibition (B) About 12 sec
(C) Latent Learning (C) 30 sec
(D) Spontaneous recovery (D) sec
4. Associative neurons are found at 11. A mnemonic technique that organizes

(A) Spinal cord only information into categories that are used as
(B) Brain only recall cues
(C) Spinal cord and Brain only (A) Method of Loci
(D) Autonomous nervous system (B) Acronym
(C) Keyword
5. Learning that is affected by consequences is (D) Organizational schemas
called
(A) Self-regulated learning 12. The basic traits that make up the human
(B) Classical conditioning personality according to Cattell are known
(C) Operant conditioning as
(D) Behavioral self management (A) Cardinal traits
(B) Central traits
6. Vicarious learning theory was developed by (C) Source traits
(A) Kelly (D) Surface traits
(B) Bandura
(C) Wundt 13. A rule that guarantees a solution to a
(D) Hering specific type of problem is called
(A) Heuristics
7. The aroused condition of an organism that (B) Analogy
results from some bodily or tissue deficit is (C) Algorithms
called (D) Trial and Error
(A) Motive (B) Goal
(C) Drive (D) Incentive
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14. Seven independent Mental abilities was 22. The loss of memory after the onset of the
developed by memory disorder is called
(A) Cattell (B) Spearman (A) Anterograde amnesia
(C) Sternberg (D) Thurstone (B) Retrograde amnesia
(C) Amnesia
15. Two factor theory of intelligence was (D) None
proposed by
(A) Sternberg (B) Vernon 23. The idea that what rats learn in a maze is not
(C) Thorndike (D) Spearman a series of S-R connections but a picture of
internal representation of the stimulus
16. If a null hypothesis is rejected, when it is situation, it is called as ----- by Tolman.
true, the error committed knows as (A) cognitive map
(A) Type II error (B) mental map
(B) Type I error (C) map of the maze
(C) Type I and II error (D) imaginary map
(D) Probable error
24. The sense of familiar with an experience
17. Provocative and retroactive inhibition are when the experience is novel is called as
examples of (A) dejavu
(A) Decay through disuse (B) dream
(B) Motivated forgetting (C) divergent thinking
(C) Amnesia (D) imagination
(D) Interference effects
25. The membrane on the back of the eye that
18. An action potential is caused by a self- contains photoreceptor cells (rods and
propagating mechanism called cones)
(A) Polarization (B) Assimilation (A) retina (B) pupil
(C) Depolarization (D) Substitution (C) iris (D) lens
19. One of the following is not a parametric test 26. The junction between two neurons is called
(A) Sign test (B) t-test as
(C) F-test (D) ANOVA (A) synapse (B) axon
(C) dendrite (D) myelin sheath
20. The branch of psychology that deals with
the detection and interpretation of sensory 27. The ----- law states that the relationship
stimuli between performance and arousal level is an
(A) Perception inverted U-curve.
(B) Sensation (A) Yerkes-Dodson (B) Seyle
(C) Extra sensory perception (C) Cannon-bard (D) None
(D) Signal detection
28. The influence of stimuli that are
21. The process by which a cue enhances recall insufficiently intense to produce a conscious
or recognition or a subsequent item, is sensation but strong enough to influence
known as some mental processes is known as
(A) Priming (B) Memory (A) subliminal perception
(C) Prior probability (D) Permastore (B) perception
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(C) sensation · (A) Dissociative fugue

(D) subliminal priming (B) Depersonalization
(C) Adjustment disorder
29. _______ believed that learning precedes (D) Bereavement
development
(A) Vygotsky (B) Piaget 37. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming
(C) Mandler (D) None fat, even when underweight is the diagnostic
criteria for
30. Rational emotive therapy was developed by (A) Anorexia nervosa
(A) Freud (B) Albert Ellis (B) Bulimia nervosa
(C) Beck (D) Clark (C) Insomnia
(D) Dipsomania
31. The mechanism characterized by a return to
earlier and more primitive modes of 38. Which is the major characteristic of
responding is Histrionic Personality disorder
(A) Sublimation (A) Self-absorbed
(B) Projection (B) Seductive behavior
(C) Regression (C) Perfectionistic
(D) Rationalization (D) Manipulative
32. Extremely slow brain waves that appear 39. Which is not the positive symptoms of
in stage 3 and dominate stage 4 sleep schizophrenia
(A) Alpha (B) Delta (A) Delusions
(C) Theta (D) REM (B) Disorganized speech
(C) Poverty of speech
33. Fear of strangers is called (D) Hallucinations
(A) Acrophobia
(B) Aquaphobia 40. A famous book 'Man's search for meaning
(C) Xenophobia was written by
(D) Agoraphobia (A) Victor Frankl
(B) Ellis
34. Which is not type of delusion? (C) Neitzche
(A) Grandiose (B) Jealous (D) Kierkegaard
(C) Somatic (D) Polygenic
41. While conducting researches in behavioural
35. Recurrent, sexually arousing fantasies or sciences, we mostly use_____ scale of
behaviors involving the use of nonliving measurement.
objects is called (A) Nominal (B) Ordinal
(A) Fetishism (C) Interval (D) Ratio
(B) Voyeurism
(C) Pedophilia 42. Standard Deviation is an example
(D) Exhibitionism of________ statisti(C)
36. Which is involves a sense (A) Univariate

of being cut off or detached from one's self; (B) Bivariate
often precipitated by stress (C) Multivariate
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(D) None of these (A) Preparation - Illumination - Incubation -

Evaluation - Revision
43. ‘t' test is used to find (B) Preparation - Incubation - Illumination -
(A) Effect Evaluation - Revision
(B) Relationship (C) Preparation - Incubation - Illumination -
(C) Difference Revision - Evaluation
(D) Deviation (D) Incubation - Preparation - Illumination -
Evaluation – Revision
44. In case of 'Chi square', the distribution of
the scores has a _____ distribution. 50. Memories of specific things that have
(A) Platykurtic happened to a person is known as
(B) Leptokurtic (A) Iconic memory
(C) Negatively skewed (B) Episodic Memory
(D) Positively skewed (C) Semantic Memory
(D) Echoic Memory
45. E.B Titchner led a movement of
psychology known as _______ 51. General Adaptation Syndrome model is
(A) Behaviourism associated with
(B) Structuralism (A) Motivation (B) Stress
(C) Interactionism (C) Learning (D) Attitude
(D) Functionalism
52. Who among the following is not a
46. The parts of the neurons that conduct action motivation theorist?
potential away from the cell body are called (A) Maslow (B) Herzberg
______ (C) Skinner (D) Vroom
(A) Dendrites
(B) Glial cells 53. Which of the following gland is described as
(C) Axons 'Master Gland' of the body?
(D) Axon terminals (A) Endocrine Gland
(B) Adrenal Gland
47. Which of the following lobe is important (C) Pituitary Gland
for visual function? (D) Pancreatic Gland
(A) Frontal (B) Parietal
(C) Temporal (D) Occipital 54. Which of the following psychologist served
as both experimenter and subject in his
48. A psychologist who is studying experiment?
extrasensory perception, will be termed as (A) Cattel (B) Piaget
____ (C) Ebinghaus (D) All of them
(A) Clinical Psychologist
(B) Parapsychologist 55. Humanistic perspective of psychology
(C) Industrial Psychologist focuses upon
(D) Experimental Psychologist (A) Unconscious process
(B) Inherited tendencies
49. The correct series of activities in creative (C) Personal growth
process is _______ (D) Cultural factors
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56. Rehabilitation Council of India comes (A) the study of psychology

under the ministry of (B) study of psychological disorders
(A) Health and Family Welfare (C) the distinction between psychologists
(B) Social Justice and Empowerment and psychiatrists
(C) Human Resource Development (D) the focus of counseling psychology
(D) Law and Justice
63. In which area of psychology would a
57. When CA is equal to MA the IQ is researcher interested in how individuals
(A) 0 (B) 100 persist to attain a difficult goal (like
(C) 1 (D) none of the above graduating from college) most likely
specialize?
58. According to Bandura which of the (A) motivation and emotion
following is the correct sequence of social (B) physiological psychology
learning? (C) social psychology
(A) (D) community psychology
(B) 64. A psychologist who focused on the ways in

which people's family background related to
(C) their current functioning would be
associated with which psychological
(D) approach?
(A) the behavioral approach
(B) the psychodynamic approach
59. Hawthorne Study provides a strong (C) the humanistic approach
historical base for (D) the cognitive approach
(A) Health Psychology
(B) Social Psychology 65. The researcher most associated with
(C) Industrial Psychology functionalism is
(D) Clinical Psychology (A) William James
(B) Wilhelm Wundt
60. In classical conditioning, the stimulus (C) Charles Darwin
that is repeatedly paired with an (D) E.(B) Titchener
unconditioned stimulus is called
(A) Unconditioned Stimulus 66. A psychologist is attempting to understand
(B) Conditioned Stimulus why certain physical characteristics are rated
(C) Unconditioned Response as attractive. The psychologist explains that
(D) Conditioned Response certain characteristics have been historically
adaptive, and thus are
61. Which of the following is NOT part of the considered attractive. This explanation is
definition of psychology? consistent with which of the following
(A) Science approaches?
(B) behaviour (A) the socio-cultural approach
(C) mental processes (B) the humanistic approach
(D) therapy (C) the cognitive approach
(D) the evolutionary approach
62. The term psychopathology refers to
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67. Which approach would explain depression 72. How is natural selection related to
in terms of disordered thinking? psychology?
(A) the humanistic approach (A) Humans and animals are related
(B) the evolutionary approach (B) Survival is related to environmental
(C) the cognitive approach conditions alone and not to genetics
(D) the sociocultural approach (C) Humans behave and think the way they
do in part because it helped them
68. Which of the following would a socio- survive
cultural psychologist be likely to study? (D) It is unrelated to psychology
(A) the impact of media messages on
women's body image 73. A researcher interested in the way in which
(B) the way in which neurotransmitters are our sense of smell works would likely be
implicated in the development of eating associated with which of the following areas
disorders of specialization?
(C) the impact of thinking patterns on (A) cognitive psychology
weight management (B) learning
(D) the benefits of exercise in preventing (C) motivation and learning
obesity (D) sensation and perception
69. Why is psychology considered a science? 74. Which of the following areas of
(A) It focuses on internal mental processes specialization would focus on the ways in
(B) It classifies mental disorders which stress is related to cancer remission?
(C) It focuses on observation, drawing (A) cognitive psychology
conclusions, and prediction (B) community psychology
(D) It focuses on behavior (C) health psychology
(D) behavioral neuroscience
70. Why is it important to study positive
psychology? 75. Where do most psychologists work? ·
(A) Psychologists are only interested in the (A) in hospitals
experiences of healthy persons (B) private practice
(B) We get a fuller understanding of human (C) human resource departments in
experience by focusing on both positive corporations
and negative aspects of life (D) academic settings like universities
(C) Negative experiences in people's lives
tell us little about people's mental 76. Which of the following areas of inquiry
processes. would likely be of interest to a positive
(D) Psychology has been too focused on the psychologist?
negative (A) the ways in which genetic factors
influence the development of depression
71. From where did psychology emerge? (B) the ways in which survivors of
(A) the work of Wilhelm Wundt Hurricane Katrina made meaning of
(B) early philosophical thought their experience
(C) the natural science (C) the ways in which parenting style related
(D) All of the answers are correct to children's attachment
(D) the ways in which brain lesions affect
personality
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77. What type of training do clinical (B) The psychological classification for gays
psychologists usually have? and lesbians
(A) a medical degree, such as an MD (C) Prejudice against and dislike of gays and
(B) a doctoral degree, such as a PhD lesbians
(C) a bachelor's degree, such as a BA (D) A capacity for erotic attraction to
(D) all of the answers are correct members of the same sex
78. What is the relationship between the mind 83. Which of the following occurs first
and the body? developmentally?
(A) The mind impacts the body (A) Gender identity
(B) The body impacts the mind (B) Secondary sexual characteristics
(C) The mind and body have reciprocal (C) Primary sexual characteristics
effects on each other (D) Reproductive maturity
(D) There is no relationship between the
mind and the body 84. Which is true of social stereotypes?
(A) They are always negative
79. What is the most widely practiced (B) They tend to be rational
specialization in psychology? (C) Likable members of a rejected group are
(A) social psychology perceived as on "exception"
(B) personality psychology (D) They are negative feelings about social
(C) counseling psychology groups
(D) cognitive psychology
85. People who think their ethnic, national, or
80. On what topic would an environmental religious group is superior to others are
psychologist most likely do research? called
(A) research on teaching and learning (A) Authoritariam
(B) how to prevent mental health issues by (B) Dogmatic
identifying high-risk groups in the (C) Ethnocentric
community (D) Rigid
(C) how to pick a sympathetic jury
(D) how room arrangements influence 86. The favored pattern of behavior expected of
behaviours each sex is called
(A) Gender identity
81. A cognitive psychology Professor, tells (B) Sexual identity
students who request copies of his notes or (C) Gender role
slides from class that it is better for them to (D) Biological sex
take the notes themselves. Taking notes
helps students improve their 87. According to the theory of cognitive
(A) Retrieval dissonance, attitudes are changed because
(B) Recognition (A) Emotionally persuasive arguments
(C) Encoding unfreeze beliefs
(D) Use of mnemonics (B) Logical arguments alter the belief
component of an attitude
82. Homophobia is (C) Clashing thoughts cause discomfort
(A) Rarely a problem for gays or lesbians (D) Acting contrary to one's beliefs for a
large reward causes dissonance
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88. An example of a superordinate goal is 93. If everyone leaves five minutes before the
(A) Getting good a good job game is over to avoid a traffic jam, the
(B) Believing in supernatural powers resulting traffic jam would be an example of
(C) Becoming rich and famous (A) Social impregnation
(D) Protecting clean water supplies (B) A social trap
(C) Groupthink
89. According to evolutionary psychologists (D) Self-handicapping
(A) Women tend to be concerned with
whether mates will devote time and 94. The study of unspoken rules for the use of
resources to a relationship interpersonal space is called
(B) Men place less emphasis on physical (A) Kinesics (B) Haptics
attractiveness (C) Proxemics (D) Territoriality
(C) Women place more emphasis on sexual
fidelity 95. If Jane's intelligence quotient is 100, we
(D) Men are biologically driven to have a know that she has a
single partner (A) Perfect score on a set of age-related
tests.
90. Attribution theory concerns our tendency to (B) Test performance superior to 90% of
explain our behavior and that of others other children the same age who took
(A) By external causes rather than internal the test
causes (C) Mental age typical of children who have
(B) By inferring causes on the basis of the same chronological age
internal or external factors (D) Mental age below those of children with
(C) By internal rather than external causes. the same chronological age
(D) Based on personality factors
96. Which of the following statements
91. Which of the following is a testament to the concerning the relationship between
power of roles? inspection time and IQ is true?
(A) Cialdini's door-in-the-face effect (A) The longer the inspection time, the
(B) Milgram's message experiment greater the intelligence
(C) Zilstein's shock research (B) The longer the inspection time, the
(D) Zimbardo's prison experiment lower the intelligence
(C) The shorter the inspection time, the
92. With regard to the effects of TV on lower the intelligence
children, we can conclude that (D) Inspection time and intelligence are not
(A) TV has little effect on the behavior of related
children
(B) TV only increases aggressive behavior 97. An adjective checklist would most likely be
in children used by a
(C) TV only increases prosocial behavior in (A) Psychodynamic therapist
children (B) Behaviorist
(D) The amount of TV viewing may be (C) Humanistic therapist
related to aggressive behavior later in (D) Trait theorist
life
98. In Adler's view, the main striving of
personality is for
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(A) Dominance
(B) Sophistication
(C) Freedom
(D) Superiority
99. Temperament refers to

(A) Charisma or character
(B) Unique and enduring behavior patterns
(C) Learned traits of emotional response
(D) Hereditary emotional traits
100. A defining characteristic of traits is that

they are
(A) Fixed
(B) Observed
(C) Evaluative
(D) Enduring
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1 C 26 A 51 B 76 B
2 A 27 A 52 C 77 A
3 B 28 A 53 C 78 C
4 C 29 A 54 C 79 C
5 C 30 B 55 B 80 D
6 B 31 C 56 B 81 C
7 C 32 B 57 A 82 C
8 A 33 C 58 C 83 C
9 A 34 D 59 B 84 D
10 C 35 A 60 B 85 C
11 D 36 B 61 D 86 C
12 C 37 A 62 B 87 C
13 C 38 B 63 A 88 B
14 D 39 C 64 B 89 A
15 D 40 A 65 A 90 B
16 B 41 C 66 D 91 D
17 D 42 C 67 C 92 D
18 C 43 B 68 A 93 A
19 A 44 C 69 C 94 C
20 A 45 D 70 B 95 C
21 C 46 B 71 D 96 D
22 A 47 D 72 C 97 D
23 A 48 B 73 D 98 D
24 A 49 B 74 C 99 D
25 A 50 C 75 A 100 D
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substance as it travels through the blood
1. Stage 4 sleep EEG is characterized by a vessels of the brain.
predominance of _______ waves. (A) CT
(A) delta (B) PET
(B) beta (C) MRI
(C) gamma (D) EEG
(D) theta
8. People have an easier time recalling an event
2. Dreaming occurs predominantly during if they are in the same mood as the one
__________sleep. they were in when the event occurred.
(A) NREM (A) Cue- dependent memory
(B) REM (B) State- dependent memory
(C) Deep (C) Long Term Memory
(D) Slow wave (D) Short Term Memory
3. The 16 PF Questionnaire was developed by 9. The rods and cones are

(A) Thurstone (A) Ch make synaptic connections with the
(B) Cattell ganglion cells
(C) Gough (B) the fibers of which form the optic nerve
(D) Murray (C) the photosensitive cells that convert light
energy into nerve impulses
4. The Oedipal complex occurs during the (D) none of the above
(A) oral stage
(B) anal stage 10. An artist is able to give depth to his picture
(C) phallic stage because he can make use of the
(D) genital stage (A) brush
(B) colors
5. The study of the mind by analysis of one's (C) paper
own thought processes is ________. (D) monocular cues
(A) introjection
(B) regression 11. Running of movie is possible because of
(C) repression (A) real motion
(D) introspection (B) stroboscopic motion
(C) autokinetic motion
6. _______is involved in posture, physical (D) electrical motion
balance and for motor co-ordination.
(A) cerebrum 12. Alcohol is a
(B) cerebellum (A) stimulant
(C) pons (B) hallucinogen
(D) medulla (C) depressant
(D) all the above
7. The _______ scan detects abnormal brain
activity by monitoring a radioactive tracer
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13. Shifting from right. hand driving (in 19. ______ is also known as the "master
America) to a left-hand driving (in Britain) gland"
is an example of (A) thyroid gland
(A) positive transfer of learning (B) pituitary gland
(B) negative transfer of learning (C) adrenal gland
(C) no transfer of learning (D) gonads
(D) learning by past experience
20. In a dark room, a rope may be viewed as a
14. You are teaching a mentally retarded child snake. This principle is called __________.
to dress herself. When she does something (A) hallucination
correctly, you give her a poker chip, which (B) delusion
she can later exchange for food or (C) Illusion
privileges. This is an example of (D) figure-ground
(A) programmed instruction
(B) discrimination training 21. Which among the following is not a
(C) a token economy cognitive variable affecting behavior?
(D) systematic desensitization (A) Expectancies
(B) Values
15. Essay tests require__________; multiple (C) Plans
choice tests require ______. (D) Images
(A) recall; recognition
(B) recognition; recall 22. IMF stands for
(C) recall; recall (A) Indian Medical Federation
(D) recognition; recognition (B) Indian Metropolitan Forum
(C) International Monetary Fund
16. Ability includes (D) International Metropolitan Fund
(A) aptitude
(B) achievement 23. HIV infection is not possible through
(C) both aptitude and achievement _________.
(D) none of the above (A) Unprotected sex
(B) Blood transfusion
17. Diabetes is caused by (C) Kissing and Hugging
(A) hereditary factors only (D) Using infected syringes
(B) environmental factors
(C) interaction between hereditary and 24. __________ leaders inspire followers to
environment transcend their own self-interests and have a
(D) the cause of diabetes is not certain profound and extraordinary effect on
followers.
18. Central nervous system consists of (A) Transactional
(A) the brain (B) Charismatic
(B) the brain and the spinal cord (C) Transformational
(C) the brain, the spinal cord and the (D) Authentic
autonomic system
(D) the brain and the somatic system 25. In a conflict situation the willingness of one
party to place the opponent's interests above
his/her own is called _________.
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(A) accommodating (B) executive functions

(B) collaborating (C) management functions
(C) compromising (D) slave functions
(D) competing
31. One of the most common features of
26. Aetiology is a term; neurological disorders are Language deficits
(A) used to describe a course of treatment and are collectively known as
(B) used to predict the length of treatment (A) dysphasias
(C) used to describe the causes or origins of (B) alogias
psychological symptoms (C) anomias
(D) that describes a specific theory related to (D) aphasias
psychopathology
32. The production of incoherent, jumbled
27. What is the name of an effect that occurs speech is known as
when an experimental group gets better (A) non fluent aphasia
simply because they are being giving a pill (B) disruptive aphasia
and this leads them to expect to get better? (C) fluent aphasia
(A) the domino effect (D) anomic aphasia
(B) the butterfly effect
(C) the placebo effect 33. When the individual is be unable to
(D) the expectancy effect recognise everyday objects and name them
correctly, this is known as
28. Oamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOls) are (A) prosopagnosia
effective for the treatment of: (B) anomia
(A) schizophrenia (C) agnosia
(B) major depression (D) aphosonomia
(C) obsessive compulsive disorder
(D) generalized anxiety disorder 34. A Neurological disorder that is
characterised by impairments in motor
29. If an individual suffers a traumatic event and performance and coordination are known as
has a neurological disorder that means they (A) dyspraxia
may be unable to recall anything from the (B) apraxia
moment of the injury or to retain memories (C) anapraxia
of recent events. This is known as: (D) aamotoria
(A) anterograde amnesia
(B) retrograde amnesia 35. Meningitis refers to that class of infections
(C) postevent amnesia that cause inflammation of the meninges.
(D) antenatal amnesia Which part of the brain does this refer to?
(A) spinal fluid
30. Often the first signs of neurological (B) membranous covering of the brain and
disorders are deficits in basic cognitive spinal cord
functions and also deficits in skills that (C) main part of a neuron
involve problem-solvjng, planning and (D) axon terminal
engaging in goal directed behaviour. These
types of functions are known as 36. Which of the following is an example of a
(A) directive functions Specific Learning Disability?
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(A) Mental retardation (B) Infantile amnesia

(B) Dyslexia (C) Cerebral palsy
(C) ADHD (D) Rett's syndrome
(D) Autistic spectrum disorders
43. The _______ is where the genes and
37. Which of the following is an example of an chromosomes for the cell’s proteins are
intellectual disability? stored
(A) Dyslexia (A) endoplasmic reticulum
(B) ADHD (B) nucleus
(C) Mental retardation (C) golgi bodies
(D) Autistic spectrum disorders (D) mitochondria
38. An example of a Developmental Disorder is: 44. The _____ are the cell's power plants that
(A) Dyslexia supply its energy needs.
(B) ADHD (A) lysosomes
(C) Mental retardation (B) golgi bodies
(D) Autistic spectrum disorders (C) nucleus
(D) mitochondria
39. In learning disabilities, the name for
mathematical disorder is: 45. The ________ are saclike vesicles that not
(A) dyspraxia only transport incoming supplies, but
(B) dyslexia also move and store wastes.
(C) dyscalculia (A) Lysosomes
(D) dysphasia (B) golgi bodies
(C) endoplasmic reticulum
40. Which of the following procedures can be (D) nucleus
used to identify Down Syndrome pre-
natally? 46. Francis Galton is the cousin of _________.
(A) Amniocentesis (A) Rene Descartes
(B) Amnioprolaxis (B) Jean Baptiste Bouillard
(C) Amniophalaxi (C) Marc Dax
(D) Amniocalesis (D) Charles Darwin
41. Which of the following is the main 47. Fibers which carry information away from
neurological birth syndrome caused by the CNS and to it constitute
anoxia? the___________.
(A) Down Syndrome (A) central nervous system
(B) Fragile X Syndrome (B) peripheral nervous system
(C) Cerebral Palsy (C) projection fibers
(D) Cerebral Vascular Accident (D) association fibers
42. Early manifestation of symptoms such as 48. ______is the diagnosis of nervous system
severe impairment in social interaction and injury by physicians who are
in communication can be diagnosed as specialists in nervous system diseases.
which of the following? (A) Neuroscience
(A) Infantile autism (B) neurology
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(C) psychology
(D) neuropsychology 55. The chronic inability to sleep is called
________.
49. _________ referred the left hemisphere as (A) Somnambulism
the "analyzer" and the right hemisphere (B) Narcolepsy
as the "synthesizer". (C) Insomnia
(A) Sperry (D) All the above
(B) Nebes
(C) Ramachandran 56. Diagnosis of AD/HD depends on a patient
(D) Gazzaniga being rated against these categories of
symptoms.
50. Lesions in both parietal & occipital lobes of (A) Inattention, impulsivity Hyperactivity
the left hemisphere leads to _________ (B) Hyperactivity, impulsivity, aggression
Defects (C) Inattention, impulsivity, aggression
(A) Reading (D) Intelligence, disruptiveness,
(B) painting Hyperactivity
(C) sketching
(D) puzzle solving 57. What is trichotillomania
(A) Excessive swearing
51. What is an organic disorder? (B) Hair pulling
(A) disorder caused by a mental illness that (C) Excessive need to check
affects the brain (D) Grinding one's teeth
(B) disorder caused by a physical illness or
an injury that affects the brain 58. What type of anxiety disorders is said to be
(C) physiological cause and does not involve the most difficult to diagnose?
the brain. (A) OCD
(D) none of the above (B) Agoraphobia
(C) Specific phobias
52. A knock out in the boxing match is an (D) Generalized anxiety disorder
example of
(A) contusion 59. The theory of separation individuation is
(B) concussion associated with
(C) laceration (A) Mahler
(D) delirium (B) Freud
(C) Abraham
53. The most common form of dementia is (D) Mcguill
(A) Alzheimer's disease
(B) Depression 60. Anancastic PD is similar to,
(C) Pick's disorder (A) Narcissistic PD
(D) OCD (B) Obsessive-compulsive PD
(C) Histrionic PD
54. Inability to incorporate new memories (D) Paranoid PD
(A) confabulation
(B) retrograde amnesia 61. Nicotine is associated with,
(C) anterograde amnesia (A) coffee
(D) amnesia (B) alcohol
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(C) cigarette 68. The process through which one seek to

(D) tea identify the causes of others behavior and so
gain knowledge of their stable traits and
62. Hypoactive sexual disorder is, dispositions
(A) over desire (A) Impression management
(B) no desire (B) Attribution
(C) a little desire (C) Non verbal perception
(D) none of these (D) None of the above
63. Sexual gratification through pain inflicted 69. Social comparison theory associated with
on oneself, (A) Festinger
(A) sadism (B) Freud
(B) masochism (C) Wood
(C) pedophilia (D) Goethals
(D) fetishism
70. The condition that comes to stand for or
64. National Mental Health Programme signal a prior unconditioned stimulus
launched by Govt. of India in the year (A) Social learning
(A) 1972 (B) Unconditioned stimulus
(B) 1982 (C) Conditioned stimulus
(C) 1992 (D) Conditioned response
(D) 2002
71. Publicly advocating some attitude or
65. The Naval Psychological Research unit is behavior and then acting in a way that is
operating in inconsistent with these attitudes or behavior.
(A) Kochi (A) Democracy
(B) Vishakapattannam (B) Hypocrisy
(C) Mumbai (C) Cognitive dissonance
(D) Kolkotha (D) Ego depletion
66. Defense Institute of Psychological Research 72. A personality disposition characterized by

is situated in unreasonable high self esteem, a need for
(A) Aizwal admiration, sensitivity to criticism, a lack of
(B) Imphal empathy and exploitative behavior is
(C) New Delhi (A) Obsessive compulsive personality
(D) Shillong (B) Schizoid personality
(C) Narcissism
67. Mental frameworks centering on a specific (D) Anancastic personality
theme that help us to organize social
Information 73. The suggestion that frustration is a very
(A) Schemas powerful determinant of aggression
(B) Affect (A) General aggression model
(C) Heuristics (B) Aggression model
(D) Concepts (C) Frustration Aggression hypothesis
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74. Procedures in which aversive consequences (B) t test

are delivered to individuals when they (C) simple regression
engage in specific actions (D) none of the above
(A) Negative reinforcement
(B) Punishment 81. Variance is ___________.
(C) Reward (A) square of SD
(D) All of the above (B) square root of SD
(C) equal to SD
75. Our current feelings moods and are called (D) always greater than SD
(A) Effect
(B) Affect 82. Which of the following is the simplest
(C) Reflect measure of central tendency
(D) None of the above (A) Mean
(B) Median
76. When we represent the frequency (C) Mode
distribution of a continuous s variable in (D) Percentile mean
terms of bars it takes the form of _______.
(A) Bar diagram 83. In a group if most of the members secure
(B) Histogram 50% marks of a test, then the distribution of
(C) Proportional bar diagram the scores will be ____________
(D) All the above (A) Leptokurtic
(B) Platykurtic
77. Population: Sample:: _________ :Statistic (C) Mesokurtic
(A) Scale (D) Cannot say
(B) Variable
(C) Parameter 84. Which of the following is a non parametric
(D) Dimension statistic
(A) Product moment correlation
78. In psychological measurement, (B) Partial correlation
__________ scales are mostly used (C) Spearman rank order correlation
(A) Nominal (D) Multiple correlation
(B) Ordinal
(C) Interval 85. Ogive will not be helpful in finding the
(D) Ratio _________
(A) Mean
79. What is not true about product moment (B) Median
correlation (C) Percentile
(A) Indicates linear relationships (D) Percentile rank
(B) Portrays magnitude of relationships
(C) Indicates direction of relationship 86. While preparing graph the ratio of X axis to
(D) Exhibit cause and effect relationship Y axis should be
(A) 3: 4
80. Out of the following in which case all the (B) 4: 3
assumptions of parametric statistics are not (C) 2: 3
fulfilled (D) 3: 2
(A) Z test
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87. For a psychological scale or test what is 93. Johari window is relevant for understanding
always true ________
(A) Reliability < validity (A) communication
(B) Validity < reliability (B) motivation
(C) Reliability =validity (C) power
(D) Sometimes reliability greater, (D) stress
sometimes validity greater
94. Job enrichment is a type of
88. Cronbach alpha is a method of establishing ______________
___________ (A) organization structure
(A) Validity of the test (B) job design
(B) Reliability of the test (C) job selection
(C) Difficulty index of the item (D) none of the above
(D) Discrimination index of the item
95. Hawthorne study was conducted
89. Which of the following is a suitable ___________
example of continuous variable (A) Chicago
(A) No of family members (B) Philadelphia
(B) Age (C) Bangalore
(C) Religion (D) New York
(D) All the above
96. Theory X and theory Y was propounded by
90. The critical value for any statistical analysis (A) Herzberg
is the value that ___________ (B) McGregor
(A) We get by calculating from the data (C) McClelland
(B) We refer from the table for comparison (D) McKermick
(C) A value calculated from the similar
analysis 97. The need to be associated with others is
(D) None of the above ____________
(A) Need for affiliation
91. Salary works as a ____________ motive (B) Need for power
for the employee (C) Need for achievement
(A) Primary (D) Need for abasement
(B) secondary
(C) general 98. Maslow's theory of work motive is a type
(D) all the above of __________
(A) Content theory
92. Udai pareek is well known in the area of (B) Process theory
_________ (C) Exchange theory
(A) clinical psychology (D) Contingency theory
(B) organizational psychology
(C) child psychology 99. The originator of the concept emotional
(D) educational psychology intelligence is
(A) Salovey and Meyer
(B) Golman
(C) JBP Sinha
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(D) Gardiner
100. In SWOT analysis O stands for

_________
(A) Openness
(B) Originality
(C) Opportunity
(D) Organization
ANSWER KEY
1 A 26 C 51 B 76 B
2 B 27 C 52 B 77 C
3 B 28 B 53 A 78 C
4 C 29 A 54 C 79 D
5 D 30 B 55 C 80 D
6 B 31 D 56 A 81 A
7 B 32 C 57 B 82 A
8 B 33 C 58 D 83 C
9 C 34 B 59 A 84 C
10 D 35 A 60 B 85 D
11 B 36 B 61 C 86 C
12 C 37 C 62 C 87 D
13 B 38 D 63 B 88 B
14 C 39 C 64 B 89 B
15 A 40 A 65 A 90 A
16 A 41 C 66 C 91 B
17 C 42 A 67 A 92 B
18 B 43 B 68 B 93 A
19 B 44 D 69 A 94 B
20 C 45 A 70 C 95 A
21 C 46 D 71 C 96 B
22 C 47 B 72 C 97 A
23 C 48 B 73 C 98 A
24 C 49 D 74 B 99 A
25 A 50 A 75 B 100 C
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1. ________is an imaginal form of exposure (B) Delhi

therapy. (C) Chandigarh UT
(A) implosive therapy (D) Haryana
(B) flooding
(C) covert sensitization 8. _______has the country's only brain bank.
(D) overt sensitization (A) National Brain Research Centre
(B) All India Institute of Medical Sciences
2. Biofeedback is based on (C) NIMHANS
(A) classical conditioning (D) PGIMER, Chandigarh
(B) modeling
(C) operant conditioning 9. Defence Institute of Psychological Research
(D) latent learning is situated in
(A) Dehradun
3. Gestalt therapy was developed by (B) New Delhi
(A) Karl Duncker (C) Bangalore
(B) Sperry (D) Srinagar
(C) Fritz Pearls
(D) Carl Rogers 10. Lot of research on Reconstructive memory
is credited to
4. The founder of logo therapy is (A) Bartlette
(A) Otto Rank (B) Loftus
(B) Rollo may (C) Baddley
(C) Victor Frankl (D) Wertheimer
(D) Existentialists
11. techniques based on operant conditioning
5. SUD is measured on a scale ranging from are together known as
(A) 1 to 100 (A) Applied analysis of consequences
(B) 0 to 100 (B) Applied psychotherapy
(C) 0 to 1000 (C) Applied behavioural analysis
(D) 1 to 1000 (D) Applied psychotherapy
6. The Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive 12. Cognitive triad" in depression is the
Sciences is located in contribution of
(A) University of Allahabad (A) Albert Ellis
(B) Pondicherry University (B) Aaron Beck
(C) Banaras Hindu University (C) Cognitivists
(D) Delhi University (D) Hawton
7. National Brain Research Centre is situated 13. Syphilis is caused by

in the state of (A) fungi
(B) bacteria
(A) Punjab (C) virus
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(D) protozoa
21. The Rehabilitation Council of India came
14. Pellagra occurs due to _______ deficiency into being as a statutory body in the year
(A) Niacin (A) 1990
(B) Thiamine (B) 1991
(C) Vitamin K (C) 1992
(D) Iron (D) 1993
15. Type A personality is assessed by 22. The structure within the brain concerned
(A) Interview with sleep and arousal is
(B) Myers - Briggs type indicator (A) Medulla
(C) Costa Type indicator (B) Limbic system
(D) MMPl (C) Reticular Activating System
(D) Cerebellum
16. PET refers to
(A) Positive Emission Tomography (PET) 23. what does it mean to "anthropomorphize"?
(B) Positron emission Tomography (A) to act like an anthropologist instead of a
(C) Positornic emission tomography psychologist
(D) Posit emission tomography (B) to project human qualities onto animals
(C) to think too much about a problem, until
17. Big five factors of personality was the simple answer is overlooked
proposed by (D) to influence an animal with human
(A) Zuckerman ways, so it is less like its relatives in the
(B) McCrae & Costa wild
(C) Gordon Allport
(D) RB Cattell 24. The need Hierarchy theory of motivation
was proposed by
18. The third force in psychology is (A) Mc Llend
(A) behaviorism (B) James-Lange
(B) cognitivism (C) Herzberg
(C) humanistic psychology (D) Maslow
(D) positive psychology
25. Jacobson's progressive relaxation is very
19. Level I and Level II intelligence was similar to ______ as an.
proposed by (A) Padmasan
(A) Johnson (B) Chakasan
(B) Jensen (C) Sabasan
(C) Shyamkrishnan (D) Bhujangasan
(D) Baddley
26. Muller-Lyer illusion is
20. The Menta l Health Act was enacted in the (A) Fully Universal
year (B) Culture Specific
(A) 1985 (C) Person Specific
(B) 1986 (D) Temporary
(C) 1987
(D) 1988
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27. Seeing a ghost in a dark room is an (D) Ebbinghaus

example of
(A) Illusion 34. The need for _____ drives people to get
(B) Hallucination close to people
(C) Delusion (A) Power
(D) Perceptual defense (B) Conformity
(C) Affiliation
28. Which of the following law is not a law of (D) Achievement
grouping?
(A) Proximity 35. In case of 't' test, the distribution of the
(B) Similarity scores has a ______ shape
(C) Common Fate (A) Platykurtic
(D) Figure-Ground (B) Leptokurtic
(C) Mesokurtic
29. Conditioning method was introduced by (D) Positively skewed shape
(A) Thorndike
(B) Pavlov 36. If a test consists of very easy items, the
(C) Skinner distribution of the scores will be
(D) Kohler (A) Positively skewed
(B) Not skewed at all
30. Who among the following is not a learning (C) Negatively skewed
theorist? (D) Cannot say
(A) Maslow
(B) Skinner 37. Median is an example of ______ statistic
(C) Tolman (A) Univariate
(D) Kohler (B) Bivariate
(C) Multivariate
31. Mirror drawing apparatus is used to (D) None of these
measure _____ learning
(A) Social 38. Product moment 'r' is used to find the
(B) Maze _________ between two variables.
(C) Sensory-motor (A) Difference
(D) Serial (B) Association
(C) Both difference and association
32. Learning for the sake of acquiring (D) None of these
knowledge is an example of ______
motivation 39. _________ plays a significant role in
(A) Extrinsic emotional behaviour
(B) Intrinsic (A) Thalamus
(C) Social (B) Hypothalamus
(D) None of these (C) Frontal Lobe
(D) Parietal Lobe
33. Curve of forgetting was developed by
(A) Watson 40. _________ is regarded as a culture-fair test
(B) Piaget of intelligence
(C) Freud (A) WAIS-R
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(B) Stanford-Binet 47. Which of the following is a behavioural

(C) Raven's Progressive Matrices symptom exhibited by individuals suffering
(D) WISC-R unipolar depression?
(A) Unpredictable and erratic behaviour
41. World Mental Health Day is observed on (B) Compulsive checking
(A) September 10 (C) Stay in bed for long periods
(B) October 10 (D) Ritualized behaviour
(C) November 10
(D) December 10 48. Which of the following neurotransmitters is
associated specifically with Bipolar
42. The physiological system that relays Disorder?
information in the form of electrochemical (A) Serotonin
impulses throughout the body is called the (B) Norepinephrine
(A) Endocrine system (C) dopamine
(B) Limbic system (D) acetylcholine
(C) Nervous system
(D) Cranial system 49. Lower levels of activation in the Prefrontal
Cortex results in
43. The portion of a neuron that forms the (A) Failure to regulate emotions
presynaptic neuronal membrane is called the (B) Deficit in the will to change
(A) terminal button (C) Failure to anticipate incentives
(B) axon (D) Inability to understand the context of
(C) soma affective reactions
(D) dendrite
50. Structural and functional abnormalities in
44. Electrochemical communication takes place the Amygdala have been found to be
between neurons at a junction called associated with Major Depression The role
(A) the axon zone of the Amygdala is to
(B) the synapse (A) Stimulate secretion by sweat glands
(C) dendrite trees (B) Stimulate secretion of epinephrine and
(D) the myelin cleft norepinephrine
(C) Prioritize spatial memory
45. _________ located site of action of mind in (D) Control spatial memory
pineal body.
(A) Plato 51. According to Freud's psychodynamic
(B) Aristotle theory, the first stage of response to loss is
(C) Descartes called introjections where the individual
(D) Wernicke regresses to
(A) Anal stage of development
46. ________ discovered that the human body (B) Phallic stage of development
conducts electricity. (C) Oral stage of development
(A) Stephen Grey (D) Sensorimotor stage of development
(B) Aristotle
(C) Plato
(D) Descartes 52. Which of the following is one of the most
influential theories of depression?
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(A) Freud's Psychodynamic Theory 58. Which of the following is behaviour

(B) Beck's Cognitive Theory technique that has been successfully adapted
(C) Seligman's Learned Helplessness to treat anxiety-based problems in children?
Theory (A) Systematic desensitization
(D) Berne's Humanistic Theory (B) Systemic family therapy
(C) Cognitive behavioural therapy
53. Physical symptoms of Chronic Fatigue (D) Electro- convulsive therapy
Syndrome (CFS) include which of the
following? 59. Which of the following is a technique that
(A) Extreme fatigue can be used with younger children who are
(B) Muscle pain less able to communicate and express their
(C) Chest pain feelings verbally?
(D) All of the above (A) Play therapy
(B) Cognitive behaviour therapy
54. Children with ADHD are known to have (C) Systemic family therapy
deficits in which of the following brain (D) Psychodynamic therapy
areas?
(A) Perception 60. Which of the following is an area of
(B) Motor functioning psychology that is concerned with mapping
(C) Executive functioning how early childhood experiences may act as
(D) Memory risk factors for later diagnosable
psychological disorders, and attempts to
55. The term Theory of mind refers to which of describe the pathways by which early
the following abilities? experiences may generate adult
(A) Have telepathic abilities psychological problems?
(B) Understand one's own and other (A) Clinical psychopathology
people's mental states (B) Applied psychopathology
(C) Lack of meta -cognition (C) Developmental psychopathology
(D) All of the above (D) Cognitive psychopathology
56. Which of the following is a widely-used 61. In childhood disorders there are different
classical conditioning method for treating types of problems such as Symptom-Based
nocturnal enuresis? Disorders. One such disorder is known as
(A) Bell-and -whistle technique encopresis, which means
(B) Bell-and-battery technique (A) Lack of bowel control
(C) Alarm system technique (B) Bedwetting
(D) Bell book and candle technique (C) Stammering
(D) Sleep walking
57. Which is the most common form of
stimulant medication for ADHD? 62. The major criticisms on behaviourism are
(A) Vitalin (A) oversimplification, determinism,
(B) Benzodiazepine control
(C) Ritalin (B) oversimplification, vague, control
(D) Amylnitrate (C) control, objective, negative oriented
(D) determinism, lack of choice, complex
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63. According Carl Jung, recurring dream will (B) Privatisation

stop after (C) Nationalisation
(A) Gratification (D) Asset making
(B) Interpretation
(C) Wishful thinking 70. Acrophobia refers to fear of
(D) Compensation (A) heights
(B) darkness
(C) depth
64. Glove anesthesia is example for ______ (D) closed room
disorder
(A) somatization 71. Organized structure of information about a
(B) conversion particular domain of life is known as
(C) somatoform (A) cognitive structuring
(D) body dismorphic (B) schema
(C) plan
65. Gate control theory states that particular (D) attributes
nerve receptors lead to specific areas of the
brain related to 72. Procedure in which the researchers who
(A) Touch have contact with participants do know the
(B) Pressure hypothesis under investigation is known as
(C) Temperature (A) Confidential
(D) Pain (B) Single blind
(C) Double Blind
66. According to humanist, the seat of Anxiety (D) Neutralisation
is
(A) Impaired self concept 73. Shaping is based on the principle of
(B) Blocked Motive (A) adaptation
(C) Inability to think positively (B) accommodation
(D) Poor gratification of needs (C) approximation
(D) adjustment
67. Melatonin is a hormone secreted by
(A) Pituitary 74. The electrical charges, when a neuron is at
(B) Pancreas rest is
(C) Pineal (A) -70MV
(D) Thyroid (B) 70MV
(C) -1.5 V
68. The approach in Psychology which (D) 1.5 V
concentrates on mental processing is
(A) Behaviourism 75. The blocking of goal directed behaviour is
(B) Cognitive (A) Aggression
(C) Existential (B) Violence
(D) Gestalt (C) Frustration
(D) Conflict
69. Disinvestment of Equities from a company
by the Govt is a form of 76. 'Determinism' is strongly suggested by
(A) Liberalisation (A) Behaviourism
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(B) Psychoanalysis (A) -1

(C) Both (B) 0
(D) None of the above (C) +l
(D) .01
77. Which of the following groups of
psychologists stress the positive side of 83. Concordance rate ranges from
human nature? (A) 0.0 to 1.0
(A) behaviourists (B) -1 to +l
(B) neurobiologists (C) 0 to 100
(C) humanists (D) 1 to 100
(D) psychoanalysts
84. According to Cephalocaudal principle,
78. ____________ is an extra-sensory growth occurs from
perception related to perception of a future
event. (A) left to right
(A) Clairvoyance (B) top to bottom
(B) Telepathy (C) right to left
(C) Precognition (D) bottom to top
(D) Psychokinesis
85. The psychologist who used the "Heinz
79. Training differs from developmental Problem" in developing his /her theory was
exercises because training concentrates on (A) Piaget
the (B) Kohlberg
(A) present (C) Levinson
(B) past (D) Gisela Labouvie – Vief
(C) future
(D) changes 86. The social and psychological dimensions of
being male or female is
80. The statistical way of quality control is (A) Sex
known as (B) Gender
(A) Q- Sort (C) Gender role
(B) Six Sigma (D) Gender typing
(C) Bench marking
(D) 5- S 87. The class of hormones that primarily
promote the development of male genitals
81. Moving employees horizontally to expand and secondary sex characteristics is called
their skills, knowledge, and abilities is (A) Androgens
known as (B) Estrogens
(A) Job developing (C) Testosterones
(B) Job analysis (D) Estradiols
(C) Job rotation
(D) Job enrichment 88. The term androgyny refers to a gender role
that is
82. If genes are 100 percent responsible for (A) highly masculine
individual differences in a given trait, the (B) highly feminine
Heritability is
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(C) both highly masculine and highly

feminine 93. According to Freud's theory of Psychosexual
(D) neither masculine nor feminine Development, during which stage is
children's developmental focus on gender
89. Monalisa says, "All men are alike. They'd identity and morality?
rather drive around in circles for hours than
stop and ask for directions". She is (A) Anal (1-3 years)
demonstrating (B) Phallic (3-6 years)
(A) gender stereotyping (C) Latency (6-12 years)
(B) gender typing (D) Genital (12 + years)
(C) androcentrism
(D) gender role classification 94. According to Piaget's theory of Cognitive
Development, during which stage do
90. When reviewing research comparing males children develop animistic conceptions,
and females, it is important to keep in mind expressed in ways such as "Don' t hurt the
that grass. It will be sad"?
(A) even when differences are found, most (A) Sensorimotor
of the individuals in the groups are (B) Pre-Operational
virtually identical (C) Concrete Operational
(B) it is unfair to compare the groups (D) Formal Operational
because almost all gender differences
are the result of uncontrollable 95. Play is for children what work is for adults".
biological factors Which of the following is NOT an important
(C) it is only when statistically significant developmental outcome of play?
scores are found that you can conclude
there is little overlap between male and (A) Cognitive mastery (e.g. concepts of
female scores reversibility & conservation)
(D) even when differences are reported, (B) Emotional development & regulation
there is considerable overlap between the (e.g. "cooling down" by venting socially
sexes unaccepted emotions
(C) Overcoming negativism (e.g. reducing
91. According to Piaget's theory of Cognitive noncompliance to adult requests)
Development, at what age to children (D) Language development (e.g. giving
develop the ability for deferred imitation? labels)
(A) 8-12 months 96. According to Festinger's cognitive

(B) 12-18 months dissonance theory, people seek to avoid
(C) 18-24 months
(D) 24-36 months (A) contradictions between behaviours and
beliefs
92. For which of the following do investigators (B) rebellious or negative reactions
continue to find gender differences? (C) music which is not harmonious
(A) verbal skills (D) people who are argumentative
(B) visuospatial skills
(C) social skills 97. Who is known for his research in
(D) suggestibility observational learning using bobo doll?
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(A) Watson
(B) Skinner
(C) Milgram
(D) Bandura
98. Who first wrote about inferiority complex?

(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Alfred Adler
(C) Carl Gustav Jung
(D) Viktor frankl
99. When we make the "fundamental attribution

error" we blame somebody's misfortunes on
(A) an evil leader
(B) their personal qualities
(C) factors beyond their control
(D) ourselves
100. What are secondary sex characteristics?

(A) such things as facial hair in men, breast
development in women
(B) sex-linked changes in early childhood
(C) eye shadow, hair length, etc
(D) "invisible" sexual characteristics
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ANSWER KEY
1 A 26 A 51 C 76 A
2 C 27 B 52 B 77 C
3 C 28 D 53 D 78 A
4 C 29 B 54 C 79 D
5 B 30 A 55 B 80 B
6 A 31 C 56 B 81 C
7 D 32 B 57 C 82 C
8 C 33 D 58 A 83 C
9 B 34 C 59 A 84 B
10 A 35 B 60 C 85 B
11 C 36 C 61 A 86 B
12 B 37 A 62 D 87 C
13 B 38 B 63 B 88 D
14 A 39 B 64 B 89 A
15 B 40 C 65 D 90 D
16 B 41 B 66 C 91 C
17 B 42 C 67 C 92 B
18 C 43 A 68 B 93 B
19 B 44 B 69 B 94 B
20 C 45 C 70 A 95 C
21 D 46 A 71 B 96 A
22 C 47 A 72 A 97 D
23 B 48 A 73 C 98 B
24 D 49 B 74 A 99 B
25 C 50 B 75 C 100 A
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1. Stage 4 sleep EEG is characterized by a 7. The _______ scan detects abnormal brain
predominance of _______ waves. activity by monitoring a radioactive tracer
(A) delta substance as it travels through the blood
(B) beta vessels of the brain.
(C) gamma (A) CT
(D) theta (B) PET
(C) MRI
2. Dreaming occurs predominantly during (D) EEG
__________sleep.
(A) NREM 8. People have an easier time recalling an event
(B) REM if they are in the same mood as the one
(C) Deep they were in when the event occurre(D)
(D) Slow wave (A) Cue- dependent memory
(B) State- dependent memory
3. The 16 PF Questionnaire was developed by (C) Long Term Memory
(A) Thurstone (D) Short Term Memory
(B) Cattell
(C) Gough 9. The rods and cones are
(D) Murray (A) the make synaptic connections with the
ganglion cells
4. The Oedipal complex occurs during the (B) the fibers of which form the optic nerve
(A) oral stage (C) the photosensitive cells that convert
(B) anal stage light energy into nerve impulses
(C) phallic stage (D) none of the above
(D) genital stage
10. An artist is able to give depth to his picture
5. The study of the mind by analysis of one's because he can make use of the
own thought processes is ________. (A) brush
(A) introjection (B) colors
(B) regression (C) paper
(C) repression (D) monocular cues
(D) introspection
11. Running of movie is possible because of
6. _______is involved in posture, physical (A) real motion
balance and for motor co-ordination. (B) stroboscopic motion
(A) cerebrum (C) autokinetic motion
(B) cerebellum (D) electrical motion
(C) pons
(D) medulla 12. Alcohol is a
(A) stimulant
(B) hallucinogen
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(C) depressant (C) the brain, the spinal cord and the
(D) all the above autonomic system
(D) the brain and the somatic system
13. Shifting from right. hand driving (in
America) to a left-hand driving (in Britain)
is an example of 19. ______ is also known as the "master gland"
(A) positive transfer of learning (A) thyroid gland
(B) negative transfer of learning (B) pituitary gland
(C) no transfer of learning (C) adrenal gland
(D) learning by past experience (D) gonads
14. You are teaching a mentally retarded child 20. In a dark room, a rope may be viewed as a
to dress herself. When she does something snake. This principle is called __________.
correctly, you give her a poker chip, which (A) hallucination
she can later exchange for food or (B) delusion
privileges. This is an example of (C) Illusion
(A) programmed instruction (D) figure-ground
(B) discrimination training
(C) a token economy 21. Which among the following is not a
(D) systematic desensitization cognitive variable affecting behavior.
(A) Expectancies
15. Essay tests require__________; multiple (B) Values
choice tests require ______. (C) Plans
(A) recall; recognition (D) Images
(B) recognition; recall
(C) recall; recall 22. IMF stands for
(D) recognition; recognition (A) Indian Medical Federation
(B) Indian Metropolitan Forum
16. Ability includes (C) International Monetary Fund
(A) aptitude (D) International Metropolitan Fund
(B) achievement
(C) both aptitude and achievement 23. HIV infection is not possible through
(D) none of the above _________.
(A) Unprotected sex
17. Diabetes is caused by (B) Blood transfusion
(A) hereditary factors only (C) Kissing and Hugging
(B) environmental factors (D) Using infected syringes
(C) interaction between hereditary and
environment 24. __________ leaders inspire followers to
(D) the cause of diabetes is not certain transcend their own self-interests and have a
profound and extraordinary effect on
18. Central nervous system consists of followers.
(A) Transactional
(A) the brain (B) Charismatic
(B) the brain and the spinal cord (C) Transformational
(D) Authentic
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25. In a conflict situation the willingness of one 30. Often the first signs of neurological
party to place the opponent's interests above disorders are deficits in basic cognitive
his/her own is called _________. functions and also deficits in skills that
(A) accommodating involve problem-solvjng, planning and
(B) collaborating engaging in goal directed behaviour. These
(C) compromising types of functions are known as
(D) competing (A) directive functions
(B) executive functions
26. Aetiology is a term; (C) management functions
(D) slave functions
(A) used to describe a course of treatment
(B) used to predict the length of treatment 31. One of the most common features of
(C) used to describe the causes or origins of neurological disorders are Language deficits
psychological symptoms and are collectively known as
(D) that describes a specific theory related (A) dysphasias
to psychopathology (B) alogias
(C) anomias
27. What is the name of an effect that occurs (D) aphasias
when an experimental group gets better
simply because they are being giving a pill 32. The production of incoherent, jumbled
and this leads them to expect to get better? speech is known as
(A) the domino effect (A) non fluent aphasia
(B) the butterfly effect (B) disruptive aphasia
(C) the placebo effect (C) fluent aphasia
(D) the expectancy effect (D) anomic aphasia
28. Oamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOls) are 33. When the individual is be unable to
effective for the treatment of: recognise everyday objects and name them
(A) schizophrenia correctly, this is known as
(B) major depression (A) prosopagnosia
(C) obsessive compulsive disorder (B) anomia
(D) generalized anxiety disorder (C) agnosia
(D) aphosonomia
29. If an individual suffers a traumatic event
and has a neurological disorder that means 34. A Neurological disorder that is
they may be unable to recall anything from characterised by impairments in motor
the moment of the injury or to retain performance and coordination are known as
memories of recent events. This is known (A) dyspraxia
as: (B) apraxia
(C) anapraxia
(A) anterograde amnesia (D) amotoria
(B) retrograde amnesia
(C) postevent amnesia 35. Meningitis refers to that class of infections
(D) antenatal amnesia that cause inflammation of the meninges.
Which part of the brain does this refer to?
(A) spinal fluid
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(B) membranous covering of the brain and (B) Fragile X Syndrome

spinal cord (C) Cerebral Palsy
(C) main part of a neuron (D) Cerebral Vascular Accident
(D) axon terminal
42. Early manifestation of symptoms such as
36. Which of the following is an example of a severe impairment in social interaction and
Specific Learning Disability? in communication can be diagnosed as
(A) Mental retardation which of the following?
(B) Dyslexia (A) Infantile autism
(C) ADHD (B) Infantile amnesia
(D) Autistic spectrum disorders (C) Cerebral palsy
(D) Rett's syndrome
37. Which of the following is an example of an
intellectual disability?
(A) Dyslexia 43. The _______ is where the genes and
(B) ADHD chromosomes for the cell’s proteins are
(C) Mental retardation stored
(D) Autistic spectrum disorders (A) endoplasmic reticulum
(B) nucleus
38. An example of a Developmental Disorder is: (C) golgi bodies
(A) Dyslexia (D) mitochondria
(B) ADHD
(C) Mental retardation 44. The _____ are the cell's power plants that
(D) Autistic spectrum disorders supply its energy needs.
(A) lysosomes
39. In learning disabilities, the name for (B) golgi bodies
mathematical disorder is: (C) nucleus
(A) dyspraxia (D) mitochondria
(B) dyslexia
(C) dyscalculia 45. The ________ are saclike vesicles that not
(D) dysphasia only transport incoming supplies, but
also move and store wastes.
40. Which of the following procedures can be (A) Lysosomes
used to identify Down Syndrome pre- (B) golgi bodies
natally? (C) endoplasmic reticulum
(D) nucleus
(A) Amniocentesis
(B) Amnioprolaxis 46. Francis Galton is the cousin of _________.
(C) Amniophalaxi (A) Rene Descartes
(D) Amniocalesis (B) Jean Baptiste Bouillard
(C) Marc Dax
41. Which of the following is the main (D) Charles Darwin
neurological birth syndrome caused by
anoxia? 47. Fibers which carry information away
from the CNS and to it constitute
(A) Down Syndrome the___________.
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(A) central nervous system 53. The most common form of dementia is
(B) peripheral nervous system (A) Alzheimer's disease
(C) projection fibers (B) Depression
(D) association fibers (C) Pick's disorder
(D) OCD
48. ______is the diagnosis of nervous system
injury by physicians who are 54. Inability to incorporate new memories
specialists in nervous system diseases. (A) confabulation
(A) Neuroscience (B) retrograde amnesia
(B) neurology (C) anterograde amnesia
(C) psychology (D) amnesia
(D) neuropsychology
55. The chronic inability to sleep is called
49. _________ referred the left hemisphere as ________.
the "analyzer" and the right hemisphere (A) Somnambulism
as the "synthesizer". (B) Narcolepsy
(A) Sperry (C) Insomnia
(B) Nebes (D) All the above
(C) Ramachandran
(D) Gazzaniga 56. Diagnosis of AD/HD depends on a patient
being rated against these categories of
50. Lesions in both parietal & occipital lobes of symptoms.
the left hemisphere leads to _________ (A) Inattention, impulsivity Hyperactivity
Defects (B) Hyperactivity, impulsivity, aggression
(A) Reading (C) Inattention, impulsivity, aggression
(B) painting (D) Intelligence, disruptiveness,
(C) sketching Hyperactivity
(D) puzzle solving
57. What is trichotillomania
51. What is an organic disorder? (A) Excessive swearing
(B) Hair pulling
(A) disorder caused by a mental illness that (C) Excessive need to check
affects the brain (D) Grinding one's teeth
(B) disorder caused by a physical illness or
an injury that affects the brain 58. What type of anxiety disorders is said to be
(C) physiological cause and does not the most difficult to diagnose
involve the brain. (A) OCD
(D) none of the above (B) Agoraphobia
(C) Specific phobias
52. A knock out in the boxing match is an (D) Generalized anxiety disorder
example of
59. The theory of separation individuation is
(A) contusion associated with
(B) concussion (A) Mahler
(C) laceration (B) Freud
(D) delirium (C) Abraham
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(D) Mcguill (D) Shillong
60. Anancastic PD is similar to, 67. Mental frameworks centering on a specific

(A) Narcissistic PD theme that help us to organize social
(B) Obsessive-compulsive PD Information
(C) Histrionic PD (A) Schemas
(D) Paranoid PD (B) Affect
(C) Heuristics
61. Nicotine is associated with, (D) Concepts
(A) coffee
(B) alcohol 68. The process through which one seek to
(C) cigarette identify the causes of others behavior and so
(D) tea gain knowledge of their stable traits and
dispositions
62. Hypoactive sexual disorder is, (A) Impression management
(A) over desire (B) Non verbal perception
(B) no desire (C) Attribution
(C) a little desire (D) None of the above
(D) none of these
69. Social comparison theory associated with
63. Sexual gratification through pain inflicted (A) Festinger
on oneself, (B) Freud
(A) sadism (C) Wood
(B) masochism (D) Goethals
(C) pedophilia
(D) fetishism 70. The condition that comes to stand for or
signal a prior unconditioned stimulus
64. National Mental Health Programme (A) Social learning
launched by Govt. of India in the year (B) Unconditioned stimulus
(A) 1972 (C) Conditioned stimulus
(B) 1982 (D) Conditioned response
(C) 1992
(D) 2002 71. Publicly advocating some attitude or
behavior and then acting in a way that is
65. The Naval Psychological Research unit is inconsistent with these attitudes or behavior.
operating in (A) Democracy
(A) Kochi (B) Hypocrisy
(B) Vishakapattannam (C) Cognitive dissonance
(C) Mumbai (D) Ego depletion
(D) Kolkotta
72. A personality disposition characterized by
66. Defense Institute of Psychological Research unreasonable high self esteem, a need for
is situated in admiration, sensitivity to criticism, a lack of
(A) Aizwal empathy and exploitative behavior is
(B) Imphal (A) Obsessive compulsive personality
(C) New Delhi (B) Schizoid personality
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(C) Narcissism
(D) Anancastic personality 79. What is not true about product moment
correlation
73. The suggestion that frustration is a very (A) Indicates linear relationships
powerful determinant of aggression (B) Portrays magnitude of relationships
(A) General aggression model (C) Indicates direction of relationship
(B) Aggression model (D) Exhibit cause and effect relationship
(C) Frustration Aggression hypothesis
80. Out of the following in which case all
74. Procedures in which aversive the assumptions of parametric statistics are
consequences are delivered to individuals not fulfilled
when they engage in specific actions (A) Z test
(A) Negative reinforcement (B) t test
(B) Punishment (C) simple regression
(C) Reward (D) none of the above
81. Variance is ___________.
75. Our current feelings moods and are called (A) square of SD
(B) square root of SD
(A) Effect (C) equal to SD
(B) Affect (D) always greater than SD
(C) Reflect
(D) None of the above 82. Which of the following is the simplest
measure of central tendency
76. When we represent the frequency (A) Mean
distribution of a continuous s variable in (B) Median
terms of bars it takes the form of _______. (C) Mode
(D) Percentile mean
(A) Bar diagram
(B) Histogram 83. In a group if most of the members secure
(C) Proportional bar diagram 50% marks of a test, then the distribution of
(D) All the above the scores will be ____________
(A) Leptokurtic
77. Population: Sample:: _________ :Statistic (B) Platykurtic
(C) Mesokurtic
(A) Scale (D) Cannot say
(B) Variable
(C) Parameter 84. Which of the following is a non parametric
(D) Dimension statistic
78. In psychological measurement, (A) Product moment correlation
__________ scales are mostly used (B) Partial correlation
(A) Nominal (C) Spearman rank order correlation
(B) Ordinal (D) Multiple correlation
(C) Interval
(D) Ratio
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85. Ogive will not be helpful in finding the

_________ 91. Salary works as a ____________ motive
(A) Mean for the employee
(B) Median (A) Primary
(C) Percentile (B) secondary
(D) Percentile rank (C) general
(D) all the above
86. While preparing graph the ratio of X axis to
Y axis should be 92. Udai pareek is well known in the area of
_________
(A) 3: 4 (A) clinical psychology
(B) 4: 3 (B) organizational psychology
(C) 2: 3 (C) child psychology
(D) 3: 2 (D) educational psychology
87. For a psychological scale or test what is 93. Johari window is relevant for understanding
always true ________
(A) communication
(A) Reliability < validity (B) motivation
(B) Validity < reliability (C) power
(C) Reliability =validity (D) stress
(D) Sometimes reliability greater,
sometimes validity greater 94. Job enrichment is a type of
______________
88. Cronbach alpha is a method of establishing (A) organization structure
___________ (B) job design
(C) job selection
(A) Validity of the test (D) none of the above
(B) Reliability of the test
(C) Difficulty index of the item 95. Hawthorne study was conducted
(D) Discrimination index of the item ___________
(A) Chicago
89. Which of the following is a suitable (B) Philadelphia
example of continuous variable (C) Bangalore
(D) New York
(A) No of family members
(B) Age 96. Theory X and theory Y was propounded by
(C) Religion (A) Herzberg
(D) All the above (B) McGregor
90. The critical value for any statistical analysis (C) McClelland
is the value that ___________ (D) McKermick
(A) We get by calculating from the data
(B) We refer from the table for comparison 97. The need to be associated with others is
(C) A value calculated from the similar ____________
analysis (A) Need for affiliation
(D) None of the above (B) Need for power
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(C) Need for achievement

(D) Need for abasement
98. Maslow's theory of work motive is a type of

__________
(A) Content theory
(B) Process theory
(C) Exchange theory
(D) Contingency theory
99. The originator of the concept emotional

intelligence is
(A) Salovey and Meyer
(B) Golman
(C) JBP Sinha
(D) Gardiner
100. In SWOT analysis O stands for

_________
(A) Openness
(B) Originality
(C) Opportunity
(D) Organization
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ANSWER KEY
1 A 26 C 51 B 76 B
2 B 27 C 52 B 77 C
3 B 28 B 53 A 78 C
4 C 29 A 54 C 79 D
5 D 30 B 55 C 80 D
6 B 31 D 56 A 81 A
7 B 32 C 57 B 82 A
8 B 33 C 58 D 83 C
9 C 34 B 59 A 84 C
10 D 35 A 60 B 85 D
11 B 36 B 61 C 86 C
12 C 37 C 62 C 87 D
13 B 38 D 63 B 88 B
14 C 39 C 64 B 89 B
15 A 40 A 65 A 90 A
16 A 41 C 66 C 91 B
17 C 42 A 67 A 92 B
18 B 43 D 68 C 93 A
19 B 44 D 69 A 94 B
20 C 45 A 70 C 95 A
21 C 46 D 71 C 96 B
22 C 47 B 72 C 97 A
23 C 48 B 73 C 98 A
24 C 49 D 74 B 99 A
25 A 50 A 75 B 100 C
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SECTION-A
(A) Convergent Validity
1. Thematic Apperception Test is based upon (B) Content Validity
the defense mechanism of (C) Predictive Validity
(A) Projection (D) Discriminant Validity
(B) Sublimation
(C) Reaction Formation 7. Which scale yields data in terms of ranks
(D) Repression (A) Nominal Scale
(B) Interval Scale
2. While teaching a dog how to shake hands, (C) Ordinal Scale
which of the following reinforcement (D) Ratio Scale
schedule would facilitate the most rapid
learning? 8. In which of the following scales judges are
(A) Fixed ratio required to rate the items on the scale of
(B) Variable ratio favorableness/unfavorableness?
(C) Continuous (A) Likert Scale
(D) Variable interval (B) Guttman Scale
(C) Semantic differential Scale
3. Which gland of the body produces a variety (D) Thurston Scale
of hormones that regulate or control the
other endocrine glands? 9. Which of the following is not a feature in the
(A) Gonadal gland theory of direct perception?
(B) Thyroid gland (A) Bottom-up processing
(C) Adrenal gland (B) Horizontal ratio
(D) Pituitary gland (C) Optic flow pattern
(D) Schema
4. Which of the following is the mental
shortcut meant to conserve cognitive 10. The concept of psychic reflex was given by
resources? (A) B .F. Skinner
(A) Stereotypes (B) Prototypes (B) H. Ebbnighaus
(C) Heuristics (D) Attitudes (C) Ivan Pavlov
(D) E.L. Thorndike
5. If you were to kick the dog after a hard day 11. A profound memory deficit due to either the
at the office, you would be using loss of what has been stored or the inability
(A) Rationalization to form new memories is called
(B) Displacement (A) Korsakoff syndrome
(C) Projection (B) Dementia
(D) Reaction formation (C) Alzheimer's disease
(D) Amnesia
6. If you are preparing an Achievement test, it
must be assessed for 12. Filter theory of selective attention was given
by
(A) Broadbent (B) Johnston
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(C) Heinz (D) Treisman

19. Each point on a scatter diagram represents
13. The classical conditioning term for a (A) the variance of a set of scores.
reflexive response elicited by a stimulus is (B) the standard deviation of a set of scores
the absence of learning. (C) where an individual scored on both x
(A) Unconditional stimulus and y.
(B) Conditional stimulus (D) where an individual scored compared to
(C) Unconditional response the mean.
(D) Conditional response
20. The following data provides marks of 10
14. Reliability of the test does not depend on students. Calculate the mean, median and
(A) Number of test items mode. 29, 60, 30, 54, 33, 53, 33, 52, 35, 51
(B) Norms of the test (A) 43, 43, 33 (B) 44, 33, 43
(C) Homogeneity of the sample (C) 33, 43, 44 (D) 44, 44, 33
(D) Length of the time interval between test
and retest 21. Individuals with Schizophrenia who cannot
infer the beliefs, attitudes and intentions of
15. Cognitive dissonance theory was other are said to lack:
propounded by (A) Theory of Mind
(A) Festinger (B) Asch (B) Intelligence
(C) Bandura (D) Bem (C) Self esteem
(D) Sense of self
16. Ebbinghaus pioneered the experiments on 22. Who among them had given the theory of
which of the following individual psychology?
(A) Thinking (B) Emotion (A) Sigmund Freud
(C) Perception (D) Memory (B) Carl Jung
(C) Erick Erickson
(D) Alfred Adler
17. Select the one which is not the
characteristics of classification of data 23. Which defense mechanism involves
(A) The classification may be either real or expressing just the opposite feeling to what
imaginary you are experiencing?
(B) It brings out points of similarity and (A) reaction formation.
dissimilarities. (B) rationalization
(C) Classification is inflexible to (C) projection
accommodate adjustments (D) displacement
(D) Classification performs homogeneous
grouping of data 24. Which of the following refers to Inter-rater
reliability?
18. A frequency distribution can be classified (A) The degree to which two tests measure
as: the same construct.
(A) Series of individual observation (B) The degree to which a psychologist can
(B) Grouped frequency distribution. predict future behavior.
(C) Discrete frequency distribution (C) The degree to which the items in the test
(D) All of the above relate to each other
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(D) The degree to which two examiners will (A) incidental learning
agree on interpretation or scoring of a (B) motivated learning
test. (C) vicarious learning
(D) observational learning
25. The principle of__________ states that we
organize our perceptions into complete 32. Which of the following is most effective in
objects rather than as a series of parts. conditioning
(A) Similarity (B) Continuation (A) Backward Conditioning
(C) Good Figure (D) Closure (B) Simultaneous Conditioning
(C) Delayed Conditioning
26. In a normal distribution mean is 100 and (D) Trace Conditioning
standard deviation is 10. The values of
points of inflection are: 33. Intellectual functioning is mainly in the
(A) 100 and 110 domain of which lobe of the Cortex?
(B) 80 and 120 (A) Occipital (B) Frontal
(C) 90 and 110 (C) Parietal (D) Temporal
34. Which of the following is not one of the Big
27. Long term memory are encoded in terms of Five personality factors?
(A) sound (A) Agreeableness
(B) visual images (B) Extroversion.
(C) meaning of words and concepts (C) Openness to Experience
(D) all of the above (D) Submissiveness
28. Wolf Gang Kohler was associated with 35. Retinal disparity is essential to
which of the following schools of (A) The phi phenomenon
psychology? (B) 3-D movies
(A) Social Psychology (C) Circle vision
(B) Gestalt Psychology (D) Perceived brightness
(C) Industrial Psychology
(D) Educational Psychology 36. Which of the following factors has been
demonstrated to be most influential in
29. The circuit from sensory neuron to muscle fatigue reduction?
response is called a (A) Hardiness (B) Wealth
(A) reflex arc (C) Exercise (D) Education
(B) reflexes
(C) spatial summation 37. If you have problems in storing away new
(D) temporal summation memories, the damage is most likely to be in
the
30. Attenuation originally featured in whose (A) Hippocampus (B) Cerebellum
model of attention? (C) Hypothalamus (D) Amygdale
(A) Posner (B) Treisman
(C) Broadbent (D) James 38. Which of the following is not a type of
anxiety proposed by Sigmund Freud?
31. Any learning that is not in accord with the (A) Neurotic anxiety (B) State anxiety
participant's purpose is called
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(C) Moral anxiety (D) Reality anxiety (A) Median

(B) Standard deviation
39. When one conditioned stimulus is used to (C) Percentiles
create another, this is called (D) Quartile deviation
(A) Spontaneous recovery
(B) Extinction 46. Which of the following characterizes Self-
(C) Shaping Esteem?
(D) Higher-order conditioning (A) It is self concept evaluated
(B) It can be positive
40. The psychophysical method of limits is also (C) It can be negative
known as (D) All of the above
(A) Method of average error
(B) Method of constant error 47. The tendency to attribute positive outcomes
(C) Method of minimal changes to internal factors (e.g. One's own trait) but
(D) Differential threshold negative outcomes or events to external
factors is called
41. If z-score of normal distribution is -2.5, (A) Self handicapping
mean of distribution is 45 and standard (B) Self perception
deviation of distribution is 4.5 then value of (C) Self serving bias
'X' for a normal distribution is (D) Self presentation
(A) 97.50 (B) 33.75
(C) 67.50 (D) 47.75 48. Which of the following is not a monocular
cue for depth?
42. The female archetype present in male is (A) Convergence
called (B) Relative size
(A) Neurosis (B) Anxiety (C) Interposition
(C) Animus (D) Anima (D) Texture gradients
43. One trait that dominates a personality so 49. In a signal - detection paradigm "a false-
much that it influences nearly everything a alarm" correctly refers to:
person does is a (A) a NO response in the presence of the
(A) Global trait stimulus
(B) Cardinal trait (B) a YES response in the absence of the
(C) Specific trait stimulus
(D) Central trait (C) a NO response in the absence of the
stimulus
44. When the previous learning experiences (D) a YES response in the presence the
facilitate subsequent learning, it is called stimulus
(A) Positive transfer of training
(B) Negative transfer of training 50. Social Learning theory which emphasizes
(C) Zero transfer Expectancy was given by
(D) Proactive interference (A) Watson (B) Freud
(C) Rotter (D) None
45. Which of the following statistics is not
permissible in an ordinal scale?
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51. Preconceived notions regarding various 56. An encoding strategy that reduces the total
groups are called number of items to be remembered by
(A) Discrimination combining them into meaningful units.
(B) Dissonance (A) Chunking (B) Recall
(C) Archetypes (C) Revision (D) Rehearsal
(D) Stereotypes
57. If behavior is freely chosen, yields distinctive
52. After Down's syndrome, which of the and uncommon results and is low in social
following is the most common cause for desirability what will it be attributed to
mental retardation in boys? according to Jones and Davis (1965)?
(A) Prader-Willi syndrome (A) External, unstable factors
(B) Fragile X syndrome (B) Internal, stable disposition
(C) Tuberous sclerosis By (C) Internal, unstable disposition
(D) Duchenne muscular dystrophy (D) External, stable disposition
53. What is the percentage of variance shared by 58. What is the term used for the experience of
X and Y, if the correlation between them is uncomfortable
titudes andtension
actionsbetween
t important a
0.77? (A) Self perception
(A) 59.29% (B) 77% (B) Dissonance
(C) 23.77% (D) 100% (C) Attitude action discrepancy
(D) Dissonance reduction
54. Which of the following statements about 59. The situational theory of leadership put
Leaders versus Managers is false? emphasis on
(A) Leadership is a value-laden, activity, (A) Environment
management is not (B) Personality
(B) Leaders focus on risk taking, managers (C) Events
perform functions such as planning and (D) Political Situation
controlling
(C) Leaders are thought to do things right, 60. When you do not do well in your exam, it is
managers do the right things because of family problems but when a
(D) Leaders develop, managers maintain friend fails in the same exam it is because he
or she did not study hard This is an example
55. Reading Disorder is a developmental of which type of attribution bias?
disorder and is characterized by reading (A) Self-serving bias
achievement (e.g. accuracy, speed and (B) Blaming the victim
comprehension) significantly below (C) Fundamental attribution error
expected standards for which of the (D) Actor-Observer discrepancy
following
(A) Chronological age 61. In Autistic spectrum disorder, when an
(B) IQ individual exhibits immediate imitation of
(C) Schooling experience words or sounds they have just heard, it is
(D) All of the above known as
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(A) Echoastic disorder 67. When the neuron's action potential is

(B) Echolalia released, which ions are rushed into the axon
(C) Phonological inhibition through openings on the membrane?
(D) Grapheme dysfunction (A) sodium (B) chloride
(C) potassium (D) oxygen
62. According to Jung which of the following is
the rational aspect of personality. 68. In which of the following lobes of the cortex
(A) Feeling type you find the primary auditory area?
(B) Intuition type (A) Frontal (B) Occipital
(C) Sensation type (C) Temporal (D) Parietal
69. According to Erikson's theory, the child
63. The General adaptation syndrome (GAS) learns self control and begins to feel more
describes several stages people experience capable. by resolving which Psycho-social
in to sustained stress. These stages occur in crisis?
which order? (A) trust versus mistrust
(A) Resistance, alarm and exhaustion (B) autonomy verses shame and doubt
(B) alarm, exhaustion and resistance (C) industry versus inferiority
(C) alarm, resistance and exhaustion (D) initiative verses guilt
(D) exhaustion, resistance, alarm
70. The physical trace of the memory in the
64. A person who dramatically complains of a brain is called the
specific symptom such as, nausea, difficulty (A) engram (B) sonogram
swallowing or pain without a physical cause (C) memogram (D) pachygram
suffers from
(A) A conversion reaction SECTION-B
(B) Somatization disorder.
(C) Hypochondriasis. 1. Discuss the nature and development of self-
(D) An obsession concept.
65. In schizophrenia, the term avolition refers to 2. What are the four basic styles of life
(A) Lack of speech proposed by Adler?
(B) An inability to express empathy
(C) An inability to react to pleasurable 3. Explain in brief mental retardation and
events developmental disabilities.
(D) Lack of energy and interest in routine
activities 4. Briefly describe functions of autonomic
nervous system?
66. In which psychosexual stage of development
does the defense mechanism of 5. Elaborate industrial fatigue?
identification occur prominently?
(A) Anal (B) Latency 6. Describe the characteristics of a
(C) Phallic (D) Genital standardized psychological test.
7. Describe the different schedules of

reinforcement used in operant conditioning.
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8. Describe the interference theory of

forgetting?
9. What is the difference between James Lange

and Canon Bard theory of emotions?
10. Differentiate between social facilitation and

social loafing.
ANSWER KEY

1 A 26 B 51 D PART B
2 C 27 D 52 B 1 DA
3 D 28 B 53 A 2 DA
4 C 29 A 54 C 3 DA
5 B 30 B 55 D 4 DA
6 C 31 D 56 A 5 DA
7 C 32 C 57 B 6 DA
8 D 33 B 58 B 7 DA
9 A 34 D 59 A 8 DA
10 C 35 B 60 C 9 DA
11 C 36 C 61 B 10 DA
12 A 37 A 62 A
13 C 38 B 63 C
14 B 39 D 64 B
15 A 40 B 65 D
16 D 41 B 66 C
17 C 42 D 67 A
18 D 43 B 68 C
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19 C 44 A 69 B
20 A 45 A 70 A
21 A 46 D
22 D 47 C
23 A 48 A
24 D 49 B
25 D 50 C
DA= DESCRIPTIVE ANSWER
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1. A learning process in which an association (C) Working memory

is made between a previously neutral (D) Episodic memory
stimulus and a stimulus that naturally
evokes a response is known as 7. People who are always looking for a
(A)Operant conditioning challenge may have higher need for
(B) Classical conditioning (A)Achievement (B) Affiliation
(C) Latent learning (C) Power (D) Attention
(D) Insight learning
8. The part of personality that represents
2. Although the capacity of short term conscience, morality and social standards
memory is limited, more items can be held is called
in this kind of storage through the process (A)Reality principle (B) Id
of (C) Ego (D) Superego
(A)Chunking
(B) Decoding 9. Which of the following factors has been
(C) Rote rehearsal demonstrated to be most influential in
(D) Data compression fatigue reduction?
(A)Hardiness (B) Wealth
3. The ability to identify previously (C) Exercise (D) Education
encountered material is called
(A)Recall 10. Personal prejudice can result from
(B) Recognition hostility. What is the target of this hostility
(C) Mnemonics called?
(D) Eidetic recall (A)A self-fulfilment prophecy
(B) Conformist
4. Which of the following is NOT a cause of (C) A scapegoat
forgetting? (D) An altruist
(A)Decay
(B) Retrieval inhibition 11. Which brain region is considered guardian
(C) Interference of the body?
(D) Selective attention (A)Amygdala
(B) Septum
5. When a person "forgets" what someone (C) Hippocampus
has just said because he was not paying (D) Hypothalamus
attention to the speaker at all, it is an
example of the ___________ explanation 12. If you have problems in storing away new
of forgetting. memories, the damage is most likely in the
(A)Interference area of brain.
(B) Memory trace (A)Hippocampus
(C) Encoding failure (B) Cerebellum
(D) Repression (C) Hypothalamus
(D) Amygdale
6. The ability to manipulate information in
memory temporarily, while remembering 13. Need for money is an example of_______
something else, is called drive /motive.
(A)Sensory memory (A)Primary (B) Acquired
(B) Semantic memory (C) Innate (D) Instinctive
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14. According to Maslow's theory, the basic (A)Continuation

needs include (B) Similarity
(A)Physiological needs, safety and (C) Closure
security (D) Good figure
(B) Safety, love and belonging
(C) Physiological needs and belonging 20. In operant conditioning a schedule of
(D) Self-esteem and self-actualization reinforcement that reinforces a response at
predictable time intervals is the case of
15. Adam gets a new toy for every good grade (A)Fixed-ratio schedule
on his report card in first grade. Toys (B) Variable -ratio schedule
providing Adams with (C) Fixed- interval schedule
(A)Intrinsic motivation (D) Variable- interval schedule
(B) Extrinsic motivation
(C) Need motivation 21. When one conditioned stimulus used to
(D) Intrinsic reward create another, this is called
(A)Spontaneous recovery
16. According to Atkinson and Shiffrin model (B) Extinction
of human memory which of the following (C) order conditioning
sequence of events is correct? (D) Shaping
(A)Attention-sensory memory-short term
memory-long term memory-elaborative 22. Which of the following is most effective in
rehearsal conditioning?
(B) Sensory memory-attention-short term (A)Backward conditioning
memory- elaborative rehearsal - long (B) Delayed conditioning
term memory (C) Simultaneous conditioning
(C) Attention-short term memory-sensory (D) Trace conditioning
memory- elaborative rehearsal-long
term 23. Which of the following is the correct
(D) Sensory memory-short term memory- sequence
attention-long term memory- (A)Need-drive-behavioural response
elaborative rehearsal (B) Drive-behavioural response - need
(C) Behavioural response-drive-need
17. Which of the following is NOT a type of (D) Behavioural response-goal-drive
anxiety proposed by Sigmund Freud?
(A)Neurotic anxiety 24. Which of the following therapy is based on
(B) State anxiety operant conditioning?
(C) Moral anxiety (A)Flooding
(D) Reality anxiety (B) Aversion therapy
(C) Systematic desensitization
18. The binocular cue to depth in which eyes (D) Token economy
turn inward to focus on an object is called
(A)Convergence 25. Which brain structure is responsible for
(B) Retinal disparity our balance, posture, and muscle tone?
(C) Accommodation (A)Medulla
(D) Motion parallax (B) Cerebellum
(C) Reticular formation
19. One has a tendency to organize things to (D) Pons
make a balanced or symmetrical figure that
includes all parts. This is known as the law
of
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26. Receiving neurons have special_______ 32. Approximately what percentage of scores
that fit the shape of certain molecules falls within two standard deviation of the
(A)Synaptic vesicles mean in a normal distribution?
(B) Receptor site (A)34% (B) 95%
(C) Gaps (C) 99% (D) 68%
(D) Branches
33. If z-score of normal distribution is-2.5,
27. In a signal-detection paradigm "a false mean of distribution is 45 and standard
alarm" refers to deviation of normal distribution is 3 then
(A)A NO response in the absence of the value of 'X' for a normal distribution is
stimulus (A)97.5 (B) 52.5
(B) A NO response in the presence of the (C) 37.5 (D) 67.5
stimulus
(C) A YES response in the absence of the 34. Name the phenomenon where performance
stimulus of an individual decreases with the
(D) A YES response in the presence of the presence of others.
stimulus (A)Social facilitation
(B) Social inhibition
28. The psychophysical method of limits is (C) Social loafing
also known as (D) Social de-individuation
(A)Method of average error
(B) Method of constant error 35. What, according to Adorno et al. (1950),
(C) Method of minimal changes caused prejudice and discrimination?
(D) Differential threshold (A) Socio-cultural status
(B) Upbringing and an authoritarian
29. The smallest difference between two personality
stimuli that can be detected 50 percent of (C) Genetic differences
the time it is present, is called (D) Sadism
(A)Sensation
(B) Sensory adaptation 36. Tokenism refers to
(C) Just noticeable difference (A)A stereotype
(D) Absolute threshold (B) A schema
(C) Positive discrimination
30. Inferential statistics are used when (D) Negative discrimination
researchers want to know about
(A)The range of the highest to lowest 37. The female archetype present in male is
score. called
(B) Causes of difference in the data. (A)Neurosis (B) Anxiety
(C) Central tendencies in data. (C) Animus (D) Anima
(D) Variability in data.
31. Which is the most frequently used measure 38. Attenuation theory of attention was
of variability? proposed by
(A) Range (A)Broadbent
(B) Quartile Deviation (B) Triesman
(C) Average Deviation (C) Jhonston & Heinz
(D) Standard deviation (D) Dentch & Dentch
39. To measure leadership style Fiedler

devised an instrument called the
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(A)Least preferred colleague scale 45. One trait that dominates a personality so
(B) Least preferred co-worker scale much that it influences nearly everything
(C) Least popular co-worker scale person does is a
(D) Least popular colleague scale (A)Global trait
(B) Cardinal trait
40. Behavioural problems in which the person (C) Specific trait
exhibits symptoms suggesting physical (D) Central trait
disease or injury, but for which there is no
identifiable cause, are called 46. Who believed that traits existed as part of
(A)Mood disorders the nervous system?
(B) Somatoform disorders (A) Costa and McCrae
(C) Anxiety disorder (B) Allport
(D) Schizophrenia (C) Cattle
(D) Rogers
41. __________ are acts a person feels driven
to repeat. They help control anxiety caused 47. Which method of scientific enquiry is used
by _____. when the goal is to establish cause and
(A) Obsessions; compulsions effect relationship?
(B) Compulsions; obsessions (A) Case study method
(C) Compulsions; defense mechanisms. (B) Correlation method
(D) Defense mechanisms; obsessions (C) Experimental method
(D) Survey method
42. Which of the following is true of
individuals with Down syndrome? 48. The way in which we interpret, analyze,
(A)Nearly 70 percent of the individual remember and use information about the
affected are male. social world is referred to as
(B) The condition is caused by a (A)Cognition
chromosomal abnormality. (B) Explicit cognition
(C) In general they die young before the (C) Implicit cognition
age of 40. (D) Social cognition
(D) The majority of them have severe
intellectual impairment. 49. 'Foot-in-the door’ technique is used in
(A)Conformity
43. In schizophrenia, the term anhedonia refers (B) Compliance
to (C) Obedience
(A)An inability to enjoy food. (D) All of the above
(B) An inability to express empathy.
(C) An inability to react to enjoyable or 50. Social influence involves the following
pleasurable event. behavioural consequences.
(D) An inability to react to social cues (A)Norms, values, obedience
(B) Customs, values, norms
44. Which of the following dimensions does (C) Conformity, compliance, obedience
NOT belong to Costa and McCrae's NEO- (D) Values, norms, conformity
Personality Inventory?
(A)Agreeableness 51. The tendency to assign an internal locus of
(B) Conscientiousness causality for our positive outcomes and an
(C) Psychoticism external locus for our negative outcomes is
(D) Openness to experience called
(A)Self-fulfilling prophecy
(B) Self-discrepancies
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(C) Self-monitoring (A)Hallucinations

(D) Self-serving bias (B) Delusions
(C) Illusion
52. Grade norms are used in (D) Affect episodes
(A)Achievement test
(B) Aptitude test 59. Which theory of emotion claims that the
(C) Intelligence test entire process of emotion is mediated by
(D) Interest test thalamus?
(A)James-Lange theory
53. Raven's progressive matrices is a test based (B) Evolutionary theory
on (C) Cannon-Bard theory
(A)Spearman's theory of intelligence (D) Schachter-Singer theory
(B) Wechsler's theory of intelligence.
(C) Gardner's theory of intelligence 60. According to Freud, the main defense
(D) Thurston's theory of intelligence mechanism that is common to all other
mechanisms is
54. Which of the following test is generally (A)Displacement
used for selection of employees? (B) Repression
(A)Thematic Apperception test (C) Regression
(B) Attitude scale (D) Projection
(C) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory 61. The process by which sensory input is
(D) General Aptitude Test Battery organized and interpreted into meaningful
experience is called
55. Which of the following statements about (A)Sensation
multiple aptitude Batteries is true? (B) Sensory adaptation
(A)They measure innate ability. (C) Perception
(B) They provide IQ scores. (D) Transduction
(C) It is an alternate term for intelligence.
(D) They make intra-individual 62. Which psychological perspective focuses
comparison on various abilities. on self-actualization?
(A)Psychoanalysis
56. Which type of assessment would have the (B) Humanism
least problem with reliability? (C) Behaviourism
(A)Subjective test (D) Cognitive psychology
(B) Projective test
(C) Personality inventories 63.What is the approximate percentage of
(D) Observation of behaviour moderate mental retardation in retarded
population?
57. The image of oneself that develops from (A)10% (B) 3-4%
interactions with important or significant (C) 1-2% (D) 70%
people in one's life is called
(A)Self-efficacy 64. When the previous learning experiences
(B) Self-concept facilitate subsequent learning, it is called
(C) Self- actualization (A)Positive transfer of training
(D) The ideal self (B) Negative transfer of training
(C) Zero transfer
58. Sensory experiences that occur in the (D) Proactive interference
absence of a stimulus are called
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65. Which technique of reliability assessment (B) Quartile deviation

involves testing the same group of (C) Percentiles
people on two separate occasions? (D) Standard deviation
(A)Coefficient alpha
(B) Split-half method Section-B
(C) Test-retest method
(D) Scorer reliability All questions are compulsory. Answer
each question in 50-60 words. Each
66. The resting potential of a neuron is question carries 6 marks.
(A)-95 mv
(B) +85 mv 1. What is the difference between negative
(C) +70 mv reinforcement and punishment?
(D) -70 mv
2. Critically evaluate Maslow's need
67. Dysthymic disorder and cyclothymic hierarchy theory?
disorder are the types of
(A)Mood disorder 3. Define confounding variables and discuss
(B) Conversion disorder various techniques to control them.
(C) Schizophrenia
(D) Somatoform disorder 4. Explain Jung's type approach to
personality.
68. In which of the following techniques
judges are required to rate each statement 5. Explain Freud's concept of structure of
on 11 point scale of favourableness- personality.
unfavourableness.
(A)Equal appearing interval scale 6. Define measurement and describe different
(B) Likert scale levels of measurement.
(C) Guttman scale
(D) Semantic differential scale 7. What is criterion related validity?
Differentiate between predictive and
69. In a ________ study, neither the concurrent validity.
experimenter nor the participants control
group and who is in the experimental 8. Explain the difference between prejudice
group. and discrimination.
(A)Placebo
(B) Double-blind 9. What is fundamental attribution error?
(C) Single-blind Explain.
(D) Triple-blind
70. Which of the following statistics is NOT 10. Write short notes on Skewness and
permissible in an ordinal scale? Kurtosis.
(A)Median
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1 B 26 A 51 D 6 DA
2 C 27 C 52 A 7 DA
3 B 28 C 53 A 8 DA
4 D 29 C 54 D 9 DA
5 C 30 B 55 B 10 DA
6 C 31 D 56 D
7 A 32 B 57 B
8 D 33 B 58 A
9 C 34 A 59 C
10 C 35 B 60 B
11 A 36 C 61 C
12 A 37 D 62 B
13 B 38 B 63 D
14 A 39 B 64 A
15 B 40 B 65 C
16 B 41 B 66 D
17 C 42 B 67 A
18 A 43 C 68 D
19 C 44 C 69 B
20 C 45 B 70 D
21 C 46 C 1 DA
22 B 47 C 2 DA
23 A 48 D 3 DA
24 D 49 B 4 DA
25 B 50 C 5 DA
*DA=DESCRIPTIVE ANSWER
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Aligarh University Entrance Examination 2018
1. The principles of 'perceptual organization' (C) Performance bias

were given by (D) Quasi experimental research
(A) Wundt
(B) Wertheimer 7. The stimulus variable which yields a
(C) Kohler response at least 50% of the time is known
(D) Koffka as
(A) JND (B) PSE
2. According to James-Lange theory of (C) RL (D) DL
emotion, what precedes emotion?
(A) Appraisal 8. To counter balance the error of habituation
(B) Physiological arousal and expectation we alternate the series into
(C) Movement of facial muscles the following series
(D) Cognitive processing (A) Horizontal and vertical
(B) Straight and diagonal
3. What are the independent variables in an (C) Ascending and descending
experiment? (D) None of the Above
(A) Variables manipulated by the subject
(B) Variables that interfere 9. The concept of Psychic-reflex was given by
(C) Variables manipulated by the (A) B.F. Skinner
experimenter (B) I.P. Pavlov
(D) None of the above (C) E.L. Thorndike
(D) H. Ebbinghaus
4. ___________ nervous system gets us ready
to fight or flee and our_____ nervous system 10. Conditioned response may be eliminated by
helps to calm the body. withdrawing reinforcement. This is known
(A) Sympathetic/parasympathetic as
(B) Parasympathetic/sympathetic (A) Extinction
(C) Parasympathetic/adrenal (B) Discrimination
(D) Parasympathetic/adrenal (C) Spontaneous recovery
(D) Stimulus generalization
5. If an experiment is designed correctly, the
experimental group and control group will 11. When the findings of an experimental
differ with respect to research are generalized to target population,
(A) Dependent variable the research is said to possess
(B) Independent variable (A) External validity
(C) Confounding variable (B) Internal validity
(D) Extraneous variable (C) Predictive validity
(D) Concurrent validity
6. The tendency of the experimenters to let their
expectancies alter the way they treat their 12. The process whereby retention of something
subjects is known as learned recently is interfered something
(A) Subject bias learned in the past is known as
(B) Experimenter bias/ effect
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(A) Retroactive inhibition (D) James

(B) Reactive inhibition.
(C) Proactive inhibition 19. In the Nature vs. Nurture controversy of
(D) Resistance personality who amongst the following were
not associated with the Nurture perspective
13. Personality was defined as a person's unique (A) Thorndike
pattern of traits by (B) Watson
(A) Guilford (C) Pavlov
(B) Allport (D) Freud
(C) Woodworth
(D) Kempf 20. The behavioural component of prejudice is
(A) Stereotyping
14. Social facilitation occurs when (B) Discrimination
(A) People do less in a group setting (C) Implicit personality theorizing
(B) People perform well in the presence of (D) Holding a negative attitude toward a
others person
(C) People do not perform well in the
presence of others 21. According to Jung, the part of the mind
(D) Presence of others facilitate group containing universal human memories called
thinking the ........ unconscious.
(A) Collective
15. Preconceived notions regarding various (B) Cognitive
groups are called (C) Personal
(A) Discrimination (D) Animistic
(B) Stereotypes
(C) Dissonance 22. Participant observation refers to a technique
(D) Archetypes where the observer
(A) Becomes an integral part of the group
16. Allport's trait approach does not talk about and then observes its activities
(A) Cardinal trait (B) Participates with the group as an
(B) Source trait outsider
(C) Secondary trait (C) Does the observation from a distance
(D) Central trait (D) Does not become friendly with the
group being observed just to avoid
17. In the Vedantic model of personality subjectivity
Vigyanmaya Kosa refers to the
(A) Second layer of personality 23.When a person does not get along with
(B) First layer of personality someone but tries to be extra polite to that
(C) Fourth layer of personality person then he experiences
(D) Last layer of personality (A) Cognitive inconsistency
(B) Cognitive discrepancy
18. Who amongst the self concept theorists gave (C) Cognitive dissonance
the category of Material self (D) Cognitive over load
(A) Sullivan
(B) Mead 24. Which of the following endocrine gland is
(C) Cooley referred as the master gland?
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(A) Adrenal gland (A) Mean

(B) Pituitary gland (B) Variance
(C) Pineal gland (C) Standard deviation
(D) Thyroid gland (D) QI
25. A collection of people without any goal is 31. The value of semi-interquartile range can be
referred as determined by
(A) Crowd (A) N/2
(B) Mob (B) 3N/4
(C) Gro (C)
(D) Both (a) & (b)
(D)
26. The process by which members of a society
32. Which of the following statistics is not
are taught how to behaved feel by influential
permissible with nominally scaled data?
members of that society is referred to as
(A) Chi-square
(A) Role ambiguity
(B) Median
(B) Socialization
(C) Range
(C) Hawthorne effect
(D) Both (b) & (c) are not permissible
(D) Social roles
33. Which of these is NOT a psychometric
27. The leader who allows complete freedom in
questioning or scaling method?
decision making and does not participate in
(A) The semantic differential
the group activities is
(B) The method of first exceptions
(A) Autocratic
(C) Thurstone's equal appearing interval
(B) Democratic
scaling
(C) Laissez faire
(D) Likert Scaling
(D) Transformational
34. Mark and Eve have collected data on the
28. Which of the following statistics is a measure
same student using the same Psychological
of variability?
test and found their data almost the same. It
(A) Standard deviation
could be said that the test has
(B) Mean
(A) Test-retest reliability
(C) Mode
(B) Alternate form reliability
(D) Median
(C) Inter-rater reliability
(D) Split half reliability
29. A positive correlation is present when
(A) Two variables move in opposite
35. Which of the following is NOT the
directions
characteristic of a good psychological test?
(B) Two variables move in the same
(A) Objectivity
directions
(B) Variability
(C) One variable goes up and one goes
(C) Reliability
down
(D) Validity
(D) Several variables never change
36. If the value of kurtosis is greater than 0.263,
30. In a normal curve, the ordinate is highest at
the distribution is
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(A) Platykurtic (A) Axis V-Global assessment of

(B) Leptokurtic functioning
(C) Mesokurtic (B) Axis IV- Psychosocial & Environmental
(D) None of the above problems
(C) Axis HI- General medical conditions
37. Which one of the following scales of (D) Axis I- Personality disorders
measurement has absolute zero?
(A) Nominal scale 43. Analysis of avoidance learning suggests that
(B) Ratio scale many phobias are acquired through
(C) Interval scale conditioning.
(D) Ordinal scale (A) Classical
(B) Operant
38. __________ is the set of forces that (C) Intermittent
energize, direct and sustain behaviour. (D) Reinforcement
(A) Motivation
(B) Expectancy 44. Through which of the following methods,
(C) Empowerment desirable channels are provided for the
(D) Socialization release of emotional energy?
(A) Inhibition
39. Any stimulus that follows a behaviour and (B) Sublimation
increases the likelihood that the behaviour (C) Catharsis
will be repeated is called a (D) Repression.
(A) Cue
(B) Punisher 45. The normal range of information people can
(C) Rreinforcer hold in short term memory is items
(D) Situational stimulus (A) 3-5 (B) 7-10
(C) 5-9 (D) 8-11
40. Moderate mental retardation is represented
by an IQ score between 46. Which of following is not an element of
(A) 50-55 to 70 emotion?
(B) Below 20-25 (A) Subjective experience
(C) 35-40 to 50-55 (B) Physical reaction
(D) 20-25 to 35-40 (C) Behaviour
(D) Attention
41. Generalized anxiety disorder is a pervasive
condition in which the sufferer has 47.The Information processing model of
(A) Fear of fear memory includes
(B) Continual apprehension and anxiety (A) Attention, processing and elaboration
about future events (B) Sensory memory, short term memory
(C) Continual flashback to past events and long memory
(D) A desire to check that the environment (C) Episodic memory, semantic memory,
is safe and implicit memory
(D) Cognitive processing
42. Which of the following is NOT a correct
match? 48. Which need is on top of the Maslow's
hierarchy of needs?
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(A) Self-actualization assessment is that "psychological testing"

(B) Esteem refers to a process that
(C) Belongingness (A) Involves more problem-solving than
(D) Safety psychological assessment
(B) Is the more technician-link than
49. The process of converting physical energy psychological assessment
into nervous system activity is called (C) Was first described by Maloney and
______ Ward in the mid-1970s
(A) Nerve impulse (D) Is much broader in scope than
(B) Transduction psychological assessment
(C) Transmission
(D) Inhibition 55. Cronbach's alpha is used to determine
(A) Content validity
50. Which one of the following is not a (B) Difficulty level of a questionnaire
mnemonic device? (C) Internal consistency of a questionnaire
(A) The method of loci (D) Temporal stability
(B) WORKING MEMORY
(C) SQ3R method 56. Thurstone proposed ________ ‘primary
(D) Peg word method mental abilities’:
(A) Three (B) Five
51. The type of conflict in which the goal of the (C) Seven (D) Ten
individual has both positive and negative
valence of approximate equal intensity is 57. An excessive, unreasonable, persistent fear
known as caused by a specific object or situation is
(A) Approach-avoidance conflict called
(B) Avoidance-avoidance conflict (A) Social phobia
(C) Approach-approach conflict (B) Specific phobia
(D) Multiple approach-avoidance conflicts (C) Agora phobia
(D) None of these
52. An alternative name for short term memory
is 58. The entire group of people or observations
(A) Episodic memory in which the researcher is interested is called
(B) Semantic memory (A) Sample (B) Population
(C) Working memory (C) Survey (D) Subject pool
(D) Storage memory
59. The main advantage of a case study is
53. Which of the following cue is a binocular (A) The ease of generalizing the results to
depth cue? others
(A) Linear perspective (B) Being able to determine cause and
(B) Motion parallax effect
(C) Texture gradient (C) The amount of detail it provides about
(D) Accommodation an individual
(D) The large number of people that can be
54. A key difference between the terms studied at one time
"psychological testing" and "psychological
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60. Which part of the neuron receives messages 68. Interviewing all members of a given
from other cells? population is called
(A) Axon (B) Soma (A) A sample
(C) Dendrite (D)Myelin (B) A Gallup poll
(C) A census
61. Which of the following structure of the brain (D) A Nielsen audit
plays an important role in emotion?
(A) Brain system (B) Limbic system 69. In a skewed distribution, the scores.
(C) Cerebrum (D) Cerebellum (A) Have two high points instead of one
(B) Concentrate to one side of the
62. According to Spearman, a traditional IQ test distribution
would most likely measure (C) Are evenly distributed around the mean
(A) Practical intelligence (D) Fall on both sides of the mean
(B) Specific intelligence
(C) general intelligence 70. When you do not do well in your exam, it is
(D) Emotional intelligence because of family problems but when a
friend fails in the exam, it is because he or
63. False sensory perception, such as hearing she did not study hard. This is an example of
voices that does not really exist is an which type of attribution bias.
example of (A) Self-serving bias
(A) Delusion (B) Blaming the victim
(B) Hallucination (C) Fundamental attribution error
(C) Illusion (D) Actor-observer discrepancy
(D) Sublimation
Section-B
64. Which of the following personality type is
associated with heart disease? All questions are compulsory.
(A) Type A (B) Type B Answer each question in 40-60 words.
(C) Type C (D) Type D Each question carries equal marks (6
marks).
65. Fatigue refers to
(A) Decrease in performance 1. Discuss principles of Classical
(B) Decrease in energy Conditioning.
(C) Decrease in stamina
(D) All of the above 2. Discuss the main features of a good
psychological test.
66. According to Freud "Dreams are the royal
road to __________”. 3. Discuss the observation method used in
(A) Conscious (B) Unconscious Psychology.
(C) Preconscious (D) Collective
4. Distinguish between absolute and
67. A typical linear, numeric scale yields differential threshold.
________data.
(A) Interval (B) Ordinal 5. Discuss the concept of defence mechanism.
(C) Nominal (D) Ratio
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6. Describe the characteristics of Normal

probability curve.
7. Outline the difference between objective and

projective tests.
8. What do you mean by social facilitation?
9. Briefly discuss Likert's technique of attitude

measurement.
10. Discuss interference theory of memory.
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ANSWER KEY
1 B 26 B 51 A 1 DA
2 B 27 C 52 C 2 DA
3 C 28 C 53 B 3 DA
4 A 29 B 54 D 4 DA
5 B 30 A 55 C 5 DA
6 B 31 D 56 C 6 DA
7 A 32 C 57 B 7 DA
8 C 33 B 58 B 8 DA
9 C 34 A 59 C 9 DA
10 A 35 B 60 C 10 DA
11 A 36 B 61 B
12 A 37 D 62 C
13 D 38 A 63 B
14 C 39 C 64 A
15 B 40 C 65 D
16 B 41 B 66 B
17 D 42 D 67 A
18 D 43 A 68 C
19 C 44 C 69 B
20 B 45 B 70 C
21 A 46 D
22 B 47 B
23 C 48 A
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Answer key
Q. ANS Q. ANS Q. ANS Q. ANS

1 A 26 A 51 B 76 A
2 B 27 A 52 C 77 A
3 D 28 B 53 B 78 C
4 A 29 B 54 A 79 A
5 C 30 A 55 C 80 A
6 C 31 B 56 B 81 A
7 A 32 C 57 B 82 B
8 A 33 C 58 A 83 B
9 B 34 C 59 A 84 B
10 A 35 B 60 C 85 A
11 A 36 C 61 B 86 C
12 A 37 A 62 A 87 C
13 A 38 A 63 B 88 D
14 C 39 A 64 A 89 B
15 B 40 C 65 C 90 D
16 C 41 B 66 B 91 C
17 D 42 D 67 C 92 B
18 A 43 C 68 B 93 C
19 D 44 D 69 A 94 C
20 B 45 B 70 B 95 C
21 A 46 B 71 C 96 D
22 C 47 A 72 B 97 B
23 B 48 D 73 D 98 A
24 C 49 A 74 C 99 C
25 A 50 B 75 B 100 A
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1. “People are motivated when they find

themselves in situation of unfairness where a 6. Informal communication’ is mostly associated
person receives less than the person believes with which of the following?
he/she deserved based on his/her effort (A) Grapevine
and/or contribution”. This assertion is one of (B) Boundary-less
the basic tenets of (C) Group think
(A) ERG theory (D) Group chain
(B) Expectancy theory
(C) Need hierarchy theory
(D) Equity theory 7. Autogynephilic is defined by
(A) Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction
2. The Omnibus hypothesis means to prepubescent children
(A) Covering one situation at a time (B) Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction
(B) Covering many situations at once to thoughts, images or thoughts about
(C) Covering many situations over time oneself as a woman
(D) Alternate hypothesis (C) Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction
to oneself
3. The attribution theory proposed that the (D) Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction
individuals make attributions based on to being humiliated
information gathered in the form of three
informational cues. These are
(A) Consensus, distinctiveness, and
consistency 8. The degrees of freedom (c-1) (r-1) is
(B) Authenticity, reliability, and similarity applicable in
(C) Persuasiveness, intuitional, and (A) Mann-Whitney U test
consistency (B) Chi-Square test
(D) Credibility, consistency, and validity (C) Student’s t-test
(D) Kruskal-Wallis H test
4. Central to Social Learning theory is an
individual’s beliefs and expectancies about
his or her ability to perform specific task 9. Highly cohesive groups often assume that
effectively may be referred to as they can do no wrong and that information
(A) Self sufficiency contrary to the group’s view should be
(B) Self assessment rejected. This tendency is known as
(C) Self efficacy (A) Group norms
(D) Self enhancement (B) Groupthink
(C) Evaluation apprehension
5. The _____________ of a study is the extent (D) Brainstorming
to which the results can be generalized to
other populations and settings.
(A) Efficacy 10. A deficit in recognition ability, regardless of
(B) Internal validity the senses involved is known as 982]
(C) External validity (A) Amnesia
(D) Reliability (B) Contralateral neglect
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(C) Aphasia
(D) Agnosia 15. In certain social situations, individuals lose
their sense of identity when they are in a
11. Carol Gilligan departs from Kohlberg’s group. This phenomenon is known as
theory on moral development by highlighting (A) Cohesiveness
which of these differences? (B) Groupthink
(A) Males have ethics of care (C) Proprioception
(B) Males have ethics of justice (D) Deindividuation
(C) Females have ethics of justice
(D) Females have ethics of care
16. Jonah Complex was conceptualized by
12. Females have ethics of care (A) Sigmund Freud
When a group begins to function as a (B) Abraham Maslow
collective body rather than simply as a (C) Carl Jung
collection of individuals and role (D) Alfred Adler
differentiation in group members’
behaviour begin to occur such as different
group members begin to serve different 17. Julian Rotter’s proposition that individuals
functions, show regard for meetings, tasks develop beliefs about themselves having
and group goals. Which stage of group considerable/little control (internals v/s
development does it represent as per externals) over the outcomes they experience
Tuckman’s (1965) Stage Model? results from
(A) Norming (A) An innate understanding of the events
(B) Adjourning and their outcomes
(C) Performing (B) Repeated associations of stimulus and
(D) Storming response
(C) Cognitive dissonance they experience
13. Whose theory of personality highlights a with respect to their perception of skills
phenotypic and genotypic basis of and expected outcomes
personality development? (D) Generalized expectancies of their actions
(A) Eysenck and the reinforcement values they attach
(B) Pearls to them
(C) Adler
(D) Jung
18. Generalized expectancies of their actions
14. Four dimensions comprise the essence of and the reinforcement values they attach to
empowerment. These are them Behavior, emitted spontaneously or
(A) Meaning, competence, self voluntarily, that operate on the environment
determination, and impact to change is called
(B) Meaning, self determination, (A) Opposition principle
resourcefulness, and connections (B) Behaviour potential
(C) Self determination, competence, (C) Operant behaviour
resourcefulness, and connections (D) Personal disposition
(D) Competence, impact, social networking,
and self determination
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19. In a normal probability curve, what 24. Axonal conduction in normal direction i.e.,
percentage of test scores will fall between 2 conduction from cell body to terminal
and 3 standard deviations above the mean? buttons is called
(A) 2.1% (A) Directed conduction
(B) 68.2% (B) Saltatory conduction
(C) 13.6% (C) Antidromic conduction
(D) 34.1% (D) Orthodromic conduction
20. Duncan’s multiple range test, Newman- 25. An employee is exhibiting high level of
Keuls test, Tukey’s HSD test and Scheffe test emotional intelligence in the workplace.
can be used only when Which of the following skills he would be
(A) F ratio is not significant exhibiting as per Goleman?
(B) F ratio cannot be determined (A) Self awareness, Self motivation,
(C) F ratio is significant Impression management, Empathy, Social
(D) t ratio is not significant skills.
(B) Self awareness, Self motivation,
Impression management, Empathy, Other
21. A leader attempts to influence subordinates enhancement skills.
by putting them in a good mood before (C) Self awareness, Self motivation, Self
making a request, which form of influencing management, Empathy, Social skills.
tactic does it represent? (D) Self Awareness, Self motivation, Self
(A) Ingratiation management, Empathy, Other
(B) Inspirational appeal enhancement skills.
(C) Consultation
(D) Rational persuasion
26. Myelin sheath that surrounds the axon
preventing messages from spreading to
22. In the latency stage of Erik Erikson’s adjacent axons are produced by
developmental tendencies, ways of coping (A) Microglia
involves (B) Nodes of Ranvier
(A) None of these (C) Astrocytes
(B) Identity cohesion and role confusion (D) Oligodendrocytes
(C) Initiative and guilt
(D) Industriousness and inferiority
27. “Leadership motivates the people to work
23. Sigmund Freud’s system of human but not for the power or money”, this concept
development makes which assumptions about is related to
development? (A) Autocratic model
(A) Enactive, iconic and symbolic (B) Collegial model
(B) Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete (C) Supportive model
operational (D) Custodial model
(C) Compensation, reversibility , identity
(D) Dynamic, sequential and structural
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28.The ability to view the world around us and (D) 0.005

process of interpreting information about
another person is called
33. Arvind is extremely competitive, always in a
(A) Imagination hurry and often irritable (Type A
(B) Visualization personality). Which of the following forms of
(C) Social perception aggression is he most likely to engage in
(D) Person perception (A) Passive aggressive behavior
(B) Hostile aggression
(C) None of these
29. _____________ is a form of intelligence (D) Instrumental aggression
that is largely inherited ability to think,
reason and determines the limits of 34. A condition of psychological health
information-processing. resulting from integration of conscious and
unconscious facets of the personality is
(A) Experiential intelligence (A) Jung’s individuation
(B) Fluid intelligence (B) Roger’s fully-functioning person
(C) Contextual intelligence (C) Maslow’s self-actualization
(D) Emotional intelligence (D) Murray’s subsidiation
30. An approach that seeks to identify the 35. Token Economy is used in
unique qualities and special strengths of an
organization, which can then be built on to (A) Cognitive therapy
improve performance, is called (B) Psychodynamic therapy
(A) Appreciative inquiry (C) Transactional analysis
(B) Survey feedback (D) Behavioral therapy
(C) Sensitivity training
(D) Intergroup development
36. People who have personality trait of
_____________resist strain reactions when
31. Sensation seeking personality as suggested subjected to stressful events more effectively
by Zuckerman is likely to correlate than do people who are not having it and it
negatively with also has component of commitment, control
(A) Psychoticism and challenge.
(B) Extraversion (A) Tolerance
(C) Conscientiousness (B) Toughness
(D) Openness to experience (C) Strength
(D) Hardiness
32. The area for region of rejection in one tail
of the t-distribution for testing a bi-
directional alternate hypothesis at alpha = .05 37. Leaders while making decisions under high
will be stress situations tend to keep their cool and
(A) 0.01 make better decision and enhance their
(B) 0.05 effectiveness are high on
(C) 0.025 (A) Cultural intelligence
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(B) Spiritual intelligence (A) Counter-transference

(C) Mental intelligence (B) Resistance
(D) Emotional intelligence (C) Transference
(D) Fixation
38. A chemical substance that mimics the 43. Maheshwari has more awards in badminton
action of a neurotransmitter at a receptor site to her name under doubles category than her
is called single matches. This could be a result of
(A) Anatagonist (A) De-individuation
(B) Agonist (B) Hooliganism
(C) Acetylcholine (C) Social facilitation
(D) Neurotransmitter (D) Social-loafing
39. Hiding one’s feelings and engaging in 44. ‘Flextime’ and ‘Job sharing’ are examples
emotional expressions aligned to display of ______________to increase motivation.
rules is known as (A) Revised role expectations
(A) Role making (B) Contemporary organizational structures
(B) Deep acting (C) New team work models
(C) Surface acting (D) Alternative work arrangements
(D) Emotional contagion
45. The term _________ refers to any

40. The uniqueness of individual experience environmental agent that causes damage
and behavior, is a focus of during the prenatal period.
(A) Nomothetic approach (A) Amnion
(B) Action research approach (B) Isotretinoin
(C) Ideographic approach (C) Teratogen
(D) Indigenous approach (D) Accutane
41. Children’s view of morality in terms of 46. Which of the following is NOT a pattern of
realism and fixed dictates of authority figure attachment assessed by Strange Situation and
is referred to as Attachment Q-Sort?
(A) Ideal reciprocity (A) Disorganized
(B) Distributive justice (B) Avoidant
(C) Autonomous morality (C) Resistant
(D) Heteronomous morality (D) Interactive
42. Off late, every time Karen had an

appointment with her therapist she would 47. Tests that involve comparing an
come up with an excuse to procrastinate her individual’s test score with an objectively
meetings. According to her the therapist stated standard of achievement are called
reminds of her father with who she shares an (A) Authentic assessments
ambivalent and complex relationship. This (B) Criterion-referenced tests
tendency shown by her can be referred to as (C) Standardized tests
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perceived as being a coherent entity.
(A) Entitativity
48. Excuses, Apologies, and Exemplification (B) Ingratiation
are all techniques of (C) Group polarization
(A) Organizational citizenship (D) Mediating variable
(B) Distributive bargaining
(C) Conflict management
(D) Impression management 54. _______type of child rearing involve low
acceptance and involvement with little
behavioural control and general indifference
49. A self-report questionnaire for assessing to issues of autonomy.
aspects of the self-concept is (A) Authoritarian parenting
(A) Projective technique (B) Authoritative parenting
(B) T-sort technique (C) Permissive parenting
(C) L-sort technique (D) Uninvolved parenting
(D) Q-sort technique
55. _________ refers to the percentage of

50. An expression of emotions that is expected instances in which both twins show a trait
to lead to the reduction of disturbing when it is present in one twin.
symptoms is (A) Niche-picking
(A) Libido (B) Concordance effect
(B) Catharsis (C) Genotype
(C) Regression (D) Canalization
(D) Denial
56. __________________, or theory of

51. __________ refers to the idea that certain knowledge, concerns itself with questions
physical characteristics of objects remain the about what knowledge is and how it may be
same, even when their outward appearance validly achieved.
changes. (A) Epistemology
(A) Conservation (B) Ontology
(B) Centration (C) Epidemiology
(C) Hierarchical classification (D) Methodology
(D) Seriation
57. ___________ is mostly referred to as the

52. __________ is negative reactions to way in which an organization transfers its
threats to one’s personal freedom. inputs into outputs.
(A) Narcissistic rage (A) Communication
(B) Singlism (B) Culture
(C) Reactance (C) Environment
(D) Ego-depletion (D) Technology
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skewed. are confronted with the harmful actions done
(A) F by in-group against an out-group is called
(B) Bimodal (A) Collective guilt
(C) t (B) Collectivism
(D) z (C) Common in-group identity
(D) Catharsis hypothesis
59. __________ are the more basic traits that

underlie aspects of personality that can be 64. Stanley Milgram (1970) studied the unique
seen by others, which form the core of behavior of city dwellers using which
personality. hypothesis?
(A) Source traits (A) Privacy deprivation
(B) Ergs (B) Diffusion of responsibility
(C) Surface traits (C) Social conflict
(D) Subjective traits (D) Information overload
60. The leadership dimension consisting of 65. ACTH, stimulates the outer layer of
charisma, individualized consideration, the____________ gland causing it to secrete
inspirational motivation and intellectual cortisone.
stimulation is best described as (A) Thyroid
(A) Transformational (B) Adrenal
(B) Charismatic (C) Pineal
(C) Transactional (D) Pituitary
(D) Situational
66. Self-report ratings of one’s characteristics,

61. Carl Roger’s conditions of worth is similar attributes and interests is
to (A) L-data
(A) Freudian superego (B) T-data
(B) Cattell’s dynamic traits (C) Z-data
(C) Jung’s Archetype of Self (D) Q-data
(D) Horney’s incompatibility of neurotic
trends
67. The idea that children like scientists draw on
innate concepts to explain their everyday
62. When scorers make judgment that results experiences, often in remarkably advanced
in nominal or ordinal data, then popular ways is propounded by
index of agreement is (A) Constructivist approach
(A) Spearman Brown formula (B) Socio-cultural approach
(B) KR-20 (C) Theory-theory perspective
(C) Cohen’s kappa (D) Interactionist perspective
(D) Product moment correlation
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68. An investment of psychic energy in an

object or person is
(A) Displacement 73. Leaders who direct their groups by
(B) Cathexis rewarding them for desired behaviour, by
(C) Instinct taking actions to correct mistakes or
(D) Repression departures from existing rules is
characteristic of
(A) Servant leadership
69. Organizational Climate is based on the (B) Charismatic leadership
__________ of members towards the (C) Transactional leadership
organization. (D) Transformational leadership
(A) Identification
(B) Perception
(C) Loyalty 74. Proprium, the term for the ego or self, was
(D) Values given by
(A)(B) F. Skinner
(B) Sigmund Freud
70. A small group of employees who work (C) Gordon Allport
voluntarily on company time, typically one (D) Albert Bandura
hour per week, to address work related
problems such as cost reduction, production,
planning, product design, and techniques are 75. Which of the following is a type of Selective
called Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRI) used
(A) Core teams as an antidepressant?
(B) Quality circles (A) Elavil
(C) Work teams (B) Clozapine
(D) Focus groups (C) Marplan
(D) Prozac
71. A positive emotional state resulting from

the appraisal of one’s own job experience is 76. Which of the following is NOT correctly
called matched?
(A) Life satisfaction (A) Mylenencephelon -- Medulla oblongata
(B) Job satisfaction (B) Mesencephalon -- Hypothalamus
(C) Job motivation (C) Telencephalon -- Basal ganglia
(D) Job enrichment (D) Metencephelon -- Pons
72. The motivation concerning issues of 77. Which of the following is NOT correctly
excellence, competition, challenging goals, matched?
persistence and overcoming difficulties are
referred as (A) Simultaneous processing -- Brain stem
(A) Need for affiliation (B) Arousal/ Attention -- Brain stem
(B) Need for recognition (C) Planning -- Frontal lobe
(C) Need for achievement (D) Successive processing -- Parietal lobe
(D) Need for power
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(C) Social cognitive theory

78. Which of the following is NOT a base of (D) Self-regulation theory
power in organizations?
(A) Informational power
(B) Coercive power 83. Selection of every 15th item from a list of
(C) Reward power sample is called
(D) Rational power
(A) Simple random sampling
(B) Systematic sampling
79. Which of the following is a content theory (C) Purposive sampling
of work motivation? (D) Quota sampling
(A) Vroom’s expectancy theory of work
motivation
(B) Alderfer’s ERG theory 84. Repeated measures design should be used
(C) Equity theory of work motivation when
(D) The Porter and Lawler motivation model (A) Experimental conditions take too long to
implement
(B) There are too many participants in the
study
80. Complementary skills and synergy are (C) Participants’ behavior needs to be
important markers of examined at one point in time
(A) Effective team (D) Effect of independent variable is
(B) Effective communication expected to be small
(C) Effective job design
(D) Effective Person-Job fit 85. Nerve fibers in the spinal cord that carry
information from the brain to muscles and
glands throughout the body are called
81. Key characteristics of an effective appraisal (A) Central nervous system
system are (B) Peripheral nervous system
(A) Responsiveness, equality, flexibility, (C) Afferent nerve fibers
reliability, and sensitivity (D) Efferent nerve fibers
(B) Validity, reliability, responsiveness,
flexibility, and equitability
(C) Validity, reliability, flexibility, 86. A technique for gaining compliance in which
sensitivity, and equality an offer or deal is changed to make it less
(D) Reliability, variability, responsiveness, attractive to the target person is
equality, and responsiveness (A) Lowball procedure
(B) Self deprecation
(C) Less leads to more effect
82. The notion that –“human behaviour is (D) That’s-not-all technique
influenced by many cognitive factors as well
as by reinforcements contingencies; and that
human beings have an impressive capacity to 87. Adjusting the support offered during a
regulate their own actions” is propounded by teaching session to fit the child’s current
(A) Humanistic theory level of performance is called
(B) Social learning theory (A) Reciprocal teaching
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(B) Inter-subjectivity (B) Humans do not engage in inter-

(C) Scaffolding subjectivity
(D) Guided participation (C) Inter-subjectivity and intra-subjectivity
are not related
(D) Inter-subjectivity precedes intra-
88. A neuron is said to be_____________ and subjectivity
at resting potential when the potential
difference across the electrodes measures
___________. 93. According to Chomsky’s Nativist
(A) Polarized; -70mV perspective
(B) Polarized; +90 mV (A) There is a universal grammar that applies
(C) Depolarized; +50mV to all languages
(D) Depolarized; -70mV (B) Caregiver-child interaction promotes
language progress
(C) Children figure out the meaning of a new
89. According to the Fiedler’s Contingency word by lexically contrasting it with
Model of Leadership Effectiveness, which of known words
the dimension does NOT determine situation (D) Language comprehension develops ahead
favorableness? of production
(A) Degree of task structure
(B) Formal authority of the leader
(C) Leader-member relationship 94. There is a universal grammar that applies to
(D) Leader’s position power all languages
The specific method of gathering and
analyzing data on the choice,
90. According to Carl Jung’s Analytical theory, communication and interaction patterns of
the archetype representing the masculine side people in groups, is referred to as
of females is called
(A) Animus (A) Focus group method
(B) Persona (B) Sociometry
(C) Anima (C) Role playing method
(D) Shadow (D) Informal group method
91. According to Cattell, _________ are the 95. The kind of healthy psychological and
basic units of motivation. physical functioning after a potentially
(A) Deficits traumatic event is called
(B) Id (A) After-effect
(C) Thema (B) Coping
(D) Ergs (C) Resistance
(D) Resilience
92. According to Vygotsky

(A) Intra-subjectivity precedes inter- 96. Limited period offers/sales by online
subjectivity marketing sites such as the Amazon or
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Myntra is a classic example of which of the

following compliance techniques?
(A) Low balling technique (D) Randomly assigning placebo to half of
(B) That’s not all technique the patients without their knowledge
(C) Deadline technique
(D) Door in the face technique
97. Degree to which one party attempts to

satisfy the concern for self and concern for
others, are two dimensions popularly used for
understanding styles of
(A) Managing role conflict
(B) Managing organizational culture change
(C) Managing organizational conflict
(D) Managing systems change
98. As per Bandura, ________________is the

set of cognitive processes by which a person
perceives, evaluates and regulates his own
behaviour.
(A) Dissonance
(B) Self-system
(C) Social judgment
(D) Attitudes
99. Test developers use reverse scoring to offset

the effects of
(A) Faking
(B) Social desirability
(C) Acquiescence
(D) Defensiveness
100. A double-blind procedure to test drug

efficacy in psycho-pharmacological studies is
accomplished by
(A) Randomly assigning active drugs to half
of the patients with their proper
knowledge
(B) Randomly assigning the active drugs to
all patients
(C) Randomly assigning placebos to all
patients
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1 D 51 A
2 B 52 C
3 D 53 A
4 C 54 D
5 C 55 B
6 A 56 B
7 B 57 D
8 B 58 A
9 B 59 A&D
10 D 60 A
11 D 61 A
12 A&C 62 C
13 A 63 A
14 A 64 D
15 D 65 B
16 B 66 D
17 A 67 C
18 C 68 B
19 A 69 B
20 C 70 B
21 A 71 B
22 D 72 C
23 D 73 C
24 D 74 C
25 C 75 D
26 D 76 B
27 C 77 A
28 C 78 D
29 B 79 B
30 A 80 A
31 C 81 B
32 C 82 C
33 D 83 B
34 A 84 D
35 D 85 D
36 D 86 A
37 D 87 C
38 B 88 A
39 C 89 B
40 C 90 A
41 D 91 D
42 C 92 D
43 C 93 A
44 D 94 B
45 C 95 D
46 D 96 C
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48 D 98 B
49 D 99 C
50 B 100 D
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1. Kohlberg's theory of moral development 6. A function that includes motivating
was criticized by Gilligan primarily employee, directing others, selecting the
because most effective Communication channels,
(A) The data did not support his and resolving conflicts is
conclusions (A) Leading
(B) It was based on the study of boys only (B) Organizing
(C) It was done very long ago (C) Planning
(D) His subjects consisted of urban (D) Controlling
children only
7. The tendency to continue seeking a goal in
2. The _________ is less sensitive than the the face of obstacles or resistance is called
_________ to the presence of a few (A) Reward dependence
extreme scores (B) Harm avoidance
(called outliers) in a distribution of (C) Persistence
scores. (D) Novelty seeking
(A) Median, mean
(B) Median, mode 8. Prof. Gupta shows a group of participants a
(C) Mode, median set of geometric shapes for a short period
(D) Mean, median of time.Later, he shows the same group a
larger set of shapes that includes the first
3. The examination of existing records for the set of geometric Shapes randomly
purpose of confirming a hypothesis is distributed among the other new images.
called When asked which shapes they Prefer, the
(A) Archival research participants choose shapes from the first
(B) Survey research group more often than the new images,
(C) Naturalistic observations Even though they cannot remember which
(D) Case study images they had seen previously. This
experiment Demonstrates which concept?
4. A disorder characterized by numerous (A) Primacy
hypomanic episodes and numerous periods (B) Shaping
of Depressive symptoms but not a major (C) Fundamental-attribution error
depressive episode can be diagnosed as (D) Mere-exposure effect
(A) Bipolar I
(B) Bipolar II 9. Which amongst the following perspective
(C) Cyclothymia is called the "Third Force" in Psychology?
(D) Dysthymia (A) Humanism
(B) Structuralism
5. The James-Lange or body reaction theory (C) Psychoanalysis
of emotion says (D) Behaviourism
(A) You feel an emotion then a bodily
reaction follows 10. The assumption of _____________ states
(B) You react with your body first, then that across any two treatment conditions,
you feel emotion the variance of the difference scores in the
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of emotions (A) Sphericity
(D) Emotions and visceral reactions are (B) Randomization
simultaneous (C) Linearity
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(D) Homogeneity 17. O-factor of Cattell's 16 personality factor

is associated with
11. In ___________ learning experiment, it (A) Relaxed - Tensed
was evidenced that rats had learned to get (B) Traditional - Flexibility
through A maze once a reward was (C) Utilitarian - Refined
presented. (D) Self Assured - Self Blaming
(A) Instrumental learning
(B) Latent learning 18. A rank-order test of a difference between
(C) Insight learning two independent groups is called
(D) Spontaneous recovery (A) Mann-Whitney U test
(B) Sign rank test
12. Which part of the brain is most important (C) Chi square test
in regulating an animal's sex drive? (D) Kruskal-Wallis H test
(A) Medulla Oblongata
(B) Hypothalamus 19. The categorization of objects, events or
(C) Limbic System people that share common properties is
(D) Pituitary gland called
(A) Creativity
13. A response to communication overload (B) Judgment
used by many executives in organizations (C) Concepts
is the use of a ___________, a person who (D) Mental image
screens potential communication and
allows only the most Important to go 20. Unlike personality inventories, projective
through. tests such as the Rorschach test ask people
(A) Mediator to
(B) Moderator (A) Interpret ambiguous stimuli
(C) Devil's advocate (B) Tell a story about a set of other people
(D) Gatekeeper (C) Create images that reflect their
personalities
14. Broca's area is usually located in which (D) Name personalities that fit the stimuli
part of the cortex?
(A) Right frontal lobe 21. A structure that surrounds, protects and
(B) Left frontal lobe nourishes the developing fetus is called
(C) Left temporal lobe (A) Umbilical cord
(D) Right temporal lobe (B) Ovaries
(C) Placenta
15. The more contact you have with an (D) Fallopian tube
unpleasant person, the more you dislike
him or her, This is called 22. The statement " There will be a significant
(A) Recency effect difference in the attitude towards health of
(B) Environmental spoiling Persons from low and high socioeconomic
(C) Habituation effect status" is a type of
(D) Matching phenomena (A) Null - Unidirectional hypothesis
(B) Null - Bidirectional hypothesis
16. Triacylglycerols (triglycerides) are also (C) Alternative-Unidirectional hypothesis
known as (D) Alternative-Bidirectional hypothesis
(A) Body fat
(B) Plant glucose 23. REBT, a form of cognitive behaviour
(C) Cell protein therapy was developed by
(D) Alcohol (A) Aaron Beck
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(B) Joseph Wolpe (C) Self-concept

(C) Carl Rogers (D) Self -reinforcement
(D) Albert Ellis
30. The smallest unit of sound used to form
24. Salivary gland is a part of _____________ words is called
system of the body. (A) Syllable
(A) Respiratory (B) Morphemes
(B) Gastrointestinal (C) Phonemes
(C) Cardiovascular (D) Semantics
(D) Olfactory
31. Areas of impairment that characterize the
25. A family in which calm prevails due to the behavior of children with ADHD includes
fact that all power rests with one parent is all Except
Considered as a_________ family. (A) Goal direction
(A) Incestuous (B) Social interaction
(B) Skewed (C) Self-regulation
(C) Neurotic (D) Behavioural inhibition
(D) Schismatic
32. In which of the following classification of
26. When calculating correlation from paired disorders, Mental Retardation has been
scores, that are both in the form of ranks replaced With Intellectual Developmental
(and There are no ties in rank), Pearson's Disorder?
correlation and Spearman's correlation will (A) DSM IV TR
yield (B) DSM 5
(A) Pearson's correlation will be greater (C) DSM IV
than Spearman's correlation (D) DSM III
(B) Spearman's correlation will be greater
than Pearson's correlation 33. In which the following group therapies
(C) Identical value people are urged to tell other group
(D) Different value members Exactly how they feel, in order
foster personal growth through increasing
27. Examples of ______________ include understanding of one's Own behavior,
cholesterol, cortisol, estrogen, and honesty and openness in personal
testosterone. relations.
(A) Polyunsaturated fatty acids (A) Humanistic group therapy
(B) Steroids (B) Family therapy
(C) Carbohydrates (C) Psychoanalytic group therapy
(D) Phospholipids (D) Behavioural group therapy
28. The area of hypothalamus responsible for 34. If you had sight in only one eye, which of
satiation behaviour is the following depth cues could you NOT
(A) Amygdala use?
(B) Ventromedial hypothalamus (A) Texture gradient
(C) Thalamus (B) Linear perspective
(D) Lateral hypothalamus (C) Convergence
(D) Shading
29. Individual expectations concerning their
ability to perform various task is called 35. Neurodevelopmental model of schizo
(A) Self-efficacy phrenia suggests that brains of individual
(B) Self-system who develop the disorder
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(A) Have fewer dendrite branches 41. Moderate level of mental retardation is
(B) Experience poor neural connection characterized by
(C) Experience subdued synaptic pruning (A) IQ level from 35-40 to 50-55
during the prenatal phase (B) IQ level below 20-25
(D) Have more unipolar neurons (C) IQ level from 20-25 to 35-40
(D) IQ level from 50-55 to approximately
36. What is the crisis that dominates an 69 and below
individual during 'Young Adulthood' as
per Erikson's Stages of psychosocial 42. In Maslow's theory, ____________ is the
development? stage of personal development in which
(A) Ego integrity vs. Despair Individuals reach their maximum potential.
(B) Generativity vs. Stagnation (A) Safety needs
(C) Identity vs. Role confusion (B) Self actualization
(D) Intimacy vs. Isolation (C) Esteem needs
(D) Physiological needs
37. When the heart muscle contracts, each
contraction produces a maximum force 43. One goal that has both positive and
called negative valence of approximate equal
(A) Heartburn intensity can
(B) Systolic pressure Result into
(C) Diastolic pressure (A) Avoidance-avoidance conflict
(D) Heart attack (B) Ambivalent conflict
(C) Approach-approach conflict
38. When the motive has a biological or (D) Approach-avoidance conflict
physiological basis, it is called a/an
(A) Imprinting 44. The sleep stage lasting approximately 5
(B) Libido minutes that marks the transition from
(C) Incentive relaxed to
(D) Drive Wakefulness is called
(A) None of these
39. The concept which refers to the (B) REM sleep
consistency of scores obtained by the same (C) Hypnogogic sleep
persons when (D) Sleep spindles
Re-examined with the same test on
different occasions is known as 15346] 45. An experimental design in which one
(A) Error variance sample is tested under two or more
(B) Standard error treatment Conditions is called
(C) Validity (A) Mixed group design
(D) Reliability (B) Repeated measures design
(C) Randomized group design
40. The concept that organizations are (D) Between group design
becoming a more heterogeneous mix of
people in terms 46. In general, reducing the risk of Type I
Of gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual error reduces ______________ of the test.
orientation and inclusion of other diverse (A) Type II error
group is called (B) Generalizability
(A) Contingency diversity (C) Validity
(B) Changing demographics (D) Power
(C) Embracing diversity
(D) Workforce diversity
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47. If a cold spot is stimulated, you will feel a 52. The term 'unconscious inference' in
sensation of cold, even if the stimulus is perceptual psychology was coined by
Something hot. This phenomenon is called (A) Jean-Martin Charcot
(A) None of these (B) Joseph Breuer
(B) Double pain (C) Erik Erikson
(C) Paradoxical cold (D) Hermann von Helmholtz
(D) Get control
53. The measure of central tendency most
48. During __________ stage, a person's affected by the presence of extreme values
ability to adapt to the stressor declines to is the
the point Where negative consequences of (A) Frequency
stress appear. (B) Median
(A) Alarm (C) Mean
(B) Uplift (D) Mode
(C) Exhaustion
(D) Resistance 54. A conflict in which the most beneficial
action for an individual will, if chosen by
49. During the neurons resting state, large most people,Have harmful effects on
amount of positive __________ ions are everyone is called
found in the (A) Cooperation
Extracellular fluid, whereas relatively (B) Competition
more positive __________ ions are found (C) Negotiation
inside the cell. (D) Social dilemma
(A) Chloride, anions
(B) Sodium, potassium 55. There are some people who can move
(C) Sodium, lithium objects which are away from them without
(D) Potassium, chloride using any Form of physical force. This
phenomenon is called
50. A patient admitted in a local hospital (A) Pre-cognition
suffering from cuts, bruises, and (B) Telepathy
contusions has (C) Psychokinesis
Memory for the previous week, but cannot (D) Psychoanalysis
remember what happened last week. This
disorder is 56. A procedure whereby the experimenter
(A) Dissociative identity disorder does not know whether subjects are
(B) Dissociative fugue receiving an Actual treatment or not is
(C) Generalized amnesia known as the ____________ procedure.
(D) Localized amnesia (A) Placebo
(B) Randomization
51. A system in which workers participate in (C) Operationalization
organizational decision making through a (D) Double-blind
small
Group of representative employees is 57. The corresponding T-score value for a Z-
called score value of +2.5 is
(A) Quality circle (A) 65 (B) 70
(B) Employee involvement (C) 80 (D) 75
(C) Representative participation
(D) Participative management 58. __________ forms the blood-brain
barrier-a barrier that prevents certain
substances in the
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Bloodstream from reaching the brain. 64. __________ develops when individuals
(A) Glial cell either feel they lack the skills or workplace
(B) Synapse Resources to complete a task or perceive
(C) Neuron that the task cannot be done in the required
(D) Cell body amount of Time.
(A) Role ambiguity
59. __________ heuristic is used when one (B) Role erosion
judges how likely an event is to occur by (C) Role overload
how easily It is retrieved from memory. (D) Role conflict
(A) Anchoring
(B) Availability 65. ____________ measures the length,
(C) Representativeness weight, and temperature in degrees,
(D) Evaluation Kelvin.
(A) Ordinal scale
60. _____________developed by Hersey and (B) Nominal scale
Blanchard (1988), postulates that a leader (C) Interval scale
Typically uses one of four behavioral (D) Ratio scale
styles: delegating, directing, supporting, or
coaching. 66. Sandeep has constant worry about his
(A) Leadership contingency theory health. He has met numerous doctors for
(B) Transactional leadership theory ruling out Serious diseases, only to be
(C) Situational leadership theory reassured of his wellbeing. Each small
(D) Path Goal theory of leadership ailment (e.g. Sneezing, fever,Headache or
stomach pains), exacerbate his worries. He
61. ____________ is the extent to which an considers them to be indications of a
employee believes she/he must remain Major illness. From which disorder, he
with the Organization due to the time, suffers from? 15394]
expense, and effort that she/he has already (A) Tic disorder
put into it (Meyer & Allen, 1997). (B) Hypochondriasis
(A) Normative commitment (C) Dysmorphic disorder
(B) Affective commitment (D) Pain disorder
(C) Continuance commitment
(D) Global commitment 67.The sense that registers the movement and
position of the limbs is called
62. _____________ is the tendency to engage (A) Visual
in thrilling and exciting activities, to take (B) Kinesthetic
risk,And to avoid boredom. (C) Auditory
(A) Boredom susceptibility (D) Somasthetic
(B) Sensation seeking
(C) Sensory deprivation 68. Charlie Chaplin illusion used to study the
(D) Social desirability differential brain processing in individuals
with Schizophrenia suggests that
63. ___________ approach to personality, (A) People with schizophrenia show
states that people have basic goodness and weakened top-down processes and
a Tendency to go to higher levels of stronger bottom-up processes
functioning. (B) People with schizophrenia show
(A) Humanistic weakened bottom-up and top-down
(B) Behavioural processes
(C) Biological
(D) Cognitive
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(C) People with schizophrenia show (C) Motion parallax

weakened bottom-up processes and (D) Accommodation
stronger top-down processes
(D) People with schizophrenia show 75. Which of the following is NOT among the
stronger bottom-up and top-down stages of memory processing?
processes (A) Encoding
(B) Storage
69. The part of the brain most responsible for (C) Schema
making decisions is the (D) Retrieval
(A) Amygdala
(B) Hippocampus 76. Which of the following is NOT a feature
(C) Thalamus of Anti-social Personality disorder?
(D) Prefrontal cortex (A) Failure to conform to social norms
(B) Consistent irresponsibility
70. Which of the following are NOT natural (C) Deceitfulness
Opioids? (D) Substance abuse
(A) Endorphin
(B) Dymorphin 77. Which of the following statement
(C) Morphine describes social loafing?
(D) Enkephalins (A) The tendency of people to work less
hard on collective task than on an
71. Which of the following neurons transmit individual or co-active task
information from the senses to the central (B) The tendency of people to work hard
nervous System? and more effectively in group setting
(A) Mirror neurons than in individual setting
(B) Motor neurons (C) The tendency of deliberately
(C) Afferent neurons disrupting the activity particularly
(D) Efferent neurons while working collectively
(D) The tendency of taking credit for
72. Which of the following clinical procedures another individual's work while
are based, in part, on classical working as a team leader
conditioning?
(A) Empty chair technique 78. Wolfgang Kohler believed that animals
(B) Systematic desensitization such as chimpanzees are capable of
(C) Token economy (A) Trial and error
(D) Transference (B) Images
(C) Imaginations
73. Which of the following is a strategy of job (D) Insight
design that increases job depth by meeting
Employee's needs for psychological 79. A work arrangement wherein an employee
growth? works for ten hours a day for four days or
(A) Job rotation twelve Hours a day for three days is called
(B) Job enlargement (A) Telecommuting
(C) Job engagement (B) Moonlighting
(D) Job enrichment (C) Compressed work week
(D) Flexitime
74. Which of the following is NOT a
monocular cue of depth perception? 80. Maintaining a weight at least 15 percent
(A) Linear Perspective below the normal weight for age and sex
(B) Texture gradient
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or a BMIOf 17.5 or less is a symptom of 86. According to Eysenck, personality

_________ disorder. differences arise mostly from
(A) Binge eating (A) Biological differences
(B) Anorexia nervosa (B) Cultural differences
(C) Compensatory eating (C) Geographical differences
(D) Bulimia nervosa (D) Environmental differences
81. ____________ is the channeling of 87. According to Piaget, in which stage of

unacceptable sexual or aggressive instincts development does infant gradually learn
into Socially desirable activities. that there is A relationship between their
(A) Projection actions and external world?
(B) Reaction formation (A) Concrete operational stage
(C) Sublimation (B) Formal operational stage
(D) Denial (C) Preoperational stage
(D) Sensorimotor stage
82. __________ type of personality do better
at signal-detection task. 88. According to Realistic conflict theory,
(A) Extrovert prejudice and discrimination are likely to
(B) Psychotic increase When
(C) Introvert (A) People are competing for job and
(D) Neurotic security
(B) People who hold stereotypes about a
83. ____________research emphasizes style; target group are frustrated
whereas research on _____________ (C) People know that their close friends
focuses On tactics for gaining compliance. are prejudiced
(A) Communication; politics (D) A country has history of Racism
(B) Leadership; power
(C) Politics; leadership 89. According to the Gestalt principle of
(D) Power; persuasion ___________, we tend to perceive objects
as forming Mirror images about their
84. Fundamental attribution errors (FAE) centre.
explain (A) Proximity
(A) How individuals over estimate one's (B) Continuity
own attitude about self (C) Symmetry
(B) How individuals over estimate (D) Similarity
situations and depositions of people
(C) How individuals over estimate size and 90. According to the trait theory of
shape of objects against a background personality, a set of major characteristics
(D) Comparative evaluation of behaviours that make up the Core of a person's
of people under different personality is called
circumstances (A) Secondary trait
(B) Primary trait
85. According to Vroom's Expectancy Theory, (C) Cardinal trait
the extent to which the outcome of a (D) Tertiary trait
worker's Performance, if noticed, results in
a particular consequence is called 91. According to Jung, inherited images in the
(A) Instrumentality collective unconscious that shape our
(B) Equity perceptions Of the external world are
(C) Expectancy called
(D) Valence
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(A) Archetypes 97. The mental ability to analyse and

(B) Animus diagnose complex situations is called
(C) Self concept (A) Technical skill
(D) Anima (B) Human skill
(C) Conceptual skill
92. According to Allport, a single trait that (D) Political skill
dominates an individual's entire
personality is called 98. Behavioural health challenges the
(A) Central trait biomedical model for its
(B) Secondary trait (A) Assumptions of separation of mind
(C) Functional autonomy and body
(D) Cardinal trait (B) Combination of biological and
psychological factors in treatment
93. According to classical psychoanalytic (C) Identification of the root cause of
theory, a mechanism of defense in which illness
various Forbidden thoughts and impulses (D) Focus on illness prevention
are attributed to another person rather than
the self, thus Warding off some anxiety, is 99. Under the pressure of excessive anxiety,
called the ego is sometimes forced to take
(A) Projection extreme Measures to relieve it. In
(B) Introjection psychoanalytic theory, these measures are
(C) Regression called
(D) Reaction formation (A) Défense mechanism
(B) Electra complex
94. According to Atkinson's and Shiffrin (C) Oedipus complex
Information-processing model, a stimulus (D) Avoidance
from our Outside environment is first
stored in 100.The first version of DSM (DSM-I) was
(A) Working memory published in the year
(B) Sensory memory (A) 1957 (B) 1962
(C) Long term memory (C) 1947 (D) 1952
(D) Short term memory
95. According to NEO PI-R test of

personality, the facet of aesthetics comes
under __________Domain of personality.
(A) Openness to experience
(B) Extroversion
(C) Agreeableness
(D) Conscientiousness
96. With the ______________ method of

performance appraisal, the manager places
Predetermined percentages of subordinates
in performance categories.
(A) Graphic rating scale
(B) Paired comparison
(C) Forced distribution
(D) Alternation ranking
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ANSWER KEY
QS NO Answer QS NO Answer QS NO Answer QS NO Answer
1 B 26 C 51 C 76 D
2 B 27 B 52 D 77 A
3 A 28 B 53 C 78 D
4 C 29 A 54 D 79 C
5 B 30 C 55 C 80 B
6 A 31 A 56 D 81 C
7 C 32 B 57 D 82 C
8 D 33 A 58 A 83 B
9 A 34 C 59 B 84 B
10 A 35 C 60 C 85 A
11 B 36 D 61 C 86 A
12 C 37 B 62 B 87 D
13 D 38 D 63 A 88 A
14 B 39 D 64 C 89 C
15 B 40 D 65 D 90 A,B,C,D
16 A 41 A 66 B 91 A
17 D 42 B 67 B 92 D
18 A 43 D 68 A 93 A
19 C 44 B&C 69 D 94 B
20 A 45 B 70 A,B&C 95 A
21 C 46 D 71 C 96 B
22 D 47 C 72 B 97 C
23 D 48 C 73 D 98 A
24 B 49 B 74 D 99 A
25 B 50 D 75 C 100 D
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1. When extinction takes place, the conditioned 7. Collecting the same observations or
response measurement and finding the same results
(A) gets stronger as were found previously is called
(B) is actively ‘unlearned’ ________.
(C) will probably never occur (A) Replication (B) Hypothesis
(D) just fades away (C) Data (D) Variable
2. On a ______ scale respondents who endorse 8. The __________________ encompasses

one statement also agree with milder connection between microsystems
statements pertinent to the same underlying (A) Macrosystem
continuum. (B) Exosystem
(A) Guttman (B) Likert (C) Mesosystem
(C) Thurstone (D) Osgood (D) Chronosystem
3. A form of therapy that applies the principles 9. The sequence of stages of oral reasonsing
of reinforcement to bring about desired is identified by Kohlberg are
called (A) Preconventional, conventional,
(A) Cognitive therapy postconventional
(B) Psychoanalysis (B) Preconceptual, conceptual,
(C) Fixed role therapy postconceptual
(D) Behaviour modification (C) Preoperational, operational,
postoperational
4. Which of the following is NOT a conclusion (D) Preconformist, confirmst,
that can be drawn from the Hawthorne postconfirmist
studies?
(A) Money motivates work group to perform 10. A stimulus associated with the delivery of
to their full potential the study results reinforcement when an appropriate
(B) Work groups develop social norms about response is made is known as
an acceptable level of output (A) reinforce
(C) Social relations at work matter a lot (B) controlled stimulus
(D) The mere fact of knowing that they are (C) discriminative stimulus
participating in research can influence (D) discriminated reinforce
5. Which of the following is not a method used 11. Which form of therapy places emphasis on
in descriptive research? the assumption that maladaptive thoughts
(A) Case study are the basis of many psychological
(B) Experiment disorders
(C) Survey (A) Rational emotive therapy
(D) Naturalistic observation (B) Psychoanalysis
(C) Client centred therapy
6. The technique used for children’s (D) Behaviour therapy
development takes as a joint activity with
adults is known as 12. The existence of seventh primary emotion
(A) Intersubjectivity suggested by some theorists is
(B) Cooperative Learning (A) Outrage
(C) Scaffolding (B) Gratitude
(D) Private Speech (C) Contempt
(D) Frustration
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13. The term egocentrism refers to children’s 20. Individuals prone to depression often
(A) Lack of a well developed superego make and attribution for their problems
(B) Persistent selfishness (A) Internal, stable
(C) inability to conserve (B) Internal, unstable
(D) Tendency to see things only from their (C) External, unstable
own perspective (D) External, stable
14. Infant attachment has been explained in terms 21. During a normal night’s sleep, how many
of all of the following except times do we pass through the different
(A) Innate behaviour stages of sleep
(B) Imprint (A) 8–11 (B) 2–3
(C) comfort contact (C) 2 (D) 4–7
(D) rational thought
22. The lobe mostly concerned in keeping us
15. The structures that make up the immune physically oriented in our environment is
system are (A) Frontal (B) Parietal
(A) Carcinogens (C) Dorsal (D) Temporal
(B) Neuroendocrine system
(C) Psychoneuroimmunology 23. Self-actualization over concern with
(D) Immune system attractiveness ; tendency to irritability;
temper outbursts if attention seeking is
16. The study of an individual perception and use frustrated are symptoms of
of space, including territorial space, is called (A) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
(A) Paralanguage (B) Histrionic Personality Disorder
(B) Proxemics (C) Anorexia Nervosa
(C) Dialectic (D) Obsessive –Compulsive disorder
(D) Kinesics
24. The investment of psychic energy in an
17. Thematic Apperception Test is based upon object or person is
the defence mechanism of (A) cathexis (B) displacement
(A) Projection (C) free association (D) catharsis
(B) Sublimation
(C) Reaction Formation 25. _______ is Learning or strengthening
(D) Repression behaviour of others, and the consequences
of that behaviour, rather than experiencing
18. While teaching a dog how to shake hands, the reinforcement or consequences directly
which of the following reinforcement (A) Vicarious reinforcement
schedule would facilitate the most rapid (B) Modelling
learning (C) Observational learning
(A) fixed ratio (D) Disinhibition
(B) variable ratio
(C) continuous 26. The fact that the things people want and
(D) variable interval value most are good jobs, nice homes, and
high status are always in short supply. It
19. A fixed interval schedule is one that is based serves as the foundation for what is
on a perhaps the oldest explanation of prejudice
(A) Varying number of responses _____________.
(B) Varying period of time (A) Norm violation theory
(C) Set number of responses (B) Identity theory
(D) Set period of time (C) Realistic conflict theory
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(D) Intergroup conflict theory 33. The socio cognitive approach to

personality suggests the idea that one’s
27. Intergroup conflict theory Cultural harmony experiences can
and reducing the salience of group identities (A) Encourage personality to remain
can be achieved through, which of the stable
following attempts at recategorization? (B) Affect both personality stability and
(A) Forgiveness change
(B) Segregation of shared spaces (C) Eliminate the effects of biology on
(C) Appealing to Humanity personality
(D) Third Party Intervention (D) Brings about change in personality
28. The current approach to psychology most 34. In which of the following therapies clients
closely aligned with the structuralists in its are encouraged to express their true
interest.In topics like consciousness, mental thoughts and feelings and become their
imagery and thought process is true selves in
(A) neuroscience (A) Psychodynamic therapy
(B) cognitive psychology (B) Psychoanalysis
(C) behaviourism (C) Behaviour therapy
(D) functionalism (D) Client centred therapy
29. Individuals labelled as psychopaths are 35. The first step in developing a training
suffering from program includes
(A) Schizophrenia (A) Designing the training program
(B) Antisocial personality disorder (B) Training needs analysis
(C) Borderline personality disorder (C) Evaluating the training program
(D) Obsessive-compulsive disorder (D) choosing the training method
30. Prolonged use of antipsychotic drugs can 36. Oversimplified attitudes about the entire
bring on a neurological condition groups of people are called
characterised by uncontrollable facial (A) Prejudices
twitches and grimaces known as (B) Stereotypes
(A) Dementia (C) Prototypes
(B) Tardive dyskinesia (D) Negative instances
(C) Twitch syndrome
(D) Muscular atrophy 37. Aphasia is neurobiological disorder
symptomatized is
31. Directly observable characteristics are called (A) Difficulty localising objects in space
(A) Phenotypes (B) Language breakdown
(B) Chromosomes (C) Inability to recognize people from
(C) Epigenesis their faces
(D) Genotypes (D) Insensitivity to pain
32. An independent variable that varies along 38. The cerebral cortex is divided into two
with the ones of interest and could be the split halves known as the right and the left
actual basis for what you are measuring is (A) Cerebellum
called ________ (B) Corpus Callosum
(A) Dependent (B) Independent (C) Cortices
(C) Confound (D) Control (D) Cerebral hemispheres
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39. Psychologists in the area of __________ (D) ISO 9000

focus on man machine interaction, physical
fatigue and strain and workplace design 45. The brain structure that plays an important
(A) Training in development role in feelings of hunger is
(B) Industrial psychology (A) hippocampus
(C) Developmental Psychology (B) hypothalamus
(D) Ergonomics (C) parietal lobe
(D) thalamus
40. Therapies that focus on the self talk, problem
solving strategies and belief systems of 46. In a scientific method, specifying a
clients are referred to as .........therapies problem involves
(A) Cognitive (A) Collecting Data
(B) Psychodynamic (B) Defining the variable
(C) Psychoanalytical (C) Posing questions about the
(D) Behavioural phenomenon
(D) Analyzing Data
41. Geetanjali conforms to the idea of visiting a
museum as most people in her class have 47. In experimental design, the variable that is
voted for the same. The basis of her manipulated is the _________.
conformity is (A) Independent
(A) Ignorance (B) Confounding
(B) Callousness (C) Dependent
(C) Normative (D) Control Correct
(D) Informational
48. A person's view of his or her own worth is
42. A friend mentions to you that “she remembers called
everything that ever happens to her.” What (A) self esteem
concept from memory research most directly (B) self-efficacy
contradicts this belief? (C) self-actualization
(A) recovered memory (D) self-concept
(B) selective attention
(C) Eidetic memory 49. ________________ skills relate to a
(D) constructive memory leader’s knowledge and ability in any
organizational functional area.
43. When a large number of persons respond to (A) Interpersonal
questions about their attitudes or behavior, it (B) Technical
is called (C) Managerial
(A) Survey method (D) Conceptual
(B) Systematic observation
(C) Experimental method 50. ___________ validity is determined by
(D) Correlational method the degree to which the questions or items
on a test are representative of the universe
44. When a group of employees who work on of behaviour the test was designed to
voluntarily on company time to address work sample.
related problems such as quality control, cost (A) Convergent
reduction, production, planning, product (B) Concurrent validity
designing and techniques are called (C) Criterion
(A) Quality Circles (D) Content
(B) Kaizens
(C) Employees Assistance
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51. Our belief that social influence plays a (A) Free association, analysis of
smaller role in shaping our own action than it transference, analysis of resistance,
does in shaping the actions of others is known analysis of systematic
as desensitization.
(A) Autokinetic phenomenon (B) Free association, analysis of dreams,
(B) Normative Social Influence analysis of congruency, analysis of
(C) Cognitive Dissonance resistance
(D) Introspection Illusion (C) Free association, analysis of
resistance, analysis of shaping,
52. Just before the doors of the elevator close, analysis of dreams
Sheela, a classmate you dislike, enters the (D) Free association, Analysis of dreams
elevator. You immediately leave, whispering Analysis of resistance ,Analysis of
about having forgotten something. Your transference
behavior will have a consequence of
_______________ for you 57. A measure of validity that compares to a
(A) punishment different, valid procedure is called ______.
(B) shaping (A) Content Validity
(C) positive reinforcement (B) Construct Validity
(D) negative reinforcement (C) Criterion Validity
(D) Face Validity
53. Arrange the steps followed in Behavior
Modelling method of training in the correct 58. Which theory explains why people reduce
order their output when they feel unfairly
(A) Social reinforcement, Role playing, treated
modelling, transfer of training (A) Herzberg’s theory
(B) Modelling, role playing, social (B) Expectancy theory
reinforcement, transfer of training (C) Goal setting theory
(C) Modelling, role playing, transfer of (D) Balance theory
training, social reinforcement
(D) Role playing, modelling, social 59. In a ___________________the
reinforcement, transfer of training performance of each examinee is
interpreted in reference to a relevant
54. Odd even method of splitting the test in order standardization sample
to estimate split half reliability is most (A) Aptitude test
appropriate for (B) Criterion referenced test
(A) Projective tests (C) Group test
(B) Neuropsychological tests (D) Norm referenced test
(C) Power tests
(D) Speed tests 60. Colour blindness and colour afterimages
are best explained by
55. Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (A) opponent process theory
led to the emergence of which dimensions of (B) visible hue theory
leadership (C) trichromatic theory
(A) Concern for people and concern for task (D) binocular disparity theory
(B) Consideration and initiating structure
(C) Autocratic and democratic 61. Token economy is based on the principle
(D) Task oriented and relationship oriented of
(A) Secondary reinforcement
56. The four basic techniques for Freudian (B) Punishment
psychoanalysis are (C) Primary reinforcement
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(D) Observational learning (D) Theories are generally are broader than
hypotheses
62. When belief, expectations, or habits alter how
participants in a study respond is called 69. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
________. is a treatment for
(A) Research Validity (A) Internet Addiction Disorder
(B) Research Bias (B) Phobias
(C) Research hypothesis (C) Schizoid personality disorder
(D) Placebo Research (D) Depression
63. A final barrier that prevents women as a 70. There are incompatible demands on the
group from reaching top positions at the role incumbent
workplace is known as (A) Role overload
(A) Stereotyping (B) Role erosion
(B) Gender role norms (C) Role conflict
(C) Glass ceiling (D) Role ambiguity
(D) Glass cliff effect
71. Job enrichment is a technique for loading
64. Multimodal therapy( Lazrus,1981) is an of the job
example of (A) Horizontal (B) Vertical
(A) Gestalt Therapy (C) diagonal (D) Lateral
(B) Eclecticism and Integration
(C) Existentialist Humanistic Therapy 72. The time span of STM is
(D) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (A) 2830 seconds (B) 22-25seconds
(C) 5-10seconds (D) 18-20 seconds
65. Disorder for a short duration is called _____
(A) Acute (B) Chronic 73. Which of the following is most appropriate
(C) Moderate (D) Mild for the metaphor the ‘melting pot’
(A) Diversity and Culture
66. ____________ glands of the body, producing (B) Aggression and Violence
a variety of hormones that regulate or control (C) Socialization and Roles
the other endocrine glands (D) Stress and Burnout
(A) Gonadal gland
(B) Thyroid gland 74. Which of the following cannot be used to
(C) Adrenal gland describe the spread of values in a
(D) Pituitary gland distribution of data?
(A) The standard Deviation
67. ________________ are concise ways of (B) Measures of variability
summarizing properties of sets of numbers. (C) The mean
(A) Descriptive statistics (D) The range
(B) Meta analysis
(C) Inferential statistics 75. Most prenatal influences on humans are
(D) Statistical significance genetic or hormonal in origin except for
(A) parents’ level of education about fetal
68. Hypothesis is different from theories as development
(A) Only hypotheses are used to explain (B) stress on the mother
behaviour (C) family history of mental illness
(B) Only hypothesis can be tested (D) teratogens
(C) Research tests theories rather than
hypotheses
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76. Rajiv is always unsure of his decisions major 82. ......is the disorder which typically
or minor and looks forward to constant involves uncontrollable head movements
validation from his wife. The style of with Accompanying sounds such as
attachment exhibited by Rajiv is called grunts,clicks, yelps, sniffs or words.
(A) Insecure attachment style (A) Pervasive developmental disorder
(B) Preoccupied attachment style (B) Functional enuresis
(C) Secure attachment style (C) Tourett’s disorder
(D) Dismissing attachment style (D) Ecnopresis
77. Hysteria is characterised by 83. Hopelessness theory is an attempt to

(A) Uncontrollable ranting and raving explain
(B) Inappropriate laughter or tears (A) Depression
(C) Physical symptoms without any (B) Schizophrenia
discernible physical basis (C) Anxiety disorder
(D) Hallucinations and delusions (D) Personality disorder
78. Motives like need to spend time with 84. Prozac usually used as an antidepressant
others or to influence others are known as drug belongs to
______________motives (A) Serotonin and Norepinephrine
(A) Physiological (B) Social Reuptake Inhibitors(snris)
(C) Extrinsic (D) Power (B) MAO inhibitors
(C) Tricyclic antidepressants
(D) Selective serotonin Reuptake
79. Neurological studies on positive affect and Inhibitors(ssris)
fearful distress dimensions of temperament
suggest that shy children 85. According to Bass’ Full Range Model of
(A) React Positively to and Approach novel Leadership, which of the following is a
stimulus feature of transactional leadership?
(B) React Negatively to and Withdraw from (A) Individualized consideration
novel stimulus (B) Laissez faire
(C) React Negatively to and Approach novel (C) Intellectual stimulation
stimulus (D) Contingent reward
(D) React Positively to and Withdraw from
novel stimulus 86. According to Erikson, the central
development task of adolescence concerns
80. Which theory propounds that employees are (A) Integrity (B) Industry
uninterested in work and have to be goaded to (C) Identity (D) Intimacy
do so?
(A) Theory Z (B) Theory C 87. According to Herzberg’s two factor theory,
(C) Theory Y (D) Theory X which of the following is a Hygiene
factor?
81. Which of the following is not a type (A) Skill variety
dichotomy in Myers and Briggs Type (B) Status
Indicator test of personality? (C) Opportunity for decision making
(A) Judging – perceiving (D) Autonomy
(B) Neuroticism Emotional stability
(C) Thinking Feeling 88. The yerkesdodson law predicts that most
(D) Extraversion Introversion people would perform an easy task best if
they are at a
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(A) high level of arousal by a sense of obligation to stay in the

(B) low level of arousal organization because it is the right thing to do
(C) optimal level of arousal (A) Intrinsic commitment
(D) state of homeostasis (B) Continuance commitment
(C) Normative commitment
89. While constructing a test and item writing, it (D) Affective commitment
is a common error, there the question or the
item touches upon more than one issue; 95. According to Hershey and Blanchard
however the response option is only one. Situational Leadership Theory, which of
Such items are referred to as the following leadership style will be
(A) Leading questions effective for followers who are high on
(B) Double barrelled questions both job and psychological maturity?
(C) Open Ended questions (A) Selling
(D) Reverse coding questions (B) Telling
(C) Participating
90. According to Hofstede, ________________ (D) Delegating
dimension characterizes tolerance for
ambiguity. 96. According to Kohlberg gender
(A) Masculinity development moves through the following
(B) Individualism stages
(C) Power distance (A) Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
(D) Uncertainty avoidance (B) Preconventional, Conventional,
Postconventional
91. According to the earliest theories of hunger, (C) Sensorymotor, Preoperational,
the primary signal that motivates us to eat is Concreteoperational,
(A) food in the mouth Formaloperational
(B) the firing of neurons in the brain (D) Labeling, Stability, Consistency
(C) the sight of food
(D) stomach contraction 97. A researcher while investigating the effect
of coffee on sleep patterns of individuals
92. According to the formulation of Peter concludes that there is no impact of coffee
Drucker, the goal setting is applicable to all on sleep patterns. What may be inferred
employees having a clear influence over the about his conclusion?
goal setting process. This is known as (A) He rejected Ho while it was true
(A) CEO (B) MBO (B) He retained Ho while it was false
(C) ACR (D) PAS (C) He accepted Ho while it was true
(D) He accepted Ho while it was false
93. According to Lewin’s force field analysis, in
order to bring about a change 98. The measure of central tendency most
(A) Forces opposing change should be affected by the presence of extreme value
reduced is the ________.
(B) Forces resisting the change should be (A) Mode (B) Median
increased (C) Frequency (D) Mean
(C) Forces driving change should not be
enhanced 99. The multiple choice test is to tab the
(D) Forces driving change should be reduced measure of memory dealing with
(A) Recognition
94. According to Allen and Meyer, which type of (B) Reconstruction
Organizational commitment is characterized (C) Relearning
(D) Recall
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100. The match between individual and

organizational expectations is called
(A) person job fit
(B) Psychological contract
(C) Person organization fit
(D) Performance management
ANSWER KEY
Q.NO ANS Q.NO ANS Q.NO ANS Q.NO ANS
1 B 26 C 51 D 76 A
2 A 27 C 52 D 77 C
3 D 28 B 53 B 78 B
4 A 29 B 54 C 79 B
5 B 30 B 55 B 80 D
6 C 31 A 56 D 81 B
7 A 32 C 57 C 82 C
8 C 33 B 58 D 83 A
9 B 34 D 59 D 84 D
10 B 35 B 60 A 85 D
11 A 36 B 61 A 86 C
12 C 37 B 62 B 87 B
13 D 38 D 63 C 88 A
14 D 39 D 64 B 89 B
15 B 40 A 65 A 90 D
16 B 41 C 66 D 91 D
17 A 42 B 67 A 92 B
18 C 43 A 68 B 93 A
19 D 44 A 69 D 94 C
20 A 45 B 70 C 95 D
21 D 46 C 71 B 96 D
22 B 47 A 72 A 97 B
23 B 48 A 73 A 98 D
24 A 49 B 74 C 99 A
25 A 50 D 75 D 100 C
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1. If one part of the lobe is destroyed, the (A) Counterbalancing
person will not be able to see half of the (B) Integrity
object. (C) Nonlinear research path
(A) Frontal (D) Linear research path
(B) Parietal
(C) Occipital 7. The electromagnetic spectrum with
(D) Temporal different wavelengths of light produced
sensations of different colours is
2. One feature of the streaming of called__________________.
consciousness that received substantial (A) Hue
attention by researcher is (B) Saturation
(A) Gender differences (C) Lightness
(B) Daydreaming (D) None of these
(C) Brain wave patterns
(D) Eye movement 8. Any environmental agent that causes
damage during prenatal period is
3. When an experimenter lies to a subjects (A) Allele
about the true nature of an experiment or (B) Marasmus
creates a false impression through his or (C) Growth faltering
her actions or the setting it is (D) Teratogen
(A) Deception
(B) Experimental design 9. Under schizophrenic thought disorder
(C) Quasi experimental design seems to be an abnormal style of
(D) Classical experimental design information processing brought about by
(A) Auditory impairments
4. A scale often used in survey method (B) Hyperactivity
research in which people express attitudes (C) An absence of sensory information
or other persons responses in terms of (D) Extreme distractibility
ordinal level categories ranked along a
continuum 10. People having difficulty in focusing on
(A) Likert scale distant objects have__________.
(B) Bogardus social distance scale (A) Astigmatism
(C) Guttman scaling index (B) None of these
(D) Semantic differential (C) Myopia
(D) Hypermetropia
5. Research question such as ascertaining
what percentage of voters prefer a 11. Talking with subjects after an experiment
particular candidate _____ to give them true explanation of the
(A) Research hypothesis can be formulated experiment if deception has been used or
(B) No hypothesis will be formulated to learn from their perception is
(C) Null hypothesis can be formulated (A) Probing
(D) Alternative hypothesis can be (B) Interaction effect
formulated (C) Debriefing
(D) Rapport formation
6. Research that proceeds in a cyclical,
iterative or back and forth pattern and is 12. Physical attractiveness of a person or any
often used in qualitative research is other trait can influence multiple
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judgments or lead to a more favourable 18. The defines mechanism involving an

view of the whole personality. This intellectual reason to justify a certain
tendency is called action connected only in the mind of the
(A) Primacy effect person after the behaviour is completed is
(B) Pygmalion effect (A) Denial
(C) Halo effect (B) Repression
(D) Non- common effect (C) Rationalization
(D) Projection
13. A form of social interaction in which
children orient towards a common goals by 19. The component of personality that is a vast
resolving differences of opinions, sharing reservoir of basic biological urges is the
responsibilities and providing one another (A) Libido (B) Id
with sufficient explanations to (C) Ego (D) Superego
misunderstanding is
(A) Creativity 20. The combined memory of a group that is
(B) Cooperative play more efficient than the memory of the
(C) Cooperative learning individual members is
(D) Social learning theory (A) Group think
(B) False memory syndrome
14. Interpretations from the point of the people (C) Transactive memory
being studied is (D) Collective memory
(A) Second order interpretation
(B) Third order interpretation 21. Non-parametric equivalent of 1 sample t-
(C) Attributes test is-
(D) First order interpretation (A) Mann-Whitney U test
(B) Spearman
15. Abraham Maslow divided social motives (C) Wilcoxon signed rank
into four specific groups, including all of (D) Chi-Square
the following except
(A) Love 22. A sudden and extreme disturbance of
(B) Esteem memory in which individuals wander off,
(C) Avoidance adopt a new identity, and are unable to
(D) Self-actualization recall their own past is
(A) Retrograde amnesia
16. Reductions in motivation and effort when (B) Dissociative Fugue
individuals work in a group compared to (C) Dissociative amnesia
when they work alone is called- (D) Dissociative identity disorder
(A) Hooliganism
(B) De-individuation 23. Classification of self on the basis of
(C) Social facilitation perceptually distinct attributes and
(D) Social-loafing behaviors such as age, physical
characteristics, sex, goodness and badness
17. Presence of two or more disorders in the developing between 18and 30 months is
same person is called __________. (A) Enduring self
(A) Distortions (B) Inner self
(B) Mortality (C) Categorical self
(C) Comorbidity (D) Remembered self
(D) Labelling
24. The suggestions that depressed people
have unrealistic perceptions and that they
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act in a manner consistent with terrifying thoughts about their own

hopelessness theory are consistent with the mortality is
…… viewpoint (A) Story Model
(A) Sociocultural (B) Two Factor theory of Emotion
(B) Learning (C) Terror Management Theory
(C) Cognitive (D) Upward Social Comparison
(D) Psychoanalytic
31. Terror Management Theory A large
25. Area transformations like percentile ranks ‘standard error’ is reflective of
do not change the ______of scores, but (A) Sample not representative of the
they do change the between scores. population
(A) Difference, distance (B) Sample representative of the
(B) Intervals, rank order population
(C) Rank order, intervals (C) Negative correlation coefficient
(D) Distance, difference obtained
(D) In calculation of population Mean
26. A language structure located in the left value
temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex that
plays a role in comprehending word 32. If there is sudden impairment of
meaning is consciousness (without an aura) lasting
(A) Agrammatism only a few seconds, during which the
(B) Broca’s area patient may simply state vacantly, without
(C) Nucleus Cingulate speaking or apparently hearing nothing is
(D) Wernicke’s area called _________.
(A) Absence seizure
27. The order of the Ossicles (middle ear bone) (B) Complex partial seizure
is- (C) Tonic-clonic seizure
(A) Incus, Malleus, Stapes (D) Amnesia
(B) Stapes, Incus, Malleus
(C) Malleus , Incus, Stapes 33. EEG recording of the REM sleep is
(D) Malleus, Stapes, Incus characterized by
(A) Theta waves only
28. A neurological disorder characterized by (B) Alpha and Beta waves
sleep at inappropriate times is called- (C) Delta waves only
(A) Insomnia (D) Theta and Beta waves
(B) Sleep Apnea
(C) Narcolepsy 34. The reversal to +40 mV strongly
(D) Hypersomnia implicates the action of ________ as the
basis for action potential.
29. The theory that frustration –the perception (A) Na+ ions (B) Glucose
that you are being prevented from attaining (C) Nitrogen ions (D) K + ions
a goal-increases the probability of an
aggressive response 35. _________ method of analysis helps to
(A) Instrumental Aggression study of mental disorders capitalize on
(B) Fundamental attribution error several currently known locations on
(C) Frustration Aggression Theory chromosomes of genes for other inherited
(D) Misattribution of Arousal physical characteristics or biological
process.
30. The theory that hold that self esteem serves (A) Case history
to buffer, protecting people from (B) Case studies
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(C) Association studies 41. Method of gathering and analysing data on

(D) Linkage analysis the , choice communication and interaction
patterns of people in groups, is referred to
36. __________is a statement that has at least (A) Informal group method
one independent and one dependent (B) Role playing method
variable and has yet to be empirically (C) Sociometry
tested. (D) Focus groups method
(A) Causal hypothesis
(B) Null hypothesis 42. Writing Disorder in which the person can
(C) Alternative hypothesis spell regularly spelled words but not
(D) Double barrelled hypothesis irregularly spelled one is
(A) Developmental dyslexia
37. ____________ proposes that the words (B) Direct dyslexia
people use determine how they think about (C) Orthographic dysgraphia
themselves and the worl(D) (D) Phonologically dysgraphia
(A) Vygotsky’s hypothesis
(B) Cognitive universalism 43. T-Groups are known as an organizational
(C) Pragmatics intervention technique, known for
(D) Linguistic relativity hypothesis (A) Absence of any structure in interaction
(B) Absence of any leadership
38. ________________ is a form of (C) Absence of verbal communication
perspective taking that requires the ability (D) Absence of politics
to view a situation from at least two
perspective, that is to reason 44. The process whereby people flatter, praise
simultaneously about what two or more and generally try to make themselves
people are thinking likeable of the experiment, which has been
(A) Referential style explained in advance is
(B) Reversibility (A) Informational social influence
(C) Recursive thought (B) Informed consent
(D) Reconstruction (C) Ingratiation
(D) Interdependence
39. ______________ is the size of the
difference in a stimulus property (such as 45. The tendency to attribute positive
the brightness of light) needed for the outcomes to internal causes but negative
observer to notice a difference. ones to external causes is known as-
(A) Differential limen (A) Impression Management
(B) None of the above (B) Actor-Observer Effect
(C) Just noticeable difference (C) Self-serving Bias
(D) Reiz leimen (D) Kinship Selection Theory
40. Facilitating entry of new entrants in an 46. The tendency to go along with the group in
organization through orientation order to fulfil the group’s expectation and
programmes are studied under which of gain acceptance is
the following (A) Normative conformity
(A) Organization Adaption (B) Minority Influence
(B) Organizational Fit (C) Out group homogeneity
(C) Organizational Socialization (D) Social compliance
(D) Organizational Accommodation
47. The term ‘employee turnover’ is related to
which of the following issues
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(A) Performance in organization beginning of the experiment with regard to

(B) Attrition in organization the dependent variable is
(C) Absenteeism in organization (A) Testing effect
(D) Employee transfers in organization (B) History effects
(C) Maturation effects
48. Relatively rare disorder where (D) Selection bias
accumulation of an abnormal amount of
cerebrospinal fluid within the cranium 54. “Naïve realism” refers to the fact that
causing damage to the brain tissue and (A) Few people are realistic
enlargement of the skull (B) Most people would rather be naïve
(A) phenylketonuria than accurate
(B) macrocephaly (C) Most people believe they perceive
(C) Hydrocephaly things accurately
(D) Microcephaly (D) Most people are naïve about
psychology
49. When is a person less likely to conform?
(A) When the group cannot see how the 55. What is the median of the following group
person behaves of scores- 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20
(B) When the group is unanimous (A) 18 (B) 16.5
(C) When the person feels incompetent (C) 15 (D) 15.5
(D) When the person admires the group
56. What is group polarization?
50. When the group cannot see how the person (A) A situation in which one harms oneself
behaves _________is an alternative to and others by acting in one’s self-
ANOVA (with independent samples) for interest
situations in which measurements are on (B) The tendency of a close-knit group to
an ordinal scale or when there are doubts emphasize consensus at the expense of
about the distributional assumptions critical thinking and rational decision
associated with the F test. making
(A) Mann-Whitney U test (C) The tendency for a dominant point of
(B) The Sign test view in a group to be strengthened to a
(C) Wilcoxin sign-ranked test more extreme position after a group
(D) Kruskal–Wallis test discussion
(D) The strength of the liking and
51. __________are extraordinarily sensitive to commitment group members have
light, but they only allow us to see sets of toward each other and to a group
grey.
(A) Cones (B) Optic nerve 57. In case of reverse discrimination policy or
(C) Rods (D) Retina programmes, often there is overt
compliance and many important issues are
52. Prisoner’s dilemma’ exercise highlights left unaddresse(D) This issue has been
important issues related to referred to as
(A) Pro-social and antisocial behaviour (A) Tokenism
(B) Violence and dehumanization (B) Groupthink
(C) Aggression and destructiveness (C) Fundamental attribution error
(D) Cooperation and Competition (D) Social loafing
53. Cooperation and Competition A threat to 58. A type of experimental research in which
internal validity when groups in a neither the subjects nor the person who
experiment are not equivalent at the directly deals with the subjects for the
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experimenter knows the specifics of the (D) Autonomy

experiment is
(A) Diffusion of treatment 64. According to the Sternberg Theory of
(B) Experimenter expectancy Love, Companionate love is characterized
(C) Equivalent time series design by
(D) Double bind experiment (A) Low intimacy, low passion, low
commitment
59. The method of combination works on the (B) Low intimacy, high passion, low
basis of successive rather than commitment
simultaneous is called ______________. (C) High intimacy, high passion, high
(A) Spatial summation commitment
(B) Inhibitory post synaptic potential (D) High intimacy, low passion, high
(C) Excitatory postsynaptic potential commitment
(D) Temporal summation
65. Foundations of knowledge based on logic,
60. According to Psychoanalytic theory a processes of reason and a knowable
person’s behaviour is motivated mainly by singular reality,is characteristic of
(A) Money and power _________________ era
(B) What others think (A) Modern
(C) The hope of the future (B) Super- modernity
(D) Sexual and aggressive instinctual (C) Pre-modern
urges (D) Postmodern
61. According to Path Goal Leadership theory, 66. Highly cohesive groups often assume that
the leader who sets challenging goals for they can do no wrong and that information
associates and shows confidence that they contrary to the group’s view should be
will attain these goals and perform well is rejecte(D) This tendency is known as-
called: (A) Evaluation apprehension
(A) Supportive leader (B) Groupthink
(B) Achievement-oriented leader (C) Brainstorming
(C) Participative leader (D) Group Polarization
(D) Directive leader
67. When are people more likely to be
62. According to the ‘Managerial Grid’ persuaded by a message?
approach to leadership which of the below (A) All of these
given concerns is characterized by a (B) If they think the person sending the
greater emphasis on relationships and message has a vested interest in the
comfortable and friendly atmosphere? point of view expressed in the
(A) (9,9) (B) (1,1) message
(C) (9,1) (D) (1,9) (C) If they are forewarned about the
message
63. According to the Hackman and Oldham (D) If they like the person sending the
Job Characteristics Model of Work message
Motivation, ____________ refers to
whether the job has a definite beginning 68. Which of the following statements about
and end i.e. How complete a module of sleep is not true?
work does the employee perform. (A) People sleep less soundly at the first in
(A) Skill variety unfamiliar places.
(B) Task significance (B) Physical exercise in the afternoon
(C) Task identity results in longer sleep in that night.
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(C) There appears not to be an identifiable sample.

quota of sleep that adults require.
(D) Most people in industrialized societies 73. Which of the following is the sequence in
get more sleep than they feel they need Behaviour modelling training method?
(A) Role playing, modelling, social
69. Which of the following options is most reinforcement, transfer of training,
relevant for understanding ‘ rumors’ at (B) Role playing, modelling, transfer of
work’? training, social reinforcement
(A) Absence of Non- verbal (C) Modelling, role playing, transfer of
communication training, social reinforcement
(B) Absence of communication channel (D) Modelling, role playing, social
(C) Presence of informal communication reinforcement, transfer of training
(D) Presence of Information overload in
communication 74. Which of the following is not a part of
Histological method of brain lesion?
70. Which of the following is known as relay (A) Electron microscopy
station (B) Fixation and Sectioning
(A) Cerebrum (C) Cryogenic
(B) Thalamus (D) Staining
(C) Hypothalamus
(D) Medulla 75. Which of the following are the core
components of the concept of
71. Which of the following represents equal Psychological Capital?
means equal standard deviations? (A) Hope, Freedom, Creativity, Flow
(A) (B) Hope, Freedom, Citizenship, Loyalty
(C) Hope Self –Efficacy, Resilience,
Optimism
(D) Hope, Creativity, Flow, Engagement
76. Which of the following method is not used

to estimate internal consistency reliability?
(A) Coefficient alpha
(B) Split half reliability
(C) Kuder Richardson Formula 20
(D) (D) Test retest reliability
77. Which of the below given options is not a

model of test scoring
(A) random responding model
72. Which of the following is an in assumption (B) ipsative model
regarding Analysis of Variance (C) categorical model
(A) The populations are normally (D) cumulative model
distributed
(B) The variances of the several 78. HRM organizational charts indicating
populations are the same positions that may become vacant in the
(C) Samples are drawn at random without near future and the individuals who may
replacement fill the vacancies is known as
(D) Selection of elements comprising any (A) Expectancy Charts
particular sample is independent of (B) Human Resource Information Charts
selection of elements of any other (C) Replacement charts
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(D) Selection charts 84. An inflammation of the brain caused by

bacteria, viruses or toxic chemicals is
79. If three groups of independent sample each (A) Acute anterior poliomyelitis
having 30 numbers drawn following (B) Herpes simplex virus
simple random sampling, then the degrees (C) Rabies
of freedom (of) for between group is____. (D) Encephalitis
(A) k-1 (B) nk-1
(C) n-1 (D) n-k 85. A non random sample in which the
researcher uses a wide range of methods to
80. An employee is greatly valued in an locate all possible cases of a highly
organization owing to the possession of specific and difficult to reach population is
information and knowledge. The employee (A) Deviant case sampling
is said to have____________ (B) Purposive sampling
(A) Legitimate power base (C) Snowball sampling
(B) Referent power base (D) Haphazard sampling
(C) Reward power base
(D) Expert power base 86. Social influence strategy in which getting
people to agree first to a small request
81. Within the cognitive approach the ABC makes them more likely to agree later to a
model describes second larger request is
(A) A= activating event; B= Beliefs about (A) Nudging behaviour
the event; C= Consequences of the (B) Foot in the door technique
belief about the Event (C) Boomerang effect
(B) A= Activating event; B=Beliefs about (D) Social facilitation
oneself; C= Critical analysis about
belief about events 87. The standard deviation of the random
(C) A=activating event; B= Beliefs about sampling distribution of the mean called
event; C= Critical analysis about belief the standard error of the mean, depends on
about events the__________ of the population and the
(D) A=anticipatory event; B= Beliefs _________.
about event; C=Consequences of the (A) Quartile deviation, sampling error
belief about the event (B) Standard deviation, sample size
(C) Mean, sample distribution
82. Amnesia for events that preceded some (D) Range, sampling technique
disturbances to the brain, such as a head
injury or electroconvulsive shock 88. The technique whereby the interior of the
(A) Anterograde amnesia body can be accurately imagined; involves
(B) Long term memory the interaction between radio waves and a
(C) Korsakoff’s syndrome strong magnetic field is
(D) Retrograde amnesia (A) Computerized Tomography
(B) Scanning electron microscope
83. Attraction is influenced by which of the (C) Stereotaxic Apparatus
following? (D) Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(A) How similar people are to each other
(B) Whether people live or work in the 89. Marks that are near one another tend to be
same neighborhood grouped together. This tendency is called
(C) Whether liking is reciprocated the law of_________________.
(D) All of these (A) Continuity
(B) Similarity
(C) Closure
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(D) Proximity represented by a point in two-dimensional

90. A graph that consists of a series of space.
connected dots above the upper real limits (A) scatter plot
of each possible class interval is called (B) Ojive
Answer : (C) Q-Q plots
(A) Frequency polygon (D) Box plot
(B) Histogram
(C) Pie chart 96. Other things being equal, the larger the
(D) Cumulative percentage curve size of the sample, the smaller the standard
error of the mean, the power of the test is
91. Quantitative research is considered to be _______.
situated within: (A) Moderate
(A) Critical paradigm (B) No effect
(B) A positivist paradigm (C) Smaller
(C) Constructivist paradigm (D) Greater
(D) Cooperative paradigm
97. A tendency to answer questions that are
92. An unpleasant state that occurs when we most complimentary and flattering to the
notice that our attitudes and our behaviour respondents
are -inconsistent (A) Standardization
(A) Cognitive dissonance (B) Stability reliability
(B) Induced Compliance (C) Equivalence reliability
(C) Social cognition (D) Response set
(D) Social influence
98. Sheetal is doing research on
93. In a study by Paul Costa and Robert ‘Psychological factors of wellbeing in
M.c.Crae where people were given series transgenders’. Due to difficulty in finding
of personality tests, it was found that participants, she interviews the participants
people who were most happy were the as she meets them and, asks them to
ones who scored recommend another participant. This
(A) Low in both extroversion and method of selecting participants is known
neuroticism as : 30950]
(B) High in both extroversion and (A) random sampling
neuroticism (B) stratified sampling
(C) High in neuroticism and low in (C) quota sampling
extroversion (D) snowball sampling
(D) High in extroversion and low in
neuroticism 99. When sight is unimpaired and yet
recognition fails, the deficit is known as
94. ‘Relay assembly room studies’, ‘bank __________.
wiring room study ‘and ‘illumination (A) Auditory agnosia
studies’ are associated with (B) Auditory amnesia
(A) Scientific Management (C) Visual agnosia
(B) Labour Movement (D) Visual amnesia
(C) Human Relations Movement
(D) Affirmative Action Movement 100.Representations of one time events that
are long lasting because they require no
95. A _____________ represents relationship space in working memory and there permit
between two variables where each the individuals to focus on other
experimental subject in the study is
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information while simultaneously

performing them is
(A) Non declarative memory
(B) Declarative memory
(C) Working memory
(D) Autobiographical memory
ANSWER KEY
QS NO ANSWER QS NO ANSWER QS NO ANSWER QS NO ANSWER
1 C 26 D 51 C 76 D
2 B&C 27 C 52 D 77 A
3 A 28 C 53 D 78 C
4 A 29 C 54 C 79 A
5 B 30 C 55 B 80 D
6 C 31 A 56 C 81 A
7 A 32 A 57 A 82 D
8 D 33 B&D 58 D 83 D
9 D 34 A 59 D 84 D
10 C 35 D 60 D 85 C
11 C 36 A&B&C 61 B 86 B
12 C 37 D 62 D 87 B
13 B 38 D 63 C 88 D
14 D 39 C 64 D 89 D
15 C 40 C 65 A 90 D
16 D 41 C 66 B&D 91 B
17 C 42 C 67 D 92 A
18 C 43 A 68 D 93 D
19 B 44 C 69 C 94 C
20 C 45 C 70 B 95 A
21 C 46 A 71 B 96 D
22 B 47 B 72 C 97 D
23 C 48 C 73 C 98 D
24 C 49 A 74 C 99 C
25 C 50 B 75 C 100 A&D
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HCU Entrance Examination 2020

1. Classical conditioning is associated with 6. Insightful learning was first coined by
(A) Ivan P. Pavlo (A) Kohlberg (B) Wertheimer
(B) B. BF. Skmner · (C) Kohler (D) Tolman
(C) J. B. Watson
(D) William James 7. The incoming information first enters
(A) Short term memory
2. A combination of characteristics that (B) Long term memory
indicates an individual's capacity to (C) Sensory memory
acquire so' e specific knowledge, or skill, (D) perceptual memory
after training is called
(A) Aptitude 8. Who first talked about Nonsense Syllables?
(B) Attitude (A) Carl Lange
(C) Attribute (B) William Frank
(D) Creativity (C) Titchener
(D) Ebbinghaus
3. Match Category A with Category B
9. A mental representation of the spatial
locations and directions, that one needs to
reach their goal is called
(A) Cognitive layout
(B) Cognitive map
(C) Thinking
(D) Perception
10. Which one of the following is not a

symptom of 1 disability?
(A) Difficulties in writing letters, words
and phrases, reading out text
(B) i-c, ii-b, iii-d, iv-a
(B) Get easily distracted and cannot
(C) i-c, ii-d, iii-b, iv-a
sustain attention on one point for long
(D) i-a, ii-d, iii-c, iv-b
(C) Poor motor coordination and poor
manual dexterity
4. A procedure in which individuals in
(D) Unable to get sleep
psychological experiments are asked to
describe in detail their own experience is
11. Which of the following is not a
called
psychosocial motive?
(A) Expression
(A) Need for affiliation
(B) Introspection
(B) Need for achievement
(C) Description
(C) Need for power
(D) Experimentation
(D) Need for food
5. The psychologist who has emphasized the
12. Hierarchy of needs is associated with
role of environmental factors in the
(A) Abraham H. Maslow
Development of an individual is
(B) W. H. Maslow
(A) Bandura
(C) Abraham T. K. Maslow
(B) Bronfenbrenner
(D) Abraham M. Harlow
(C) Gardner
(D) Tolman
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13. Which one of the following is not a type (D) G factor

of conflict described in Psychology?
(A) Approach- approach conflict 20. Which one of the following is@: a Primary
(B) Avoidance-avoidance conflict Mental Ability as identified by Thurstone's
(C) Approach-avoidance conflict Theory of Intelligence?
(D) Achieve- approach conflict (A) Spatial Relation
(B) Kinaesthetic Ability
14. All concepts, ideas and rules of logic are (C) Numerical Ability
stored in memory. (D) Verbal Comprehension
(A) Episodic
(B) Flashbulb 21. Spatial ability refers to
(C) Semantic (A) Ability to form, use and transform
(D) Biographical mental images
(B) Experiential and creative skills
15. The recent learning interfering with the (C) Scientific thinking and critical
recall of past learning is called thinking
(A) Proactive interference (D) Awareness of one's relationship with
(B) Trace active interference the natural world
(C) Retroactive interference
(D) Inhibition interference 22. Down's syndrome is caused by
(A) Injury of the brain during birth
16. The names Atkinson and Shiffrin are (B) Unfavourable environment
related with (C) Chromosomal disorder
(A)Memory (B)Emotion (D) Infection during the prenatal stage
(C)Perception (D)Motivation
23. The term Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was
17. Procedural memory is also known as devised by
(A) Declarative memory (A) William Stern
(B) Nondeclarative memory (B) David Weschler
(C) Clear-cut memory (C) Alfred Binet
(D) Step to step memory (D) Lewis Terman
18. A psychologist wanted to measure the 24. Which one of the following refer to
psychological attributes of a group of consequence of stress?
students. She used some standardized (A) Frustration, anxiety and worry
methods like interview, observation and (B) Anxiety, injury and lack of sleep
self-reports to measure and interpret these (C) Depression, pollution and heat
attributes. The process used by the (D) Anxiety, work overload and lack of
psychologist – sleep
(A) Research methods
(B) Analysis and interpretation 25. A behaviour or skill that helps to
(C) Assessment communicate clearly and confidently one's
(D) Testing feelings, Needs, wants, and thoughts is
(A) Rational thinking
19. According to Spearman, an individual's (B) Decisiveness
ability to perform on any cognitive task is (C) Assertiveness
dependent on (D) Confidence
(A) Componential Factor
(B) S factor 26. After the lockdown period is over you
(C) Multiple Factor walk down the nearby street and observe if
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the people are following the basic health (C) Self-esteem

instructions given by the government. As a (D) Self-concept
psychologist the approach you are using is
(A) Naturalistic observation 31. Biologically based characteristic way of
(B) Participant observation reacting is called
(C) Case observation (A) Inheritance
(D) Focus group observation (B) Temperament
(C) Biological reactivity
27. Which of the following is not the essential (D) Individual characteristics
element of a counselling process?
(A) Counselling involves responding to the 32. A person's belief about one's own abilities
feelings, thoughts, and actions of the and behaviors to attain something is called
clients (A) Self-egoism
(B) Confidentiality and privacy are (B) Emotional intelligence
important in a counselling setting (C) Cognitive orientation
(C) A counsellor never evaluates or judges (D) Self-efficacy
the perceptions and feelings of the
client 33. Charak Samhita classifies people into the
(D) It is very important that the counsellor categories of vata,pitta, and kapha on the
gives advice on hat he thinks is right basis of Three humoural elements is called
and puts the client in place (A) Triguna
(B) Triphala
28. According to Freud's theory, the primary (C) Tridosha
structural elements of personality are (D) Tribhava
(A) Conscious, preconscious,
subconscious · 34. Match Category A with Category B
(B) Id, ego, superego
(C) Eros, Thanatos, instincts
(D) Repression, regression, projection
29. Which of the following statements are

true of Traits?
(i) They are relatively stable over time
(ii) They appear same across individuals
(iii) They are generally consistent across
situations (A) i-b; ii-c; iii-d; iv-a
(iv) They vary with contexts 1. (B) i-c; ii-d; iii-b; iv-a
(v) They are dynamic adding needed (C) i-d; ii-c; iii-b; iv-a
facades over titpe (D) i-b; ii-d; iii-a; iv-c
(vi) Their string Q is and combinations
vary across individuals 35. Which of the following is an example of
(A) i,iii, vi. projective technique?
(B) ii, iv, v (A) The Rorschach Inkblot Test
(C) i,ii,v,vi (B) Sixteen Personality Factor
(D) ii,iii, v, vi Questionnaire
(C) The Minnesota Multiphasic
30. The value judgment of a person about Personality Inventory
herself/himself is called (D) Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
(A) Self-evaluation
(B) Self-judgement
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36. The classification scheme prepared by the 42. Psychoanalysis has invented and as two
World Health Organisation and officially important methods for eliciting the
Used in India and elsewhere is intrapsychic conflicts
(A) ICD-10 (B) DSM-5 (A) Unconscious conflicts, repressed
(C) APA (D) BPS desires
(B) Free association, dream interpretation
37. When an electrical impulse reaches a (C) Selective motivation, conscious
neuron's ending, the nerve ending is analysis
stimulated to release a Chemical. This is (D) Analysis of defences, analysis of
called unconscious
(A) Synapse
(B) Neuro-transmitter 43. Which of the following is the pattern of
(C) Nerve impulse progressive, orderly, and predictable
(D) Bio-transmitter changes that begin at conception and
continue throughout life?
38. When a normal person experiences worry (A) Growth
about the possibility of developing COVID (B) Development
19, such a state indicates (C) Physical changes
(A) Illness anxiety disorder (D) Maturity
(B) Depersonalization
(C) Hospital anxiety 44. The actual genetic material or a person's
(D) Nihilistic delusion genetic heritage is known as
(A) Prototype
39. When people with Schizophrenia move (B) Phenotype
less spontaneously or make odd grimaces (C) Genotype
and Gestures, such symptoms denote (D) Chronotype
(A) Auditory symptoms
(B) Hallucinations 45.Which of the following statements are
(C) Psychomotor symptoms correct?
(D) Inertia disability symptoms I. Development does not take place in a
vacuum
40. A child who is in constant motion, fidget, II. The environment can change or alter the
squirm, climbs and runs around the room development at any time in lifespan
aimlessly, finds it impossible to sit through III. Human life proceeds through different
a lesson may be diagnosed with stages
(A) Depression IV. Urie Bronfenbrenner's contextual view
(B) Self confidence of development emphasizes the role of
(C) Stress disorder physical factors In the development of
(D) ADHD an individual
(A)I and II (B)II and III
41. If an individual eats excessive amount of (C)I and IV (D)I, II and III
food, then vomit or purges by using
Medicine such as laxatives or diuretics, it 46. According to Piaget a child passes through
suggests a series of stages in cognitive
(A) Bulimia nervosa development. What is the sequential order?
(B) Anorexia nervosa I. Formal Operational Stage
(C) Binge eating disorder II. Pre Operational Stage
(D) Obsessive compulsive disorder III. Sensory motor Stage
IV. Concrete Operational Stage
(A) III, II, IV, I
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(B) II,III,IV,I 52. Which of the following statements are

(C) III, IV, II, I correct?
(D) I, II, III, IV I. Cultural factors influence pro-social
behaviour
47. Social cognition is activated by cognitive II. Pro-social behaviour is influenced by
units called as learning
(A)Stereotypes (B)Heuristics Ill. Pro-social behaviour is expressed when
(C)Attribution (D)Schemas the situation activates certain social
norms
48. The concept of cognitive dissonance was IV. Pro-social behaviour is more likely to
proposed by be shown only in affiliation oriented
(A) Leon Festinger cultures
(B) Kurt Lewin (A)IV Only (B)I, II and IV
(C) Jean Piaget (C)I and IV (D)I,II and III
(D) Mohsin
53. Which of the following is defined as an
49. Which of the following statements are organized system of two or more
correct? individuals, who are interacting and
I. Attitudes are learned through one's own interdependent, have a set of role
experiences, and through interaction relationships among its members, and have
with others norms that regulate the behaviour of its
II. We learn attitudes through the norms members?
of our group or culture (A) Teams
III. Many attitudes arc learned in a social (B) Collection of individuals
context necessarily in the physical (C) Groups
presence of others (D) Crow
IV. If an individual is praised for showing
a particular attitude, chances are less 54. Social loafing may be reduced by
that s/he will develop that attitude (A) Making people feel that their
further individual contribution is important
(A)I, II and III (B)III and IV (B) Making the efforts of each group
(C)I, II and IV (D)I and II identifiable
(C) Decreasing the apparent importance or
50. Qualities of the target, such as value of a task
persuasibility, strong prejudices, self- (D) Balancing or decreasing the pressure
esteem, and Intelligence influence the to work hard
likelihood and extent of
(A) Attitude Formation 55. Conformity, compliance and obedience are
(B) Attitude Change (A) Scaffolding effect
(C) Consistency (B) Group influence processes
(D) Dissonance (C) Bandwagon effect
(D) Processing of norms
51. Selection, Organization, and Inference are
the three sub processes of 56. Which study showed that by introducing
(A) Impression Formation superordinate goals, intergroup conflict
(B) Attribution can be reduced?
(C) Social Facilitation (A) Sherifs Study
(D) Social Loafing (B) Asch1s Study
(C) Gardner Murphy's Study
(D) Kelman's Study
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57. Psychology is defined as a science of 62. When was Indian Psychological

(A) Mind Association found?
(B) Mental processes, health, and (A)1924 (B)1934
behaviour (C)1944 (D)1954
(C) Mental processes, cognition, and
behaviour 63. Who among the following won the Nobel
(D) Mental processes, experiences, and Prize for research on human judgment and
behaviour decision making under uncertainty?
(A) Konrad Lorenz
58. When you arc in a difficult situation while (B) Herbert Simon
playing a game of chess you almost feel (C) Daniel Kahneman
your hand muscles twitching, trying to (D) Torsten Wiesel
experiment with a move. This is an
example of 64. When was the National Institute of Mental
(A) Mental process Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS)
(B) Behaviour established at Bangalore?
(C) Experience (A) 1935 (B) 1945
(D) Cognition (C) 1955 (D) 1965
59. Who among the following used 65. Piaget's view of child development is
functionalism argue that human beings considered a
seek to· function effectively by adapting to (A) Gestalt theory of development of the
their environment? mind
(A) John Dewey (B) Constructivist theory of development
(B) William James of the mind
(C) Wilhelm Wundt (C) Structuralist theory of development of
(D) Edward B Titchener the mind
(D) Psychoanalytic theory of development
60. 'Instead of considering the components of of the mind
the mind, our perceptual experience is
more than the sum of the components'. 66. Who among the following suggests that
Which of the following fits into the the human mind develops through social
principle mentioned in italics? and cultural processes in which it is
(A) Gestalt psychology viewed as culturally constructed through
(B) Behaviourism joint interaction between adults and
(C) Psychoanalysis children?
(D) Functionalism (A) Vygotsky
(B) James
61. Who among the following argued that (C) Wundt
behaviourism with its emphasis on (D) Piaget
behaviour as determined by environmental
conditions undermines human freedom and 67. One of the goals of psychological enquiry
dignity and takes a mechanistic view of is to know the causal factors or
human nature? determinants of behaviour. This denotes
(A) Structuralists (A)Control (B)Prediction
(B) Psychoanalysts (C)Description (D)Explanation
(C) Functionalists
(D) Humanists 68. In Psychology, different types of data or
information are collected Information like
name, age, gender, birth order, number of
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siblings, education, and occupation is 73. A bully slaps a new student in school so
known as that he can snatch the newcomer's
(A) Physical information chocolate. This is an example of
(B) psychological information (A) Reactive aggression
(C) Social information (B) Proactive aggression
(D) Demographic information (C) Instrumental aggression
(D) Hostile aggression
69. In the experiment conducted by Latane
and Darley (1970), the researchers wanted 74. Nearly neurons are found in the human
to examine the effect of the presence of nervous system.
other persons on reporting of the smoke. (A) 13 billion (B) 13.5 billion
The presence or absence of other persons (C) 12 billion (D) 12.5 billion
in the room is an example of
(A) Confounding variable 75. The three types of cranial nerves are, and
(B) Dependent variable (A) Sensory, motor, mixed
(C) Independent variable (B) Sensory, inter, motor
(D) Extraneous variable (C) Sensory, optic, vestibular
(D) Sacral, coccygeal, lumbar
70. Counter-balancing technique is used to
minimise the Part B
(A) Rosenthal effect
(B) Sequence effect 76. Which of the option best expresses the
(C) Pygmalion effect passive voice of the following sentence?
(D) Random effect We saw this student opening the door
(A) The door had seen by us being opened
71. Stokols (1990), a psychologist, describes by this student
which of the three approaches that way be (B) The door had been seen by us being
Adopted to describe the human- opened by this student
environment relationship? (C) The door was seen by us being opened
(A) Ecological perspective, spiritual by this student
perspective, cognitive perspective · (D) The door was seen by us while it had
(B) Cognitive perspective, environmental opened by this student
perspective, spiritual perspective
(C) Minimalist perspective, instrumental 77. Sangeeta is doing all this ______ her
perspective, spiritual perspective pencil
(D) Environmental perspective, minimalist (A) For (B) At
perspective, humanistic perspective (C) By (D) With
72. Edward Hall has mentioned four kinds of 78. The child should not share a stranger.
interpersonal physical distance. They are Adversity stared her the face
(A) Personal distance, physical distance, (A) To, on (B) On, by
inter personal distance, social distance (C) To, by (D) At, in
(B) Personal distance, physical distance,
social distance, public distance 79. Which of the following is correct?
(C) Intimate distance, personal distance, (A) Rakesh killed two birds with one stone
social distance, public distance (B) Rakesh killed two birds in one stone
(D) Intimate distance, personal distance, (C) Rakesh killed two birds at one stone
physical distance, social distance (D) Rakesh killed two birds from one
stone
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80. Which of the following best expresses the

indirect speech of the following? 85. Choose the right word for the phrase, 'A
"Will you let me see it?" inquired the person who abandons his religious faith'
police officer smilingly. "Gladly", said the (A)Atheis (B)Agnostic
girl. (C)Profane (D)Apostate
(A) The police officer had smilingly 86. Form the correct sentence and choose the
inquired if she would let him see it. right option
The girl replied that she was gladly let (I) delay
him sec it (II) don't
(B) The police officer smilingly inquired (III) make
if she would have let him seen it. The (IV) please
girl said that she would let him see it (V) further
(C) The police officer inquired if she (A) I,II,VI,V,III
should allow him to see it. The girl (B) III,II,V,IV,I
replied that she would allow him to (C) II,V,III,I,IV
see it (D) IV,II,III,V,I
(D) The police officer smilingly inquired
if she would let him see it. The girl 87. Which of the following is the synonym of
replied that she would gladly let him the word baffte?
see it (A)Offence (B)Confuse
(C)Denigrate (D)Antagonise
81. Choose the right meaning of the idiom "to
catch a tartar" 88. Change the speech of the following
(A) To deal with a person who is more sentence "Kishan's father ordered I/,I m to
than one's match go to His room and study".
(B) To meet with an adversity (A) Kishan's father said, "Go to your room
(C) To catch a criminal and study"
(D) To deal with a dangerous person (B) Kishan's father said to him, "Go and
study in your room"
82. Find the right option for the underlined (C) Kishan's father shouted, "Go to your
word "the gangster could be arrested as the room right now and study"
police were tipped off by one of the (D) Kishan's father said firmly, "Go to
members of the gang" your room and ,study"
(A) Threatened
(B) Given information 89. Find out the grammatical error in the
(C) Bribed sentence given below Scarcely had II
(D) Misguided finished cutting the vegetables/ than the
lady camel and asked me to Wash the
83. Fill in the blank with the right word dishes.
"Raghu believed that people were always (A) Scarcely had l
driven by motives and there is no such (B) finished cutting the vegetables
thing as a purely act" (C) than the lady came
(A) ultimate, antisocial (D) and asked me to wash the dishes
(B) Personal, eternal
(C) ulterior, selfless 90. Choose the nearest synonym for the word
(D) Physical, unselfis inexplicable
84. Find the word which is correctly spelt (A) Incorrigible
(A)Sovereignty (B)Soveriegnty (B) Incomprehensible
(C)Sovereignty (D)Soveriegnity (C) Inextricable
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(D) Inflammable (D) Warming up to start conversation
91. Choose the nearest antonym for the word 96. Choose the correct word(s) for the
stigma underlined word His master called for an
(A)Stamina (B)Humour explanation of his conduct
(C)Honour (D)Amazing (A) Summon
(B) Draw forth
92. Choose the grammatically correct option (C) Demanded
from the choices given below (D) Recollect
(A) If you didn't study Psychology as a
subject, you will not understand that 97. If very cold is expressed as freezing then
book how do you express very crowded
(B) If you don't study Psychology as a (A) Perilous
subject, you wouldn't understand that (B) Bustling
book (C) Disparate
(C) If you didn't study Psychology as a (D) Despondent
subject, you wouldn't understand that
book 98. Choose the correct antonym for the
(D) If you haven't studied Psychology as a underlined word in the following sentence
subject, you wouldn't understand that Don't write lengthy essays
book. (A)Long (B)Verbose
(C)Compact (D)Elaborate
93. Choose the part of the sentence which has
error in it 99. In the following sentence, some parts of
(i) One of the factor the sentence have been jumbled up.
(ii) For her failure Rearrange these parts written in italics
(iii) Is the lack of which are labelled as P,Q,R, and S to
(iv) Concern for others produce the correct sentence.
(A) i (B) ii Choose the proper sequence to complete
(C) iii (D) iv the following sentence If farming...
Life is not to collapse, there is need for
94. Identify the proper meaning to the (P)as a profession and as a way of
underlined word The scientist preferred (Q) attention to farmers' needs in the areas
carrying out his research empirically (R) of water, credit, technology, market,
(A) Individually land and agrarian reforms (S)
(B) With necessary permissions (A)QPRS (B)RSQP
(C) By observation and experiment (C)QSRP (D)RPQS
(D) In undisturbed labs
100. Fill in the blanks with suitable words
95. What does the underlined idiom in the In a changing and------unstructured
following sentence mean? business environment, creativity and
The personality development class started Innovations are being_----___________
with an icebreaking session demanded of e executive cuties
(A) Starting the meeting with invocation (A) Excessively; less
song (B) Highly; extremely
(B) A warm welcome to the guests (C) Increasingly; moderately
(C) Inaugural speech to introduce concept (D) Progressively; increasingly
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Q. NO ANSWER Q. NO ANSWER
1 A 51 B
2 A 52 B
3 B 53 C
4 B 54 A
5 B 55 B
6 C 56 A
7 C 57 B
8 D 58 A
9 B 59 B
10 D 60 A
11 D 61 D
12 A 62 A
13 D 63 C
14 C 64 A
15 C 65 B
16 A 66 A
17 A 67 B
18 A 68 D
19 B 69 C
20 B 70 B
21 D 71 C
22 C 72 C
23 A 73 B
24 A 74 B
25 A 75 C
26 A 76 C
27 D 77 D
28 B 78 A
29 A 79 B
30 C 80 D
31 B 81 D
32 D 82 D
33 C 83 C
34 C 84 A
35 A 85 D
36 B 86 D
37 B 87 D
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38 A 88 D
39 C 89 C
40 D 90 B
41 A 91 C
42 B 92 D
43 B 93 A
44 C 94 C
45 B 95 D
46 A 96 C
47 D 97 B
48 A 98 B
49 A 99 A
50 A 100 B
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SECTION A
1. Which of the following is an example of produce the desired effects by their own
projective test? actions is
(A) Thematic Apperception Test (A) Self-image
(B) MMPI (B) Self-efficacy
(C) Semantic Differential Scale (C) Self-consciousness
(D) Cattell's 16 PF Questionnaire (D) Self-monitoring
2. Who conducted the "hobo doll" 8. In Charak Samhita of Ayurveda or the

experiment? Indian science of medicine, the original
(A) Sigmund Freud treatise
(B) Albert Bandura classifies people on the basis of three
(C) Konrad Lorenz elements called i.e., Vala, Pitta and
(D) Walter Mischel Kapha
(A) Gunas
3. The first laboratory of Psychology is (B) Bhavas
established in (C) Doshas
(A) 1897 (D) Humors
(B) 1879
(C) 1876 9. John Watson rejected the ideas of mind
(D) 1878 and consciousness as subject matters of
Psychology and was greatly influenced
4. According to Freud, the sexual attachment by the work of
of a boy to his mother and his desire to (A) Ivan Pavlov
replace his father is termed as (B) B.F. Skinner
(A) Fixation (C) Sigmun Freud
(B) Defense mechanism (D) William James
(C) Oedipus complex
(D) Unconscious conflict 10. Zara is playing chess with his best
friend Some (A) Which part of Zara's
5. Photoreceptor cells present in the retina of brain is related to his problem-solving
the eye that play a key role in daylight skill?
vision and color vision are called (A) Frontal Lobe
(A) Rods (B) Temporal Lobe
(B) Cones (C) Parietal Lobe
(C) Ganglion (D) Occipital Lobe
(D) glia
11. The theory developed by Carl Jung is
6. The characteristic patterns of behavior termed as
constitute for a given person (A) Pychoanalysis
(A) Personality (B) Individual Psychology
(B) Attitude (C) Collective Analysis
(C) Typology (D) Analytical Psychology
(D) Social image
12. Children begin to use concepts of time,
7. The term that refers to people's space, and number during
perceptions about their capabilities to (A) Pre operational stage
(B) Pre logical stage
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(D) Catalytic stage 19. Crump sits at his office table to think
about what he needs to buy at the
13. The term Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was stationary store. He is using his ability
devised in 1912 by to
(A) Lewis Terman (A) Recognize
(B) Alfred Binet (B) Recite
(C) William Stem (C) Memorize
(D) David Wechsler (D) Recall
14. Chandi, a cricket coach, insists that she

can make any reasonably healthy 20. Which of the following psychologists
individual into an internationally believed that intelligence was a
competitive cricket player. Chandi is collection of mental abilities?
emphasizing the thoughts of (A) Wechsler
(A) Sigmund Freud (B) Binet
(B) John B Watson (C) Terman
(C) AbrahamMaslow (D) Galton
(D) William James
21. For which of the following is Wilhelm
15. The sense organs include the eyes, ears, Wundt primarily known?
nose, tongue, skin, and so forth. Inside the (A) The establishment of the first formal
sense organs are tiny but very important laboratory for research in
receiving mechanisms called Psychology
(A) Receptors (B) The distinction between mind and
(B) Dermis body as two separate entities
(C) Effectors (C) The discovery of how signals are
(D) Epidermis conducted along nerves in the body
(D) The development of the first formal
16. Biologically determined inborn patterns program for training in
of behavior are known as Psychotherapy
(A) Heredity
(B) Characteristics 22. Which of the following types of tests
(C) Instincts measures the capacity of a test taker to
(D) Drives perform some task or role in the future?
(A) Achievement
17. Health Psychologists are most likely to (B) Aptitude
focus on which of the following problems (C) Conventional
with health care? (D) Self-monitored
(A) Incompetent health-care providers
(B) Rising health-care costs 23. "We feel sorry when we cry and afraid
(C) Ineffective communication between because we tremble." This quote is
physician and patient supported by which theory of emotion?
(D) Scarcity of medical r search funding (A) The Cannon-Bard theory
(B) The James-Lange theory
18. Koh's block design test is an example of (C) The Cannon-Lange theory
(A) Verbal test (D) The James-Bard theory
(B) Speed test
(C) Group and individual test
(D) Performance test
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24. What is the involuntary wavelike (A) Jung

contraction that occurs the alimentary (B) Spearman
canal called? (C) Gardner
(A) Peristalsis (D) Erikson
(B) Pharyngeal
(C) Peptic 31. A form of social intelligence that
(D) Duodenal involves the ability to monitor one's own
and other's feelings and emotions, to
25. A change in behavior that occurs to avoid discriminate among them, and to use this
rejection or gain approval is known as information to guide one's thinking and
(A) Internalization actions is
(B) Cognitive dissonance (A) Global intelligence
(C) Compliance (B) Fluid intelligence
(D) Identification (C) Emotional intelligence
(D) Cognitive intelligence
26. The attribution of one's own
unacceptable urges or qualities to others 32. Who among the following is considered
(A) Regression as the founder of Individual
(B) Repression Psychology?
(C) Depression (A) Carl Rogers
(D) Projection (B) Carl Gustav Jung
(C) Alfred Adler
27. Blood clotting is made possible because (D) Eric Erikson
of
(A) Platelets 33. In Freud's theory, the completely
(B) Hemoglobin unconscious, irrational component
(C) Lymphocytes of personality that seeks immediate
(D) Plasma satisfaction of instinctual urges and
drives and is ruled by the pleasure
28. Who is considered the father of principle is known as
humanistic therapy? (A) Eros
(A) Sigmund Freud (B) Instinct
(B) Aaron Beck (C) Ego
(C) Carl Rogers (D) ld
(D) Albert Ellis
34. A relatively stable and enduring
29. Who among the following psychologists predisposition to consistently behave in
believes that the deepest part of the a certain way is termed as ·
individual psyche is the collective (A) Trait
unconscious, which is shared by all (B) Self-concept
people and reflects humanity's collective (C) Actualizing tendency
evolutionary history? (D) Behavior
(A) Karen Horney
(B) Sigmund FreudS 35. An illness due to specific infectious
(C) Carl Jung agent capable of direct or indirectly
(D) Alfred Adler transmitted from man
to animal, animal to man, environment
30. According to human development occurs to man is called
in eight stages (A) Non-communicable disease
(B) Infectious disease
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(C) Communicable disease 41. According to Allport, Mahatma

(D) Transmittable disease Gandhi's nonviolence, Mother Teresa's
humanitarianism and Hitler's hatred are
36. The stage in which a child begins to examples of
represent the world with words, images, (A) Cardinal traits
and drawing but cannot operate in a (B) Dispositions
logical manner is (C) Situational factors
(A) Sensorimotor stage (D) Role modeling
(B) Fonnal operational stage
(C) Post formal stage 42. Like any scientific research,
(D) Pre operational stage psychological enquiry has which of the
following goals?
37. Group or pattern of symptoms that occur (A) Description, prediction, explanation,
together in a disorder and represent the and analysis
typ picture (B) Description, prediction,
of a disorder is known as examination, and control
(A) Condition (C) Description, construction,
(B) Syndrome explanation, and control
(C) Characteristics (D) Description, prediction, explanation,
(D) Disease and control
38. The Intelligence test designed for use 43. If two or more persons independently
with children from the ages of 4 to 6 ½ study a particular event, both of them, to
years is a great extent, should arrive at the same
(A) Wechsler Intelligence Scale for conclusion. This is known as
Children (A) Bias
(B) Wechsler Preschool and Primary (B) Subjectivity
Scale of intelligence (C) Objectivity
(C) Individual Intelligence Scale for (D) Perception
School going Children
(D) Group Intelligence Scale for children 44. Which of the following is generally
of all ages conducted to establish cause-effect
relationship between two sets of events
39. A discipline or variables in a controlled setting?
called Psychoneuroimmunology has (A) Observation
emerged which emphasizes the role (B) Introspection
played by the in strengthening the (C) Experiment
immune system (D) Correlation
(A) Mind
(B) Behavior 45. Enriching the environment of young
(C) Experience children with special books and puzzles
(D) Cognition enhances their performance. in this the
performance is
40. Who among the following is a (A) Independent variable
functionalist? (B) Dependent variable
(A) J. B Watson (C) Confounding variable
(B) Wilhelm Wundt (D) Extraneous variable
(C) E. B Titchener
(D) William James
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46. Three characteristics of noise have been

found to determine its effect on task 52. After images that appear in
performance. Which are they? complementary colors after a person
(A) Intensity, predictability, and stares at the patch of a particular colour
controllability for at least 30 seconds and then transfer
(B) Intensity, type, and controllability the gaze to white/grey background is
(C) Degree, kind, and variability called
(D) Intensity, variability, and (A) Primary After Image
predictability (B) Negative After Image
(C) Positive After Image
47. The vertebral column which protected (D) Secondary After Image
the spinal cord usually consist of
vertebrae 53. Anil is a 15-year-old boy who
(A) 32 experience deficiency in the way he sees
(B) 24 color. He has difficulty in differentiating
(C) 33 different colour such as blue and yellow,
(D) 29 or red or green. Anil is diagnosed as
color blind Which part of Anil's eyes is
48. Anatomic brain structure which is a responsible for his diagnosis?
seahorse shaped and thought to be (A) Lens
involved in consolidating memory is (B) Cornea
known as (C) Retina
(A) Amygdala (D) Pupil
(B) Hippocampus
(C) Medulla 54. Which one of the following is not a
(D) Hypothalamus defense mechanism?
(A) Projection
49. A fluid filled, coiled tunnel in the inner (B) Scapegoating
ear that contains the receptors for hearing (C) Repression
is called (D) Rationalization
(A) Malleus
(B) Eardrum 55. A biological process which is 24-hour
(C) Incus cycle and informs the body when to
(D) Cochlea sleep and rise is known as
(A) Circadian rhythm
50. At what time of life does Erikson's stage (B) Circadian cycle
Industry vs. Inferiority occur? (C) Sleep cycle
(A) Adolescent period (D) Biology clock
(B) Infancy
(C) School age 56. The differences in the images falling on
(D) Young adulthood the retinas of the two eyes is known as
(A) Retinal diffusion
51. Neurons that conduct or convey nerves (B) Retinal inequality
impulses away from the central nervous (C) Retinal disparity
system and toward effecter units in (D) Retinal incongruity
muscles or glands are called
(A) interneurons 57. Which of the following psychologists
(B) Afferent neurons would argue that learning can take place
(C) Efferent neurons when someone
(D) Oligodendrocytes
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is watching another person and performs were closed, I couldn't finish the paper
that behavior even when not reinforced? on time. Sanju is protecting himself with
(A) Edward Tolman which type of defence mechanism?
(B) B. F. Skinner (A) Rationalization
(C) Albert Bandura (B) Reaction formation
(D) John Watson (C) Sublimation
(D) intellectualization
58. Which one of the following is not
perceptual constancy? 63. A caring relationship that unites a
(A) Size constancy therapist and a client in working to solve
(B) Movement constancy the client's problems in referred to
(C) Color constancy (A) Therapeutics alliance
(D) Brightness constancy (B) Transference and counter
transference
59. A learning that involve perceptual (C) Therapeutic treaty
reorganization and the solution comes (D) Therapeutics norm
suddenly after a
period during which little progress is 64. Meta-needs are associated with
made is called· (A) Impulses for food and safety
(A) Latent learning (B) impulses for love
(B) Classical learning (C) Impulses for self-actualization
(C) Insightful learning (D) Impulses for self-esteem needs
(D) Cognitive mapping
65. Choose the correct order of stages
60. The logical process by which general during creative problem solving
principles inferred from particular (A) Verification, orientation,
instances' is known as. preparation, incubation, illumination
(A) Inductive Reasoning (B) Preparation, orientation , incubation,
(B) Deductive Reasoning illumination, verification
(C) Abductive Reasoning (C) Incubation, preparation, orientation,
(D) Critical Thinking verification, illumination
(D) Orientation, preparation. incubation,
61. A method that emphasizes cooperation illumination, verification
rather than competition for reducing
prejudice is 66. According to Indian view, an intelligent
(A) Mutual inter dependence person shows which four competencies
(B) Equal status contact out of the following competencies?
(C) ZPD method (a) Cognitive Competence
(D) Jigsaw method (b) Natural Competence
(c) Social Competence
62. Sanju failed to submit an assignment. (d) Entrepreneurial Competence
Here's the explanation he gave to his (e) Developmental Competence
teacher: My car broke down two days ago (f) Emotional Competence
and I couldn't get to the library until (g) Management Competence
yesterday. Then I couldn't get all the
books I needed because some were (A) a, b,e, g
checked out, but I wrote what I could last (B) a,e, d, f
night, (C) b, d, e, g
¥ the last straw, the cartridge in my (D) b,e,c,f
printer ran out, and since all the shops
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67. Damage to either Broca's area or 71. There is a type of retardation that
Wernicke's area causes speech and appears in infancy due to an insufficient
language problem which supply of thyroid hormone. It causes
is known as stunted physical and intellectual growth
(A) Stuttering that cannot be reverse, but it can be
(B) Neuralgia detected early in infancy and can be
(C) Agnosia treated This is termed as
(D) Aphasia (A) Hydrocephaly
(B) Microcephaly
68. Conditioned stimulus is an element (C) Cretinism
which (D) Down syndrome
(A) Evokes response because it has been
repeatedly paired with an 72. The forgetting curve represents which
unconditional stimulus of the following?
(B) Innately capable of eliciting a (A) The amount of previously learned
response information that subjects remember
(C) Does not evoke a response across time
(D) Evoke a response because it has been (B) The amount of new information that
repeatedly paired with a neutral can remain in the short-term
stimulus memory
(C) Memory that cannot be consciously
69. Choose the correct statement remembered over time
(A) The nature of response in classical (D) The amount of information children
conditioning is involuntary whereas can retain over age five
in operant condition the response 73. What is the disorder that develops after
is voluntary a person is involved in, or sees, or hears
(B) The_ learner in classical conditioning of an extreme traumatic stressor? The
is active, whereas the learner in stressor could be any of the following:
operant natural or man-made disaster, combat,
conditioning- reinforcement passive serious accident, witnessing the violent
(C) In classical conditioning death of others, being the victim of
reinforcement occurs after response, torture, terrorism, assault, abuse, rape, or
whereas reinforcement operant other crime
conditioning reinforcement occurs (A) Schizophrenia
before response (B) Panic disorder
(D) In classical conditioning, response (C) Post-traumatic stress disorder
will have a specific effect whereas in (D) Paranoid disorder
operant
conditioning unconditioned stimulus will 74. Suhas who completed his Under-
follow condition stimulus graduate degree has applied for
admission into top Institutions in India
70. The study of meaning in words and Suhas gets a scat in HM-A and also in
language in known as IIT. He is now unable to decide where to
(A) Semantics take the admission. Suhas is now in a
(B) Grammar (A) Approach-avoidance conflict
(C) Phonemes (B) Multiple-approach conflict
(D) Morphemes (C) Avoidance-avoidance conflict
(D) Approach-approach conflict
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75. Sheena was anxious that her exams were

approaching. She approaches her teacher (A) a, b
for help. Her teacher asks her to get a (B) b, c
thorough understanding of her syllabus, (C) a, b,
list out the topics, draw a time table, and c
then start her studies. Her teacher has 80.(D)
Youc,d
should open the medicine about
taught her the three hours before you use it Which of
(A) Emotion-focused coping the alternatives best expresses the
(B) Problem-focused coping passive voice of the above sentence?
(C) Skillcoping (A) Medicine should be opened by you
(D) Approach-focused coping three hours before use
(B) Medicine should be opened about
SECTION B three hours before you use it
(C) Medicine should be opened about
76. Choose the correct word three hours before it is used
(D) Medicine should be opened about
Physical inability has not the spirit of three hours before use
Stephen Hawking
(A) Debilitated 81. They arc engaged ______-conversation
(B) Dilapidated (A) In
(C) Encouraged (B) To
(D) Enlightened (C) For
(D) With
77. Which of the following is the closest in
meaning to the word in bold letters? 82. Choose the correct word(s) for the
She was shocked to. find out that her rich. following sentence
friend's dazzling necklace was factitious
(A) Factious When he lived in Hyderabad,
(B) Artificial he___________ to the cinema once a
(C) Partisan week_
(D) Facile (A) Goes
(B) Gone
78. Correct the underlined part of the (C) Went
sentence (D) Was going
He said, he was away from his parents for 83. Antonym for vicarious is
very long and as it was his birthday, he (A) Derivative
was glad to be here that day with his (B) Primary
parents (C) Uninspired
(A) To came here (D) Substitute
(B) To having came
(C) To be there 84. Which of the following is correctly
(D) To have had came spelt?
(A) Indipensable
79. Identify the part/s which has/have a (B) Indispenceable
mistake (C) Indispensable
(a) The teacher cautioned/ (D) Indipensable
(b) the new set of students that/
(c) you will not succeed unless I 85. Gautam Buddha his kingship and
(d) you don't work hard became a hermit
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(A) Offered, thrown

(A) Abandoned (B) Willing, knocked
(B) Abated (C) Threatened, turned
(C) Abolished (D) Began, kept
(D) Abdicated
91. Choose the correct sentence
86. The popularity of the hero is ' on the (A) The passengers are waiting for the
wane Which of the following best bus outside the bus stand at the main
explains the meaning of the underlined gate for long
term? (B) The passengers were waited for the
(A) Declining bus outside the bus stand at the main
(B) Growing more gate for long
(C) At its peak (C) The passengers have been waiting
(D) Vogue for the bus outside the bus stand at
the main gate for long
87. Choose the synonym for the following (D) The passengers were waiting for the
words written in bold bus outside the bus stand at the main
The field was even enough for the joggers gate for 1ong
Jo have their practice
(A) Plane 92. Choose the antonym for the word stern
(B) Plain (A) Harsh
(C) Plan (B) Severe
(D) Plaine (C) Rigorous
(D) Considerate
88. Choose the correct reported speech for
the following direct speech 93. Choose the correct meaning of the
Why don't you wash your clothes? idiom fight shy of
(A) She asked me why you didn't wash (A) Afraid of
your clothes (B) Ashamed of oneself
(B) She asked me why I didn't wash my (C) Dislike
clothes (D) Come to nothing
(C) She asked me why you didn't washed
your clothes 94. Which of the following words best
(D) She asked me why I didn't wash my expresses the meaning of barbarian?
clothes (A) Unkind
(B) Impolite
89. Choose the correct word in order to (C) Unlikeness
complete the sentence Shingu is a and he (D) Uncivilised
always does what is and fruitful
(A) Optimist, hopeful 95. Select the suitable meaning of the
(B) Pragmatist, practical phrase to end in smoke
(C) Erudite, educative (A) To come to nothing
(D) Idealist, theoretical (B) To gain importance
(C) To praise oneself
90. Choose the correct words in order to (D) To reach target
complete the sentence
The Deputy Manager -- to resign 96. Select the Suitable word which can be
because all his proposals were down by substituted for one who is habitually
his superiors good to others
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(A) Helper (C) Although

(B) Altruist (D) Even if
(C) Angel
(D) Humanitarian 99. Choose the correct sentence
(A) There is no meaning in that you say
97. Choose the correct sentence (B) There is no meaning in what you say
(A) My father is a schoolmaster, is fifty (C) There is no meaning as to what you
years old say
(B) My father who is a schoolmaster, is (D) There is no meaning in which you
fifty years old say
(C) My father is a schoolmaster, who is
fifty years old 100. Fill in the blank to make the sentence
(D) My father a schoolmaster who is fifty meaningful The salt spray has
years old gradually the bridge
98. Fill in the blank with the appropriate (A) Bungled
word (B) Ravaged
she is clever, she often makes mistakes (C) Damaged
(A) Despite (D) Eroded
(B) ln spite of
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ANSWER KEY
1 A 51 C
2 B 52 B
3 B 53 C
4 C 54 B
5 B 55 A
6 A 56 C
7 B 57 C
8 C 58 B
9 A 59 C
10 A 60 A
11 D 61 D
12 C 62 A
13 C 63 A
14 B 64 C
15 A 65 D
16 C 66 B
17 C 67 D
18 D 68 A
19 D 69 A
20 B 70 A
21 A 71 C
22 B 72 A
23 B 73 C
24 A 74 D
25 C 75 B
26 D 76 A
27 A 77 B
28 C 78 C
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29 C 79 D
30 D 80 C
31 C 81 A
32 C 82 C
33 D 83 B
34 A 84 C
35 C 85 D
36 D 86 A
37 B 87 A
38 B 88 B&D
39 A 89 B
40 D 90 C
41 A 91 C
42 D 92 D
43 C 93 C
44 C 94 D
45 B 95 A
46 A 96 B
47 B 97 C
48 B 98 C
49 D 99 B
50 C 100 D
88: As both options B & D are the same, the benefit may be given to all candidates for
this question.
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(A) Kurt Lewin
1. Which of the following names is associated (B) Allport
with physiological response to stress? (C) Sherif
(A) Shefi (D) Lippitt
(B) Duncan
(C) Selye 7. An unpleasant state that occurs due to
(D) Dweck inconsistency in our attitudes and
behaviour is called
2. Reciprocal determinism includes (A) Hypocrisy
interaction of (B) Cognitive dissociation
(A) Behaviour, Environment, Attitude (C) Cognitive resonance
(B) Behaviour, Environment, Personality (D) Cognitive dissonance
(C) Behaviour, Personality, Attitude
(D) Behaviour, Attitude, Social norm 8. Which of the following is the well-known
name related to stress and coping?
3. Rejecting the null hypothesis when it is (A) Boyle
true is known as (B) Folkman
(A) Standard error (C) Sowell
(B) Standard error of mean (D) Peterson
(C) Type I error
(D) Type II error 9. Biological responses measured by
electronic instruments, and information of
4. Dream interpretation involves those responses immediately available to
distinguishing between the content of a the person being tested is called
dream that appears on the surface, and the (A) Biofeedback
content, which is the underlying meaning (B) Bio-metrics
(A) Persona, non-persona (C) Bio-informatics
(B) Manifest, latent (D) Bio electronics
(C) Transference, countertransference
(D) Macro, micro 10. A psychologist has generated figures
regarding the number of times his clients
5. Match the following go for exercise in
a month. What type of data are formed by
Category A Category B the figures?
James-Lange Wheel of emotions (A) Nominal
Schachter- Activation of visceral (B) Ordinal
Singer bodily change (C) Interval
Cannon-Bard Observation of (D) Ratio
environmental cue
Robert Activation of thalamus 11. Find the odd one out
Plutchik (A) Egocentrism
(B) Ego
(A) i-a, ii-c, iii- b, iv-d (C) Sublimation
(B) i-b, ii-c, iii-d, iv-a (D) Fixation
(C) i-c, ii-d, iii- b, iv-a
(D) i-b, ii- a, iii-d, iv-c
6. Who among the following studied the 12. Nociception refers to
nature and impact of social norms? (A) Perception of pain
(B) Reception of information
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(C) Perception of noxious stimulus has a device that records all his thoughts
(D) Inception of new method for and hence avoids being in the vicinity
inoculation of that friend. He keeps talking as if
someone is accompanying him while he
13. Which of the following graphs is used to walks
show the pattern of relationship between (D) Anurag is unable to attend his college
two variables? for the past six weeks. He goes up to the
(A) Bar Graph bus stop and returns saying that he is
(B) Histogram too scared to get into the bus because he
(C) Scatter diagram is too scared that something might
(D) Frequency polygon happen to the bus
17. The process of dying as involving a series
14. An inactive substance or condition having of five stages that differ in content and
the appearance of an active treatment is emotional intensity: denial, anger,
called bargaining, depression, and acceptance is
(A) Placebo given by
(B) Therapy (A) Prochaska
(C) Inoculation (B) Kimble-Garmezy
(D) Motivational pill (C) Kubler-Ross
(D) Hamilton
15. Piaget's cognitive theory talks about
(A) Object sustenance 18. A random sample of 12 students is drawn.
(B) Object permanence Their IQs are 112, 135, 109, 109, 119, 125,
(C) Sensory operation 113,
(D) Motor operation 128, 124, 98, 103, and 105. The mean of
this sample is
16. Which of the following can be diagnosed (A) 106
as Schizophrenia? (B) 125
(A) Purnima has been seen to behave (C) 115
aggressively. She has been threatening (D) 105
to kill her sister. She is found to be
very active all the night and spends 19. Match the following
time filling water, cleaning the
kitchen, making phone calls and calls Category A Category B
herself a super-woman James-Lange Wheel of emotions
(B) Gaurav is found to be silent most of Schachter- Activation of visceral
the time. He wakes up in the morning Singer bodily change
and packs his lunch, waits for Cannon-Bard Observation of
someone to force him to go to office. environmental cue
In the office he spends time keenly Robert Activation of thalamus
observing people. During the lunch Plutchik
time if he spots someone· who sees (A) i-c, ii-d, iii-a, iv-b
him opening his lunch box he stops (B) i-d, ii-c, iii-b, iv-a
eating and closes the box (C) i-d, ii-c, iii-a, iv-b
(C) Ravi, a very intelligent engineering (D) i-b, ii-a, iii-d, iv-c
graduate has started talking very rash
with his teachers and frequently enters 20. The method of successive approximations
into arguments with them on some issue is also known as
or the other related to academics. He (A) Punishment
particularly feels that one of his friends (B) Rewards
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(C) Shaping intelligence, aptitude and personality traits

(D) Reinforcement is called
(A) Psycho-evaluation
21. The part of a limbic system that plays an (B) Psychometrics
important role in memory and emotion is (C) Psychonumetrics
(A) Medulla Oblongata (D) Psychonumerology
(B) Pons Varolii
(C) Amygdala 27. The median of 8, 1, 6, 3, and 2 is
(D) Pedunculi (A) 6
(B) 4
22. In the game of tug-of-war, there is a (C) 3
reduction in individual effort when (D) 3
working on a collective
task. This phenomenon is called 28. The theory of emotion propounded by
(A) Social facilitation Schachter and Singer advocates that
(B) Social loafing (A) The emotions are perceived and
(C) Social influence processed through sensory pathways
(D) Bandwagon effect and experienced in the brain
(B) Emotions are behaviourally manifested
23. Which of the following approaches to and cognitively labeled
therapy focuses on self-responsibility? (C) Emotions are cognitively processed
(A) Psychoanalysis and behaviourally manifested
(B) Biomedical approach (D) Emotions are physiologically aroused
(C) Humanistic approach and cognitively labeled
(D) Socio-cultural approach
29. Which of the following are useful
24. A personality type characterized by psychological techniques of self-control?
inhibition of expression of negative (A) Observation of own behaviour
emotions and avoidance of social (B) Seeking feedback
interaction so as to avoid feelings of (C) Self instruction
disapproval is known as (D) Discussing criticism
(A) Type A e. Self reinforcement
(B) Type B f. Practicing before friends
(C) Type C
(D) Type D (A) a, b, c
(B) a, b, c, d
25. Sternberg suggests that love has three (C) a, c, e
basic components. They are (D) b, d, f
(A) Intimacy, passion, and commitment
(B) Companionate love, passionate love, 30. In Alan Baddeley' s working memory
and consummate love model, one of the three components are
(C) Infatuation, romantic love, and fatuous (A) Long-term memory
love (B) Central executive
(D) Intimacy, commitment, and (C) Short term memory
consummate love (D) Working memory
26. The design, administration and

interpretation of psychological tests for the 31. A procedure for gaining compliance
measurement of variables such as which begins with a small request and
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when this is granted, escalates to a larger (A) Mean

one is known as (B) Median
(A) Self-serving bias (C) Mode
(B) Actor-observer effect (D) Variance
(C) Foot-in-the-door technique
(D) 'That's not all' technique 38. Which of the following defines Health
Psychology correctly?
32. A percentile of 17 means that (A) Health Psychology is the discipline of
(A) 17% of the scores are lower Psychology to the prevention and
(B) 17% of the scores are higher maintenance of the health, the
(C) 17 of the scores are lower promotion and treatment of illness, the
(D) 17 of the scores are higher identification of etiologic and
diagnostic correlates of health, illness
33. According to self-determination theory of and related dysfunction and to the
Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, which are analysis and improvement of the
the three basic needs of human beings mental health system and health policy
(A) Competence, autonomy, relatedness formation
(B) Security, relatedness, autonomy (B) Health Psychology is the discipline of
(C) Esteem, belongingness, competence Psychology to the promotion and
(D) Competence, relatedness, security prevention of illness-, the
identification of etiologic and
34. Eidetic memory is also known as diagnostic correlates of health, illness
(A) Imagery memory and related dysfunction and to the
(B) Photographic memory analysis and improvement of the
(C) Mnemonic health-care system and health
(D) Iconic memory promotion
(C) Health Psychology is the discipline of
35. According to Erikson, the central Psychology to the promotion and
psychological challenges pertaining to maintenance of health, the prevention
adolescence, young adulthood, and middle and treatment of illness, the
adulthood are identification of etiologic and
(A) Identity formation, intimacy, diagnostic correlates of health, illness
generativity and related dysfunction and to the
(B) Intimacy, identity formation, analysis and improvement of the
generativity health-care system and health policy
(C) Generativity, intimacy, identity formation
formation (D) Health psychology is the discipline of
(D) Intimacy, generativity, identity Psychology to the promotion and
formation maintenance of health, the prevention
and identification of etiologic and
36. The process by which lens in the eye diagnostic correlates of health, illness
focuses light by changing its own and related dysfunction and to the
thickness is analysis and improvement of the
(A) Accumulation mental health-care system and health
(B) Adjustment policy formation
(C) Accommodation
(D) Assimilation 39. The theory that personality could be
reduced into two broad dimensions such as
37. Which of the following is quickly and neuroticism vs. emotional stability,
accurately determined from the Ogive?
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extraversion vs. introversion, psychoticism (B) i-c, ii-b, iii-d, iv-a

vs. sociability was proposed by (C) i-d, ii-a, iii-b, iv-c
(A) Cattell (D) i-b, ii-d, iii-a, iv-c
(B) Eysenck
(C) Allport 43. Raju was waiting with his siblings at
(D) Adler home for his parents to return. His friend
from the neighbourhood came and tempted
40. If all scores are positive, the middle score him to join for plucking mangoes from the
in a distribution is most likely to be located neighbour's garden. Though tempted, Raju
at told him that he would not do it because if
(A) Mean his parents come back in the meantime and
(B) Median see him stealing mangoes they would scold
(C) Mode him. Raju can be placed in which of the
(D) 25th Percentile following stages of Kohlberg's moral
development?
41. Which of the statements describes the (A) Pre-conventional stage
Psychologists in the given two branches (B) Conventional stage
most appropriately? (C) Post-conventional stage
(A) School Psychologists work on (D) Between pre-conventional and
curriculum development for children conventional stages
while Educational Psychologists work
with children having academic 44. An expanding field which represents
problems Social Psychology and brain research is
(B) School Psychologists work on the (A) Neuro social cognition
functioning of Schools while (B) Social neuroscience
Educational Psychologists study the (C) Socio neuro research
psychology of children who have (D) Neural and cognitive social research
special needs
(C) School Psychologists work on training 45. Who among the following viewed that,
the teachers and administrators in 'Social behaviour stems from innate
schools while Educational tendencies or instincts'?
Psychologists work on educational (A) William James
policies (B) Carl Rogers
(D) School Psychologists work directly (C) William Linden
with children having emotional and (D) Willian McDougall
behavioural problems in Schools
while Educational Psychologists work 46. Which of the following is a personality
on macro aspects of education disorder characterized by immaturity, self-
dramatization, seductiveness, and attention
42. Match the following seeking behaviour?
(A) Schizoid personality disorder
Category A Category B (B) Obsessive compulsive personality
(A)Sheldon (i)Type A & Type B disorder
(B) Jung (ii)Type C (C) Histrionic personality disorder
(C) Friedman & (iii)Body build and (D) Dependent personality disorder
Rosenman temperament
(D)Morris (iv)Introversion,
extraversion 47. _______ is the process by which we
identify the direction from which sound is
(A) i-c, ii-d, iii-a, iv-b coming from
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(A) Sound location (B) Ewald Hering

(B) Sound locality (C) Thomas Young
(C) Sound identification (D) Roger Sperry
(D) Sound localization
52. Who among the following Neo-Freudian’s
48. Which of the following statistical suggested that personality develops in the
techniques is most appropriate to establish context of social relationships and depends
and quantify the strength and direction of particularly on the relationship between
the relationship between two dependent parents and child and how well the child’s
variables? needs are met
(A) Pearson’s r (A) Allport
(B) t-test (B) Fromm
(C) Chi-square (C) Eysenck
(D) Percentile rank (D) Honey
49. According to Seligman (2011), a person is 53. A method under behaviour therapy for
flourishing when the five elements are anxiety in which people are confronted
experienced in the upper range. To either suddenly or gradually with a
increase well-being, one must enhance stimulus that they fear is
these five elements. Which of the (A) Cognitive behavioural therapy
following refers to these elements? (B) Exposure therapy
(A) Positive thinking, engagement, ethics, (C) Aversion therapy
positive relationships, and (D) Rational emotive therapy
accomplishment
(B) Positive motivation, engagement, 54. A memory phenomenon in which vividly
mastery, positive relationships, and imagining an event, markedly leads to
accomplishment increase in confidence that the event
(C) Positive emotion, engagement, positive actually has occurred is
relationships, meaning, and (A) Memory inflation
accomplishment (B) Imagination inflation
(D) Positive attitude, engagement, (C) Memory stabilization
meaning, positive recreation, and (D) Memory trace
accomplishment
55. Match the following
50. Which of the following statements best
defines the Gate Control Theory of pain? Category A Category B
(A) Pain impulses are sent to receptor Karen Inferiority complex
sites in vital organs Homey
(B) Non-painful nerve impulses compete Adler Champion of women's
with pain impulses to reach the brain, issues
creating a neural blockage Jung Psychosocial development
(C) Stimuli of various kinds activate free Erikson Collective unconscious
nerve endings, which carry the pain
message to brain (A) i-b, ii-c, iii-d, iv-a
(D) Pain is simply a psychological state, (B) i-b ii-a, iii-d, iv-c
not a physiological one (C) i-d, ii-a, iii-b, iv-c
(D) i-b, ii-c, iii-a, iv-d
51. Trichromatic theory of vision was first
proposed by
(A) Hermann von Helmholtz
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56. In which of the following ways is the 61. Which of the following refers to the five
arithmetic mean superior to the median factors underlying personality according to
and the mode? Big five factor theory
(A) It is the most dependable (A) Openness to experience,
(B) It is the central one conscientiousness, extraversion,
(C) It is the easiest to compute agreeableness, neuroticism
(D) It is not affected by extreme scores (B) Openness to communication,
conscientiousness, energy, agility,
57. Motor development in babies follows a nervousness
proximodistal principle. This is best (C) Openness to experience, concern,
described as efficacy, ability, novelty
(A) From centre to periphery (D) Openness to experience, criticism,
(B) From the top of the head to the bottom extraversion, affection, neuroticism
of the feet
(C) From periphery to centre 62. Match the following
(D) From the bottom of the body to the top
of the body Category A Category B
Fixed-ratio Reinforcement occurs after a
58. A formal reasoning in which people draw varying number of responses
a conclusion from a set of assumptions is Variable- Reinforcement occurs after a
called ratio set time period
(A) Availability heuristic Variable- Reinforcement occurs after a
(B) Syllogistic reasoning interval set number of responses
(C) Inductive reasoning Fixed- Reinforcement occurs after a
(D) Deductive reasoning interval varying time period
59. Which of the following is an example of a

personal fable? (A) i-b, ii-c, iii-d, iv-a
(A) Mala feels nervous when she is (B) i-d, ii-b, iii-d. iv-c
making her presentation in front of her (C) i-c, ii-a, iii-d, iv-b
class (D) i-c, ii-d, iii-a, iv-b
(B) Ayesha feels no one else could perhaps
be as beautiful and smart as she is
(C) Preeta lies to her parents about going 63. A dissociative disorder where a
to a sleepover with her friends significant, selective memory loss occurs
(D) Reema always wants to hang out with is _______ and the dissociative disorder
her friends instead of doing her that exhibits a condition where the
homework individual leaves home and sometimes
assumes new identity is ________
60. Smita obtained a raw score of 91 on a (A) Malingering disorder, factitious
Psychology test. The mean for the class disorder
was 85 and the standard deviation was 3. (B) Cognitive disorder, behaviour breaking
Smita’s z score was disorder
(A) -2 (C) Dissociative amnesia, dissociative
(B) -1 fugue
(C) +2 (D) Dissociative dementia, dissociative
(D) +1 identity disorder
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64. William McDougal in 1908 identified suggests that the baby would be
______ instincts developing
(A) 12 (A) Familiarity
(B) 18 (B) Intimacy
(C) 15 (C) Trust
(D) 19 (D) Identity
65. Rosenberg's scale measures 71. ________ perception refers to stimulus

(A) Self-esteem that activates the sensory system but is too
(B) Self-control subtle to reach conscious awareness
(C) Self-efficacy (A) Depth
(D) Self-concept (B) Extrasensory
(C) Visual
66. According to Jean Piaget, at what stage (D) Subliminal
does a child attain conservation
(A) Sensory motor 72. In which of the following circumstances
(B) Preoperational should we regard a distribution of scores as
(C) Concrete operational homogeneous?
(D) Formal operational (A) Mean is large
(B) Standard deviation is small
67. The sum of the squares of the deviations (C) Curve is negatively skewed
from the mean is used in computing (D) Curve is positively skewed
(A) Range
(B) Quartile 73. According to Robert Cialdini, which of
(C) Percentile the following is/are the basic principle(s)
(D) Variance of compliance?
i. Friendship or liking
68. The therapeutic approach that teaches ii. Commitment or consistency
people to think in more adaptive ways by iii. Scarcity or reciprocity
changing their dysfunctional cognitions
about the world and themselves is called (A) i and ii
(A) Countertransference (B) ii and iii
(B) Behavioural treatment (C) only i
(C) Neural recognition approach (D) i, ii and iii
(D) Cognitive approach
74. Vygotsky emphasizes the role of
69. Which of the following statements is ____________ in development of a child
incorrect with regard to stereotypes? (A) Cognitive element
(A) Stereotypes are the cognitive (B) Environment
components of attitudes toward a (C) Social interaction
social group (D) Parents
(B) Stereotypes of each gender are
typically the converse of one another 75. A set of strategies that permits adults to
(C) Stereotypes do not serve any select personally valued activities a
motivational purposes method of copying with diminishing
(D) Stereotypes often function as schemas energies and losses is called
(A) Compensatory behaviour with
70. A baby learns that when he is hungry he optimization
is provided with food and when he is in (B) Selective optimization and
pain he is cuddled and comforted. Erikson compensation
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(C) Disengagement
(D) Activity oriented, behaviour 81. Which of the following sentences is
correct?
(A) It's high time we discover the truth
PAR-B (B) It's high time the truth is discovered
(C) It's high time the truth had discovered
(D) It's high time the truth was discovered
76. “Camel subsists _______ the coarsest of
food” 82. Which of the alternatives best expresses
(A) On the meaning of the idiom 'Don't put all
(B) With your eggs in one basket'?
(C) For (A) You are not very good at something
(D) To (B) Do not make plans for something that
might not happen
77. Identify the correct spelling (C) Do not put all eggs together as they are
(A) Dumbbell fragile
(B) Dumbell (D) Do not put all resources in one
(C) Dumble possibility
(D) Dumbel
83. Which of the alternatives best expresses
78. Which part of the following sentence the indirect speech of the following
contains an error? sentence?
(i) No sooner did /(ii) the professor arrived He said, "I have not visited this place yet"
at the examination hall /(iii) than the (A) He said that he has not visited that
students /(iv) rushed towards the hall place yet
(A) i (B) He said that I had not visited this place
(B) ii yet
(C) iii (C) He said that he had not visited that
(D) iv place yet
(D) He said that I have not visited that
79. Identify the meaning of the underlined place yet
word
Suddenly, he was seized with a feeling of 84. Choose the correct spelling
anguish and he abdicated (A) Liaison
(A) Resigned (B) Lieson
(B) Cried (C) Liaisen
(C) Resisted (D) Liaision
(D) Shouted
85. If she had passed the examination
80. Which of the alternatives best expresses successfully, she ______ in our group now
the meaning of the idiom 'Let the cat out of (A) Was
the bag'? (B) Would be
(A) To reveal information that was (C) Would have been
previously concealed (D) Will be
(B) The final problem in a series of
problems 86. Niche is to Segment as: Perks is to
(C) When persons understand the situation (A) Deductions
well, they allow the cat to come out (B) Benefits
(D) A visual presentation is far more (C) Taxation
descriptive than words (D) Munch
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(A) Sudheer usually drove real careful but

the police officer was unimpressed
87. Find the antonym for Replenish that he had both broken the speed limit
(A) Restock and jumped the red light
(B) Stock (B) Sudheer usually drove really carefully
(C) Exhaust but the police officer was both
(D) Provide unimpressed that he had broken the
speed limit and jumped the red light
88. In the following question the first and the (C) Sudheer usually drove really carefully
last parts of the sentence are numbered as but the police officer was unimpressed
1 and 6. The rest of the sentence is split that he had broken the speed limit and
into four parts and named as P, Q, Rand S. jumped a red light
These four parts are not given in their (D) Sudheer usually drove real careful but
proper order. Read the jumbled parts of the the police officer was unimpressive
sentence and find out which of the four that he had both broke the speed limit
combinations is correct and jump the red light
1: I have not come
P: even if it means some humiliation 92. Choose similar pair of words
Q: but the boy must learn Plagiarize: Borrow::
R: to complain, he said (A) Prefer: Steal
S: to be honest (B) Extort: Obtain
6: and must admit he broke our window (C) Explore: Ignite
pane (D) Purify: Filter
(A) SPRQ 93. Change the sentence, 'I eat a Mango' to

(B) QSPR passive voice
(C) RQSP (A) A mango is eaten by me
(D) PRQS (B) I ate a mango
(C) A Mango was eaten by me
89. Choose the correct statement out of the (D) I would eat a mango
four alternative statements given in
indirect speech 94. Volte-face refers to
They said, "We won the match" (A) Powerful will
(A) They said that they won the match (B) Sensational move
(B) They said that they have won the (C) Commitment to action
match (D) Reversal of attitude
(C) They said that they had been winning
the match 95. Replace the underlined part of the
(D) They said that they had won the match following sentence with the correct
alternative
90. Select the word that is most similar in If the room had been brighter, I would
meaning to Incongruous have been able to read for a while before
(A) Inconceivable bed time
(B) Inevitable (A) Had the room been brighter
(C) Inconsistent (B) If the room was brighter
(D) Incontrovertible (C) As the room was brighter
(D) If the room is brighter
91. Choose the correct sentence
96. The antonym for Latent
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(A) Dormant
(B) Visible
(C) Hidden 99. Replace the underlined part of the
(D) Released following sentence with a suitable
alternative
97. Find out the error in the following 'Don't call me at 10 'O Clock. I am going to
sentence fly to Delhi'
I cannot put up in a hotel/ because the (A) Must fly
boarding and lodging charges/ were (B) Having to fly
exorbitant/ and I felt it was an unnecessary (C) Will be flying
expense (D) I flying
(A) I cannot put up in a hotel
(B) Because the boarding and lodging 100. Choose the correct sentence
charges (A) Online shopping is projected to
(C) Were exorbitant increase by 350% during peak festival
(D) And I felt it was an unnecessary season on account of unbelievably
expense lowering prices offered by retailers
(B) Online shopping is projected to
98. Deepak asked, "How long will it take to increase by 350% during peak festival
travel from Delhi to Hyderabad?" season on account of unbelievably low
(A) Deepak asked how long it will take to prices offered by retailers
travel from Delhi to Hyderabad (C) Online shopping is projected to
(B) Deepak asked how long it would take increase by 350% during peak festival
to travel from Delhi to Hyderabad season on account of unbelievable
(C) Deepak asked how long will it going to lowering prices offerings by retailers
take to travel from Delhi to Hyderabad (D) Online shopping is projected to
(D) Deepak asked how long it was going increase by 350% during peak festival
to take to travel from Delhi to season on account of unbelieving
Hyderabad lowered prices offered by retailers
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ANSWER KEY
1 C 26 B 51 C 76 A
2 B 27 D 52 D 77 A
3 C 28 D 53 B 78 B
4 B 29 C 54 B 79 A
5 B 30 B 55 B 80 A
6 C 31 C 56 A 81 B
7 D 32 B 57 A 82 D
8 B 33 A 58 B 83 C
9 A 34 B 59 B 84 A
10 D 35 A 60 C 85 C
11 A 36 C 61 A 86 B
12 C 37 B 62 C 87 C
13 C 38 D 63 C 88 C
14 A 39 B 64 B 89 D
15 B 40 B 65 A 90 C
16 C 41 D 66 C 91 C
17 C 42 A 67 A 92 B
18 C 43 A 68 D 93 C
19 B 44 B 69 D 94 D
20 C 45 D 70 C 95 B
21 C 46 C 71 D 96 B
22 B 47 D 72 B 97 A
23 C 48 A 73 D 98 B
24 D 49 C 74 C 99 C
25 A 50 B 75 B 100 B
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1. The Greek origin of the word ‘Psychology’ (B) Health and Illness: Biopsychosocial
is explained in the following terms Perspectives
(A) 'Psyche' meaning the behaviour and (C) Introduction to Health Psychology
'logy' meaning the study of (D) Occupational Stress: Indian Perspectives
(B) 'Psycho' meaning the mentally ill and
'logy' meaning the logic of 6. Psychology as a distinct discipline has
(C) 'Psy' meaning mind and 'chology' originated from
meaning systematic study of (A) Life Science
(D) 'Psyche' meaning mind or soul and (B) Sociology
'logos' meaning the study of (C) Philosophy
(D) Medical Science
2. The two major disciplines Psychology has its
roots in are 7. One of the earliest debates about Human
(A) Philosophy and Logic Psychology focused on the question of
(B) Physical Sciences and Medicine whether human capabilities are inborn or
(C) Philosophy and Physical sciences acquired through experience. This view
(D) Logic and Medicine refers to
(A) Implicit vs. explicit
3. Psychology is taught in India for the past (B) Nature vs. nurture
(A) Twenty five years (C) Overt vs. covert
(B) Fifty years (D) Innate vs. maturity
(C) Seventy to seventy five years
(D) More than hundred years 8. Which of the following statements is
correct?
4. In which year, the Centre for Health (A) Mind and body are not integrated with
Psychology has been established in the one another
University of Hyderabad? (B) Mind is located in the brain
(A) 2005 (C) Mind and body are fully integrated with
(B) 2007 one another
(C) 2009 (D) Mind and body are concrete concepts
(D) 2011
9. Role of psychological factors in the
5. Which of the following is the first book development, prevention, and treatment of
published from the Centre for Health illnesses is one of the major components of
Psychology, University of Hyderabad? (A) Biopsychology
(A) Coping with Life Stress: The Indian (B) Physiological Psychology
Experience (C) Clinical Psychology
(D) Health Psychology
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10. As height increases weight increases. This 16. Which of the following statements is
means both height and weight are incorrect?
(A) Positively correlated (A) Genetic influences affect children more
(B) Negatively correlated than adults
(C) Hypothetically correlated (B) Even if genetic factors underlie a
(D) Causally correlated particular behaviour, it is subject to
change
11. World Mental Health Day is observed every (C) Genetic factors manifest themselves
year on when triggered by environmental
(A) October 12th factors
(B) October 10th (D) Intelligence is determined by genetic
(C) April 7th and environmental factors
(D) April 10th
17. The intense enduring social-emotional
12. Which of the following is not a non- relationship that develops between a child
communicable disease? and a mother is termed as
(A) Hepatitis (A) Love
(B) Cancer (B) Intimacy
(C) Chronic obstructive pulmonary (C) Attachment
disease (D) Affection
(D) Diabetes
18. The nature versus nurture refers to
13. Anorexia nervosa is a(n) (A) Humans are a product of genetic
(A) Personality disorder inheritance
(B) Neurological disorder (B) Humans are a product of social
(C) Eating disorder interaction
(D) Developmental disorder (C) Humans are individual entities without
the influence of environment and nature
14. Before the emergence of Psychology as a (D) Humans are a product of either their
separate discipline, matters related to mind environment or of their biological
were studied in predisposition
(A) Physiology
(B) Philosophy 19. The first laboratory in Psychology was
(C) Medical Sciences established in the year
(D) Physical Sciences (A) 1879
(B) 1907
15. As per the information available in the (C) 1789
website of the University of Hyderabad, at (D) 1953
present how many faculty members are there
in the Centre for Health Psychology? 20. Which of the following is true?
(A) Four (A) Psychology is commonsense
(B) Five (B) Psychology means an art of healing
(C) Six (C) Psychology uses scientific methods
(D) Seven (D) Both B and C
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21. The term used to describe the sudden 'flash' 26. Psychology is considered a science mainly
of revelation that often accompanies the because it relies on
solution to a problem is (A) Objective observation and
(A) Insight experimentation
(B) Wisdom (B) Subjective interpretation and prediction
(C) Reminiscence (C) Group studies and hypnosis
(D) Intelligence (D) Past life regression and quantitative
techniques
22. Which of the following occupations relies
heavily on kinesthetic and vestibular senses? 27. Which of the following is not related to
(A) Doctor Psychology?
(B) Pilot (A) Measuring the temperature of a person
(C) Gymnast when he is very angry or sad
(D) Artist (B) Measuring the heart rate of an individual
when he is watching a horror movie
23. A culture that focuses on relationships with (C) Manipulating the genes of a person to
others such as family, friends, and prevent mental illness
community refers to (D) Measuring the happiness of IT
(A) Individualistic culture employees
(B) Group culture
(C) Collectivistic culture 28. Which of the following controls our
(D) Social norm internal organs and glands and is generally
considered to be outside the realm of
24. Which of the following is not done by a voluntary control?
Health Psychologist? (A) Central nervous system
(A) Helping the patients in the hospitals in (B) Sympathetic nervous system
dealing with their fears and insecurities (C) Somatic nervous system
(B) Reaching out to the interior rural areas (D) Autonomic nervous system
to create awareness about the
importance of lifestyle 29. Which of the following statements is
(C) Enabling people maintain their health by incorrect?
designing programmes and helping (A) Smoking, alcohol consumption, and
them prevent illness drug abuse contribute to lifestyle
(D) Administering electric shock therapy to disorder
the patients who are suffering from (B) Insomnia is a sleep disorder
mental health problems (C) Children learning to speak is a part of
their growth
25. In the debate about the mind and body, the (D) Stress is sometimes good, sometimes
idea that body and mind are quite different bad
and separate was termed as
(A) Separation 30. What is the type of communication that
(B) Differentiation takes place with in a neuron?
(C) Realism (A) Chemical
(D) Dualism (B) Psychological
(C) Mechanical
(D) Electrical
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31. Which of the following is the primary means (C) Promoting healthy lifestyle and
of communicating thought? behaviour
(A) Proposition (D) The study of mental attitude and well-
(B) Concept being
(C) Language
(D) Category 37. Which of the following is not the career
opportunity for students after completion of
32. Which of the following is referred to an their Integrated M.SC in Health
enduring emotional state? Psychology?
(A) Mood (A) Taking up research
(B) Sentiment (B) Consultant to health agencies
(C) Temperament (C) Becoming health psychiatrist
(D) Criticism (D) Faculty in Universities
33. Which of the following are chronic diseases? 38. When Psychologists discuss maturation,
(A) Diabetes, Influenza, and Jaundice they are referring to stages of growth that
(B) Arthritis, Diabetes, and Hypertension are not influenced by
(C) Arthritis, Jaundice, and AIDS (A) Nurture
(D) Diabetes, Influenza, and AIDS (B) Nature
(C) Conservation
34. The term 'autonomic' means (D) Continuity
(A) Emotional
(B) Regenerative 39. The statement, 'Psychology is empirical'
(C) Automatic means
(D) Retroactive (A) Psychology deals with human beings,
animals, and birds
35. Sachin completed his graduation in (B) The methods of Psychology are based
Mechanical Engineering and was seeking on controlled experiments and
employment. When he approached few observations made with great precision
companies for job, one of the companies and objectivity
sent him a letter saying he should take an (C) Scientific Psychology originated in
aptitude test. By this, the company means Greek and Roman ages, which are
that it will assess known for objectivity
(A) Sachin's approach towards time (D) Psychological principles are based on
management consensus of scientists and philosophers
(B) Sachin's skill in approaching total set of across the globe
employees
(C) Sachin's attitude towards the job that the 40. As per the information available in the
company is likely to offer him website of the University of Hyderabad, in
(D) Sachin's skill and capacity to undertake which of the following laboratories of the
the job Centre for Health Psychology, the students
are trained in relaxation therapy using
36. What is the emphasis of Health Psychology? biofeedback and neurofeedback?
(A) Helpful in stimulation of immune (A) Experimental Laboratory
system (B) Counseling Laboratory
(B) Helping people unlearn their sickness (C) Behaviour Technology Laboratory
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(D) Sleep Laboratory (A) The emotion of love is experienced in

heart, anger in brain and fear in nerves
41. Which of the following statements explains (B) The emotion of love and fear are
Health Psychology in a comprehensive way? experienced in heart while the emotion
(A) Health Psychology is a branch of of anger is experienced in the brain
Psychology that involves in diagnosis (C) All the emotional experiences are
and therapy of communities where associated only with nervous system
epidemics break (D) All emotional experiences are associated
(B) Health Psychology applies the principles only with mind
of the mental health on those who are
diagnosed with mental illness 45. Nobel Prize for the work on digestive
(C) Health Psychology is a branch of system that led to understanding of
Psychology that applies the principles principles of development of responses was
of mental health on the healthy won by
population (A) Ivan Pavlov
(D) Health Psychology is a branch of (B) Frederick G. Banting
Psychology that applies the principles (C) Konstantin Novoselov
of Psychology on health related (D) E. L. Thorndike
behaviour
46. Which of the following is not correct about
42. Which of the following statements non-communicable diseases?
concerning the effects of aging is true? (A) Non-communicable diseases are
(A) Aging inevitably leads to dementia preventable through effective
(B) Aging increases susceptibility to fever or interventions that tackle shared risk
flu factors, namely tobacco use, unhealthy
(C) Significant increase in life satisfaction is diet, physical inactivity and harmful use
associated with aging of alcohol
(D) Aging process can be significantly (B) Non-communicable diseases force many
affected by individual's activity patterns people into, or entrench them in poverty
due to catastrophic expenditures for
43. The teacher asked the students of class VIII treatment
what they know about mind Following are (C) Around the world non-communicable
some of the answers. Which is the correct diseases affect women and men almost
answer? equally
(A) The mind is located in the brain (D) Non-communicable diseases are easily
(B) The brain and mind are one and the curable
same
(C) Brain is concrete and mind is abstract 47. How is information from the eyes mapped
(D) Mind is another name for soul onto visual cortex?
(A) The left eye sends information
44. When one experiences emotions such as exclusively to the right hemisphere; the
love, fear or anger one feels the heart beat right eye sends information exclusively
going up, profuse sweating, heavy breathing, to the left hemisphere
and shivering in extremities. These are only (B) Both eyes send information from the
the symptoms of experiencing emotions right visual field to the left hemisphere
while scientifically
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and information from the left visual blue lever whenever it wanted to chew a
field to the right hemisphere piece of bone. Then it was introduced a red
(C) The left eye sends information from the lever. Whenever it pressed the red lever, it
left visual field to the right hemisphere got an electric shock. After many trials it
and from the right visual field to the left learned to avoid red lever.
hemisphere; while the right eye sends Now the blue lever was replaced with a
information from the left visual field to purple lever. When the dog pressed the
the left hemisphere and from the right purple lever for the first time, it got a bone.
visual field to the right hemisphere But every now and then it received electric
(D) Both eyes send information from the left shock. After a few trials the dog is likely to
visual field to the left hemisphere, and (A) Learn when it would get a piece of bone
information from the right visual field from purple lever
to the right hemisphere (B) Learn to press the red lever, but not the
purple one
48. Match the following (C) Learn to press the two levers
(a) Motor (i)Occipital alternatively
planning and (D) Resign not to press any lever and sit
movement inactive
(b)Primary (ii)Temporal
vision 51. Match the following
(c)Primary (iii)Parietal (a) Period of (i) Period from birth
hearing the embryo to two years
(d)Spatial (iv)Frontal (b) Period of (ii) Period lasting
processing and the fetus from fertilization to
sense of touch implantation
(c) Period of (iii) Period lasting
(A) a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii infancy from the 3rd to 8th
(B) a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv prenatal week
(C) a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii (d) Period of (iv) Period when all
(D) a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii zygote major systems begin
to function
49. Lopamudra was having a problem travelling
by train. She complained of suffocation (A) a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
when she had to sleep on the upper berth. (B) a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii
She stayed awake the whole night and felt (C) a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i
relieved only after she moved out of the (D) a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii
train. Lopamudra is likely to be having
(A) Respiratory problem 52. Sheena is a twelve year old girl who is
(B) Spatial relationship problem facing the changes that come up with
(C) Psychological problem adolescence. She is preoccupied with her
(D) Psychosocial problem personality, capabilities, and her own body.
She has an issue with her
50. An experimental dog is placed in a (A) Self-evaluation
laboratory. It was taught to press a blue (B) Self-actualization
lever whenever hungry so that it would get a (C) Self-image
piece of bone. The dog learned to press the (D) Self-awareness
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53. Dr. Rita is a Child Psychologist. She believes (C) Jagruthi's environmental background
that all children in the world go through the (D) Jagruthi's losing her father at young age
same distinct phases of intellectual
development. She believes that all smart 57. Smita is a 18-year old college student.
parents will have smart children, even if Currently Smita is going through a hectic
they are raised in an unstimulated phase. She has her end semester
environment. Dr. Rita believes in examinations in a month's time. She has
(A) Parenting styles deadlines to complete her assignments and
(B) Nature practical course. She is also aspiring to be
(C) Developmental outcomes the topper of the class which she has been
(D) Nurture for the past few semesters. Moreover, now-
a-days one of her close friends is not talking
54. Rinku was driving a newly bought car along to her. All the above situations are called
a familiar route while listening to one of his (A) Aggressors
favourite songs in FM radio. This type of (B) Trouble-shooters
driving is an example of (C) Promulgators
(A) Sympathetic process (D) Stressors
(B) Parasympathetic process
(C) Automatic process 58. Sudeep is in his ninth standard. He has been
(D) Controlled process showing irritable behaviour towards his
parents. He disagrees with them on many
55. Raj and Sheela find their fourteen year old aspects. His irritability sometimes takes the
daughter Sharon feeling free and open with turn of disrespect for them. The parents are
her friends than with her family. Observing worried and talked to some of their close
this, Sharon's parents should friends about it. Each one gave different
(A) Be concerned, because deteriorating causes. Which of the following has a
parent-adolescent relationships, such as universal characteristic?
this one, are often followed by a range (A) He finds it difficult to cope with the
of problem behaviours academic demands in school and shows
(B) Ask Sharon to interact more with family his irritation
(C) Seek family counselling (B) There are some significant hormonal
(D) Understand that adolescence is typically changes in him causing irritable
a time of growing peer influence behaviour
(C) He feels the need to have his parents as
56. Jagruthi comes from a poor and socially his friends and participate in every
marginalised community. She lives in a activity
small hut located in a slum. She lost her (D) He does not like having so many friends
father when she was one year old. Her and longs to be alone and quiet
mother works as construction labourer. One
day the school gave IQ test to the students. 59. Rajiv is a close friend of Promod. On a late
Jagruthi's IQ was found to be much lower evening he rushes into Promod's room in his
compared to that of Rahul, Madhav and hostel. Rajiv was shivering and tears were
Rahim. Which of the following could be a rolling down his cheeks arid he started
reason? sobbing bitterly. He was also sweating a lot
(A) Jagruthi' s gender and gasping as he apparently came running.
(B) Jagruthi's caste background
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Which of the following immediate course of prayers. The hostel authorities must send
action is most appropriate? him to a
(A) Make him sit comfortably, give a glass (A) Counselor
of water and calm him down (B) Psychiatrist
(B) Ask Rajiv what had happened and get (C) Religious head
him talk about what upset him (D) Psychoneurologist
(C) Call other friends staying in
neighbouring rooms and show Rajiv 63. Dumpy is one year old baby. He has
that he has great support learned to take few steps and loves to walk
(D) Tell Rajiv that he should not panic and around. The television set in the house is
must take things light placed at a low level that is easily reached
by Dumpy. After he started to walk, Dumpy
60. Pratap, Kiran, Rumy and George are inmates makes it a point to stand near the television
in an asylum. Pratap is diagnosed as set and tries to push it with all force. The
mentally ill, while Kiran is spastic. Rumy is parents wanted Dumpy to stop doing this.
mentally retarded while George is epileptic. Which of the following options is likely to
Who among them has low IQ? stop Dumpy's behaviour?
(A) Pratap (A) Place a heavy barrier in front of the
(B) Kiran television set
(C) Rumy (B) Make a big banging metallic noise every
(D) George time he approaches the television set
(C) Unplug the television set
61. Hari is convicted in a case of murder. Hari's (D) Attract Dumpy with another toy every
advocate argued that Hari did not commit time he tries to approach the television
the murder in any planned way and his set
criminal behaviour is because of his mental
illness. Hence he should not be punished. 64. Romy is a ten year old boy in his fifth
Now the court has to ascertain if Hari is standard. He is a very friendly boy. He is
mentally ill or not. Which of the following is good at playing. He loves to play basketball.
the best option for the court? He sings well. However he is unable to do
(A) Get a Health Psychologist and request well in the examinations because teachers
an assessment cannot understand his writing. He writes
(B) Call a Clinical Psychologist and request certain alphabets, like b, c and d as mirror
an assessment image. This is because
(C) Call a Criminal Psychologist and request (A) Romy's IQ is low
an assessment (B) Romy has a condition called learned
(D) Call a Hypnotist and request an helplessness
assessment (C) Romy suffers from learning disability
(D) Romy has a condition called cerebral
62. Rishy is living in a hostel. He is a very bright palsy
student. However in the past few weeks he 65. Jaya lost both her parents recently in a
has been spending increasing hours in bad accident. She is unable to forget the
prayers. So much so, that there have been scene of accident. You are her only
occasions when he spent the whole night in friend with whom she is interacting.
praying. All his holidays are spent in What will be the most appropriate
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action from your side to bring her back that the question paper will be very tough.
to normal? Mita is experiencing
(A) Take her to movies and parties (A) Depression
frequently so that she will forget the (B) Anxiety
loss (C) Exclusion
(B) Discourage her from talking about the (D) Fear
accident
(C) Advise her not to think about the fearful 68. Jagir saw a new fruit in the super market
scene of accident and learned from his mother that it is called
(D) Allow her to talk about the scene of 'dragon fruit'. Next time when he went to the
accident and listen with all attention super market with his cousin, he saw his
cousin looking at the fruit with curiosity.
66. Purendhar is 9-year old boy wanting to Jagir told his cousin, “it is called dragon
learn cycling. Four teachers volunteered to fruit". What is the sequence of process that
teach him cycling. Three of the teachers had followed in case of Jagir?
plans so as to avoid falling and getting (A) Sensation-Comparison of the fruit with
injured while learning cycling. The first something he is already familiar with¬-
teacher planned to explain to him the parts Association of the name his mother
of the bicycle, their function and the gave to the fruit-Registration and
mechanism involved in moving it forward recalling the name when he saw the
when he peddles it and also explain the way fruit again
Purendhar has to balance his body so that he (B) Comparison of the fruit with something
would not fall. The second teacher planned he is already familiar with-Association
to demonstrate how to cycle through video of the name his mother gave to the fruit-
clippings that has children of his age cycling Sensation-Registration and recalling the
and also talking about their experience of name when he saw the fruit again
learning cycling. The third teacher planned (C) Registration-Association of the name his
to have him ride the tricycle for a month so mother gave the fruit--Comparison of
that he will be comfortable riding a bicycle. the fruit with something he is already
The fourth teacher planned to start on with familiar with-Sensation and recalling
the practice of riding a bicycle and believed the name when he saw the fruit again
that Purendhar would have few falls and (D) Sensation-Registration--Comparison of
would learn cycling only through such trial the fruit with something he is already
and error. Which of the teacher(s) is/are the familiar with-Association of the name
right teacher(s)? his mother gave the fruit and recalling
(A) The first the name when he saw the fruit again
(B) The first and the second
(C) The second and the third 69. All the children in Jyothi's class decided to
(D) The fourth visit her home one Sunday. During their
visit they saw that Jyothi's uncle sitting in a
67. Whenever examinations are round the comer corner of the room was repeatedly shooing
Mita gets restless. She finds it difficult to away something which never existed. He
fall asleep. Frequently, she goes back to her continued to do so and acted as if whatever
notes and verifies the answers. Sometimes he was trying to shoo away would not go
she feels that she may not be able to perform and returned to the room. Jaya said that
well in the examinations. She apprehends Jyothi's uncle was suffering from severe
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stress. Shyam said he was mentally ill. (D) Feroze said they get jobs only in
Krishna said that he had brain damage. Who corporate hospitals and not in mental
is/are correct? hospitals or educational institutions
(A) Krishna & Jaya
(B) Jaya 72. Jagdeesh has been behaving weirdly for the
(C) Shyam past few months. He used to go out without
(D) Jaya & Shyam informing anyone only to return after several
hours. When questioned he used to say that
70. Darshan Singh narrated to his friends that he he was being directed by a voice to go to
dreamt that he was flying up in the sky. He some unidentified place, but refused to
said that very frequently he gets this reveal where he was going. Everyone in the
particular dream and sometimes woke up family used to get worried and tried to talk
from such dream and felt very scared. to people from different fields of expertise.
Govind informed that as per the science of His father consulted a doctor, brother
Psychology dreams have no meaning and he consulted a psychologist, mother consulted a
should not bother. Geeta argued that detective and sister consulted an exorcist.
according to Psychologists one gets such After a week when Jagdeesh left the house
dreams if one reads a lot of fictions. Dheeraj without informing anyone a man quietly
disagreed and said that he read in the books followed him and observed his each and
of Psychology that the dreams one gets have every activity without being noticed by
something to do with one's wishes. Jolly, Jagdeesh. Who is this person?
contradicting them all stated that she read in (A) Doctor
the books of Psychology that if one gets the (B) Psychologist
same dream repeatedly it indicates some (C) Detective
danger in his/her life. Who is correct? (D) Exorcist
(A) Dheeraj
(B) Govind 73. Prakash is a 35 year old married person.
(C) Geeta One day when he was going to office he was
(D) Jolly badly hit by a truck and fell unconscious.
Someone admitted him in the hospital. The
71. The teacher asked the class XII students if doctors on examining him found that there
they knew the places where Health was a brain injury and a concussion in the
Psychologists get jobs. Different students brain. They said he had to be operated upon.
answered differently. Which of the But they also said that the operation
following is the most appropriate answer? involves certain amount of risk of his losing
(A) Ramaswamy said they work in hospitals memory of some past events and also it may
while Subhashini said they work only in impact his thinking process. Which part of
IT companies the brain they were referring to?
(B) Raja said they get jobs in hospitals, (A) Frontal lobe
educational institutions, IT companies (B) Temporal Lobe
and also hospices (C) Parietal Lobe
(C) Raheem said they work in mental (D) Occipital Lobe
hospitals while Tony said they are
employed in colleges 74. A dog trainer was given the responsibility of
training a pet dog to pick up the newspaper
and bring it to its master every morning.
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Which of the following methods will be their work, Anurag makes it a point to crack
effective in making the dog learn the activity a joke, clown or complain about some silly
faster and not allow the dog to forget it? issue like the monotonous sound made by
(A) Each time the dog fails to perform the the ceiling fan or the scorching sun outside
activity beat it mildly with a stick etc. It was a big problem to stop Anurag
(B) Give it a piece of meat if the dog distracting the class from serious work.
performs the activity correctly three Which of the following course of action will
consecutive times make him stop such behaviour?
(C) Give it a piece of meat every time it (A) The teacher and students of the class
performs the activity correctly decide not to respond whenever he
(D) Feed it with a good meal of meat every behaves in such way
day after the training session (B) The whole class ridicules him for such
behaviour and calls him the buffoon
75. Anurag is in class X. He is a very sociable of the class
boy. He loves a lot of attention from (C) The teacher warns him that if such
teachers and other students in the class and behaviour is repeated, he will complain
feels bored when others are busy and to the Principal
engaged in other activities and the focus is (D) The teacher responds positively every
not on him. So, whenever the teacher time he indulges in such behaviour
engages the class in any serious academic
work and all the students are engaged in
Section B
76. We often walk ____the river bank. (B) Regress

(A) Towards (C) Reversal
(B) Inside (D) Reverse
(C) Along
(D) Around 80. Choose the correct sentence
(A) If he wins the prize, I would be very
77. The term 'sensational' refers to happy
(A) Something exciting (B) If he were to win the prize, I will be very
(B) Inputs one receives from sense organs happy
(C) The sixth sense of a person (C) If he was to win the prize, I would be
(D) Something very strong very happy
(D) If he were to win the prize, I would be
78. Identify the error (if any) in the sentence very happy
Many a man want to be rich quickly.
(A) Many a man 81. Fill in the blanks with suitable words
(B) Want to be We are_____ to have him_______ here to
(C) Rich quickly make his function a great success.
(D) No error (A) Proud; have
(B) Happy; arrive
79. Complete the sentence (C) Sure; come
Hari suffered a _______of fortune. (D) Pleased; over
(A) Revert
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82. Identify the correct sentence (D) People's judgment through voting
(A) He repeated the mistake in spite my decides the countrie's future
correction
(B) He repeated the mistake despite of my 87. Jaggu had to catch a train at 4 am but went
correction to the station at 4 pm and found that he was
(C) He repeated the mistake despite my late to the station by 12 hours. When friends
correction asked him how and why he missed his train
(D) He repeated the mistake devoid of my he should be saying
correction (A) I predicted that the right time of train
will be 4 pm
83. 'Developmental milestone' refers to (B) I presumed that the right time of the
(A) The progressive distance covered during train was 4 am
a long journey (C) I assumed that the right time of the train
(B) The process of polishing and shining a was 4 pm
precious stone used in jewellery (D) I conceived that the right time of the
(C) Achieving age appropriate activities in train was 4 pm
children assessed against a norm
(D) Progressive degeneration in the old 88. Identify the correct sentence
people as they develop in age (A) He said, "My conscious will not permit
me to bribe the official"
84. Synonym for 'Detest' is (B) He said, "My conscience will not permit
(A) To hate intensely me to bribe the official"
(B) To love intensely (C) He said, "My cautious will not permit
(C) To neglect intensely me to bribe the official"
(D) To support intensely (D) He said, "My concise will not permit me
to bribe the official"
85. Which of the following statements has not
used the word 'Reinforcement' in the right 89. James is the son of Thomas. James was
sense? appearing in class X examination. Thomas,
(A) The engineers had to reinforce the who is a teacher, should not be evaluating
ceiling with pillars to prevent collapse the papers in order to avoid a situation
(B) The police had to reinforce curfew in the where
area to control the violence (A) Thomas becomes objective
(C) The mother was not reinforcing the hard (B) James becomes subjective
work of the child to motivate him (C) James becomes objective
(D) The guest faculty reinforced her power (D) Thomas becomes subjective
point presentation with lecture handouts
90. The Dean of the School was addressing
86. Which of the following is correct? the students just before the examinations and
(A) People's judgment through voting cautioning them against any malpractice.
decides the country's future Which of her following statements will be
(B) Peoples judgment through voting correct?
decides the country's future (A) If you are caught indulging in
(C) People's judgment through voting malpractice, the reputation of the school
decides the countries future will be on stake
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(B) If you are caught indulging in 94. Following sentence is grammatically

malpractice, the reputation of the school incorrect. Find out which part of the
will be at stake sentence has an error
(C) If you are caught indulging in He used rather harsh (P) words in
malpractice, the reputation of the school denouncing (Q) her but he must have had
will be in stake (R) some very strong reasons to do so (S)
(D) If you are caught indulging in (A) P
malpractice, the reputation of the school (B) Q
will be of stake (C) R
(D) S
91. Sanjay was reporting to his parents about his
performance in the entrance examinations 95. Choose the correct answer for the phrase
for I MSc Health Psychology in University 'give him a piece of mind'
of Hyderabad. He said, "I have done very (A) Pardon him
well. Perhaps I will top the list". What (B) Scold him
Sanjay meant was (C) Calm him down
(A) He may possibly top the list (D) Take him to confidence
(B) He may probably top the list
(C) He will definitely top the list 96. Change the voice of the following sentence
(D) He may providentially top the list They drew a circle in the morning.
(A) A circle was being drawn by them in the
92. In the following items, some parts of the morning
sentence have been jumbled up. You are (B) In the morning a circle have been drawn
required to re-arrange the underlined parts by them
which are labeled as P, Q, R, and S to (C) A circle has been drawn by them since
produce the correct sentence. Choose the morning
proper sequence (D) A circle was drawn by them in the
Various affecting productivity (P)/ morning
disabilities stand in (Q)/ and personally
satisfying life (R)I the way of millions of 97. Which of the following is the opposite in
Indians (S) meaning of the word 'Mandatory'?
(A) QRPS (A) Obligatory
(B) PSQR (B) Compulsory
(C) QSPR (C) Unavoidable
(D) PRQS (D) Optional
93. Choose the correct sentence 98. Which of the following sequence is
(A) To be intelligent is more essential than incorrect?
being hard working (A) Flow-flew-flown
(B) Being intelligent is more important than (B) Choose-chose--chosen
to be hard working (C) Write-wrote-written
(C) For one to be intelligent is more (D) Seek-sought-sought
important than being hard working
(D) Being intelligent is more essential than 99. Antonym for 'Coercive' is
being hard working (A) Progressive
(B) Promotive
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(C) Gentle its subsequent weakness (R)/ of the national

(D) Cautious rainfall deficit (S)
(A) SRPQ
100. In the following items, some parts of the (B) QPRS
sentence have been jumbled up. You are (C) SPRQ
required to re-arrange the underlined parts (D) QRPS
which are labeled as P, Q, R, and S to
produce the correct sentence. Choose the
proper sequence
The delay led to a rapid escalation (P)/ in the
onset of the monsoon (Q)/ over Kera/a and
ANSWER KEY

1 D 26 A 51 B 76 C
2 C 27 C 52 C 77 A
3 C 28 B 53 B 78 A
4 B 29 A 54 C 79 A
5 A 30 D 55 D 80 A
6 C 31 C 56 C 81 B
7 B 32 A 57 D 82 C
8 C 33 B 58 B 83 C
9 D 34 C 59 A 84 A
10 A 35 D 60 C 85 D
11 B 36 C 61 C 86 A
12 A 37 C 62 B 87 A
13 C 38 C 63 D 88 B
14 B 39 B 64 C 89 D
15 C 40 C 65 A 90 C
16 A 41 D 66 D 91 C
17 C 42 D 67 B 92 D
18 D 43 C 68 A 93 B
19 A 44 C 69 C 94 B
20 C 45 A 70 A 95 B
21 A 46 D 71 C 96 D
22 C 47 C 72 B 97 D
23 C 48 D 73 A 98 A
24 D 49 B 74 C 99 C
25 D 50 D 75 A 100 D
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1. The Centre for Health Psychology, (C) Brain refers to a physiological
University of Hyderabad was established structure and mind refers to functional
in the year abstraction
(A) 2007 (D) Mind is located in the brain and brain
(B) 2008 is located in the skull
(C) 2009
(D) 2010 5. Which one of the following is correct?
(A) If the mind is healthy the body will be
2. Which of the following options most healthy
accurately represents the parent discipline (B) If the body is healthy the mind will be
of Psychology? healthy
(A) Physiology and Biology (C) Only B is correct
(B) Physiology and Sociology (D) Both A and B are correct
(C) Philosophy and Sociology
(D) Philosophy and Physiology 6. University of Hyderabad has started
offering course of I MSc Health
3. Jaya is a six year old girl child. She is the Psychology in the year
only child in the family and hence highly (A) 2007
pampered. She has always got what she (B) 2008
wanted. Now Jaya is admitted into a (C) 2009
school. Teachers found that she was highly (D) 2010
demanding and wanted to have her way at
the cost of denying the other children in 7. The discipline of Psychology is a
the class. The teachers found that (A) Social Science
whenever she was asked to wait for her (B) Medical Science
tum in games or share the toys with other (C) Behavioural Science
children, she threw herself down and cried (D) Life Science
loudly. They wanted to put an end to this
behaviour of Jaya. Which of the following 8. Behaviour includes
will be the most effective? (A) Anything a person does that can be
(A) Offer her a chocolate if she stopped observed
crying and behaved well (B) Anything a person, object, or animal
(B) Slap her as and when she displayed does that can be observed
tantrum (C) Anything a person or animal does that
(C) Send a complaint letter to parents if cannot be observed
she did not correct even after (D) Anything a person or animal does that
receiving a slap can be observed
(D) Ignore her when she threw tantrum
and pay attention when she showed 9. Our experience of the world arises from
acceptable behaviour sensory inputs plus the ways in which we
process this sensory information. This is
4. Which of the following is correct? known as
(A) Brain is related to physiology and (A) Perspective
mind is related to spirituality (B) Proximity
(B) Both brain and mind are related to (C) Projection
physiology (D) Perception
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10. Joy and sorrow, excitement and biological basis of behaviour and mental
disappointment, love and fear, attraction processes?
and repulsion, hope and dismay all these (A) Bio-behavioural Psychology
and many more we often experience in the (B) Bio-mental behavioural Psychology
course of a day are technically known as (C) Biopsychology
(A) Emergency reactions (D) Psychobiology
(B) Emoticons
(C) Emotions 16. Glands that release hormones to help body
(D) Bodily states handle emergencies through functions such
as increasing heart rate, blood pressure,
11. Nature versus Nurture controversy and blood sugar levels are known as
explains (A) Pituitary glands
(A) Genes and environment (B) Adrenal glands
(B) Earth and humans (C) Hormonal glands
(C) Twin studies (D) Neurotransmitters
(D) Person and situation
17. Sumeet is a student of Class III. He
12. A score is obtained in an experimental or continuously faces difficulty in solving the
observational studies, which is very useful mathematical problems. The mathematics
to have a single number that gives us the teacher refers him to the School
'average' of scores. Such a number is Counselor. The School Counselor has
called as administered a set of psychological tests,
(A) Measure of central tendency out of which one test is IQ test. What is the
(B) Range meaning of IQ?
(C) Measure of dispersion (A) Intelligent Quotient
(D) Variance (B) Internal Quotient
(C) Intellectual Quality
13. Which of the following comes under the (D) Intelligence Quotient
purview of the study in Psychology?
(i) Why do you get nervous? 18. The word 'Psychology' comes from two
(ii) Why do you dream? root words psyche and logos. These two
(iii) How do you get addicted to lotteries root words are
and races? (A) Latin
(iv) How do you separate Siamese twins? (B) Greek
(C) German
(A) i, ii, iii (D) French
(B) ii, iii, iv
(C) i, iii, iv 19. The four goals of Psychology are to
(D) i, ii, iv (A) Predict, describe, explain, and control
(B) Predict, contribute, describe, and
14. Which of the following senses are termed answer
as chemical senses (C) Theorize, control, describe, and
(A) Smell and taste explain
(B) Touch and skin (D) Describe, explain, hypothesize, and
(C) Auditory and visual answer
(D) The five major senses
20. Testosterone is to estrogen as
(A) Male is to child
(B) Female is to child
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(C) Male is to female 26. Mallesham always participates in

(D) Female is to male marathon race. By drinking water after
running a marathon, he tries to keep his
21. Damage to which of the following lobes body at an optimal level of functioning.
may result in trouble controlling emotions? This process is known as
(A) Temporal (A) Optimization
(B) Parietal (B) Body balance
(C) Frontal (C) Homeostasis
(D) Pre-frontal (D) Drive reduction
22. Inside the forebrain is a central core of 27. Which of the following option includes a
interconnected structures known as the sector where a Psychologist is not
'primitive' brain. Which of the following is employed?
its technical name? (A) General hospitals, Mental hospitals,
(A) Limbic system Forest Department
(B) Cerebellum (B) Institutions of Defence Research, Jails,
(C) Corpus collosum Educational institutions
(D) Medulla oblongata (C) Environmental Research, Mental
hospitals, IT & ITES
23. Shyam has profound difficulty in spoken (D) General hospitals, Pre-Schools,
language. If his problem is attributable to Reformatory Homes
brain damage, the damage would probably
be found in 28. Which of the following does not come
(A) Cerebellum under the discipline of Psychology?
(B) Sperry's area (A) Studying a human being in the
(C) Broca's area laboratory
(D) Chomsky's area (B) Studying the animals or birds in the
laboratory
24. The hindbrain consists of (C) Studying the social history of a
(A) Endocrine system and limbic system country
(B) Reticular formation (D) Studying the behaviour of groups in
(C) Thalamus, hypothalamus, and society
cerebrum
(D) Cerebellum, medulla, and pons 29. Pratyusha is a 12 year old girl studying in
7th class. While riding on the bike with her
25. Jina just barely avoided a head-on father she fell down and in that accident
collision on a narrow roa(D) With heart lost her front tooth. On her return to school
pounding, hands shaking, and body all the children in the class started teasing
perspiring, Jina recognizes that these are her for glaring loss of front tooth. The
signs of the body's fight-or-flight response, teacher also made fun of her. After two
which is controlled by weeks when the classmates and teacher
(A) Empathetic division of the peripheral continued to tease her, Pratyusha cried a
nervous system lot and told her mother that she would not
(B) Parasympathetic division of the go to school because she felt humiliated
autonomic nervous system when everyone pointed at her toothless
(C) Somatic division of the peripheral mouth. Which of the following actions
nervous system from the mother would be more
(D) Sympathetic division of the autonomic appropriate?
nervous system
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(A) Reassure her that she would get a her class right from class one. However
natural new tooth just as the way she Satya was getting average marks in all
got one when she was seven years old exams but never failed any of his exams.
(B) Tell her how attractive and large her He found playing with friends and
eyes are and how sharp her nose is and watching TV more interesting than sitting
in general how beautiful she looked and studying. His parents were worried
even without the tooth about his future and his performance in
(C) Go to the school and talk to her 10th class. They were considering different
classmates and the teacher methods of putting hard work in his
(D) Ignore and allow her to be absent for studies. Which of the following methods
few days and insist on her return after has better chances of making him work
she calms down a little hard?
(A) Making Satya learn his subjects
30. Rajath is a three year old boy. Yet he is through video lessons
unable to walk. He cannot speak more than (B) Telling Satya that his sister though
a few isolated words. He laughs and c1ies younger is getting better marks so he
for no reason. He cannot play with toys. must try hard
Most of the time he is found doing (C) Restrict Satya's play timings with
nothing. Rajath friends and make him study under the
(A) Can be cured with a brain surgery strict supervision of his father
(B) Has to be admitted into a mental (D) Change the school for Satya
hospital and needs medicines
(C) Should be trained in self-help skills 34. Which of the following is considered the
(D) Cannot live for more than a few years third force in Psychology?
as there is no cure (A) Psychoanalysis
(B) Behaviourism
31. On September 11, 2001, four U.S. planes (C) Gestalt
were hijacke(D) Two crashed into New (D) Humanism
York city's twin World Trade Centre
towers, one crashed into the U.S. Military 35. The first Department of Psychology in
Headquarters at the Pentagon, outside India was started at
Washington DC. This situation is an (A) University of Madras
example of (B) University of Calcutta
(A) War (C) University of Bangalore
(B) Crisis (D) University of Delhi
(C) Anomaly
(D) Catharsis 36. Shivam is interested in studying how
people behave when in groups and when
32. Which of the following is usually caused alone. Which branch of Psychology is
by a failure of the mother's twenty-first likely to help him?
chromosome pair to separate? (A) Comparative Psychology
(A) Down's Syndrome (B) Group and Individual Psychology
(B) Asperger's Syndrome (C) Differential Psychology
(C) Barlow Syndrome (D) Social Psychology
(D) Lambert-Eaton Syndrome
33. Satya is the elder brother of Parimala. 37. Which of the following is the hub for
Both are studying in the same school. higher mental processes such as thinking,
Parimala is in 7th standard and Satya in his planning, reasoning and memory?
9th standard. Parimala always stood 1st in (A) Endocrine system
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(B) Neurotransmitters teachers followed different methods of

(C) Cerebral cortex making them learn the lesson. Grover's
(D) Amygdala teacher explained the lesson in the class
and repeated every point several times.
38. Lucy works in Singapore. She organizes Ameer's teacher made the whole class
Dolphin shows. She makes the dolphins write the characteristics 50 times in the
jump, sail and dance in sync with music note book. Shanta's teacher briefly
Every time the dolphins follow her explained the characteristics as written in
instructions and perform well she feeds the book but made every student test the
them with some fish. She does that to characteristics in the laboratory. Selvy's
(A) Strengthen their behaviour of teacher taught the lesson in the class and
following her instruction demonstrated the whole thing in the
(B) To cheer the audience who enjoy laboratory. Whose learning will be the
seeing them eating fish best?
(C) To make friendship with the dolphins (A) Grover
so that they follow her instructions (B) Ameer
(D) To nourish the dolphins who would (C) Shanta
have lost calories because of hectic (D) Selvy
activities
43. Health Psychology is a study of
39. Which of the following is not a branch of (A) Normal healthy human beings in
Psychology? population
(A) Clinical Psychology (B) Physically ill but mentally sound in the
(B) Cross cultural Psychology population
(C) Indian Psychology (C) Mentally ill but physically sound in the
(D) American Psychology population
(D) Health illness care and cure of
40. Observation of one's own conscious population
experience is known as
(A) Experiment 44. Ashray is visually challenge(D) He sits in
(B) Case study a corner of the street and begs to make his
(C) Interview living. He wrote on a placard 'I am blin(D)
(D) Introspection Please help_ me'. Four students of
Psychology observed him for several days
41. Julie is watching a volleyball game. The and found that very few people dropped
neural impulses from her eyes will coins in his box. They thought that the
ultimately travel to her primary visual writing on the placard should be different
cortex, but first they must pass through the so that people would feel like giving alms
(A) Amygdala to him. Each day they changed the writing
(B) Hypothalamus on the placar(D) Which of the following
(C) Thalamus writing is likely to get the best result?
(D) Pons (A) Help me and God will help you
(B) I was like you two years ago but lost
42. Grover, Ameer, Shanta, and Selvy are my sight because of high fever
students who are equally intelligent. They (C) You lose only one coin from your
were all in 8th standard in different purse but I gain many if each one
schools pursuing the same syllabus. All of gives
them were taught the lesson of the (D) Hands that help me are nobler than the
characteristics of carbondioxide in lips that pray
Chemistry. However in every school the
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45. The primary sensory and motor areas of (C) Polysomnography (PSG)
the human cerebral cortex are (D) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
(A) Visual, auditory, tactile, and motor
(B) Hormones, neurons, and nerves 50. Which of the following person viewed
(C) White matter, thalamus, hippocampus, mind as a charioteer (reason) driving two
and corpus collosum horses (spirit and appetite)?
(D) Frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal (A) Plato
lobe, and occipital lobe (B) Aristotle
(C) Freud
46. Guna is an under graduate student (D) Pascal
residing in a hostel. His friends found him
behaving odd for the past two weeks. He 51. John is 10 year old but still wets his bed
was found to sit in the class in the same almost every night. He is ashamed of this
posture for hours together. He was and cannot participate in overnight visits
sometimes found to laugh for no reason. with his friends. His parents are concerned.
He ·also stopped sleeping at nights and What can be done to help him?
stopped eating too. He told everyone that (A) Punishment
there is poison in the food served in the (B) Electric shock treatment
hostel. Seeing his condition one of the (C) Behaviour therapy
teachers said that Guna may need (D) Counseling
medication immediately and hence has to
get professional help. Whom should Guna 52. Developmental Psychology studies
go for consultation? (A) Children from birth to 15 years
(A) Psychiatrist (B) Children and adolescents
(B) Psychopathologist (C) Children, adolescents, and adults
(C) Psychotherapist (D) From birth to death
(D) Psychologist
53. Which of the following descriptions best
47. Ramu wanted to watch a reality show in fits Environmental Psychology?
the television. He was all prepared to (A) Physical and psycho socio cultural
watch the show. Suddenly his mother (B) Peer influence and neighbourhood
asked him to bring vegetables from (C) Community influence and family
market. Ramu would feel relations
(A) Demotivated (D) Ecological and biodiversity
(B) Isolated
(C) Frustrated 54. The system that gives us information about
(D) Withdrawn the location of our body parts in relation to
each other, and allows us to perform
48. Obesity is a simple movements such as touching one's
(A) Psychological disorder nose, and complex movements such as
(B) Musculo skeletal disorder dancing is
(C) Life style disorder (A) Touch and skin senses
(D) Personality disorder (B) Kinesthetic system
(C) Optical system
49. A technique used for measuring the (D) Adaptation system
electrical activity of the brain with the help
of electrodes placed at specific locations 55. After teaching the Schools of Psychology,
on the skull is the Professor displayed the following
(A) Electroencephalography (EEG) names of four Psychologists on the
(B) Computerized Tomography (CT) interactive board and asked the students
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which of the Psychologist's name was not

correctly spelt. What is the correct answer? 59. Match each subfield of Psychology with
(A) Sigmund Freud the issues or questions posed below
(B) William Wundt List-I List-II
(C) Edward Bradford Titchener Developmental Janu's job is
(D) Burrhus Frederic Skinner Psychology demanding and
stressful. She wonders
56. While teaching, a Professor of if her lifestyle is
Psychology told the following four events making her more
to his students and asked which of the prone to certain
following is/are not observable illnesses
behaviour(s). Health At what age do
P. Saying "Please pass the sugar" Psychology children generally
Q. Experiencing hunger begin to acquire an
R. Walking rapidly emotional attachment
S. Feeling angry to their fathers?
Out of the following options, which is the Clinical Jiva, a college
correct answer to the question asked by the Psychology freshman, is worried
Professor? about her grades. She
(A) Only Q needs to learn better
(B) P and S organizational skills
(C) Q and S and study habits to
(D) P and Q cope with the
demands of college
57. While watching a cricket match, Tushar Counseling A strong fear of
saw that the batsman hit the ball for a Psychology crowds leads a young
massive six which went out of the stadium. woman to seek
The retinal image warped as Tushar treatment for her
tracked the cricket ball through the air, but problem
the ball always appeared perfectly roun(D)
This happens because of (A) 1- ii, 2-i, 3-iii, 4-i
(A) Aptitude (B) 1- ii, 2-i, 3-iv, 4-iii
(B) Learning (C) 1- iii, 2-i, 3-ii, 4-iv
(C) Attitude (D) 1-i, 2-iii, 3-ii, 4-iv
(D) Perception
60. Jitender visited his grandparents in the
58. First psychological laboratory was village during winter vacation. He
established in observed that his grandfather who had his
(A) 1879 breakfast at 9 am was arguing with his
(B) 1889 grandmother that he had not had his
(C) 1909 breakfast at all. Then in the afternoon he
(D) 1929 went out to buy vegetables from the
market but never returned. Late in the
evening a villager accompanied him home
and told that he was found moving in the
agricultural field and when asked, told this
person that he was unable to find his way
back home. Jitender observed that his
grandfather who was always a very tidy
person was spilling food all over his
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clothes whenever they sat down for a meal. 64. Rajayya, a 16 year old boy in his 10th
Jitender's grandfather seems to suffer from standard was one day caught smoking in
(A) Mental retardation the company of his friends. His teacher
(B) Muscular dystrophy was shocked to see him smoking because
(C) Alzheimer's disorder Rajayya was known to be an intelligent
(D) Psychiatric problem student from a very well-known family.
The teacher was worried about him. He
61. Bora is training the rabbits to run a maze thought of various ways of handling the
by following the right path without situation. One evening the teacher called
running into any blind alley. In order to Rajayya and said -- "Look Rajayya, we all
help them learn fast he decided to feed know you are a good student. We have lot
them with carrot in each trial. In which of of hopes on you. You can really top the
the following situations the rabbits are Board exams if only you work for it. But
more likely to learn fast? what I saw last evening is shocking. You
(A) If the rabbits are fed with carrot only started to smoke with those students who
when they take the right tum are just failures in life? Have you thought
(B) If the rabbits are fed with carrot after about your parents and their reactions
they reach the destination when they come to know of it? Is this what
(C) If the rabbits are fed with carrot before you give your parents in return to the life
they start running they gave you? .....". What is done by
(D) If the rabbits are fed with carrot every Rajayya's teacher is called
third time they set to run irrespective (A) Counseling
of mistakes (B) Moralizing
(C) Psychotherapy
62. Pramod is a Post Graduate student. He (D) Orienting
speaks clearly and is straight forward in
communication. Yet he avoids offending 65. Which of the following categories of
anyone. He is always willing to share Subjects are studied under Health
others' problems and extend help when Psychology research?
there is a need At times he expresses his (A) Patients with diabetes and high blood
displeasure and anger which is found to be pressure
appropriate. The entire college likes him (B) Children with mental retardation
and everyone knows Pramod Both teachers (C) Patients with psychotic problems
and students value his words. To sum up (D) All the above
one can say that what is impressive about
Pramod is his 66. Rahul is 45 year old artist. He paints
(A) Personality pictures. However he prefers to be alone
(B) Communication skills and likes to spend his time in his own
(C) Absence of ego world of fantasy. Rahul is
(D) Balanced emotions (A) Suffering from depression
(B) Suffering from sycophancy
63. Which of the following does not (C) Normal human being
constitute a part of Health Psychology (D) Suffering from phantasianervosa
(A) Health communication
(B) Organizational Behaviour 67. Imagine yourself attending a seminar,
(C) Health seeking Behaviour where two groups of people are
(D) Palliative Care simultaneously carrying on two different
conversations. You may be able to pick up
parts of both conversations at the same
time, this is referred to as
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(A) Parallel processing 72. While appearing at an entrance test of the

(B) Automatic processing course of Integrated M.S .C Health
(C) Perceptual processing Psychology, an applicant came across a
(D) Serial processing question-"Which of the following is not a
basic function of the nervous system?" The
68. A person who shares characteristics such applicant became very happy on seeing the
as shyness, social withdrawal and a question as he studied the nervous system
tendency not to talk much could be thoroughly before coming to appear at the
described as entrance examination. Which answer the
(A) Sissy applicant might have chosen to get the full
(B) Aggressive mark?
(C) Anti-social (A) Integrating information
(D) Introvert (B) Receiving information
(C) Erasing information
69. Which of the following is not a (D) Transmitting information
biomedical therapy?
(A) Electroconvulsive therapy 73. Addiction or dependence on intoxicating
(B) Chemotherapy substance is called
(C) Psychotherapy (A) Opium
(D) Radiation Therapy (B) Drug abuse
(C) Drosophila
70. Which of the following statements is true (D) Droperidolia
with reference to the consciousness of our
experiences and mental processes? 74. Stimulation of the nerve cells in the eye
(A) They are determined by neural triggers a neural response that is
activities transmitted to other nerve cells in the retina
(B) Brain determines the behaviour called bipolar cells and
(C) They are more than the neural or brain (A) Ganglion cells
activities (B) Opsin
(D) Biology determines Psychology (C) Tegmental cells
(D) Retina
71. Which of the following is not the task of a
Health Psychologist? 75. Jayanthi is a Psychologist. She was given a
(A) To examine the ways in which pair of identical twins aged 5 years as her
behaviour and mental processes such subjects. She put one of them in a pre-
as attitudes are related to physical school and the second one in a slum. After
health ten years she found that the one who was
(B) To study the effects of stress on health going to a pre-school did well in the
problems such as headaches, academics in the college while the one who
cardiovascular disease and cancer was placed in a slum did not do well in his
(C) To help clients gain a better awareness college. Jayanthi proved that one's
and understanding toward healthier performance is determined by
behaviour patterns such as exercising, (A) Genetic predisposition
quitting smoking and dietary patterns (B) Environmental impacts
(D) To treat and protect the health of (C) Combination of Genetic predisposition
patients with psychotic problems such and exposure to environment
as schizophrenia and bipolar disorders (D) The family to which one belonged
by providing appropriate medication
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76. Identify the portion/s with errors four
(i) the students who borrowed the/ (C) Our building is under renovation
(ii)books from the library were/ (D) Sonny thanked me for my fruit and
(iii) as ed to return back all the/ cakes
(iv) books to the library
(A) i, ii 82. Which of the following sentences is
(B) ii, iii incorrect?
(C) iii (A) The teacher warned his students
(D) iv against smoking
(B) Ashish was confined to bed with
77. Identify the portion with error severe fever
(A) Since the lack of (C) The artist has taken great pains on this
(B) manpower we cannot pictures
(C) conduct the survey (D) The child is crying on account of pain
(D) in rural areas. in the stomach
78. Identify the portion with error 83. Antonym of the word 'corroborate' is
(A) We have taken on (A) Support
(B) the responsibility of (B) Against
(C) arranging the required training (C) Confirm
(D) and supervise the new staff (D) Accord
79. Identify the portion (s) with error (s) 84. Antonym of the word 'apathetic' is
(i) If you did not got enough sleep, / (A) Lazy
(ii) apart of health problem you will/ (B) Uninterested
(iii) also run the risk of making/ (C) Indifferent
(iv) bad life decisions (D) Active
(A) iii, iv, i
(B) iii, iv 85. Antonym for the underlined word
(C) i, ii It was a very dreary day!
(D) ii, iii (A) Monotonous
(B) Bright
80. Identify the portion (s) with error (s) (C) Dangerous
(i) Professionals with knowledge in/(ii) (D) Unexciting
psychological counseling alone/(iii) will
have been appointed/(iv) on counseling 86. Nandini was at her wit's end to find that
centres her sister has failed
(A) i, ii (A) Enlightened
(B) ii, iii, iv (B) Perplexed
(C) i, iii (C) Curious
(D) iii, iv (D) Cheated
81. Which of the following sentence has an 87. Choose the correct meaning for the idiom
error? 'Cock and Bull Story'
(A) Reema could not start timely (A) To make someone laugh
(B) An unbelievable tale
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(D) Intentionally raise a false alarm hand, my heart is singing
(B) On the one hand, my stomach is
88. Choose the correct sentence growling and my mind is wandering,
(A) Before he went to U.S. he had read but on the other hand, my heart is
hundreds of books singing.
(B) Before he went to U.S. he had been (C) On the one hand, my stomach is
reading hundreds of books growling with my mind is wandering,
(C) Before he went to U.S. he read but on the other hand, my heart is
hundreds of books singing
(D) Before he went to U.S. he has been (D) On the one hand, my stomach is
reading hundreds of books growling and another hand my mind is
wandering, but on the second hand,
89. Which of the following sentences is my heart is singing
correct?
(A) Health is more preferable than wealth 93. Choose the correct reported speech for the
(B) He did not sign to the bond direct speech 'why don't you speak
(C) It is I who am to blame Telugu?'
(D) She seldom or ever goes out for a (A) She asked me why you didn't speak
morning walk Telugu
(B) She asked me why I didn't spoke
90. Correct the following sentence: We never Telugu
eat chocolate or ice cream. We do drink (C) She asked me why you didn't spoke
juice. Telugu
(A) We never eat chocolate or ice cream, (D) She asked me why I didn't speak
but we do drink juice Telugu
(B) Because we never eat chocolate or ice
cream, we drink juice 94. Choose the correct passive voice for active
(C) We never eat chocolate or ice cream, voice 'They say that women live longer
so we do drink juice than men’
(D) We never eat chocolate or ice cream (A) Women were said to live longer than
and drink juice men
(B) Women are said to live longer than
91. Choose the sentence that is closest in men
meaning to each of the following content (C) They said women live longer than men
"Cigarette?" he aske(D) "No, thanks." I (D) Women are said to be living longer
said than men
(A) He asked for a cigarette, and I
immediately refused 95. Synonym for 'Adversity'
(B) He mentioned a cigarette, so I thanked (A) Prosperity
him (B) Affliction
(C) He offered me a cigarette, but I (C) Achievement
promptly declined (D) Anguish
(D) He asked if I was smoking, and I
denied at once 96. Which of the following alternatives will
complete the sentence?
92. Choose the correct sentence “Children with disabilities and special
(A) On the one hand, my stomach is needs also have the right to education”
growling and on the other hand my (A) Even the same as any normal children
(B) Just as normal children do
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(C) Along the same with normal children (B) Chagrin

(D) More than the normal children (C) Catharsis
97. Select from the options the word which 99. A statement that is seemingly
best completes the meaning of the contradictory to common sense and yet is
following sentence as a whole. As we were perhaps true may be termed as _______
walking along the pavement, my little (A) Languid
child ___ on to the roa(D) (B) Halcyon
(A) Strayed (C) Desolate
(B) Went (D) Paradox
(C) Crept
(D) Crawled 100. OBJECTIVE: BIAS as
(A) Fallacious: Lies
98. A feeling of intense happiness and elation (B) Artistic: Alacrity
is termed as (C) Tentative: Certainty
(A) Euphoria (D) Awake: Insomnia
(D) Miasma
ANSWER KEY

1 A 26 C 51 C 76 D
2 D 27 A 52 D 77 B
3 D 28 C 53 A 78 A
4 B 29 A 54 B 79 C
5 D 30 C 55 B 80 C
6 A 31 A 56 C 81 B
7 C 32 A 57 D 82 C
8 D 33 A 58 A 83 B
9 D 34 D 59 B 84 D
10 C 35 B 60 C 85 D
11 A 36 B 61 A 86 B
12 A 37 C 62 A 87 B
13 A 38 A 63 A 88 A
14 D 39 D 64 B 89 B
15 C 40 D 65 D 90 B
16 B 41 C 66 C 91 C
17 D 42 C 67 A 92 B
18 B 43 D 68 D 93 D
19 A 44 C 69 A 94 B
20 C 45 D 70 B 95 D
21 C 46 A 71 D 96 B
22 C 47 C 72 D 97 C
23 C 48 C 73 B 98 A
24 C 49 A 74 A 99 D
25 D 50 A 75 B 100 C
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1. Which of the following is a behaviour 7. The responses or reactions we make or

(A) Day dreaming activities that we engage in are termed as
(B) sleeping and are studied in psychology
(C) Kicking a ball (A) Behaviour
(D) All of the above (B) Stimulus-response
(C) Psych-activities
2. In the nature-nurture issue, nature refers to (D) Response-activity continuum
heredity, and nurture refers to the
________ 8. Identify the name of the psychologist from
(A) Genetic the list given below
(B) Molecule (A) Madam Curie
(C) Environment (B) (B)F.skinner
(D) Affection (C) Mary Jain
(D) Tom Cruise
3. The genes a person inherits are called
____________; the observable 9. In olden days, the role of psychologist was
characteristics a person inherits are called played by
_______. (A) Grand Mother
(A) Gene; chromosome (B) Priest
(B) Genotype; phenotype (C) Teacher
(C) Chromosome; gene (D) All of the Above
(D) Phenotype; genotype
10. Which part of the brain controls posture
4. The three major ideas in the definition of and coordination?
psychology are (A) Cerebrum
(A) Behaviour, cognition, and emotion (B) Medulla
(B) Cognition, emotion, and science (C) Cerebellum
(C) Behavior, emotion, and mental (D) Corpus callosum
processes
(D) Behaviour, mental processes, and 11. Which one of the following contains the
science principles of psychology?
(A) Experimental psychology
5. __________ analyzed the dreams of his (B) General psychology
patients to help him understand their (C) Clinical psychology
unconscious needs and desires (D) Personality psychology
(A) Helmholtz
(B) Freud 12. Language is controlled by the ____ of the
(C) Archimedes brain.
(D) Aristotle (A) Left hemisphere
(B) Right hemisphere
6. Psychology is the scientific study of (C) Occipital lobe
(A) unconscious mind (D) Subcortical region
(B) mind and body
(C) consciousness and behaviour
(D) unconscious and conscious
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13. Contemporary psychologists consider that 19. The role of psychological factors in the
behaviour is influenced by development, prevention and treatment of
(A) Four factors any illness are focused upon in the branch
(B) Six factors of___________
(C) Two factors (A) Counselling psychology
(D) Many factors (B) Clinical psychology
(C) Abnormal psychology
14. Who among the following psychologists (D) Health psychology
is credited to be the founder of
psychology? 20. The distinctiveness and variation among
(A) Titchner people's characteristics and behaviour refer
(B) Freud to_______ the which is very important for
(C) Wilhelm Wundt psychologists.
(D) William James (A) Situationism
(B) Individual differences
15. Psychology has its roots in (C) Assessment
(A) Social sciences (D) Personality
(B) Natural sciences
(C) Philosophy 21. ________ seeks to understand, explain,
(D) Life sciences and predict behaviours that occur
throughout the lifespan
16. Being happy is one of the focus of (A) Developmental psychology
_________ (B) Predictive psychology
(A) Social psychology (C) Life span Biology
(B) Positive psychology (D) Biological psychology
(C) Cognitive psychology
(D) Emotional psychology 22. Which among the following is not an
important name in the field of psychology?
17. Psychologists who study various aspects (A) Sigmund Freud
of the human work environment, such as (B) Sudhir Kakar
communication among employees, (C) (B) F skinner
socialization or enculturation of workers, (D) Isaac Asimov
leadership, job satisfaction, stress and
burnout, and overall quality of life are 23. The emphasis of Health psychology is
called related to
(A) Industry-environmental psychologists (A) Deal with disease personalities
(B) Social psychologists (B) Heal immune disorders
(C) Work-communication psychologists (C) Promoting healthy lifestyles and
(D) Organizational psychologists behaviour
(D) Curing the mentally ill
18. __________ gives an understanding of
why people think, feel, and act as they do 24. The character of the child protagonist in
as well as insights in to one’s own the popular film 'Tare Zameen par' shows
attitudes and reaction poor academic performance owing to a
(A) Criminal psychology learning disability called _________
(B) Cognitive psychology identified by his teacher.
(C) Introductory psychology (A) Schizophrenia
(D) Insightful psychology (B) Dyslexia
(C) Antisocial personality
(D) Progeria syndrome
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25. The foundation of psychology was based (D) Fetal stage

on which of the following original ideas
(A) Observable behavior is the subject 31. Psychology studies
matter for psychological study (A) Human beings
(B) Mental processes of both human (B) Human beings and animals
beings and animals can be studied (C) Human beings, animals and birds
(C) Human beings are rational and animals (D) Human beings' animals, birds and
are irrational plants
(D) Mind and behaviour can be subject to
scientific investigation 32. How many universities in India offer a
course that gives a degree in Health
26. Psychology is considered as a science psychology?
primarily because (A) Six
(A) It utilizes the scientific method to (B) Three
study mental and behavioural (C) Two
processes (D) One
(B) It originally sprang from Medicine
(C) It tries to examine and understand 33. Which of the following refers to a group of
mental and behavioural processes well-known psychologists?
(D) It uses mathematical model to (A) Liller, Coby Klappe, Stickler
understand human mental and (B) Thorndike, Jung, Piaget
behavioural processes (C) Van Dego, Shokiyama
(D) Fraud Vavloky, Trigger
27. Pooja's grandmother recently had a stroke
after which she suffered from partial 34. Human brain consists of how many lobes?
blindness. Apparently the stroke has (A) 3
damaged her (B) 2
(A) Temporal Lobe (C) 4
(B) Occipital Lobe (D) 5
(C) Parietal Lobe
(D) Frontal Lobe 35. Gopal withdraws his hand from a hot
radiator pipe even before his brain receives
28. Agoraphobia is fear of a pain signal, demonstrating
(A) Heights (A) Reflex Arc
(B) Closed spaces (B) Basal Reflex
(C) Open spaces (C) Spinal Reflex
(D) Darkness (D) An Automatic Reflex
29. Personality of a person can be 36. The belief that investigators should be
(A) Measurable objective and use scientific data to test
(B) Manipulated their theories is known as the
(C) Directed (A) Scientific attitude
(D) Altered (B) Scientific objective
(C) Scientific method
30. ____________ stage begins after (D) Scientific value
implantation and lasts until eight weeks
after conception during pregnancy 37. The individual differences observed
(A) Zygote stage among people is because of which of the
(B) Embryonic stage following?
(C) Germinal stage (A) Heredity only
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(B) Environment only

(C) Learning only 42. The biorhythm that guides the daily
(D) Both heredity and environment waking and sleeping cycle in many
animals is
38. The four goals of psychology are to (A) REM
(A) Predict, describe, explain, control (B) Sleep-awake rhythm
(B) Predict contribute. describe, answer (C) Circadian rhythm
(C) Theorize, control, describe, explain (D) Bio-sleep rhythm
(D) Describe, explain, hypothesize, answer
43. The psychologist who was awarded the
39. Which of the following statements is Nobel Memorial prize in Economic
false? sciences for his ground breaking work in
(A) Psychologists tend to consider applying psychological insights to
research as one of their most economic theory, particularly in the areas
important activities of judgment and decision-making under
(B) Psychoanalysts majorly allow the uncertainty in 2002 was_______
patient to talk (A) Daniel Kahneman
(C) Psychologists, psychiatrists and (B) Amartya Sen
psychoanalysts use different (C) David M. Jacobs
approaches and hence cannot work (D) Ivan Pavlov
together
(D) Psychiatrists can prescribe medications 44. The first psychology tab was started by _in
when treating emotional disturbances 1879 in Leipzig.
(A) Sigmund Freud
40. Match the portion of the brain with its (B) Aristotle
function (C) Rene Descrates
(a) Medulla (i) Maintains (D) Wilhelm Wundt
breathing and
heartbeat. 45. A field that deals with both psychology
(b) Pons (ii) Controls bodily and Law is
balance. (A) Legology
(c) Cerebellum (iii) Coordinates (B) Psycholegality
and integrates (C) Forensic psychology
muscle movements (D) Law based psychology
(d) Reticular (iv) Activates other
formation parts of the brain to 46. Dr. Prakash is studying the changing
produce general pattern of behaviour among children of
bodily arousal. different ages. He is most likely a(n)
(A) School psychologist
(A) a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i (B) Health psychologist
(B) a-iv, b-ii, c-iii, d-i (C) Educational psychologist
(C) a-iii, b-i, d-ii, e-iv (D) Developmental psychologist
(D) a-i, b-iii, c-ii, d-iv
47. While travelling in a motorbike, Ramesh
41. Discrepancy between visual appearance faced an accident and he was immediately
and physical reality is called admitted to the nearby hospital. After the
(A) Physical Illusions medical diagnosis, it was observed that his
(B) Optical Illusions cerebellum was damaged. This would most
(C) Appearance Illusions likely result in
(D) Real Illusions (A) Loss of muscular coordination
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(B) Loss of hearing ability was unable to sleep. she felt that she would
(C) Loss of emotional response disappoint her parents and cried several
(D) Loss of vision times telling her parents that she may fail
them. The doctor felt that Kriti had
48. Dr. Urmila has taken up a project to symptoms of
understand how individuals are affected by (A) Mental Retardation
the presence of others. Her project belongs (B) Anxiety
to (C) Psychosis
(A) General Psychology (D) Fear
(B) Social Psychology
(C) Experimental Psychology 53. Psychologists study individual's
(D) Abnormal Psychology (A) Intelligence, Behaviour, Emotions
(B) Personality, Behaviour, Intelligence,
49. Out of the branches of psychology, Health Emotions
psychology is a(n) ________ (C) Emotions, Motivation, personality,
(A) Applied Psychology intelligence, Behaviour
(B) Pure Psychology (D) Emotions, Destiny, Motivation,
(C) Part of Clinical psychology personality, Intelligence, Behaviour
(D) Part of Positive Psychology
54. Rajesh had a pet dog. The dog was very
50. Rani forgot where she kept her driving fond of cookies. The minute the dog is
license. But when she was talking to Rema shown the cookies it starts salivating and
she suddenly could remember that she kept wags its tail. Rajesh started to play some
it in her wallet. What kind of memory was pranks with the dog. Every time he
present at that time? brought cookies for the dog he clapped to
(A) Episodic memory the dog before giving it the cookies. This
(B) Procedural memory continued for several days. After few days
(C) Flash bulb memory the dog started to
(D) Sematic memory (A) Dislike cookies
(B) Bark at Rajesh the minute he clapped
51. The year 20l5 is significant for (C) Salivated when it heard the claps
psychology in India because the Discipline (D) Be aggressive with Rajesh
completes
(A) 50 years in India 55. Chitku is a seven year old boy. However
(B) 175 years in India and 100 years in the he cannot speak coherently. follow He
world does not simple instructions. He cannot
(C) 75 years in India and 150 years in the control his bowel and bladder. He behaves
world like a three year old. He is diagnosed with
(D) 100 years in India mental retardation. After taking the history
the doctor could identify one reason for the
52. Kriti is in her 10th standard she has been problem
an average student. Her parents want her to (A) When Chitku's mother was pregnant
join Biology course in her intermediate so she lived in unhygienic slum
that she can write the entrance test for the (B) During pregnancy Chitku's mother
medical course and have a career as a travelled a lot
doctor. Kriti loves her parents a lot. she (C) During pregnancy Chitku's mother
always felt that she must fulfil their dream. worked in the office till the end
she studied very hard. But just few days (D) During pregnancy Chitku's mother
before her exams she felt that she would suffered from infections and took
not be able to do well in the exams. she antibiotics
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56. Which of the following is correct? 59. Colour is associated with the
(A) A Biologist does laboratory psychological term
experiments, A physicist does (A) Saturation
laboratory experiments, A social (B) Hue
scientist does field based studies and a (C) Tone
psychologist does laboratory based (D) Shade
experiments, field based studies and
observations and quasi experiments 60. Psychology is the study of which of the
(B) A Biologist does laboratory following
experiments and field based 1. Cognitive aspects of behaviour
experiments, A physicist does quasi 2. Conative aspects of behaviour
experiments, A social scientist does 3. Affective aspects of behaviour
field based studies and a psychologist 4. Effective aspects of behaviour
does laboratory based experiments,
field based studies and observations, (A) 1,2
quasi experiments and hospital based (B) 1,2 and 3
studies (C) 1, 2 and4
(C) A Biologist does quasi experiments (D) All of the above
laboratory experiments, A physicist
does laboratory based experiments, a
social scientist based studies and a
psychologist does clinical experiments
in hospitals
(D) A Biologist does experiments on
animals, a physicist does experiments
on nonliving elements and a
psychologist does experiments on
abnormal human beings
57. Psychology is a
(A) Social science
(B) Therapeutic science
(C) Science of Consciousness
(D) Behavioural science
58. Which of the following aspects has a

component nor studied by a
psychologist?
(A) Learning process, perception and its
dynamics, Memory and forgetting
(B) Physical structure of mind, Milestones of
development, Personality disorders
(C) Thinking process, Intelligence and its
quotient, wellbeing and its components
(D) Motivation and its hierarchy, Emotions
and their manifestations, creativity
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(A) Empathetic division of the peripheral

nervous system
61. Match each subfield of psychology with (B) Parasympathetic division of the
the issues or questions posed below. autonomic nervous system
(a) Health (i) At what age do (C) Somatic division of the peripheral
psychology children generally nervous system
begin to acquire an (D) Sympathetic division of the autonomic
emotional nervous system
attachment to their
fathers? 63. Alcoholics anonymous refers to
(b) (ii) What teaching (A) Addicts who want to remain
Developmental methods most anonymous
psychology effectively motivate (B) Support group to help de-addiction
elementary school (C) Secret act against alcoholism
students to (D) A governmental body to help alcoholic
successfully
accomplish 64. Swamy, is a good tennis player. He
academic tasks? represented the state in many matches and
(c) (iii) Janu's job is won. However in two consecutive matches
Educational demanding and swamy lost his match. One way of getting
psychology stressful. she swamy back to form is to
wonders if her (A) Criticize him severely for losing the
lifestyle is making match and invoke challenging spirit
her more prone to (B) Compare him with the person who
certain illnesses, won the match and make him feel
such as cancer and inferior
heart disease. (C) Remind him about the good times to
(d) (iv) Jeevan, a restore confidence in his ability
Counselling college freshman, is (D) Make him play with amateurs and win
psychology unable to perform the game to restore confidence in his
his grades in the ability
first year of college
as he finds it 65. An experience in which one sensation
difficult to cope (e.g., hearing a sound) creates experiences
with the new in another (e.g., vision) is called
environment, (A) Synaesthesia
friends and (B) Sensation-confusion
academic demands. (C) Mixed experience
(D) Sense amalgam
(A) 1- ii, 2-iv, 3-iii, 4-i
(B) 1- iv, 2-ii, 3-iii, 4-i 66. Prof. Raveena does her experiments on the
(C) 1- iii, 2-i, 3-ii, 4-iv chicks. she put 30 chicks in a small dark
(D) l- i, 2-iv, 3-iii, 4-ii room. Another set of 30 chicks are put in a
spacious lighted room that is decorated
62. Shyam just barely avoided a head-on with colourful paintings and also had mild
collision on a narrow road. With heart background music. Later she put the
pounding, Hands shaking, and body chicks into a maze and found out that the
perspiring, Shyam recognizes that these second set of chicks could run through the
are signs of the body's fight-or-flight maze faster and easier compared to the
response, which is controlled by
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first set. prof. Raveena did this experiment (C) Delusion disorders
to prove that (D) Schizophrenia
(A) Dark environment harms the chicks to 70. Which one of the following is wrongly
find their way even when they are explained?
brought back to normally lighted (A) Evolutionary - study of the evolution
environment of humans over time
(B) The chicks reared in lighted and (B) Developmental - study of our changing
colourful environment are healthier abilities from womb to tomb
than those in poor environment (C) Behavioural - study of all behaviour
(C) Human beings in lighted spacious and (D) Psychoanalytic - study how we
colourful environment can do better in perceive, thinks, and solve problems
maze learning
(D) Children brought up in enriched 71. Hari is pursuing his graduation in
physical environment can perform Mechanical Engineering. He is known as a
better than those reared in poor reserved person among his friends. He did
physical environment. not have any close friends. He reads lot of
books related to philosophy and religion.
67. The term 'Defense Mechanisms' is found Gradually he was seen to smile to himself
in and sometimes people observed him
(A) Political psychology talking to himself. When asked he said that
(B) Military psychology he hears the voice of the devil that
(C) Abnormal psychology challenges him. On hearing these
(D) Social psychology symptoms the doctor said, Hari
(A) Has hallucinations
68. Subhan is a 15 year old boy. He is very (B) Is Mentally Retarded
good at studying and is very hard working. (C) Is Crackpot
He always stood first in the class. His (D) Personality problem
performance. in the 10th class Board exam
was very good according to him. However 72. Who among the following are not the
when his results were out he found that he Nobel prize winners from Psychology
failed in one of the subjects. Subhan (A) Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen
rushed to his school and talked to his Head (B) Herbert Simon
Master very emotionally when the Head (C) Margarita Garriga
Master said that all he should do is to (D) Thomas Schelling
prepare for supplementary exams. He
came home and cried, did not eat or sleep 73. Which of the following groups consists of
for the next two days. His behaviour is at least one category who is not
said to be recommended to consult a Psychologist
(A) Normal & Natural (A) Patients having hallucinations, cancer
(B) Hysteric & Neurotic patients, couple with marital conflicts
(C) Abnormal & Acceptable (B) IT employee showing stress
(D) Asocial & Unacceptable symptoms, patients with neonatal
problems, persons under trauma after
69. A Women suffers minor injuries in a car witnessing a terrorist attack
accident and the driver of the car was (C) Parents with a child found to steal
dead. six months after the accident, she things in school, 85 year old man
still feels afraid of cars and avoids forgetting his address, student
traveling in them. The diagnosis is suddenly refusing to go back to hostel
(A) Post-traumatic stress syndrome (D) A woman who complaints that
(B) Traveling phobia someone unknown to her is planning
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to kill her, a 14 year old boy sexually feels intense nervousness. Rahul beats up
abused, a person who cannot stay his wife every evening demanding her to
without alcohol even for a day get dowry
(A) Babu Rao and Govind should be
74. Recently Hudhud cyclone has devastated referred to psychologist and Rahul
the coastal Andhra Pradesh. What is the should be handed over to police
probable psychological problem do the (B) Babu Rao and Rahul should be handed
victims suffer from? over to police and Govind should be
(A) Depression sent to a Psychiatrist
(B) Obsession (C) All the three should be referred to a
(C) Trauma psychologist
(D) Aggression (D) All the three should be referred to
Juvenile Reformation Centre
75. Whenever Babu Rao goes for shopping he
cannot resist stealing something from the
counter. Whenever Govind sees a girl he
76. Saniya behaves strangely at times and, 80. Which of the following parts of a sentence
therefore, nobody gets _______ with her has an error?
(A) About 'The students were awaiting for the arrival
(B) Through of the chief guest'
(C) Along (A) The students were
(D) Up (B) Awaiting for
(C) The arrival of the chief guest
77. Eros stands for Life and Death stands for? (D) All the above
(A) Thanatore
(B) Tantra 81. Fill in the blank with correct spelling:
(C) Thanatos Stress ___________ therapy
(D) Trans (A) Inoculation
(B) Innoculation
78. Which of the following parts of a (C) Inocculation
sentence has an error? (D) Inocullation
'If I had known this this yesterday, I will
have helped him' 82. Fill in the blank with a proper word
(A) If I had known A man behaving in a silly way because of
(B) This yesterday old age
(C) I will have helped him (A) Imbecility
(D) No mistake (B) Senility
(C) Sillinity
79. PAIN: SEDATIVE as in (D) Octogenerity
(A) Comfort: Stimulant
(B) Grief: Consolation 83. One of the strings my guitar is broken.
(C) Trance: Narcotic (A) In
(D) Ache: Extraction (B) On
(C) Of
(D) From
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84. Which one of the following is the correct 90. Frame the sentence with proper
spelling? sequencing of words given below
(A) Grammer p)I q) immediately r) salary s) my t) want
(B) Gramer (A) p,q,r,s,t
(C) Grammar (B) q,r,s,t,p
(D) Gramar (C) q,p,s,r,t
(D) p,t,s,r,q
85. The charter of United Nations specifies
about international rules. The word charter 91. Convert the following into direct speech
means which of the following I told him that he was not working hard
(A) Document (A) I said to him, "you are not working
(B) Paper hard"
(C) Guidelines (B) I told to him, "you are not working
(D) Norms hard"
(C) I said "you are not working hard"
86. Correct the highlighted portion of the (D) I said to him, "He is not working hard"
sentence 'I need not offer any explanation
regarding this incident - my behaviour is 92. Which of the following is correctly spelt?
speaking itself’. (A) Illustration
(A) Will speak to itself (B) Ilustration
(B) Speaks for itself (C) Ilusstration
(C) Has been speaking (D) Ilusttration
(D) Speaks about itself
93. Which of the following is correctly spelt?
87. Choose the correct answer (A) Amunittion
It has been established that ... P: Einstein (B) Amunition
was, Q: although a great scientist, R: weak (C) Ammunition
in arithmetic, S: right from his school days (D) Amunnition
(A) SRPQ
(B) QPRS 94. Which of the following is an incorrect
(C) QPSR sentence?
(D) RQPS (A) She lived a most happy life
(B) No other girl in the class is as good as
88. Rewrite the sentence changing the Smita
active/passive voice (C) Ranjan is wiser than all men
“Who is creating this Mess?” (D) She is senior to me by five years
(A) Who has been created this mess?
(B) By whom has this mess been created? 95. Choose the correct preposition from the
(C) By whom this mess is being created? given options for the following sentence.
(D) By whom is this mess being created? She is sanguine _________ success.
(A) Of
89. Write the antonym of QUESCENT (B) At
(A) Active (C) For
(B) Dormant (D) In
(C) Weak
(D) Unconcerned
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96. Match the group verbs with their Choose the right option from the given
meanings. alternatives to
(a) Put by (i) Save Fill in the blank
(b) Put in (ii) Control
(c) Put down (iii) Postpone 98. Is there ___________ bank near here?
(d) Put off (iv) Tell (A) A
(B) An
(A) I-P, II-S, III-Q, IV-R (C) The
(B) I-R, II-P, III-S, IV-Q (D) That
(C) I-Q, II-R, III-S, IV-P
(D) I-S, II-P, III-R, IV-Q 99. Would you like ____________ apple?
(A) A
97. From the following alternatives, choose (B) An
the most appropriate meaning of the phrase (C) The
'to eat humble pie' (D) That
(A) To eat slowly without disturbance
(B) To have an excellent dish 100. There was a queue of people
(C) To live happily with peace _____________ the bus stop.
(D) To have to apologize (A) At
(B) In
(C) On
(D) From
Answer key
1 C 26 A 51 D 76 C
2 C 27 B 52 B 77 C
3 B 28 C 53 C 78 C
4 D 29 A 54 C 79 B
5 B 30 B 55 D 80 B
6 C 31 A 56 B 81 A
7 A 32 D 57 D 82 B
8 B 33 B 58 B 83 C
9 D 34 C 59 B 84 C
10 C 35 C 60 B 85 C
11 A 36 C 61 C 86 B
12 A 37 D 62 D 87 B
13 C 38 A 63 B 88 D
14 C 39 C 64 C 89 A
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15 C 40 D 65 A 90 D
16 B 41 B 66 D 91 A
17 D 42 C 67 D 92 A
18 B 43 A 68 A 93 C
19 B 44 D 69 A 94 D
20 B 45 C 70 D 95 D
21 A 46 D 71 A 96 A
22 D 47 A 72 B 97 D
23 C 48 B 73 B 98 A
24 B 49 A 74 C 99 B
25 D 50 C 75 A 100 A
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1. Physical growth and development is called 7. Shekhar spends a lot of time in the forest
(A) Readiness and studies the behaviour of monkeys. He
(B) Heredity observes and records the movements of
(C) Maturation monkeys when they are in group, when
(D) Growth spurt they are alone, when there is limited food,
and when they are in playful mood.
2. Inadequate oxygen supply is called Shekhar is a
(A) Paranoia (A) Zoologist
(B) Anoxia (B) Psychologist
(C) Asphyxia (C) Anthropologist
(D) Amnesia (D) Sociologist
3. Psychologists who study teaching learning 8. By what age majority of the children
process in classrooms with the awareness develop toilet control, beyond which it
of the needs of special group of children should be a concern for parents to seek
are appropriate psychological help
(A) Psychotherapists (A) 1 year
(B) Psychoanalysts (B) 5 years
(C) Educational Psychologists (C) 7 years
(D) Specialty needs Psychologists (D) 8 years
4. A general term applying to behaviour 9. Abdul is a 28 year old man. He is well

aimed at hurting other people with feelings employed and earns a good living. His
of anger or hostility is parents want him to find a good bride and
(A) Aggression settle down in marriage. However the very
(B) Sadism thought of marriage brings some fears in
(C) Masochism his mind. He believes that he cannot cope
(D) Narcissism with married life. He talked to some of his
friends. Everyone advised him to take
5. The gland which secretes insulin and professional help. Abdul should see a
maintains carbohydrate metabolism is (A) Psychologist
called (B) Psychiatrist
(A) Liver (C) Psychopathologist
(B) Parathyroid (D) Psycholinguist
(C) Pancreas
(D) Adrenal 10. As Lasya crosses the road, a car swerves
towards her. Her heart beat races and
6. A Psychologist who studies visual sweat breaks out as she jumps out of
perception by recording the activity of harm's way. This mobilization of energy
nerve cells in the appropriate region of the is due to the action of Lasya's system
brain uses which of the following (A) Sympathetic
approaches? (B) Parasympathetic
(A) Biological (C) Somatic nervous
(B) Behavioural (D) Muscular skeletal
(C) Health
(D) Humanistic
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11. A horse can be taken to a river but cannot Which of the following is likely t be
be forced to drink the water. This is done by the Psychoiogist?
because the horse does not have the (A) Take the history of Priya, administer
(A) Desire to drink tests and provide counselling
(B) Perception to drink (B) Admit her in hospital and give shock
(C) Motivation to drink treatment
(D) Interest to drink (C) Do face reading of Priya, know the
real cause and surprise her by telling
12. 'Health Psychology' relates to her the facts
(A) Application of principles of health in (D) Make her lose her consciousness, talk
the field of Psychology during this state and bring her back to
(B) Studying the abnormality of people consciousness
with health problems
(C) Application of principles of 15. Prakash behaves in a bizarre manner. He
Psychology in the field of Health is found to preserve insignificant things
(D) Studying the Psychology of healthy like a piece of thread, a tooth paste lid or a
people twig fallen from the tree. Sometimes he is
found to sing to himself or play all by
13. Sukant is a Government employee. He is himself. There are occasions when he is
married and has two daughters aged 3 and found to sit in a comer and talk looking at
8. His wife works as a school teacher. the sky as if he is conversing with
Sukant loves his family and has created all someone over telephone. The last
comforts for them at home. But the only behaviour described is the result of
problem is he comes home late at night, (A) Illusion
totally drunk and behaves very violently (B) Delusion
with his wife. The children get very scared (C) Stigmatization
and everyone in the family loses sleep. (D) Hallucination
While Sukant goes to sleeps under the
influence of intoxication, his wife and 16. A group of school students were
children spend the night crying helplessly. discussing the meaning of 'Psychology'.
What should be done to bring peace to the Each one gave their interpretation.
family? Everyone felt that what they have said is
(A) Sukant should be handed over to correct because there is some reasoning in
police their explanation. Which of the following
(B) His wife should be taken to women meaning is correct?
protection cell (A) Psyche = Soul; Logos = Science
(C) Sukant should be sent for treatment (B) Psycho= Mind; Logy= Science
(D) Children should be admitted into a (C) Psyche = Mind; Logus = Science
boarding school (D) Psyche= Behaviour; Logos= Science
14. Priya is a 30 year old woman. She has 17. Simultaneous liking and disliking of an
been having severe problems with her object or a person is called
sister. She used to love her sister very (A) Ambivalence
much. But her hatred started very (B) Antivalence
recently. The entire family was (C) Persevarence
finding it difficult to accept this (D) Omnivalence
hateful behaviour of Priya who is
otherwise very loving and affectionate
towards others. They brought her to
the Psychologist for consultations.
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18. George has applied for a seat in medical (C) 2 X-chromosomes

course. He consulted a Psychologist to find (D) 23 X-chromosomes and 23 Y-
out ifhe would fit into the profession. The chromosomes
Psychologist administered a test and told
him that he would do very well in 23. A disorder which is characterized by
Accounting. The Psychologist came to a binge eating, followed by purging is
conclusion by testing his (A) Anorexia
(A) Interest (B) Bulimia
(B) Attitude (C) Macrophagia
(C) Motivation (D) Dyspepsia
(D) Aptitude
24. When we hear or see something, we
19. 'Think of eating an orange and when you understand what it is. This is technically
do so, there is a secretion of saliva in called
your mouth. As you continue thinking, the (A) Memory
amount of saliva in your mouth will (B) Sensation
increase measurably'. This response is a (C) Aptitude
result of (D) Perception
(A) Mental image
(B) Physical image 25. Emotions result in or are accompanied by
(C) Visual image several physiological changes. Which of
(D) Fruit image the following is not a physiological
response associated with emotion
20. Different individuals experience different (A) Palpitations
things. Even if we observe the same event (B) Tics
at the same time, we do not see the same (C) Disturbed thoughts
things. This proposes that (D) Heavy breathing
(A) Experience is objective
(B) Experience is subjective 26. Reasoning, judgment and attention are
(C) Experience is universal predominantly mediated by which of the
(D) Experience is different following lobes?
(A) Parietal lobe
21. Dr. Nandini is studying the impact of (B) Occipital lobe
early puberty on adolescent stress. She is (C) Frontal lobe
most likely ______a(n) Psychologist (D) Temporal lobe
(A) Educational
(B) Cognitive 27. Health Psychology is one of the main
(C) Developmental areas of
(D) Abnormal (A) Abnormal Psychology
(B) Clinical Psychology
22. Sheela's son is a very healthy and bright (C) Alternative Medicine
child. One day his teacher has taught about (D) Applied Psychology
chromosomes in his class. Returning
home, out of curiosity he asked his mother 28. Psychology is a study of
the type and number of chromosomes he (A) Mental processes and social influences
has. Out of the following answers, what (B) Social influences and sensations
Sheela would choose to reply to her son? (C) Sensations and behaviour
(A) 2 Y-chromosomes (D) Behaviour and mental processes
(B) 1 X-chromosome and 1 Y-
chromosome
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29. Advertisements have a strong influence coordination and quick shifts between the
on the buying habits and behaviour of the right and left foot pressing as well as eye-
people. Which branch of Psychology hand coordination. He conducts
studies this? experiments in his laboratory. Dr.Santosh
(A) Industrial Psychology is
(B) Consumer Psychology (A) Clinical Psychologist
(C) Habit formation Psychology (B) Experimental Psychologist
(D) Behavioural Psychology (C) Youth Psychologist
(D) Automobile Psychologist
30. A form of primary degenerative dementia
characterized by progressive mental 35. Janardhan met with an automobile
deterioration is accident. However there was no external
(A) Mental Retardation bleeding. Janardhan was taken to the
(B) Epilepsy hospital. He complained of unbearable
(C) Alzheimer's Disease head ache. The doctors advised a CT scan
(D) Bulimia of his brain. They found that one part of
the brain showed a concussion and
31. Which of the following is not closely bleeding. They told Janardhan's family
related to the field of Health Psychology? members that he may lose his eye sight
(A) Positive Psychology because of severe injury to brain. Which
(B) Clinical Psychology part ofJanardhan's brain was showing
(C) Medical Psychology bleeding?
(D) None of the above (A) Frontal Lobe
(B) Temporal Lobe
32. The famous theorist who emphasized on (C) Occipital Lobe
the role of unconscious processes was (D) Prefrontal Lobe
(A) Helmholtz
(B) Tolkein 36. Deepa is a four year old child. She saw
(C) Socrates that all the children in her neighbourhood
(D) Freud were riding bicycle. She too wanted one.
Finally her parents bought her a bicycle
33. Which of the following is not taken up by with small balancing wheels attached to
Psychologists? the rear wheel. Deepa started to use it but
(A) Systematic observation of differences found it difficult to ride. When she tried to
in the brain activity of creative and peddle, she went forward, and hit against
non-creative people the wall ahead. The problem was her
(B) Differences in school performance of (A) Mind-body coordination
children who come from two (B) Hand-foot coordination
socioeconomic groups (C) Sensory-perceptual coordination
(C) Behavioural differences between men (D) Sensory-motor coordination
and women
(D) Measuring the intelligence of 37. Praveen is a sensitive boy. He tries to do
computers belonging to different his best in his academics. But he has the
generations problem of stammering. Because of this he
avoids answering questions in the class
34. Dr. Santosh is a Psychologist. He is doing room. But his English teacher wants him
research on the problems of reflex action to get rid of such fear. So he makes it a
among the youth while one drives a point to ask him questions in the class.
vehicle on road. He developed an Praveen struggles and answers. However,
instrument for this, which requires the he feels very embarrassed and wishes that
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his teacher does not insist on his slurred speech. He had probably suffered
participation in the class. He hates to see damage to his
some of his classmates nudging or (A) Left cerebral cortex
giggling while he stammers. However, (B) Left parietal lobe
Praveen keeps such feelings to himself and (C) Right cerebral cortex
does not complain. Praveen (D) Vocal chords
(A) Represses his feelings
(B) Suppresses his feelings 42. Which of the following help in
(C) Feels depressed myelination of neurons
(D) Feels oppressed (A) Oligodendrocytes
(B) Schwan cells
38. Which of the following is included in the (C) Axonocytes
area of research of a Psychologist? (D) Cerebrocytes
(A) Studying the hand writings of
criminals and understanding their 43. Precognition refers to
thoughts (A) Knowledge of hidden object
(B) Studying the physiological changes in (B) Emotional disturbances
the person when s/he is under stress (C) Ability to foretell the future
(C) Studying the Magnetic Resonance (D) A kind of abnormal experience
Images of patients having neurological
problems 44. Which of the following is not helpful in
(D) Studying the biochemical reactions of understanding the brain?
a new medicine for mental illnes (A) ECG
(B) EEG
39. Reema wants to combine her interests in (C) CT Scan
singing and Psychology. She is interested (D) MRI
in understanding what characteristics of a 45. Which of the following statements is not
singer such as Lata Mangeshkar or Kishore correct?
Kumar might account for their particular (A) Brain discharges electric activity
style of singing. Which of the following potentials all the time
areas of Psychology should Reema focus (B) Aptitude is innate
on? (C) Rewards do not work with children
(A) Comparative with low intelligence
(B) Personality (D) Attention cannot be enhanced by
(C) Clinical medication
(D) Industrial
46. Which of the following is not an organ of
40. n its resting state, the inside of a neuron immune system
carries a (A) Skin
(A) Depolarized (B) Thymus
(B) Inactive (C) Bone marrow
(C) Negative (D) Kidney
(D) Positive
47. The following conditions have come to
41. Sagar was a senior executive in a your attention for counselling and
company. Being old, he was advised to guidance. Which of them indicate a need
take less responsibility and more rest. One for counselling?
day, after returning from office, he (A) A mother complaining that her eight
suffered a stroke. After that he had a month old baby bites any objects given
to the hand
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(B) A teacher reporting that a child in her 53. Abnormality is

class was crying on day one in the (A) Significant deviation from commonly
school originated patterns of emotion or
(C) A person reporting that he is scared of thought
facing an entrance examination (B) Significant deviation from patterns of
(D) A father complaining that his eight behaviour or thought followed by
years old child does not pay attention societal leaders
for more than half an hour at a go. (C) Significant deviation from ancestrally
determined patterns of behaviour,
48. Which of the following is not the name of emotion or thought
a pioneer Psychologist? (D) Significant deviation from commonly
(A) Freud accepted patterns of behaviour,
(B) Skinner emotion or thought
(C) Anthony
(D) Pavlov 54. Psychological treatments designed to help
people cope with physical health problems
49. Children who triumph in the face of are categorized under
adversity are called (A) Clinical Pathology
(A) Admirer (B) Behavioural Medicine
(B)Vitality (C) Pathological Psychology
(C) Winner (D) Medical Pathology
(D) Resilient
55. The fear of closed places is called
50. Emotional intelligence is (A) Closetophobia
(A) Emotions used to test intelligence of (B) Closure phobia
individual across the life span (C) Claustrophobia
(B) Intelligence in hiding emotions when (D) Clusterophobia
repulsive stimuli are faced
(C) An accurate index of achievements of 56. Srujana is a pampered child. She is highly
great people you hear about demanding. Her parents dote on her
(D) A tool to predict success in an because she is the only child in the family.
individual's life Srujana gets a lot of love and attention
from her parents and relatives. She expects
51. A business man dealing with garments the same from her classmates. Though the
wanted to decide which size he should classmates like her a lot they do not like
store in the largest quantity. Which her making undue demands on them. They
statistic is the most helpful? just dislike her boasting to them about the
(A) Mean latest brand of things she had bought,
(B) Mediai places she visited etc. The best way to
(C) Mode make her drop such boasting is
(D) Range (A) To tell her on the face that they do not
like such topics
52. A psychological disorder characterized by (B) Whenever she talks of such things they
lack of appetite, loss of weight and self too should start boasting
starvation is called (C) Pay no attention when she boasts and
(A) Anorexia nervosa talk well when she talks normally
(B) Apraxia abasia (D) Pay lot of attention whenever she
(C) Attitude deficiency boasts so that she feels satisfied
(D) Nutritional deficiency
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57. Radha has been a witness of the terror (A) Both were correct, but differed in their
attack on 26/11. She was at Victoria perception
Terminal along with her parents. She saw (B) Lavanya was wrong but Ravi was
the terrorists indiscriminately shooting the correct in perception
people on the platform. Her parents also (C) Both were correct and differed in their
died in the attack. It is three years since the thinking
attack happened. Now, Radha is alone in a (D) Both were wrong and differed in their
hostel. She sits alone most of the time. sensation
Sometimes cries a lot, eats very less and
does not show any interest in the 60. A Psychologist took his Subject to the
academics. She was taken to the mental laboratory. The Subject volunteered
hospital where himself for the experiment. The
(A) The Psychiatrist gives her counseling Psychologist blindfolded the Subject, his
and the Psychologist gives her therapy ears were plugged, and his whole body was
(B) The Psychologist gives medicine and sealed with thermocol package. He was
the Psychiatrist gives therapy kept in this silent dark laboratory. There
(C) The Psychiatrist gives medicines and was a one way mirror through which the
the Psychologist gives counseling Psychologist could see the Subject. The
(D) The Psychiatrist and the Psychologist Subject was instructed to continue being
give her electric shock there as long as he could. After four hours
the Subject started screaming 'Please
58. Ramji is a tall and well built handsome release me. I cannot be here anymore. I
person. He is very intelligent. He is strict want to be out'. The Psychologist
about his diet and exercise to take care of immediately released the Subject. The
his looks and health. He holds a very Psychologistwas studying the impact of
important administrative post in the (A) Perceptual Power of the Subject
Department of transport. He thinks that (B) Intellectual deprivation of the Subject
office time should be strictly for office (C) Sensory deprivation of the Subject
work and does not take any excuses from (D) Emotional strength of the Subject
his subordinates for not completing the
work. At the same time he is very helpful 61. Jolly, an abandoned child was adopted by
to those who are in problems. Describing Mr & Mrs Vikram when she was few days
Ramji, one of his colleagues said 'His old. She was not yet walking or started to
personality is admirable'. What his utter words. She was found to be passive
colleague referred to was Ramji's and silent most of the time. The parents
distinctive were worried because all the children of
(A) Physical Looks and Intelligence her age started talking sentences but Jolly
(B) Intelligence and Strictness was not even uttering words of their mother
(C) Behaviour and Thought tongue. When she was two, the couple
(D) Behaviour and Strictness consulted the doctor. The doctor said she
was a 'mongoloid child' hence they cannot
59. Ravi and Lavanya, twins aged 6 years expect her to talk and behave like other
were travelling in a train. Both of them children in their neighbourhood. What the
were looking out of the window. Ravi said doctor meant was that
that the plants alongside the track were (A) Jolly was a native of
traveling in the opposite direction. Mongolia Hence she cannot talk or
Lavanya said that the mountains at a behave like other children of her
distance were traveling with them in the neighbourhood
same direction.
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(B)Jolly was an adopted child. Hence her as the future of Fine Arts is not bright.
behaviour and speech will be delayed Raghu does not want to disappoint his
compared to other children of her age father. But he also does not want to
(C) Jolly was mentally retarded hence she sacrifice his dream
cannot be expected to talk or behave (D) John is found to behave very violently
like other children of her age with his friends and family. He does
(D) Jolly was suffering from a disease not sleep at nights and during the
which affected her vocal cord and whole night engages himself in cutting
ears. Hence she cannot talk or behave vegetables, listening to music and
like other children of her age singing loudly. He says he talks to the
unknown voices. He suspects his
62. Marilin is a Psychologist. Her area of mother of mixing poison in the food
research is to study the memory of people
between the ages of 60 and 80. She 65. Brain disorders are known to have several
compares the memory of men and women, causes. One of the causes is invasion of
people living in institutions and with parasites from eating raw, unhygienic
families. Her research is in the field of foods and salads. Which of the following
(A) Comparative Psychology is an example for this?
(B) Comparative Memory (A) Cysticercosis
(C) Geriatric Studies (B) Meningitis
(D) Cross-cultural Studies (C) Encephalitis
(D) Heamatoma
63. Ramesh was walking in a moonlit night
and looking at a lamp post. As he was 66. Eric Kandel got Nobel Prize in the year
approaching the lamp post, the intensity of 2000 for his experiments on learning and
the brightness of the light was increasing. memory. The experiments were conducted
When the intensity of the brightness of the on
light increased, the size of the action (A) Rhesus
potentials of the neurons involved (B) Salamander
(A) Increased (C) Aplysia
(B) Decreased (D) Fruit fly
(C) First increased and then decreased
(D) Remained the same 67. Match the parts of the brain with its
corresponding functions
64. Which of the following people are in need
of counselling? Parts of the brain Functions
(A) Rekha has a misunderstanding with (a) Frontal lobe (i) Receptive
her husban(D)She had an argument speech
with him. He got angry with her. Later
he thought it's ok. She is a person of (b) Parietal lobe (ii) Motor
quick temper and she cools down in coordination
no time
(B) Jayaram has gone to join his (c) Temporal (iii) Motor
Engineering course. His first choice of lobe planning
branch is Computer Engineering.
There was a seat available in this (d) Cerebellum (iv) Sensory
branch integration
(C) Raghu is a studious boy. He wants to
do a course in Fine arts. But his father
wishes that he should join Engineering
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(A) a-ii; b-i; c-iii; d-iv 73. Which of the following is not true?
(B) a-iii; b-iv; c-i; d-ii (A) Psychologists can infer much about
(C) a-iii; b-iv; c-ii; d-i what a person is trying to
(D) a-iv; b-iii; c-ii; d-i communicate by observing nonverbal
behaviour
68. Horizon moon appears bigger than the (B) Psychologists can infer much about
Zenith moon. This is due to what a person is trying to
(A) Illusion communicate by observing the
(B) Illumination variations in verbal behaviour
(C) Hallucination (C) Psychologists can infer much about
(D) Delusion what a person is trying to
communicate by understanding the
69. Which of the following statement about verbal and non verbal behaviour
the progress of Artificial Intelligence (D) Psychologists can infer much about
(AI) is not true? what a person is trying to
(A) AI can recognize emotions communicate by the form and content
(B) AI can perform complex calculations of verbal behaviour
(C) AI can play complex board games
(D) AI can independently create 74. What is conduction deafness?
algorhytms specific to situations (A) Hearing loss due to failure of the
auditory nerve
70. Which of the following is not a (B) Hearing loss due to problems with the
neurotransmitter? bones of the middle ear
(A) Seratonin (C) Hearing loss dueto failure of the visual
(B) Dopamine nerve
(C) Phenyle Alynase (D) Hearing loss due to problems with the
(D) Garnma-Arninobutyric Acid bones of the outer ear
71. Which of the following is a major health 75. Roshan is in his class X and is unable to
challenge for the 21t Century? understand and hence decide which career
(A) Schizophrenia path he is best suited to. His parents
(B) Noncommunicable diseases recommend some courses; his friends
(C) Polio decide upon some and media talks about
(D) HIV/AIDS some more. Every time he felt that the
course which is being talked about is the
72. Which of the combinations of the best choice for him. His school
statements given below is correct? recommended him to a Psychologist. What
(i) Attitudes are acquired through an should the Psychologist do?
individual's experiences (A) Listen to him carefully and patiently
(ii) Attitudes are acquired through social and decide which of the courses
influence mentioned by him are best for him
(iii) Attitudes are acquired through cultural (B) Recommend him for psychological
influences treatment owing to his pathological
iv) Attitudes are acquired through genetic indecisiveness
influences (C) Use hypnosis and clear out his
(A) i, ii, iii confusion so that he can take a
(B) ii, iii, iv decision under hypnotic trance
(C) i,iii, iv
(D) i,ii,iv
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(D) Use aptitude tests along with other

relevant measures to assess his skill in
suitable fields
Section B
(D) Sunayana would relive her childhood

76. Identify the correct spelling with friends
(A) Angxity
(B) Anxiety 81. Siraj said 'I was invited for a party by my
(C) Anxyty seniors. When I entered the venue, I saw
(D) Anxeity no one. Something was fishy'. What
Siraj meant was that
77. What is the meaning of 'Umpteen' (A) Though no one had arrived at the
(A) Clear venue, he could get the smell of fish
(B) Many curry from the kitchen
(C) Reimburse (B) Siraj found no one at the venue, but the
(D) Verify venue was decorated with a beautiful
aquarium
78. Identify the correct spelling (C) Since no one was there at the venue,
(A) Pharmaceutical Siraj thought there was something
(B) Pharrnacitical wrong
(C) Pharmaseutical (D) Though no one was present at the
(D) Pharrnacuetical venue, Siraj was sure that one of his
seniors was near the fish pond
79. A Psychologist conducted an examination
of the patient before planning for therapy. 82. The teacher said "Those who are keen to
Which of the following terms described have a successful career must know that it
this process accurately is necessary to have a contingent plan too".
(A) Evaluation What the teacher meant was that those
(B) Preparation keen on successful career must have
(C) Review (A) An alternative career plan
(D) Assessment (B) An intelligent career plan
(C) A concrete career plan
80. Sunayana was planning a trip to Ooty (D) A very high goal for career
along with her childhood friends. She was
talking about it to her class mate. 83. 'The University teacher has the autonomy
Sunayana told her with all excitement "All to structure the course'. Which of the
arrangements are made and we are going following translates the above statement?
to stay in the best resort. The eight of us in (A) The University teacher has the
the cottage; we are not going to sleep; we responsibility to structure the course
are going to have a wonderful experience (B) The University teacher has the
like - It would be such a thing to touch the freedom to structure the course
clouds that pass by....." she went on and (C) The University teacher has the
on. Her classmate said "Oh! What a compulsion to structure the course
fantasy!". What did Sunayana's friend (D) The University teacher is ordered to
mean? · structure the course
(A) Sunayana made fantastic arrangements
(B) Sunayana was a fan of her childhood
friend
(C) Sunayana was imagining a lot 84. Autophobia refers to
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(A) Fear of being alone (D) Fortuitous

(B) Fear of Autorickshaw
(C) Fear of automatic toys 92. Which of the following sentences is not
(D) Fear of failure correct?
(A) Cricket is a game of chance
85. Practice of doing good to one's fellow (B) Mr. Alexander has purchased new
men is called furniture’s from Metro-Mall
(A) Noble (C) Both the girls helped each other
(B) Philandery (D) Vijaya is very sorry about her
(C) Philanthropy misconduct
(D) Petrology
93. What is the antonym of 'Adherence'
86. Identify the correct spelling (A) Obedience
(A) Embarrassment (B) Devotion
(B) Embarrassement (C) Flout
(C) Embarrasment (D) Loyalty
(D) Emberrassment
94. What is the antonym of 'Discretionary'
87. -------- of the rainbow were against the (A) Optional
bright blue sky (B) Flexible
(A) Textures, Stormed (C) Open
(B) Hues, Vivid (D) Mandatory
(C) Lines, Darkened
(D) Hues, Fortuitous 95. Rafi returned to India after 25 years of
stay in Europe. He visited his village and
88. I would have lent you my notes if you the school where he studied. He found that
me the village has not changed much. He
(A) Would ask found the streets dirty, people unkempt. He
(B) Could have asked visited his school and sat in his old class
(C) Could ask room. He felt a sense of nostalgia What did
(D) Had asked Rafi feel as described in italics?
(A) Vomiting sensation because of the
89. The word which forms a part of binge unhygienic conditions
eating is (B) A sense of pleasure remembering the
(A) Devour past experience in school
(B) Energy (C) A sense of shame as to how he studied
(C) Vigour in such impoverished environment
(D) Rampant (D) A sense of pride that from such a small
village school he raised to the present
90. Out of the following four words, which is position
not the correct antonym of 'Emolument'
(A) Penalty 96. Which of the following gives the meaning
(B) Monument of 'Prophylactic'
(C) Punishment (A) Preventive measure
(D) Retribution (B) Power of prophecy
(C) Provocative act
91. Identify the correct spelling (D) Deprivation period
(A) Fortuituos
(B) Fortutois 97. Identify the correct version of the
(C) Fortiutous following sentence: 'Indiscriminate eating,
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drinking, and to stay up late at night are disturbances accurately. It's the best
among youth pleasures contributing to thing since sliced bread'
sleep disorders' (D) Wake up and smell the coffee: 'I know
(A) Indiscriminate eating, drinking, and to you are stressed out, but this mindset
stay up late at night are among youth won't work. Wake up and smell the
pleasures contribute to sleep disorders coffee'
(B) Indiscriminate eating, drinking, and to
stay up late at night is among youth
pleasures contributing to sleep
disorders
(C) Indiscriminate eat, drink, and to
remain up late at night are among
youth pleasures contributed to sleep
disorders
(D) Indiscriminate eating, drinking, and
staying up late at night are among
youth pleasures contributing to sleep
disorders
98. Find the most suitable term that describes

the underlined phrase in the following
sentence: 'The counselee relieved all her
suppressed emotions during the therapy'
(A) Subjugation
(B) Catharsis
(C) Congruence
(D) Repression
99. 'We become experienced as a result of

watching, listening to, or reading about
others'. Which of the following words
means the same
(A) Vicarious
(B) Experential
(C) Introsection
(D) Maifesance
100. In which of the following, the expression

does not match the idiom.
(A) Don't give up the day job: 'I know

you paint. But do not give up your
day job to pursue this hobby'
(B) Scrape the bottom of the barrel: 'He
failed in the test. In order to pass the
supplementary examination he has to
scrape the bottom of the barrel'
(C) The best thing since sliced bread: 'I
love this software to record sleep
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ANSWER KEY
Q. No Answer Q. No Answer Q. No Answer Q. No Answer Q. No Answer
1 C 21 C 41 A 61 C 81 C
2 B 22 D 42 B 62 A 82 B
3 C 23 B 43 C 63 A 83 B
4 A 24 D 44 A 64 D 84 A
5 C 25 C 45 C 65 A 85 C
6 A 26 C 46 D 66 C 86 A
7 B 27 D 47 D 67 B 87 B
8 B 28 D 48 C 68 A 88 D
9 A 29 B 49 C 69 D 89 A
10 A 30 C 50 D 70 C 90 C
11 C 31 D 51 A 71 B 91 D
12 C 32 D 52 A 72 A 92 D
13 C 33 D 53 D 73 D 93 C
14 A 34 B 54 B 74 D 94 D
15 D 35 C 55 C 75 D 95 B
16 A 36 D 56 C 76 B 96 D
17 A 37 B 57 C 77 B 97 D
18 D 38 B 58 C 78 A 98 B
19 C 39 A 59 A 79 A 99 A
20 B 40 C 60 D 80 C 100 B
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1. The belief that/ can do it is known as (A) Short-term memory

(A) Self-image (B) Sensory memory
(B) Self-esteem (C) Automatic processing
(C) Self-determination (D) Echoic memory
(D) Self-efficacy
7. Madan wants to buy his wife the diamond
2. A classic study conducted on baby ring she always wanted, but he feels he
monkeys with their wire mothers and cloth should be more conservative with his
mothers demonstrates which of the money. What type of conflict is he facing?
following? (A) Approach-approach
(A) Parenting (B) Approach-avoidance
(B) Attachment (C) Avoidance-avoidance
(C) Feeding (D) Positive approach
(D) Trust
8. Homeostasis is best defined as
3. Anand wants to study the process of (A) The physiological need to satisfy your
thinking. Which field of Psychology hunger or thirst
should he choose? (B) The release of the hormone serotonin
(A) Cognitive (C) The arousal of the autonomic nervous
(B) Social system
(C) Personality (D) The body's tendency to maintain
(D) Learning balance
4. The gap between two neurons is called 9. Knowledge and understanding of one's
(A) Synapse own mental processes is called
(B) Rift (A) Cognition
(C) Synaptic cleft (B) Metacognition
(D) Synaptic lacuna (C) Monocognition
(D) Cognitive map
5. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs,
an adolescent who is beginning to form 10. A strong, persistent, and irrational fear of
serious romantic relationships would be in some specific object or situation that in
what level? fact does not present any danger to the
(A) Physiological needs person is
(B) Safety needs (A) Anxiety
(C) Esteem needs (B) Illusion
(D) Belongingness needs (C) Phobia
(D) Disillusion
6. Mithuna looks up a telephone number to
order something. She repeats it over and 11. Which of the following examples best
over as she dials the number. However, illustrates an intrinsic motivation?
after giving her order and hanging up, she (A) Running a marathon to support breast
has forgotten the number. This is an cancer
example of (B) Rock climbing to win first prize
(C) Graduating with Gold Medal
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(D) Trying for the position of Captain in 15. An eating disorder that involves relentless
Basketball team pursuit of thinness through starvation is
referred to
12. As suggested by Tuckman, groups pass (A) Anorexia Nervosa
through five developmental sequences. (B) Bulimia
Identify the correct sequence from the (C) Female disorders
options given below (D) Age related transition
(A) Forming-storming-norming-
performing-adjourning 16. Motivation starts with an individual’s
(B) Norming-performing-storming- (A) Emotion
forming-adjourning (B) Arousal
(C) Performing-adjourning-storming- (C) Need
forming-norming (D) Drive
(D) Storming-norming-forming-
performing-adjourning 17. The two-step concept of attitude change
was proposed by
13. Which of the following is true in the (A) E. G. Parameswaran
context of development? (B) S. M. Mohsin
(A) Development takes place in childhood, (C) A. S. Dash
it is a concern of an independent (D) V. S. Bose
discipline of Psychology
(B) Development is the pattern of 18. Children see the world only in terms of
progressive, orderly, and predictable their own selves and are not able to
changes that begin at conception and appreciate others' point of view. This
continue throughout life salient feature is referred as
(C) Development is influenced only by (A) Centration
biological processes inherited from (B) Animism
parents, such as height and weight (C) Egocentrism
(D) Development refers to an increase in (D) Conservation
size of body parts or of the organism
as a whole 19. Asch's experiment on group pressure and
conformity was conducted on a group of
14. Match the following participants. It was a/an
(A) Audio-visual test
Category A Category B (B) Paper-pencil test
(a) Erik Erikson (i) Ecological (C) Auditory test
Model (D) Visual test
(b) Jean Piaget (ii) Moral
Development 20. The concept of Cognitive Dissonance was
(c) Lawrence (iii) Cognitive proposed by
Kohlberg Development (A) Levis Fredrick
(d) Durganand (iv) Psychosocial (B) Leon Festinger
Sinha Development (C) Gordon Allport
(A) i-d, ii-a, iii-b, iv-c (D) Hans Selye
(B) i-d, ii-b, iii-c, iv-a
(C) i-d, ii-c, iii-a, iv-b 21. Chitra has a somewhat positive attitude
(D) i-d, ii-c, iii-b, iv-a towards empowerment of women. Reading
about a successful woman may make
Chitra's attitude more positive. This would
be a/an
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(A) Social change 27. The part of the neuron that carries
(B) Rational change information from cell body to other
(C) Incongruent change neurons is called
(D) Congruent change (A) Nucleus
(B) Dendrite
22. The second stage of Freud's Psychosexual (C) Axon
development when the pleasure is derived (D) Efferent nerve
out of retention and expulsion of faeces is
called 28. Baba Saheb Amte and Mother Teresa are
(A) Oral stage persons who are prosocial. They have high
(B) Phallic stage level of
(C) Anal stage (A) Simplicity
(D) Latent stage (B) Multiplicity
(C) Empathy
23. The neurological developmental disorder (D) Sympathy
that begins in infancy involving wide
range of abnormalities that includes 29. The almond shaped neural clusters that
deficits in language, perception, motor are components of limbic system and
development, and social withdrawal is related to emotion are called
called (A) Amygdala
(A) Autism Spectrum Disorder (B) Thalamus
(B) Childhood Schizophrenia (C) Hypothalamus
(C) Mental Retardation (D) Cingulate gyrus
(D) Cerebral Palsy
30. The method in Psychology that involves
24. Irrational beliefs that are held in spite of in-depth study of one person is called
overwhelming evidence on the contrary is (A) Case Study
called (B) Case History
(A) Illusion (C) Focus Group Interview
(B) Hallucination (D) Case Sheet
(C) Delusion
(D) Sublimation 31. A state of mind accompanied by affective,
cognitive, and behavioural components is
25. Maanu sits at her kitchen table to think known as
about what she needs to buy at the grocery (A) Apprehension
store. She is using her ability to (B) Attributes
(A) Recognise (C) Association
(B) Recite (D) Attitude
(C) Memorise
(D) Recall 32. In Psychology Behaviour refers to
(A) Character of an individual that stands
26. A combination of characteristics indicative as a testimony for one's good conduct
of individual's potential to acquire some (B) Internal or external action or reaction
specific skills with training is called of a person that can be observed
(A) Heredity (C) External action or reaction of the
(B) Aptitude person that can be observed
(C) Competence (D) The actions and reactions of an
(D) Ability individual that comply with a set of
norms
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33. The hormone in human body that prepares sports and cultural activities. He is also a
one for fight, flight, or fright reaction to a very good leader in organizing
stressful situation is called programmes in his class. However, when it
(A) Thyroxine comes to reading he is observed to have
(B) Oxytocin difficulty. Dhanush has a condition that is
(C) Adrenaline termed as
(D) Corticotropin (A) Dyslexia
(B) Dyspraxia
34. Ramesh is a 15-year old boy. He gets bored (C) Dyscalculia
with writing the same answers over and (D) Echolalia
over again. He loves to come up with
alternatives to different scientific theories. 38. The rule that speaks about combining
His answers are found to be very different words to form acceptable phrases and
from the text book answers and each time sentences is called
he answers the same question, he comes up (A) Semantic
with a new explanation. Ramesh's thinking (B) Syntax
is (C) Symbols
(A) Deviant (D) Logistic
(B) Divergent
(C) Convergent 39. Soma or cell body of a neuron contains
(D) Abnormal __________ that stores genetic materials
of the neuron that becomes actively
35. Jolly is a six-year old girl. Her parents were engaged during cell reproduction and
worried that her development was not in protein synthesis
line with the normal children. They took (A) Nucleus
her to a Psychologist. The Psychologist (B) Dendrite
administered several tests. One of the tests (C) Axon
required Jolly to pick up thin pins from a (D) Glia cells
bowl and place them in a slot where they
could stand. In this test the Psychologist 40. Kaaliya was an employee who has been
was testing Jolly's caught taking bribe. His colleagues were
(i)Gross motor coordination asked to decide on what punishment he
(ii)Fine motor coordination should be given. They may let him go
(iii)Level of attention scot-free or decide to terminate his
(A) Only i services instead of imposing a punishment
(B) Only ii which may be appropriate with the
(C) i and ii unethical act he had engaged in. Upon
(D) ii and iii discussions, the group gets strengthened
from initial position. The group is likely to
36. Which organ is related to the vestibular take strong or weak decision. This is
system that gives us information about our referred as
body position, movement, and (A) Group polarisation
acceleration? (B) Group compliance
(A) Tongue (C) Group structure
(B) Skin (D) Group cohesiveness
(C) Eye
(D) Ear 41. Who among the following had set up a
Psychology Laboratory in Cambridge,
37. Dhanush is a 13-year old boy. He is very Massachusetts soon after the setting up of
active and charming. He is very good at the first experimental laboratory?
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(A) Edward Bradford Titchener something valuable, and is not getting

(B) John Broadus Watson something what s/he deserves?
(C) Wilhelm Wundt (A) Poverty
(D) William James (B) Deprivation
(C) Discrimination
42. ________ is part of the brain which is a (D) Deficiency
continuation of spinal cord and contains
neural centers that regulate basic life 47. I met a group of boys and girls in the age
support activities such as breathing, heart group of 15 to 17 years and interacted with
rate, and blood pressure them. Each one had a story to share with
(A) Cerebrum me. One of them has come to the city
(B) Thalamus running away from his home and family.
(C) Medulla oblongata The second one had attempted to sell ganja
(D) Parietal lobe in his school and got caught. The third one
is involved in cheating the commuters at
43. _________is part of the midbrain the traffic signals. They all belong to the
responsible for making us alert and active. category of
It also helps an individual in selecting (A) Adolescent Mafia
information from the environment (B) Asocial elements
(A) Sympathetic division (C) Juvenile delinquents
(B) Parasympathetic division (D) Juvenile rebels
(C) Reticular activating system
(D) Temporal lobe 48. Which one of the following is not
included in Gestalt principles of
44. Gopal's parents encourage him to do things perception?
on his own and take decisions about the (A) Principle of proximity
course he wishes to pursue, games he (B) Principle of continuity
wants to play, and clothes he wants to buy. (C) Principle of largeness
However, they do not allow him to drive (D) Principle of closure
the car as he is still 16 years; they also
advise him against trying drugs even for 49. Which of the following is a carefully
the sake of curiosity and want him to come regulated procedure where changes are
back home before dinner time. Gopal's made in one factor and its effect is studied
parents follow on another factor, while keeping other
(A) Authoritarian parenting related factors constant?
(B) Authoritative parenting (A) Observation
(C) Democratic parenting (B) Case study
(D) Restrictive parenting (C) Case history
(D) Experiment
45. Who among the following proposed two
types of thinking known as convergent and 50. Which of the following is a type of
divergent thinking? reasoning that begins with specific and
(A) Jean Piaget moves to general?
(B) Gordon Allport (A) Inductive reasoning
(C) J.P. Guilford (B) Deductive reasoning
(D) Wilhelm Wundt (C) Scientific reasoning
(D) Analogy
46. Which of the following refers to the state in
which a person feels that s/he has lost 51. The attributes of persons that make them
different from others refer to
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(A) Identity crisis (B) Linear perspective

(B) Personal identity (C) Relative size
(C) Identity development (D) Proximity
(D) Social identity
58. Which of the following answers indicates
52. The value judgement of a person about the Four D's, the most common features in
himself/herself is called the definition of abnormality?
(A) Self esteem (A) Defense, disability, depression,
(B) Judgement error delusion
(C) Value knowledge (B) Delusion, diffusion, directionlessness,
(D) Self-efficacy discouragement
(C) Deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger
53. The term Personality is derived from (D) Dullness, distraction, difference,
________ theatre to the mask used by disintegration
actors in theatre
(A) Senility 59. Which of the following branches of
(B) Sanity Psychology focuses on the role of
(C) Persona psychological factors in the development,
(D) Person and sonality prevention, and treatment of illness?
(A) Developmental Psychology
54. When the value of one variable decreases, (B) Biological Psychology
the value of the other variable also (C) Environmental Psychology
decreases. This is known as (D) Health Psychology
(A) Positive correlation
(B) Negative correlation 60. The classification of both physical and
(C) Zero correlation mental disorders used worldwide and
(D) Inverse correlation accepted by the World Health
Organization (WHO) is
55. The approach to studying personality (A) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
termed as Psychodynamic Approach owes Mental Disorders (DSM)
largely to the contributions of (B) International Classification of Diseases
(A) Carl Rogers (ICD)
(B) Wolfgang Kohler (C) Diagnosis and Statistics of Medical
(C) Ivan Pavlov Disorders (DSM)
(D) Sigmund Freud (D) International Chronology of Disorders
(ICD)
56. A kind of severe mental retardation
(intellectual disability) due to
chromosomal aberrations where one extra 61. The procedure of analyzing and
chromosome is found in the 21st pair of evaluating people in terms of certain
chromosomes is psychological characteristics often with a
(A) Schizophrenia goal to predict an individual's behaviour
(B) Cretinism with a high degree of accuracy is termed as
(C) Brain syndrome (A) Personality assessment
(D) Down's syndrome (B) Psychological analysis
(C) Characteristic evaluation
57. In perception, a phenomenon by which (D) Behaviour prediction
distant objects appear to be closer together
than closer objects, is called 62. The procedure used by trained
(A) Interposition or overlapping professional Psychologists with an aim to
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remove human distress and foster effective (i) Adapting to a new situation
behaviour refers to (ii) Learning from the experience
(A) Electro convulsive therapy (iii) Thinking abstractly
(B) Psychokinesis (A) i and ii
(C) Psychotherapy (B) i and iii
(D) Mind reading (C) ii and iii
(D) i, ii, and iii
63. Which of the following is a procedure in
which participants in psychological 69. The measurement of psychological
experiments are asked to describe in detail attributes of individuals and their
their own mental processes or evaluation, often using standard methods,
experiences? is called
(A) Case study (A) Individual difference
(B) Introspection (B) Appraisal
(C) Observation (C) Assessment
(D) Incubation (D) Aptitude
64. An ancient Indian system of thought as 70. Reema went through a selection process
well as practice is very pertinent to the and got qualified to be a part of the
treatment and prevention of psychological gymnastics team for the Commonwealth
disorders as well as the maintenance and Games. According to Psychologists, she
promotion of physical and psychological would be high on _______ intelligence
well-being is (A) Naturalistic
(A) Relaxation (B) Spatial
(B) Yoga (C) Intrapersonal
(C) Triguna (D) Kinesthetic
(D) Tridosha
71. The correct order of Hans Seyle's General
65. Depression is associated with low levels of Adaptation Syndrome is
(A) Acetylcholine (A) Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
(B) Epinephrine (B) Resistance, alarm, exhaustion
(C) Serotonin (C) Exhaustion, alarm, resistance
(D) Dopamine (D) Resistance, exhaustion, alarm
66. Who among the following published the

book entitled, 'Psychology in a Third
World Country: The Indian Experience'? 72. Psychoneuroimmunology is the study of
(A) Radhakamal Mukerjee links between
(B) G. Bose (A) Immune system, endocrine system,
(C) N. N. Sengupta mind, and behaviour
(D) Durganand Sinha (B) Body, brain, immune system, and
mind
67. A cluster of symptoms generally found (C) Immune system, mind, body, and brain
together is called (D) Body, behaviour, immune system, and
(A) Syndrome endocrine system
(B) Complex symptoms
(C) Diathesis 73. Alfred Binet first attempted to measure
(D) Composites intelligence in the year
(A) 1911
68. According to the definition, Intelligence is (B) 1920
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(C) 1905 He said to her, "I want to see you now"

(D) 1909 (A) He told her that he wanted to see her
then
74. Which one of the following is a cognitive (B) He said to her that he want to see her
effect of stress? now
(A) Changes in the body’s metabolic (C) He told her that he want to see her now
activity (D) He said to her that he wants to see her
(B) Loss of ability to make decisions then
(C) Extreme mood swings
(D) Difficulty in sleep 79. Choose the correct sentence
(A) The five children really enjoyed the
75. Which of the following refers to the ability show and was happy to share the
to put up with a situation in which sweets among them
individuals would have to compete with (B) The five children really enjoyed the
many others for even basic resources, show and were happy to share the
including physical space? sweets between them
(A) Frustration tolerance (C) The five children really enjoyed the
(B) Crowding tolerance show and were happy to shared the
(C) Basic tolerance sweets between them
(D) Competition tolerance (D) The five children really enjoyed the
show and were happy to share the
76. Eminent is to unknown as descendant is to sweets among them
(A) Accent
(B) Ancestor 80. The antonym for Stubborn is
(C) Family (A) Obstinate
(D) Product (B) Compliant
(C) Wayward
77. In the following question, the first and the (D) Adamant
last parts of the sentence are numbered as
(1) and (6). The rest of the sentence is split 81. Choose the correct indirect speech for the
into four parts and named as (P), (Q), (R), following
and (S). These four parts are not given in Rani says, "I love watching TV"
their proper order. Read the jumbled parts (A) Rani said she loved watching TV
of the sentence and find out which of the (B) She loves watching TV says Rani
four combinations is correct (C) Watching TV is loved by Rani
(1) India has been a land (D) Rani watching TV is loved
(P) but in the sense that learning has
always been very highly valued / (Q) not 82. Read the incomplete sentence. Choose the
indeed in the sense that education has been most appropriate option
universal / (R) and the learned man has The doctor suggested __________ take a
been held in higher esteem / (S) of learning vacation
throughout the ages (A) The patient
(6) than the warrior or the administrator (B) To the patient
(A) PQSR (C) That the patient should
(B) RQPS (D) That the patient to
(C) RSQP
(D) SQPR 83. Which of the following can replace the
underlined word?
78. Choose the correct indirect speech for the The lion attacked the man
following A. Ran at
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(B) Ran into (iv) the same proposal previously done by

(C) Ran through anyone else
(D) Ran after (A) i
(B) i and ii
84. The antonym for Lucrative is (C) ii and iii
(A) Unprofitable (D) iii and iv
(B) Unlimited
(C) Advantageous 90. The synonym for Ruckus is
(D) Optional (A) Uproar
(B) Calm
85. Identify the past perfect continuous tense (C) Tranquility
(A) I was speaking (D) Order
(B) I have been speaking
(C) I spoke 91. The antonym for Conditional is
(D) I had been speaking (A) Erroneous
(B) Reconditioned
86. Find the word that is similar in meaning to (C) Unrestricted
the underlined word (D) Dependent
The magistrate acquitted him of all the
charges 92. Select the correct choice to replace the
(A) Broke mistakes in the underlined part of the
(B) Exonerated following sentence
(C) Impeached Each of the essays were great and the
(D) Arraigned choice for the best one among all three
were very difficult
87. He profited ____________ the dissentions (A) Were great and the choice for the best
of the King ones among all three were difficult
(A) From (B) Was great and the choice for the best
(B) To ones among all three were very
(C) By difficult
(D) For (C) Were great and the choice for the
bester one among all three was very
88. The patient's family was perturbed about difficult
the recovery of the patient ___________ (D) Was great and the choice for the best
the assurance of the nurse. They wanted one among all three was very difficult
the doctor to talk to them about his health
status 93. Stingy: Generous:
(A) Against (A) Fascination: Interest
(B) Despite (B) Skeptical: Believe
(C) Despite of (C) Contrast: Opposite
(D) Nevertheless (D) Phobia: Fear
89. Find the part(s) that has/have error(s) in the 94. In the following question, the first and the
following sentence last parts of the sentence are numbered
(i) The Professor clearly laid the restriction as(1) and (6). The rest of the sentence is
/ split into four parts and named as (P), (Q),
(ii) that all proposals for the field projects (R), and (S). These four parts are not given
has to be / in their proper order. Read the jumbled
(iii) original and no students can replicate parts of the sentence and find out which of
the four combinations is correct
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(I) Lakhs of students (B) My friend asked if I will be coming to

(P) on all India basis / (Q) from all over the party
India / (R) which are held / (S) appear in (C) My friend asked if I was coming to the
the examinations party
(6) by different recruiting organisations (D) My friend asked that whether I was
(A) PQSR coming to the party
(B) SRQP
(C) QSRP 98. Write correct order of the continuation of
(D) QSPR the following statement
The vegetable vendor
95. Choose the correct sentence (i) did not listen to the complaints of
(A) After obtaining a award at customers
international seminar, when the (ii) who was in the habit of weighing less
professor returned to his home town, (iii) whom he had cheated
he was regarded with awe (iv) with great audacity
(B) After obtained an award at (A) i, iii, iv, ii
international seminar, when the (B) ii, iv, i, iii
professor returned back to his home (C) i, ii, iv, iii
town, he was regarded with awesome (D) ii, i, iii, iv
(C) After obtaining an award in the
international seminar, when the 99. Poverty stared _________ her face
professor returned back to his home (A) In
town, he was regarded with (B) At
awesomeness (C) On
(D) After obtaining an award at (D) With
international seminar, when the
professor returned to his home town,
he was regarded with awe 100. Choose the correct indirect speech for
the following
96. Choose the correct spelling Rajiv said to his father, "Please increase
(A) Affedevit my pocket money"
(B) Afidevit (A) Rajiv asked his father to increase his
(C) Affidevit pocket money
(D) Affidavit (B) Rajiv requested his father to increase
his pocket money
97. Choose the correct indirect speech for the (C) Rajiv told his father to increase his
following pocket money
My friend said to me, "Are you coming to (D) Rajiv pleased his father to increase his
the party?" pocket money
(A) My friend enquired if I am coming to
the party
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ANSWERKEY
1 D 26 B 51 B 76 B
2 B 27 C 52 A 77 D
3 A 28 C 53 C 78 A
4 C 29 A 54 A 79 D
5 D 30 A 55 D 80 B
6 A 31 D 56 D 81 A
7 B 32 B 57 B 82 C
8 D 33 C 58 C 83 A
9 B 34 B 59 D 84 A
10 C 35 B 60 B 85 D
11 A 36 D 61 A 86 B
12 A 37 A 62 C 87 A
13 B 38 B 63 B 88 B
14 D 39 A 64 B 89 B
15 A 40 B 65 C 90 A
16 C 41 D 66 D 91 C
17 B 42 C 67 A 92 D
18 C 43 C 68 D 93 B
19 D 44 B 69 C 94 C
20 B 45 C 70 D 95 D
21 D 46 B 71 A 96 D
22 C 47 C 72 D 97 C
23 A 48 C 73 C 98 D
24 C 49 D 74 B 99 B
25 D 50 A 75 D 100 B
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1. Central part of retina is called (B) Neuro immunology

(A) Fovea (C) Psycho neuro immunology
(B) Cornea (D) Psycho physiology
(C) Rods
(D) Cons 7. The Behavioural Sciences include
(A) History
2. Which of the following is not the branch of (B) Economics
Psychology (C) Both
(A) Abnormal Psychology (D) Neither
(B) Social Psychology
(C) Critical Psychology 8. Psychology as a Science of Behavior
(D) Cognitive Psychology involves
(A) Assessment
3. A person says he is able to hear ghosts (B) Prediction
speaking to him and answers them back very (C) Control
violently by hitting in the air with a stick. He (D) All the above
should be sent
(A) For witchcraft 9. The term 'Organism’ includes
(B) For treatment (A) Human beings and animals
(C) To a place of worship (B) Animals and birds
(D) To the police station (C) Animals, birds, insects and human
beings
4. Psychology involves the study of which of (D) Animals, birds and insects
the following
(i) Emotion 10. A new born baby is called
(ii) Thoughts (A) Prenate
(iii)Behaviour (B) Neonate
(iv) Motivation (C) Postnate
(A) i, iii (D) None of the above
(B) ii
(C) i, ii, iv 11.Biopsychologists
(D) All the above (A) Study the behavior of an individual
(B) Study the biology of an individual
5. In Psychology, what does ESP stand for? (C) Seek to experiment on animal behavior
(A) Extended Stream flow Prediction to apply it to humans
(B) Experiment with Specific Planning (D) Seek to understand how physical or
(C) Extra Sensory Perception genetic factors influence and determine
(D) Extra Scenary Perception behavior
6. The study of relationships among

Psychology, nervous system, endocrine 12. A professional who studies the diagnosis.,
system and the immune system is called causes, therapy and prevention of mental
(A) Psycho immunology illnesses and maintenance of wellness is
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(A) Metal Psychologist (B) Illusions

(B) Normal Psychologist (C) Emancipations
(C) Abnormal Psychologist (D) Circadian Rhythms
(D) Health Psychologist
19. Architects have high skills in
13. he lobe of the cerebral cortex responsible (A) Interpersonal relationship
for motor control and higher mental (B) Spatial relationship
processes is called (C) Mechanical operations
(A) Frontal lobe (D) Mathematical abilities
(B) Occipital lobe
(C) Metal lobe 20. Human structure is essentially a
(D) Cortical lobe (A) Chemical structure
(B) Biological structure
14. In which of1he following areas can (C) Neural structure
Psychology be applied? (D) Bio-chemical structure
(i) Education
(ii) Sports 21. Motivation that comes from within is called
(iii)Industry (A) Extrinsic
(iv) Hospitals (B) Inquisite
(A) i (C) Implicit
(B) i, ii, iii, iv (D) Intrinsic
(C) i, iii, iv
(D) i, iv 22.Maninder is a Clinical Psychologist and his
sister Simran is a Psychiatrist. The main
15. The little bumps visible on the tongue are difference between these two professionals
(A) Papillae would be the fact that Maninder would
(B) Taste buds (A) Have more practice than Simran
(C) Receptors (B) Have less practice than Simran because
(D) Taste Cells Simran has higher Medical degree
(C) Be the same as Simran as both are
16. What sense supports our ability to taste doctors who have degrees in Medical
food and liquids? Psychology
(A) Kinesthetic (D) Have a degree in Psychology while
(B) Cutaneous Simran has a Medical degree
(C) Gustatory
(D) Olfactory 23. Applied Scientist is
(A) Someone who is competent as both a
17. Which of the following brain wave patterns researcher and a practitioner
is found in normal relaxed waking state? (B) Someone who has more than 100
(A) Alpha publications
(B) Beta (C) Someone who is qualified to apply for
(C) Gamma membership in any scientific
(D) Delta organisation
(D) Someone who has expertise in applying
18. Which of the following is not involved in science in more than one field
the study of Psychology?
(A) Sensations
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24. From when was Psychology officially 29. The process of organizing and integrating
considered a Science? discrete stimuli and responding to them
(A) Always meaningfully is called
(B) Middle Ages (A) Attention
(C) Renaissance (B) Sensation
(D) Nineteenth century (C) Perception
(D) Learning
25. Which is the most popular definition of
Psychology as a Science? 30. Loss of memory due to old age is called
(A) Psychology is the Science of the mind (A) Apathy
and consciousness (B) Dementia
(B) Psychology is the Science of (C) Interference
consciousness and soul (D) Decay through Disuse
(C) Psychology is the Science of behavior
and mental processes 31. 'Health' refers to which of 1hefollowing
(D) Psychology is the Science of soul md aspects of an individual?
mental processes (A) Physical
(B) Physical, mental
26. Arrange the following in chronological (C) Physical. mental, spiritual
order (D) Physical, mental, spiritual and social
(i) Learning
(ii) Attention 32. The difference between Health Psychology
(iii)Perception and Clinical Psychology is
(iv) Sensation (A) Health Psychology talks about diseases
(A) ii, iii, i, iv and Clinical Psychology talks about
(B) iv, ii, iii, i treatment
(C) i iii, iv, i (B) Health Psychology talks about physical
(D) iv, ii, i, iii diseases and Clinical Psychology talks
about mental diseases
27. What is the emphasis of ' Health (C) Health Psychology is practised by
Psychology'? hypnotists and Clinical Psychology is
(A) Help people to unlearn the sickness practised by doctors
(B) The study of attitudes correlated with (D) Health Psychology talks about
well being prevention, cure and care of any illness
(C) Promoting healthy life styles and Clinical Psychology talks about
(D) Study the relationship between thought mental disorders, symptoms and
sand immune system treatment
28. The origins of Psychology can be traced to 33. A Cognitive Psychologist is most likely to
(A) Philosophy and Sociology be interested in
(B) Philosophy and Neurology (A) Research involving computers
(C) Philosophy and Psychiatry (B) Research in higher mental processes
(D) Philosophy and Physiology (C) Research in the field of health
(D) Community based research
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34. Which one of the following is true of 37. The scientific method relies on observation;
behaviour? In Psychology observation alone is not
(i) Behaviour varies in complexity sufficient, because
(ii) There are individual differences in (A) Observation is sometimes misleading
behaviour (B) Observation is highly objective
(iii)Behaviour shows similarity (C) Observation is laboratory based
(iv) Behaviour can be modified (D) None of the above
(A) i, ii, iv
(B) iii, iv 38. Which core Psychology research area is
(C) i, iii, iv primarily devoted to the study of such topics
(D) All the above a memory, problem solving and thinking?
(A) Physiological Psychology
35. Which of the following is not a goal of (B) Health Psychology
Psychology? (C) Cognitive Psychology
(A) To understand the nature and (D) Neuro Psychology
mechanisms of behavior and mental 39. Which of the following involves faulty
processes perception?
(B) To understand the behavior of an (A) Illusions
individual as a member of a group (B) Hallucinations
(C) To understand the influence of spirits on (C) Delusions
the behavior of man (D) Allusion
(D) To explain the behavior of an individual
in the context of a culture 40. Psychologists engage themselves in
(i) Teaching
36. Four behaviours are mentioned below. (ii) Research
Identify the odd one (iii)Counseling
(A) Feeling angry (iv) Criminology
(B) Perceiving an object (A) i, iii, iv
(C) Walking rapidly (B) ii, iii
(D) Thinking seriously (C) i, iii
(D) All the above
Section B English
42. The meeting lasted for _____ hour and

Fil in the blanks ____ half
(A) An--- a
41. I am thinking __________ my trip to Delhi (B) A--- a
(A) At (C) A--- an
(B) For (D) An----- an
(C) About
(D) To 43. ________ your help, the situation would
have been terrible
(A) Other than
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(B) But for 50. Which of the following is close to the word
(C) Except for ' Dwindle'
(D) Because of (A) Bundle
(B) Divide
44. The Police are _________ an investigation (C) Diminish
into the crime (D) Handle
(A) Carrying out
(B) Searching out 51. Identify the antonym of the word 'Detest'
(C) Making out (A) Abhor
(D) Working out (B) Adore
(C) Adjust
45. Identify the correct spelling (D) Addict
(A) Adicct
(B) Addict 52. Which of the following statements is
(C) Adict correct?
(D) Addicct (A) He is good in Trigonometry
(B) He is good wi1h Trigonometry
46. Choose the opposite word for 'Obvious' (C) He is good at Trigonometry
(A) Clear (D) He is good on Trigonometry
(B) Apparent
(C) Proof 53. Choose the correct meaning for the word
(D) Ambiguous 'Avaricious'
(A) Selfless
47. Choose the correct spelling (B) Greedy
(A) Relavant (C) Altruistic
(B) Relavent (D) Giving
(C) Relevant
(D) Releavant 54. Which of the following conveys the
meaning for ' Obliterate'
48. Which is the correct spelling? (A) Towards literate
(A) Eerie (B) Be obstinate
(B) Errie (C) Prostrate with obedience
(C) Eerrie (D) Completely wiped out
(D) Errie
55. Choose the correct sequence out of the four
49. Choose the correct sentence alternatives
(A) Let us not dispute his decision recreation but it has (P)
(B) Let. us not dispute about his decision inability to think (Q)
(C) Let us not dispute of his decision resulted in people's (R)
(D) Let us in dispute his decision television has provided (S)
(A) SRPQ
(B) QPRS
(C) SPRQ
(D) QRPS
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62. Electrocardiograph (ECG)gives information

56. White blood cell involved in allergic about
reactions is (A) Anatomy of the heart muscles
(A) Monocyte (B) blood supply to the heart
(B) Basophil (C) Electrical conductivity of the heart with
(C) Neutrophil time
(D) Eosinophil (D) Physical activity of the heart
57. Hormone involved in 'Fight -or- flight 63. 'Milk sugar' is converted in the human
response’ is gastrointestinal tract to
(A) Melatonin (A) Glucose and Galactose
(B) Epinephrine (B) Glucose and Fructose
(C) Serotonin (C) Sucrose and Glucose
(D) Thyroxine (D) Galactose and Fructose
58. 'Encephalitis' refers to a inflammatory 64. Which one of the following is used to store
condition of genetic information in some viruses?
(A) Liver (A) Protein
(B) Spleen (B) RNA
(C) Brain (C) Lipid
(D) Erythrocytes (D) Carbohydrate
59. Intra vascular blood clotting is prevented by 65. Which of the following is not seen in C3
the administration of plants?
(A) Heparin (A) Photosynthesis
(B) Platelets (B) Carbon dioxide
(C) Calcium (C) Ribulose bisphosphate
(D) Glucose (D) Malate
60. 'Good cholesterol' is associated with the

lipoprotein of 66. If + + =0
(A) Low density equation whose only two roots are
(B) Very low density
(C) High density ± 4
(D) Intermediate density , = ,
2
where 4 is discriminant D and a, b,
61. Which one of the following has the highest c being real. Which of the following
caloric value (kcal / gram) when statements is true?
metabolized in the human body? (A) D > 0 if and only if roots are real and
(A) Fat unequal.
(B) Protein (B) D < 0 if and only if roots are real and
(C) Carbohydrate equal.
(D) Ethyl alcohol (C) D < 0 if and only if roots are real and
unequal.
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(D) D > 0 if and only if roots are nonreal

conjugate complex.
67. Two straight lines = + and 72. A group consists of 4 girls and 7 boys. The
= + are parallel if number of ways can a team. of 5 members
be selected if the team has at least 3 girls
(A) = 1 (A) 91
(B) = (B) 90
(C) =1 (C) 19
(D) =0 (D) 92
68. is given by 73. The sum squares of the first n natural

(A) 0 numbers is
(B) 1
( )( )
(C) -1 (A)
(D) ( )( )
(B)
( )( )
69. Let ( ) = 1 + | |, then (C)
(A) f (x) is continuous everywhere. ( )( )
(B) f(x) is continuous nowhere. (D)
(C) f (x) is differentiable everywhere.
(D) f(x) is finite at origin. 74. The coefficient of in + , 0
is
70. A coin is tossed 10 times. The probability (A) 45
of getting exactly six heads (B) 55
(C) 44
(A) (D) 54
(B)
(C) 75. The eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix are
(D) (A) real
(B) Imaginary
(C) equal
71. The domain of the function ( ) = (D) real and equal
is
(A) R
(B) R {0}
(C) R {1,4}
(D) Z
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Answer key
Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer
1 A 26 B 51 B
2 C 27 C 52 A
3 B 28 D 53 B
4 D 29 C 54 D
5 C 30 B 55 C
6 C 31 D 56 D
7 D 32 D 57 B
8 D 33 B 58 C
9 C 34 D 59 A
10 B 35 C 60 C
11 D 36 C 61 A
12 B 37 A 62 C
13 A 38 C 63 A
14 B 39 A 64 B
15 A 40 D 65 D
16 C 41 C 66 A
17 A 42 A 67 A
18 C 43 A 68 A
19 B 44 A 69 A
20 D 45 B 70 A
21 D 46 D 71 C
22 D 47 C 72 A
23 A 48 A 73 A
24 D 49 A 74 D
25 C 50 C 75 A
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1. Psychology is defined as the science of 8. Which of the following is called relay station
(A) Behaviour of the brain
(B) Mind (A) Thalamus
(C) Soul (B) Amygdal
(D) Brain (C) Medulla
(D) Hypothalamus
2. The origin of Psychology is
(A) Sociology 9. Defective discrimination of chromatic
(B) Philosophy colours results in
(C) Neurology (A) Colour blindness
(D) Psychiatry (B) Night blindness
(C) Chromatic sightitis
3. Psychology studies the behaviour of (D) Defective discrimination
(A) Children
(B) Adult 10. Which part of the body coordinates reflex
(C) Old people actions
(D) All the above (A) Cingulate gyms
(B) Medulla
4. I.Q. denotes (C) Hypothalamus
(A) Intelligence Quotient (D) Spinal cord
(B) Intelligent Queries
(C) Intelligent Quoting 11. How many pairs of chromosomes are there
(D) Intelligent Quantity in a normal human body
(A) 23
5. The receiving end of a neuron is called (B) 22
(A) Axon (C) 46
(B) Dendrite (D) 24
(C) End brushes
(D) Nucleus 12. Genes are found in
(A) RBC
6. Cones are found in (B) Chromosomes
(A) Eyes (C) Ovaries
(B) Ears (D) WBC
(C) Medulla
(D) Pons 13. Which of the following is not a blood group
in human body
7. Loss of memory is called (A) A Positive
(A) Coma (B) OB Positive
(B) Brain death (C) AB Negative
(C) Amnesia (D) B Positive
(D) Memoritis
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14. Deficiency of Vitamin D causes 21. Psychologists can measure one's

(A) Rickets (A) Memory
(B) Scurvy (B) Intelligence
(C) Cataract (C) Neither A or B
(D) Berry berry (D) Both A and B
15. Recall refers to 22. Excessive fear in the absence of real danger
(A) The act of calling back some body is called
(B) Noting down in a diary (A) Phobia
(C) Form of remembering (B) Fearea
(D) None of the above (C) Fovea
(D) Mania
16. Psychologists who study children are also
known as 23. The cerebral lobe that is related to vision is
(A) Paedichologists (A) Temporal lobe
(B) Sychophants (B) Visual lobe
(C) Childcologists (C) Occipital lobe
(D) None of the above (D) Retinal lobe
17. Psycho Oncologists are Psychologists who 24. The brain structure associated with emotion
deal with is
(A) Patients with mental illness (A) Hippocampus
(B) Patients suffering from cancer (B) Septal area
(C) Patients with learning problems (C) Amygdala
(D) None of the above (D) Hypothalamus
18. DNA is the short form of 25. Which of the following increases the speed
(A) Deribo Norepinephrine Acid with which nerve impulses are sent down
(B) Deoxy Neuro Activation the axon?
(C) Deoxydetergent Non Adhesive (A) Dendrites
(D) Deoxy RiboNucleic Acid (B) Myelin Sheath
(C) Cell membrane
19. The female hormones are known as (D) Cell body
(A) Androgens
(B) Endrogens 26. A Psychiatrist is a
(C) Estrogens (A) Psychologist
(D) Actogens (B) Clinician
(C) Medical doctor who deals with mental
20. The hormone secreted by the Pancreas is illness
called (D) Person who does face reading
(A) Pencillin
(B) Insulin 27. The sleep disorder in which a person has
(C) Pancreacin difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep is
(D) Norepinephrine (A) Ensleepiophilia
(B) Insomnia
(C) Somatodrouzia
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(D) Insomania (D) Corpus Collosum
28. A Psychologist is one who 35. Which of the following is not a branch of
(A) Prescribes medicine Psychology
(B) Hypnotizes (A) Biological Psychology
(C) Gives electric shocks (B) Plant Psychology
(D) None of the above (C) Comparative Psychology
(D) Developmental Psychology
29. Which of the following cannot be seen
(A) Brain 36. Health Psychology is a field that advocates
(B) Behaviour (A) Cure of Mental Retardation
(C) Mind (B) Hospital Management
(D) Bacteria (C) Holistic approach to health
(D) Promotion of Illness
30. Which of the following is not an experience
(A) Emotion 37. Mental Retardation is caused by
(B) Dream (A) Excessive Stress
(C) Sensation (B) Conflicts with others
(D) Brain (C) Vitamin deficiency
(D) Iodine deficiency
31. Who among the following is a well known
Psychologist 38. Which of the following comes under the
(A) Frankline purview of Psychology
(B) Freud (A) Study of animal behaviour
(C) Ferrado (B) Study of behaviour in children
(D) FreeWood (C) Study of group behaviour
(D) All the above
32. Which of the following is not studied in
Psychology 39. Identical twins will be identical in many
(A) Concentualization respects because they develop from
(B) Emotion (A) Single Zygote
(C) Thinking (B) Different Zygotes
(D) Motivation (C) Same number of Chromosomes
(D) Similar genetic influences
33. Which of the following is not included
under cognitive processes 40. Which of the following does not come
(A) Reasoning under the purview of Health Psychology
(B) Thinking (A) De addiction
(C) Perception (B) Studying wellness
(D) Aggression (C) Pain Management
(D) Pharmaco-Therapy
34. Which of the following is not a part of
brain
(A) Temporal lobe
(B) Cerebrospinal Fluid
(C) Mind lobe
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Section B
Choose the correct meaning for the following (D) How is it possible?
words
41. Haphazard Choose the correct conjunction to fill in the
(A) Some what dangerous blank
(B) Half of the zone 48. Inspite ____________ my advice, he
(C) Horrible resigned his job
(D) Random (A) Off
(B) To
42. Refrain (C) Of
(A) Refresh (D) For
(B) Referred pain
(C) Refraction 49. Could you come _________ Monday?
(D) Abstain (A) On
(B) Within
43. Regret (C) In
(A) Feel Sorry (D) To
(B) Punish
(C) Feeling great 50. He is angry _________ me
(D) Chopped into fine pieces (A) To
(B) With
Choose the opposite word for the following (C) Of
44. Relinquish (D) For
(A) Similar
(B) Continue 51. I am afraid ____________ tiger
(C) Variety (A) Of
(D) Relish (B) With
(C) To
45. Intense (D) From
(A) Interest
(B) Intuition 52. Which is the correct spelling?
(C) Wild (A) Accommoddation
(D) Mild (B) Accommodation
(C) Accomodation
46. Choose the correct sentence (D) Acomodation
(A) He cutted his finger
(B) He cut his finger 53. Which is the correct spelling?
(C) He cot his finger (A) Assimilation
(D) He has cutted his finger (B) Asimmilation
(C) Assimmillation
47. Choose the correct sentence (D) Asimilation
(A) How can it be possible?
(B) How is it be possible?
(C) How could it have be possible?
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54. Which of the following is correct? 55. Which of the following is correct?
(A) I finished off Intermediate (A) I don't feel like going to the movie
(B) I finish Intermediate (B) I don't feel like go to the movie
(C) I have finished Intermediate (C) I don't feel like to going to the movie
(D) I could finished Intermediate (D) I didn't felt like gone to the movie
56. Pick the correct statement: (A) Filariasis

Photosynthesis does not take place in (B) Giardiasis
(A) Bacteria (C) Malaria
(B) Plants (D) Shigellosis
(C) Algae
(D) Archea 62. The blood cell which participates in blood
clotting is
57. The hypothalamic region of the human (A) Lymphocyte
brain does not control (B) Thrombocyte
(A) Body temperature (C) Neutrophil
(B) Thirst (D) Monocyte
(C) Vision
(D) Circadian cycle 63. Tetanus toxoid is
(A) Inactivated toxin
58. The hormone which causes increase in (B) Native toxin
blood glucose during fasting is (C) Part of the toxin
(A) Glucagon (D) Synthetic toxin
(B) Insulin
(C) Thyroxine 64. " Pellagra " is caused due to the deficiency
(D) Estrogen of
(A) Vitamin B 12
59. The sugar which forms an important (B) Niacin
component of nucleic acids is (C) Biotin
(A) Galactose (D) Vitamin C
(B) Ribose
(C) Xylose 65. Which one of the following is an essential
(D) Ribulose fatty acid?
(A) Palmitic acid
60. The major component of the exoskeleton of (B) Butyric acid
arthropods is (C) Stearic acid
(A) Cellulose (D) Linoleic acid
(B) Glycogen
(C) Chitin
(D) Starch
61. Which one of the following is not a

parasitic disease?
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66. Which of the following statements is true? 70. A committee of 7 has to be formed from 9
(i) If A is not a subset of B and B is not a boys and 4 girls. The number of ways that
subset of C then A is not a subset of C. this can be done when the committee
(ii) If A is a subset of B and x is not in B consists of at least three girls is
then x is not in A. (A) 855.
(iii)If x is in A and A is not a subset of B (B) 858.
then x is in B. (C) 508.
(iv) If P(A) and P(B) are two power sets of A (D) 588.
and B then
(v) P(A B) =P(A) P(B). 71. The first term of a Geometric progression is
1. The sum of the third and the fifth terms is
(A) (i) 90. Then the common ration of G.P is
(B) (ii) (A) ±1.
(C) (iii) (B) ±2.
(D) (iv) (C) ±3.
(E) (v) (D) ±4.
67. Let R be a relation from N to N defined by 72. Equation 49 16 = 784 represents

R = {(a, b):a, b N and a= } then (A) a Circle.
(A) R is reflexive. (B) a Parabola.
(B) R is symmetric. (C) a Hyperbola.
(C) R is transitive. (D) an Ellipse.
(D) none of the above.
73. The coefficient of in the expansion of
68. If = , < < then the exp (2x + 3) as a series in powers of x is
values of ( /2 ), ( /2) and ( )
( /2) respectively are (A)
( )
(A) , ,-3 (B)
( )
(B) , ,3 (C)
( )
(C) , , 3 (D)
(D) , ,3
74. If = [3 1 1 2 ] then 5 +7
is equal to
69. The modules of is (A) 0.
(A) . (B) 1.
(C) 2.
(B) 1.
(D) 3.
(C) 2.
(D) .
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75. Let ( ) = | | and ( ) | |

then at x = 0
(A) f and g are not differentiable.
(B) f and g are differentiable.
(C) f is not differentiable but g is differentiable.
(D) f is differentiable but g is not differentiable.
ANSER KEY
Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer

1 A 26 C 51 A
2 B 27 B 52 B
3 D 28 B 53 A
4 A 29 C 54 C
5 B 30 D 55 A
6 A 31 B 56 A
7 C 32 A 57 C
8 A 33 D 58 D
9 A 34 C 59 B
10 D 35 A 60 B
11 A 36 C 61 D
12 B 37 D 62 B
13 B 38 D 63 A
14 A 39 A 64 B
15 C 40 D 65 D
16 D 41 D 66 A
17 B 42 D 67 D
18 D 43 A 68 C
19 C 44 B 69 B
20 B 45 D 70 D
21 D 46 B 71 C
22 A 47 D 72 C
23 C 48 C 73 D
24 C 49 A 74 D
25 B 50 B 75 B
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1. Biologically based emotionally and D. Vernon's hierarchical theory.
behavioral tendencies that are evident in
early childhood represent 7. What is meant by Schema?
A. Trait A. Chamking mechanisma
B. Temperament. B. Learning techniques.
C. Type C. Organised packets of information stored
D. Style. in long-term memory.
D. Defense mechanisms.
2. Which of the following clinical procedures
are based, in the part on classical 8. Who is the first woman, awarded Ph. D in
conditioning psychology?
A. Transference A. anna freuel
B. Two chair technique B. Melanie Klein.
C. Token economy. C. Margaret Floy Washburn
D. Systematic destination. D. Karen Homey.
3. In Bloom's taxonomy of educational 9. Jung us

objectives, the following appear in A. The unconscious tendencies inherited
ascending order by an individual from primordial racial
A. Remember, Understand, Apply, tendencies
Analyzes B. All the factors that together constitute to
B. Apply, Analyzes, Understand, strengthen an individual unconscious
Remember. C. The unconscious potential of a group or
C. Understand, Apply, Remember, mob
Analyzes D. The effects of all the unconscious urges
D. Analyzes, Hemember, Apply, which made a person's behaviour
Understand. problematiced the term "Collective
unconscious to indicate:
4. Which memory is the result of
instrumental/motor learning process? 10. Which of the following situations best
A. Semantic memory. illustrates the concept of social facilitation
B. Episodic memory. A. A collegiate swimmer completes a race
C. Sensory memory. in front of a crowd in a faster time than
D. Procedural memory, she has ever achieved during training.
B. A person who is trying to learn to play
5. Which neo-Frendian challenged his ideas the guitar watches an instructional
about penis envy? video and follows the step-by-step
A. Adler. directions
B. Jung, C. A member of a construction crew
C. Fromum. contributes a smaller proportion of
D. Horney, energy to a group
task than other members of the crew.
6. Which one of theories of intelligence D. An author spende several hours a day in
advocates the presence of general his home office working on an eagerly
intelligence 'g' and specific intelligence's? anticipated sequel to a best-selling spy
A. Anarchic theory. series.
B. Spearman's two factor theory,
C. Guilford's theory of intellect.
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SECTION B
11. Albert Ellis and Aron Beck are names 18. Parametric test.
associated with the _________therapy
approach. 19. TAT
12. ________ schizophrenia usually involves 20. Collective unconscious .

delusions of persecution and grandeur
21. Rational Emotive Therapy
13. _______is a process by which
information about others is converted into 22. Archetypes
more or less enduring cognitions or
thoughts about them. 23. Bystander effect
14. According J. B Watson, Paychnology is a 24. Emotional intelligence

Science of _______
Section D
15. The first psychological laboratory was
established in India at______ Write any one of the following in not more
than 500 words It marries 20 marks
Section C
25. Explain the role of the psychologist in a
Answer any six questions in not more than contagious society
250 words Each question carries 10 marks
26. Why de Psychologist a use statistics ?
16. Content analysis in Define mean, standard deviation and Z
score
17. bio-feedback
ANSWER KEY
Q. NO Answer Q. No Answer
1 B 14 DA
2 D 15 DA
3 A 16 DA
4 D 17 DA
5 D 18 DA
6 B 19 DA
7 C 20 DA
8 B 21 DA
9 A 22 DA
10 A 23 DA
11 DA 24 DA
12 DA 25 DA
13 DA 26 DA
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1. C.G Jung was a: 8. The basic unit of Nervous system is:

(A) American Psychologist (A) Nerve
(B) German Psychiatrist (B) Neuron
(C) Swiss Psychologist (C) Cell
(D) English Psychologist (D) Gland
2. Sullivan's "play age" corresponds with 9. The concept of "Structure of intellect" was
Freudian: proposed by:
(A) Oral stage (A) Jensen
(B) Phallic stage (B) Bayley
(C) Genital stage (C) Guilford
(D) Anal stage (D) Blewett
3. Who developed the "Retinex Theory" of 10. The Binet type tests of intelligence are
colour perception? called:
(A) Edward Herring (A) Group tests
(B) Thomas Young (B) Individual tests
(C) Edwin Land (C) Therapeutic tests
(D) Hermann Von Helmholtz (D) Culture free tests
4. The organism is not reinforced unless it Section B

makes the correct response in:
(A) Classical conditioning learning Give the correct answer Answer all
(B) Trial and error questions. Each question carries 2 marks
(C) Instrumental conditioning
(D) Autoshaping 11. According to C.G Jung, the masculine
archetype in women is called ....'. .........
5. The principle of continuity is otherwise
known as : 12. is considered as the father of modem
(A) Principle of closure medicine.
(B) Principle of direction
(C) Principle of similarity 13. ................... is the statistical procedures
(D) Principle of proximity for combining the results of many studies
in order to determine whether their
6. Amnesia is considered to be an extreme findings provide support for specific
case of: hypotheses.
(A) Regression
(B) Repression 14. .................... is the tendency of stimuli
(C) Rationalization similar to a conditioned stimulus to elicit a
(D) Displacement conditioned response.
7. The "Decay- Theory" is sometimes called : 15. .................... is a process through which
(A) Trace theory children attach a new word to an
(B) Interference theory underlying concept on the basis of a single
(C) Leaky-bucket theory encounter with it..
(D) Levels of processing theory
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Section C 22. Differential threshold
Answer any six questions. Each question 23. Indian psychology

carries 10 marks
24. Flooding
16. Schedules of reinforcement
Section D
17. Heuristics
Write an essay on any one of the following.
18. Schachter- Singer Theory of emotion The question carries 20 marks.
25. What is motivation? Explain the theories
19. Depth perception
of motivation.
20. Cognitive dissonance 26. Explain psychoanalytic view of
personality.
21. Theories of forgetting
ANSWER KEY
QS. NO Answer Qs. No Answer

1 C 14 DA
2 B 15 DA
3 C 16 DA
4 C 17 DA
5 B 18 DA
6 B 19 DA
7 A 20 DA
8 B 21 DA
9 C 22 DA
10 B 23 DA
11 DA 24 DA
12 DA 25 DA
13 DA 26 DA
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1. The evaluation of personality is best made (D) 2010.
through the use of an:
(A) Survey test. 8. Aphasia is neurobiological disorder
(B) Inventory test. symptomatized is a
(C) Projective test. (A) Difficulty localising objects in space.
(D) Preference test. (B) Language breakdown.
(C) Inability to recognize people from
2. In 1957 Leon Festinger published his their faces.
theory of : (D) Insensitivity to pain.
(A) Balance.
(B) Cognitive Dissonance. 9. When a large number of person responds
(C) Learning. to question about their attitudes
(D) Attitude. called:
(A) Survey method.
3. Creativity refers to : (B) Experimental method.
(A) A new production. (C) Systematic observation.
(B) Repetition. (D) Correlational method.
(C) Raw production.
(D) All the above. 10. The brain structure that plays an important
role in feelings of hunger is:
4. You have to make a phone call and you (A) Hippocampus.
ask your friend for the phone number. (B) Parietal lobe.
Which type of memory can help you (C) Hypothalamus.
remember the number for a short period: (D) Thalamus.
(A) Long term memory.
(B) Sensory memory. Section B
(C) Short term memory.
(D) None of the above. Give the correct answer. Answer all
questions. Each question carries 2 marks.
5. In psychoanalytic understanding, libido is
a function of: 11. _______means that each person in the
(A) Interest. target population has an equal chance of
(B) Drives. being selected
(C) Abilities. in the sample.
(D) Traits.
12. ______termed the body's response to
6. Which of the following is not an anxiety stressors the general adaptation syndrome.
disorder?
(A) Panic disorder. 13. According to Freud,_______ stage is
(B) Bipolar disorder. when children experience sexual desire
(C) Obsessive-compulsive disorder. for the opposite-sex parent.
(D) Post-traumatic stress disorder.
14. __________--- is the capacity to acquire
7. The first Psychology laboratory was set and apply knowledge.
up in Leipzig, Germany in the year:
(A) 1879. 15. The greatest technique to review progress
(B) 1890. and improvement of the kid
(C) 1979. is___________
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Section C 22. Depth perception.
Answer any six questions. Each question 23. Collective unconscious.

carries 10 marks
24. Goals of counseling.
16. Surface traits and Source traits.
Section D
17. Systematic desensitization.
Write an essay on any one of the following.
18. Situational Tests. The question carries 20 marks.
19. Indian psychology. 25. Define Personality. Explain Eysenck's

theory of personality.
20. Behaviorism and psychoanalysis.
26. What is learning? Distinguish between
21. Convergent thinking and divergent classical conditioning and instrumental
thinking. conditioning.
ANSWER KEY:
1 B 14 Intelligence
2 B 15 Developmental
method
3 A 16 DA
4 C 17 DA
5 B 18 DA
6 B 19 DA
7 A 20 DA
8 B 21 DA
9 A 22 DA
10 C 23 DA
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11 Random sampling 24 DA
12 Hans Selye 25 DA
13 Phallic 26 DA
*DA: Descriptive Answer
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1. The S-O-R concept was developed by 8. According to which principle a more
(A) Pavlov preferred activity can be used to reinforce
(B) Gestalt a less preferred activity.
(C) Tolman (A) Law of effect principle
(D) Woodworth (B) Premack principle
(C) Recency principle
2. Who is the author of the book "Beyond (D) Pinprick principle
Freedom and Dignity?
(A) EL Thorndike 9. Complete loss of memory is termed as
(B) B. F. Skinner (A)Paramnesia (B)Coma
(C) W. Kabler (C)Amnesia (D)Trauma
(D) 1.P. Pavlov
10. The mental representation of an external
3. Senile dementia is usually the result of a event is called
reduction in blood flow to the (A)Image (B)Concept
(A) Spinal Cord (C)Symbol (D)Schema
(B) Endocrine glands
(C) Visceral organs Give the correct answer. Answer all
(D) Brain questions. Each question carries 2 marks
4. In n India the Mental Health Act was 11. Freud wrote the_____ represents "every
enacted in the year moral restriction, the advocate of striving
(A) 1987 (B) 1990 towards perfection- it is in short, as much
(C) 2001 (D) 1985 as we have been able to grasp
psychologically of what is described as the
5. Showing childish behavior during the higher side of human life.
adulthood is an example of
(A) Ego Regression 12. According to CG Jung, the masculine
(B) Projection archetype in women is called....
(C) Libido Regression
(D) Repression 13. The first Psychologist to terms one type of
rigid learning as imprinting was.........
6. Which structure in the core of the brain is
involved in the expression of stronger 14. "The need for achievement" was first
emotion such as fear and rage? defined largely on the basis of clinical
(A) Thalamus studies done by……..
(B) Limbic system
(C) Hypothalamus 15. The theory of transfer of learning was
(D) None of these introduced for the first time by......
7. The ability to remain alert to a task over an Section C

extended period of time is known as
Answer any six questions. Each question
(A) Span of attention
carries 10 marks.
(B) Sustained attention
(C) Shifting of attention 16. Constructive and reconstructive processes
(D) Immediate memory span in memory
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17. Somatoform disorders

18. Theories of forgetting 24. Cognitive Dissonance
19. Circadian Rhythms Section D
20. Cognitive Behavice Therapy Write an essay on any one of the following
(20 marks)
21. Flash bulb memory
25. What is motivation? Explain the theories
22. Retroactive Interference and Proactive of motivation.
Interference
26. Define personality. Discuss the humanistic
23. Wernicke-Geschwind Theory theories of personality
ANSWER KEY:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
D B D A A B B B C D
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA
21 22 23 24 25 26
DA DA DA DA DA DA
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1. The recollection people have of their own 9. ____tests can be used for measuring
personal experience and observations are personality
called____ (A) DAT
(A) Flash bulb memory (B) Projective tests
(C) WAIS
(B) Auto biographic memory
(C) Schemas
10. Functionalism was associated with
(A) Wilhelm woundt
2. _______is a unique pattern of traits
(B) William james
(A) Attitude
(C) E.B. Tichner
(B) Emotion
(C) Personality
Section B
Give the correct answer. Answer all
3. _____is the rule that guarantees a solution
questions
to specific type of problem
(A) Mnemonics 11. Tendency to perceive objects as
(B) PQ4R unchanging despite variation in the
(C) Algorithm condition is Called_______
4. The brief memory of something a person 12. ______are false perceptions of the
has just heard list stimulus
(A) Iconic memory
(B) Semantic memory 13. A learned habit interfering the present
(C) Echonic memory learning is known as_____
5. ______is the method to improve one's 14. Which is known as the third force in
memory and to aid in number of things psychology_____
(A) Imagination
(B) Mnemonics 15. The theory of primary mental ability was
(C) Thinking proposed by______
6. ______is the fear of open spaces Section C

(A) Specific phobia
(B) Agora phobia
(C) Hydro phobia Answer any six questions. Each question
carries 10 marks
7. Which level of mental retardation is
trainable? 16. Perceptual constancies
(A) Mild 17. Stages of creativity
(B) Moderate
(C) Severe 18. Determinants of attention
8. The type of thinking largely posted by 19. Stages of memory

(A) divergent thinking
(B) convergent thinking 20. Mental retardation
(C) imagery 21. Different methods of learning
22. Observational learning
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23. Types of thinking

24. Sources of Stress
Section D
Write an essay on any one of the following
25. What is learning ? Differentiate between
operant and classical conditioning.
26. Explain on Defense Mechanism.
ANSWER KEY:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B C C C B B A A B B
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA
21 22 23 24 25 26
DA DA DA DA DA DA
*DA: Descriptive Answer
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1. Developed the method of semantic 9. _____is a unique pattern of traits.

differentials (A) Attitudes
(A) Osgood (B) Emotions
(B) Likest (C) Personality
(C) Thurston
10. Typology of personality based on body
2. _____is the study of words and that of build was given by
sentences (A) Sheldon.
(A) Syntax (B) Jung
(B) Semantics (C) Maslow
(C) Phonology
Give the correct answer. Answer all
3. Which level of mental retardation is questions
trainable?
(A) Severe 11. The psychosocial stages of development
(B) Mild was proposed by
(C) Moderate
12. Classical conditioning is proposed by
4. The type of thinking largely possessed by
creative people is 13.was proposed by classified individuals
(A) Convergent thinking into different types based of body fluids
(B) Divergent thinking
(C) Imagery 14. Functional autonomy is a concept given
by
5. Gestalt psychology was associated
(A) Wilhelm wundt 15. MMPI is a famous test for measuring
(B) William James
(C) E.B Titchner Section C
Answer any six questions. Each question
6. Thyroxin is produced by carries 10 marks.
(A) Pineal
(B) Thyroid 16. Operant conditioning
(C) Pituitary
17. Perceptual constancies
7. ________is the interpretation of the
information provided by one's sensory 18. Stages of creativity
receptors
(A) Perception 19. Determinants of attention
(B) Vision:
(C) Sensation with, gland 20. Stages of memory
8. Turn over tests can be used for measuring 21. Mental retardation
personality
(A) DAT 22. Different methods of learning
(B) WAIS
(C) Projective tests 23. Observational learning
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24. Types of thinking
Write an essay on any one of the follow
25. Discuss elaborately Freud's theory of

psychoanalysis
26. Define personality and describe the

projective tests for measuring
ANSWER KEY
Q. NO Answer Q. NO Answer
1 A 14 DA
2 A 15 DA
3 B 16 DA
4 B 17 DA
5 D 18 DA
6 B 19 DA
7 A 20 DA
8 C 21 DA
9 C 22 DA
10 A 23 DA
11 DA 24 DA
12 DA 25 DA
13 DA 26 DA
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14. ____- 1s the sharing of personal (A) Self -Esteem

28. Which type of light do rods responds . (A)Memogram (B)Engram

(A) Dry Forests. 49. India's National Sports Awards includes

(C) Quasi-Judicial (A) Median.

(B) Choroid Plexus. 91. Who was deeply interested in personality

(B) Projective Test (C) Direct observation

Q. NO ANSWER Q.NO ANSWER

Jamia Millia Entrance Examination – 2020

12. The term "JavaScript sniffers", that was

(A) Authorization software 18. Municipal Performance Index (MP1), is an

45. Prosopagnosia is an inability to recognize (C) means

sounds, the dog gets more frightened. The (A) validity

information will probably conflict with your (D) Recognition

(C) conformity (B) factors that would cause subjects to

Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer

Jamia Millia Entrance Examination 2017

(A) James-Lange 35. According to Cattell, traits that are

(C) Rating Scale 50. Rajya Sabha members are elected by

(A)Datsun (B)Maruti 64. In the definition of Psychology, mental

(A) Literacy Work 66. The entire group that a researcher is

62. Which of the following historical 69. Learning is ___________

89. Physical attractiveness is most involved in 97. Systematic desensitization is used in

(A)Behaviorism (B)Functionalism (C) Discrimination

Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer

Jamia Millia Entrance Examination 2016

1. Which among the following branches of (A)Observation (B)Interview

(A) Schizoaffective Personality Disorder (C) Hans Eysenck

(B) Alternate-forms reliability (A) The degree to which employees believe

94. Enlightened is to Ignorant as Elated is to:

95. Which among the following words does

96. The national sport of Canada is:

97. The normal threshold of hearing is around

98. Who is the newly elected President of

Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer Q.NO Answer

Pondicherry University Entrance Examination 2018

(C) Faulty thinking (D) the ways a company's profits are

(A) Adulthood (B) Old age (A) Speaking cheerfully

58. Consolidation refers to the

53. Flooding is used as a technique to treat: 59. When polarized, an axon:

65. ESP stands for: 72. Hawthorne experiment was conducted by

75. Based on the information given, answer the

97. Study the following information carefully (C) Peptide bonds

Three of the following are alike in a certain

98. Statement: Among all the articles, Prices of

99. Choose the correct meaning to the italicized

100. Memory molecule: _____ :: Proteins:

Pondicherry University Entrance Examination 2017

(i) Indira Gandhi is proud of being a (A) 5 (B) 11

(C) Phonemic; Structural; Semantic (A) Stopping others from behaving

(A) Social class (B) General paresis (C) Approach-Avoidance

62. Giving placebos in drug experiments is 68. Systematic desensitization is particularly

86. The scales to measure the psychological (A) Negative reinforcement

(A) Non-mentalistic process

100. Mental Retardation is associated with:

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(B) Performance (B) Simon

48. Thinking in 'either-or' conditions is known as

(C) Adler 75. Counselling is different from psychotherapy

96. The scales to measure the psychological distance

97. Statistical way of controlling quality in

98. A teacher offers her student a reward for each