UKPSC Lecturer paper 2018 for Psychology

 

1. Which one of the following is not a verbal test of Wechsler's scale?

(a) Digit symbol (b) Arithmatic (c) Information (d) Digit span

2. Which one of the following is not Thurston's primary mental abilities?

(a) Word fluency (b) Memory (c) Perceptual speed (d) Learning ability

3. Which one of the following i the product as per Guilford' s theory?

(a) Evaluations (b) System (c) Divergent production (d) Convergent production

4. What is the order of abilities from bottom to top in hierarchical theory of intelligence?

(a) G, PMA, S          (b) S, PMA, G          (c) PMA, G, S           (d) G, S, PMA

5. What should be the IQ of a 9 year old child with ii years of mental age?

(a) 122          (b) 110          (c) 90             (d) 82

6. Decay theory constructed by Ebbinghaus (1885) is also known as

(a) Two factor theory (b) One-factor theory (c) Disuse theory (d) Choice theory

7. Iconic memory and econic memory are types of

(a) short term memory (b) long term memory

(c) immediate memory (d) sensory memory

8. The decreament in memory of a task as a consequence of other learning task, coming between original learning and memory is called

 (a) Proactive inhibition (b) Retroactive inhibition

(c) Serial position effect (d) Memory

9. Forgetting consciously any unpleasant material is called

(a) Suppression (b) Repression

 (c) Recognition Find out correct sequence. (d) Memory-loss

10. Find out correct sequence.

(a) Storage-Encoding-Retrieval (b) Encoding-Retrieval-Storage

(c) Encoding-Storage-Retrieval (d) All of the above

11. The actual loss of memory traces is called forgetting.

(a) Amnesia (b) Cue-dependent (c) Trace-dependent (d) Motivated

12. Better recall of incompleted task than recall of complete task is known as

(a) Decay theory (b) Interference theory

(c) Two-factor theory (d) Zeigarnik theory

13. 'Forgetting curve' is also known as

(a) Ebbinghaus curve (b) Echoic memory

(c) Sensory memory (d) Verbal memory

14. The memory smaller than short term memory is known as

(a) Semantic memory (b) Sensory memory

(c) Episodic memory (d) Secondary memory

15. Memory is 'constructive in nature' is the view of

(a) Bartlet         (b) Ebbinghaus         (c) Thomdike      (d) Hull

16. Operant conditioning is also known as

(a) Classical conditioning (b) Instrumental conditioning

(c) Delayed conditioning (d) Conditioning

17. The storage capacity of short term memory can however be increased by a process known as

(a) Retroactive learning (b) Registration (c) Chunking (d) All of the above

18. Which of the following is a characteristics of short term memory?

(a) Limited channel capacity (b) Fragility of memory trace

(c) Acoustic encoding (d) Semantic coding

19. Which one of the following is not a component of the structure of personality in Psychoanalytic theory?

 (a) Creative self       (b) The Ego     (c) Id       (d) The superego

20. Which one of the following is the criteria of abnormality?

(a) Statistical criteria (b) Loneliness criteria

(c) Social conformity criteria (d) Personal adjustment criteria

21. Freud considers 'Phobia' in Psychodynamic theory as

(a) Repressed ego (b) Repressed Id impulses

(c) Repressed superego (d) Repressed defense mechanisms

22. Depressed individual exhibits which of the following symptoms?

(a) Behavioural symptoms (b) Physical symptoms

(c) Cognitive symptoms (d) All of the above

23. Which of the following is not a treatment/developed from classical conditioning principles?

(a) Flooding (b) Token economies

(c) Systematic desensitization (d) Aversion therapy

24. Which one of the following is associated with sudden attacks of anxiety with fear?

(a) Phobia     (b) Mania        (c) Panic disorder    (d) Neurosis

25. The most common age-group for depression is

(a) Women 20-29 years (b) Men 20-40 years

(c) Children 10-14 years (d) Women 40-49 years

26. In major depression which of the following is a significant Neurotransmitter? (a) Serotonin          (b) Dopomine        (c) Betacarotine    (d) Acetyicholine

27. Dysthymia is a

(a) Chronic mild depression (b) Chronic severe depression

(c) Bipolar depression          (d) Personality disorder

28. Which one of the following is not a feature of obsessive-compulsive neurosis?

 (a) Sense of guilt                       (b) Anxiety relieved by an act

(c) Awareness of helplessness (d) Magical thoughts

29. Major symptoms of paranoid reactions is

 (a) Regression (b) Delusion

(c) Day dreaming (d) Deviation

30. Estrogen, a hormone, is released by

 (a) pituitary            (b) Pancreas           (c) Gonads   (d) Thyroid

31. Visual processing is mainly done in lobe.

(a) Frontal    (b) Parietal        (c) Occipital     (d) Temporal

 32. Temporal lobe regulates in humans.

 (a) Motor function     (b) Language

(c) Sensory function (d) Visual perception

33. Which of the following is not a part of diencephalon?

(a) Pons       (b) Hypothalamus      (c) Geniculate bodies     (d) Thalamus

34. Parasympathetic nervous system shall be active during

 (a) Attention       (b) Emotion      (c) Motor action     (d) Sleep

35. Superior colliculus is part of

(a) Medulla     (b) Mid brain     (c) Pons      (d) Cerebellum

36. Which numberth is the facial cranial nerve?

(a) 10th       (c) 3rd     (b) 5th      (d) 7th

37. Speech is mainly regulated by lobe.

(a) Frontal     (b) Temporal    (c) Occipital    (d) Parietal

38. How many spinal nerves emerge from the spinal cord?

(a) 33             (b) 12            (c) 31                        (d) 43

39. Goiter, a disease, is associated with the malfunctioning of gland.

 (a) Thyroid (b) Pancreas            (c) Adrenals            (d) Pinea1

40. Hunters wear camouflage dress in jungle, so that they can blend with their surrounding. Which one of the following principles of perception is being used here?

(a) Shape constancy                          (b) Expectancy

 (c) Figure and ground relationship (d) Depth perception

41. Which one of the following statements is true for colour-blindness?

(a) Failure to identify red and green colours. (b) Failure to identify blue and yellow colours. (c) Colour-blindness is inherited. (d) All the above statements are correct.

42. In which of the following the phenomenon of constancy is found?

(a) size      (b) shape    (c) colour      (d) All of the above

43. Misperception coming out of misinterpretation of information received by sense organs is known as

(a) Hallucinations     (b) Delusions      (c) Illusions        (d) None of the above

44. Where is located Adrenal gland in the body?

 (a) The upper end of Kidneys (b) Inside the brain

(c) Near intestines                  (d) Below the heart

45. The scientific study of behaviour of organisms is called

  (a) Sociology   (b) Psychology     (c) Physiology          (d) Anthropology

46. In an experiment, an independent variable is that variable

 (a) which depends on dependent variable.

 (b) which is manipulated by the experimenter.

(c) which is controlled by the experimenter.

(d) which is independent of everything.

47. Who was the faiher or founder of Psychology in the United States of America?

(a) Wundt                            (b) William James

(c) B.F. Skinner                (d) R. Woodworth

48. A basic method of science in which the natural world or various events or processes in it are observed in careful manner is called:

(a) case-study         (b) systematic observation

(c) observation      (d) survey

49. Which of the brain structure relays incoming sensory information?

(a) Thalamus (b) Hypothalamus

 (c) Pons      (d) Reticular formation

50. The ability to detect changes in temperature, pressure and body position is due in part to the friction

 (a) Frontal lobe                 (b) Parietal lobe

(c) Temporal lobe              (d) Corpus lobe

51. Which one of the following best explains after image?

(a) Trichromatic theory          (b) Opponent-process theory

(c) Colour deficient vision     (d) Monochrome Colour Blindness

 52. Perception was first studied from the physiological perspective by

(a) Wundt         (b) Tichner           (c) Bruner               (d) Wundt & Tichner

53. An one-eyed man would lose precision in one of the following:

(a) Height                 (b) Weight             (c) Colour                 (d) Depth

54. Arrange the parts of brain in sequence from higher to lower order of brain: (1) Metencephalon (2) Mesencephalon (3) Diencephalon (4) Telencephalon

 (a) 1, 2, 3, 4            (b) 2, 3, 4, 1

(c) 3, 4, 1, 2 (d) 4, 3, 2, 1

55. According to Aliport, the fundamental unit of personality is one of the following:

 (a) Trait                    (b) Needs     (c) Motives                          (d) Abilities

56. The concept of'proprium' was coined by one of the following:

 (a) Allport   (b) Bandura                         (c) Cattell     (d) Rollo May

57. Which one of the following data was used by Cattell in constructing 16 PF test?

(a) Q data     (b) T data     (c) L data     (d) P data

58. The analytical theory of personality is the name of theory by

(a) Freud      (b) Jung        (c) Adler                   (d) Murray

 59. According to Freud, the source of Psychic energy is

(a) Instincts                         (b) Dreams              (c) Super ego          (d) Ego

60. Individual Psychology theory of personality is the theory by one of the following:

(a) Erik Erikson       (b) Adler                   (c) Erich Fromm                (d) Sullivan

61. Which one of the following is a projective test ?

(a) TAT          (b) WAIS                   (c) CAT          (d) Rorschach Ink blot

62. Relationship between physique and temperament was correlated, was studied by

 (a) Watson              (b) Sheldon  (c) W. James           (d) Aliport

63. The word association method is used as a technique in

(a) Behaviourism               (b) Structuralism

(c) Functionalism              (d) Psycho-analysis

64. Birth order is an important factor in personality development is stated by

 (a) Jung        (b) Adler       (c) Bandura             (d) Homey

65. Proposed answer to a research question is known as which one of the following?

(a) Problem             (b) Validity                         (c) Hypothesis        (d) Design

66. Find out the odd from the following key factors in observational learning:

          (a) Attention (b) Retention (c) Repression (d) Motivation

67. The concept of 'cognitive map' is used by one of the following learning theorists:

     (a) Thomdike     (b) Tolman   (c) Bandura              (d) Skinner

68. A process through which organisms learn to repeat behaviours that yield positive outcomes or permit to avoid negative consequences is called

 (a) Operant conditioning           (b) Response conditioning

        (c) Repeated conditioning             (d) Positive learning

 69. The process through which a conditioned stimulus gradually loses the ability to evoke conditioned responses when it is no longer followed by the unconditioned stimulus, is called

(a) Extinction                                  (b) Unlearning

(c) Inhibition                                   (d) Negative learning

70. In classical conditioning, a stimulus that can evoke an unconditioned response the first time it is presented is called

(a) Conditioned stimulus (b) Unconditioned stimulus

 (c) Simple stimulus          (d) Multiple stimulus

71. The acquisition of new forms of behaviour, information or concepts through the exposure to others and the consequences they experience is called

(a) Imitation                        (b) Displacement

(c) Observational learning (d) Motivational learning

72. Which one of the following theorists assumes universality of basic facial expressions of emotions?

    (a) Ekman             (b) James-Lange     (c) Cannon-Bard     (d) Schacter-Singer

73 Cannon-Bard theory of emotion considers that feelings comes to expression (action). Later

(a) Independent (b)    (c) First        (d) Simultaneous

74.Motivation behaviour.

(a) explains and controls            (b) describes

 (c) predicts and explains          (d) controls

75. The main function of motivation is to

   (a) initiate (c) direct a behaviour. (b) sustain (d) All of the above

76. Which of Psychologists has done researches in the area of achievement Motivation?

   (a) Atkinson (b) Maslow (c) Winter (d) Wiener

 77. A tendency to influence others is related to

(a) n-affiliation (b) n-achievement

(c) n-power (d) All of the above

78. Homeostatis shall regulate motivation.

  (a) power   (b) hunger   (c) achievement   (d) approval

79. Social motives are

(a) learned in social groups (c) so many

(b) never fully satisfied       (d) All of the above

80. Which has been a much used technique to study social motives?

 (a) Proj ective tests (b) Objective tests

 (c) Situational tests (d) Qualitative tests

81. is not a major component of emotions.

(a) Subjective-cognitive state (b) Homeostatis

 (c) Physiological change                        (d) Expressive behaviour

82. The tendency of stimulus similar to a conditioned stimulus to evoke conditioned response is known as

(a) Stimulus similarity (b) Stimulus generalization

(c) Response similarity (d) Stimulus dissimilarity

83. The approach which believes that we are different selves in different situations:

(a) Behaviourist (b) Psychoanalyst

(c) Interactionist (d)' Humanitarian

84. Draw-a-person test is related to which tests?

(a) Objective test (b) Biological measures

 (c) Q-sort test (d) Proj ective test

85. What is a cardinal trait of personality?

 (a) A cluster                       (b) That accounts for uniqueness

 (c) Single, all important (d) Relatively weak with little effect

86. Which one of the following is an objective-self-report measure?

 (a) Sentence completion test         (b) MMPI

(c) CPI                                                (d) 16 PF questionnaire by Cattell

87. Which of the following is not a dimension in Eysenck personality questionnaire?

(a) Openness (b) Neuroticism

 (c) Extraversion (d) Psychoticism

88. What is the time range of short term memory, in which learned material is retained?

 (a) 1 to 2 seconds (b) 5 to 10 seconds

 (c) 15 to 20 seconds (d) 30 to 40 seconds

89. The factor theory of memory was proposed by

(a) Underwood and Postiiian (b) Greenberg

(c) Melton & Irwin                                    (d) Mair

90. Which measure of memory is mostly influenced by guessing or anticipation? (a) Recall               (b) Relearning

 (c) Recognition (d) Re-construction

91. Which was the method of memory Ebbinghaus used?

(a) Free recall         (b) Savings   (c) Serial recall       (d) Recognition

92. How many non-sense syllables were constructed by Ebbinghaus?

(a) 2000                    (b) 2100                   (c) 2200                   (d) 2300

93. In a memory experiment an experimenter conducted experiment on himself. Who was the experimenter?

(a) Ebbinghaus       (b) Bartlet    (c) Thomdike           (d) Tolman

94. The role of an intervening variable in learning was suggested by one of the following psychologists:

 (a) Hull         (b) Tolman   (c) Kohier                (d) Kofica

95. When we forget unpleasant event, it is called          

 (a) Motivated forgetting (b) Proactive interference

 (c) Retroactive inference (d) Tnhibition

96. What is the span/size of immediate memory according to Miller?

 (a) 9±2                     (b) 6±2                     (c) 7±3            (d) 7±2

97. The theory of Multiple intelligence is given by

(a) Gardner  (b) Thurstone        (c) Stemberg          (d) Guilford

98. The concept of 'Intelligence Quotient' (1Q) was coined by

(a) Binet (b) Terman (c) Spearman (d) Stem

99. The first version of Stanlord-Binet test contained items.

(a) 20                         (b) 30                         (c) 100                       (d)60

100. Cattell identified two major clusters of mental abilities:

 (a) General & specific (b) Componential and experiential

  (c) Fluid and crystalized (d) Verbal and non-verbal