PPSC Lecturer Psychology Test 19 Online Preparation MCQs

In the Binet and Simon scoring system, an 8-year-old child who performed as well as an average 10-year-old would be assigned a mental age of:

If you believe that intelligence is made up of a small set of separate mental abilities, which of the following are you most likely to use to identify these abilities?

Behavior therapies apply learning principles to:

The arousal theory, stating that emotion precedes overt behavior and consists mainly of a general state of arousal or activation, is called the:

The fundamental attribution error states that we credit success to _______ causes, and failures to _________ causes:

The simplest, least sophisticated measure of variability is known as the:

One way to increase the likelihood of compliance with a request is to induce a person to agree first to a much smaller request. This is known as the:

The conscious repetition of information in order to maintain it in memory is called:

Which of the following was particularly interested in the effect of birth order on personality?

The part of the brain involved in the cognitive aspect of emotion is the:

 Because Ghazala is a good student, her teacher assumes she is also artistic, well behaved, and from a good family. The teacher's assumptions are explained by:

In contrast with an emotion, a mood is:

Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case. Their memory failure best illustrates:

Suppose you meet a person at a party. Which theory assumes you calculate the costs and benefits of developing a relationship with the person?

A frequency, distribution that has two distinct concentrations of scores is:

Which of the following concepts are most closely related?

Major depression is most likely to be characterized by:

Shani, a college student, complains that he feels apprehensive and fearful most of the time but doesn't know why. Without warning, his heart begins to pound, his hands get icy, and he breaks out in a cold sweat. Shani's symptoms suggest a/an _________ disorder:

Illness that seem to result from an interaction of physical and psychological factors are called:

GSR measures:

Suppose subjects are asked to listen to the following list of letters and then to repeat them in order: i, n, t, r, o, p, s, y, c, h. Subjects who perform the task most accurately and with least apparent effort probably have:

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli is called __________ memory:

Which one of the following people had a son or daughter who became a famous psychologist?

A condition involving mental retardation caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup is known as:

Another name for operant conditioning is: