List of top Psychology Questions

Which is the first step in understanding a psychological attribute?

Select amongst the options given below, the skills fostered in technologically advanced societies for intellectual development.

Choose the correct options from the ones given below, describing PASS model of Intelligence
A. State of arousal helps in attending to stimuli
B. Planning is activated after information is attended
C. Simultaneous and successive processing
D. The model represents the psychometric approach
E. It was given by Robert Sternberg
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An exceptional general ability shown in superior performance in a wide variety of areas is known as

Sohna had to take a decision of whether to join her circle of friends, when they smoke or raise her voice against the vicious practice. She was indulging in_________.

With reference to the reasons for group polarisation among like-minded people choose the correct statements.
(A) Group polarisation occurs as they feel that their perspective is validated by the public
(B) Group polarisation occurs as they start identifying with each other after percieving them as a group
(C) Group polarisation occurs as they have a heterogenous thought process
(D) Group polarisation occurs as a result of group discussion which strengthens one's initial position
(E) Group polarisation occurs as a result of pessimistic attitude towards own self
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Identify the correct developmental sequence in the formation of a group, as given by Tuckman.
(A) Forming → Storming → Adjourning → Performing → Norming 
(B) Forming → Storming → Norming→ Performing → Adjourning 
(C) Performing → Storming → Norming→ Forming → Adjourning 
(D) Performing → Adjourning → Storming → Norming→ Forming 
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Arrange in sequence the four kinds of interpersonal physical distance from closest to distant/ farthest.
(A) Social distance
(B) Personal distance
(C) Intimate distance
(D) Public distance
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When a criminal beats up a person in the community for mentioning his name to the police he is demonstrating :

The mode of message transmission is found to be more effective in bringing about anattitude change.

Tuhin had taken a survey where he is required to rate the professional coaching centre that he has enrolled for by using a rating scale. He has given ‘9′ point on a scale of 10 for every statement. Identify the feature of Tuhin's attitude that is reflected on the rating scale.

Identify the sequence of activities that LaPiere an American Social Psychologist used to understand attitude behaviour relationship.
(A) A questionnaire was sent to managers asking if they would give accommodation to Chinese guests.
(B) Many Hotels and Tourist Homes in United States said they will not give accommodation to Chinese
(C) La-Piere asked a Chinese couple to travel across United State and stay in different hotels
(D) The hotel staff gave accommodation to Chinese couple
(E) Only once during these occasions the Chinese couple were refused service by one of the hotels
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Identify the factors that influence attitude formation.
(A) Family and School Environment
(B) Message Characteristics
(C) Personal Experiences
(D) Target Characteristic
(E) Media-related influences
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The class teacher has asked a group of students to prepare for a presentation on the occasion of "Earth Day" for the class. Among the group members two to three students have put their time and effort for the presentation. On the final day of presentation the entire team stood together. Identify the reason for the members, not putting equal amount of efforts in the preparation of the presentation.

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I	List -II
Example
(A)  Raghav making inferences	(I)Attribution
(B)Sheena assigns causes to peoples	(II)Attitude
(C)  Ram's performance improves with the	(III)Impression Formation
(D)Gita loves Yoga as she believes that it is good for her & therefore practices it every day	(IV)Social Facilitation

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A collection of people gathered together to watch a comedy show is an example of :

Leena has developed a liking towards the French language because she finds her French teacher very knowledgeable. She rarely misses her French teacher's class and always appreciates the positive qualities which the teacher possessed. This process of attitude formation could be due to:

Identify the correct sequence in Aaron Beck's therapy.
(A) The child develops a core schema, 'I am ugly' due to his experiences at home
(B) The negative thoughts are known as cognitive distortions
(C) This theory states that childhood experiences provided by the family develops core schemas in the child
(D) These cognitive distortions distort the reality in a negative manner leading to dysfunctional cognitive structures
(E)Later he gets a terrible remark in neighbourhood that he is not good looking leading to negative thoughts about himself
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Match List - I with List - II.

List - I	List -II
(A) Cognitive therapy	(I)It considers that question about meaning of one's life leads to problems
(B) Behaviour therapy	(II)It values one's personal growth
(C) Existential therapy	(III)It challenges the faulty thinking patterns of the client to reduce distress
(D)Humanistic therapy	(IV) It identifies the faulty conditioning patterns and sets up alternative ways to improve one's responses

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Identify the institute which has found Kundalini Yoga effective in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive disorder.

Leena goes to a therapist who conveys through her words and behavior that she is not judging her and will continue to show the same positive feelings towards the client even if he is rude. The therapist is demonstrating.

Identify the factors contributing to healing in Psychotherapies :
(A) Techniques adopted by the therapist
(B) Instruction given by the family and therapist
(C) A good therapeutic alliance
(D) Proper advice given by the client to therapist
(E) Emotional unburdening of the client
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Systematic Desensitization technique, given by Wolpe, is based on_______.

___________refers to below average intellectual functioning and deficits or impairments in adaptive behaviour which are manifested before the age of 18 years.

According to _________approach, psychological problems are caused by inadequacies in theway an individual thinks, feels or perceives the world.