1. _________ is the least noticeable value of stimulus.
a. Responce Threshold
b. Hypothesis
c. Problem
d. Stimulus Threshold
Correct Option: d
2. While studying colour preferences, the method of ‘paired’ comparison’ was introduced by Cohn in:
a. 1966 AD
b. 1894 AD
c. 1984 AD
d. 1999 AD
Correct Option: b
3. A provisional theroy to explain observed facts is known as
a. Theory
b. Hypothesis
c. Events
d. Construct
Correct Option: b
4. A study of determine the degree of relationship between two events is called.
a. the survay method
b. The correlational method
c. naturalistic observation
d. Controlled experiment
Correct Option: b
5. A systematic study of facts according to a reliable and correct method of study is called a:
a. Social Technique
b. Methodology
c. Scientific Study
d. Biological Study
Correct Option: c
6. An experiment is set up to confirm or refute some
a. Event
b. Enquiry
c. Questions
d. Hypothesis
Correct Option: d
7. Anything which evokes a response in the Organism is called:
a. Situation
b. Incidence
c. Stimulus
d. Thing
Correct Option: c
8. Basic terms of research
a. Thesis synopsis article general
b. Title abstract introduction methodology
c. Observation defining a problem gathering evidence
d. None of these
Correct Option: a
9. Conditioned response may be eliminated by withdrawing reinforcement. This is known as: a. Stimulus generalization
a. Discrimination
b. Extinction
c. None of these
d. Spontaneous recovery
Correct Option: b
10. Empirical statement are based on?
a. Common sense
b. Data
c. Belief
d. Intuition
Correct Option: b
11. Experimental Analysis enables us to discern lawful relationships between antecedents and consequents involved in:
a. attitude
b. Behaviour
c. experience
d. habbit
Correct Option: b
12. Field Observation is always:
a. Complex
b. Objective
c. Subjective
d. Very Simple
Correct Option: d
13. Field study method is method of
a. Situational observation
b. Laboratory observation
c. Occasionally observation
d. Naturalistic observation
Correct Option: d
14. From the following psychologist, who rejected introspection as a method of psychology _________.
a. Cattell
b. J.B Watson
c. B.F skinner
d. Fulton
Correct Option: b
15. Gestalt theory emphasizes:
a. Our tendency to see pattern
b. The flow of consciousness
c. The atoms of thought
d. None of these
Correct Option: a
16. Gives you the crude idea of mentality of the person
a. case history
b. Questionnaire
c. story writing
d. relating dream
Correct Option: b
17. How many methods are in psychology
a. 7
b. 5
c. 8
d. 10
Correct Option: a
18. How many steps in planning and conducting a survey
a. 6
b. 9
c. 2
d. 5
Correct Option: a
19. How many techniques are used in case history method_______.
a. One
b. Nine
c. Four
d. Three
Correct Option: c
20. In _________ method of study in psychology, passive study and analysis of human behaviour is usually done.
a. experimental method
b. genetic method
c. Observational method
d. Introspection method
Correct Option: c
21. In recent years, physiological psychology is getting attached to the developing science of:
a. Anthropology
b. Neurophysiology
c. Physiology
d. Sociology
Correct Option: b
22. In studying the public opinion
a. Action research is applied
b. Survey research is applied
c. Scaling method is applied
d. Field study method
Correct Option: d
23. In the simplest experimental method , WE manipulates ________
a. Three Variable
b. Four Variable
c. One variable
d. Two variable
Correct Option: c
24. In what type of study does a researcher study an individual subject in depth?
a. Survey
b. Laboratory observation
c. Case study
d. Naturalistic observation
Correct Option: c
25. In which method of psychology,independent variable and dependent variable are important elements .
a. Case history Method
b. Experimental Method
c. Introspectional Mehod
d. Observational Method
Correct Option: b
26. Introspection method refers to observing other by using:
a. Other’s experience
b. General statement
c. Old theories
d. Your own experience
Correct Option: d
27. Is the study of phenomena which are excluded by orthodox scientific psychology ?
a. Psycho dermatology
b. Cognitive psychology
c. Social psychology
d. Parapsychology
Correct Option: d
28. Methods of psychology refer to the ways by which you can understand and describe
a. Attitude
b. Behavior
c. Human mind
d. Situation
Correct Option: b
29. Most notable examples of this method of descriptive research are cross-sectional studies and longitudinal studies.
a. Survey
b. Experiment
c. Observation
d. Case study
Correct Option: d
30. Observing others by using your own experience is :
a. Experimental method
b. Introspection method
c. Statistical method
d. External method
Correct Option: b
31. Projective test is a
a. Internal observation
b. Naturalistic observation
c. Non.naturalistic observations
d. Self observation
Correct Option: c
32. Psychology has come into existence as a separate discipline a little over
a. Three hundred years ago
b. Fourth hundred years ago
c. A hundred years ago
d. Two hundred years ago
Correct Option: c
33. Self observation method is also known as
a. Statistic method
b. External observation method
c. Introspection method
d. Naturalistic observation method
Correct Option: c
34. Study of mental processes, experience and behavior is through the use of?
a. Experimental method
b. Scientific method
c. Brain method
d. Neuro method
Correct Option: b
35. The approach which has its roots in Gestalt Psychology is popularly known as:
a. Wholistic Approach
b. Cognitive Approach
c. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
d. Stimulus-Response-Behaviouristic Approach
Correct Option: b
36. The clinical method is ordinarily used only when people come to psychologists with:
a. Organizational problems
b. Internal problems
c. Personal Problems
d. Social problems
Correct Option: c
37. The earlier concepts of “Child Development” started with the:
a. Death of the Child
b. conception
c. phallic stage
d. Birth of the Child
Correct Option: d
38. The father of ‘Experimental Psychology’ is:
a. Wilhelm Wundt
b. Sigmund Freud
c. William James
d. E. B. Titchener
Correct Option: a
39. The method in which we observing others by using our own experience?
a. External
b. Experimental
c. Statistical
d. Introspection
Correct Option: d
40. The method is used by doctors and psychologists to know the root problem of the subject is called
a. Experimental method
b. Introspection method
c. Case- history method
d. Genetic method
Correct Option: c
41. The method of observing someone in his natural environment is known as:
a. Statistic method
b. Introspection method
c. Naturalistic observation method
d. Self study method
Correct Option: c
42. The method used to analyses qualitative data is called…
a. Experiment
b. Content analysis
c. Case study
d. Survey
Correct Option: b
43. The most effective method of studying psychology is:
a. Observation Method
b. Introspection Method
c. Survey Method
d. Experimental Method
Correct Option: d
44. The most powerful research tool is a (an
a. survey.
b. experiment.
c. clinical study.
d. correlational study.
Correct Option: b
45. The primary advantage of this method of research is that it allows for more control than naturalistic observation
a. Experiments
b. Case study
c. Survey
d. Laboratory Observations
Correct Option: d
46. The social desirability bias can affect which of the following:
a. Self report data
b. The validity of a test
c. The reliability of a test
d. None of these
Correct Option: a
47. The study of the interaction of heredity and environment is made by:
a. Educational Psychologists
b. Child Psychologists
c. Physiological Psychologists
d. Comparative Psychologists
Correct Option: b
48. The treatment of skin disorder using psychological techniques by addresing interactions between mind and skin?
a. Psycho-dermatology
b. Para psychology
c. Social psychology
d. None of these
Correct Option: a
49. The violation of a society’s explicit and implicit norms can be viewed as not normal in the sense that the violation is:
a. Deviant
b. Distressful
c. Dysfunctional
d. None of these
Correct Option: a
50. The way by which you can understand and describe behavior is known as:
a. Techniques of psychology
b. Influence of psychology
c. Psychology
d. Method of psychology
Correct Option: d
51. There are _____ methods of Psychology:
a. 7
b. 6
c. 5
d. 4
Correct Option: a
52. This method is observing someone in his natural environment. The person who is observed should not be known that you are observing him/her so that he may not pretend anything
a. Introspection Method
b. External Observation Method
c. Naturalistic Observation Method
d. The Genetic Method
Correct Option: c
53. This method is somewhat overcome the limitations of introspection. We can observe a person’s behavior in a certain situation, whether we have never experienced that.This is?
a. The Genetic Method
b. External Observation Method
c. Introspection Method
d. Case History Method
Correct Option: b
54. This method of research can only be measured between the values of -1 and 1.
a. Experiments
b. Case Study
c. Observational
d. Correlational
Correct Option: d
55. Types of observation method are
a. Three
b. Five
c. Six
d. Two
Correct Option: d
56. We can observe a person’s behaviour in a certain situation whether we have never experienced it is called
a. Experimental method
b. External observation method
c. Introspection method
d. Statistical method
Correct Option: b
57. We can sometimes feel and understand the problems of
a person who has got the tire of his vehicle puncture.
This is which method?
a. The Genetic Method
b. Introspection Method
c. Naturalistic Observation Method
d. . Statistical Method
Correct Option: b
58. We find a true zero in a/an
a. Interval scale
b. Ordinary scale
c. Rating scale
d. Ratio scale
Correct Option: d
59. What are the types of sampling
a. 3
b. 2
c. 4
d. 5
Correct Option: a
60. what does it mean if two variables have a positive correlation
a. the correlation between two variable is 0
b. as one variable increases so does the other
c. as one variable increases the other decreases
d. the correlation between the two variable is greater than 1.0
Correct Option: b
61. What is a common way of controlling extraneous variables in an experiment?
a. Using animal subjects.
b. Random assignment.
c. Double-blind procedure.
d. Single-blind procedure.
Correct Option: b
62. What is an advanced method for study the behaviour of species
a. external method
b. genetic method
c. case history
d. statistical method
Correct Option: b
63. What is the difference between the highest and lowest scores in a data distribution called?
a. Deviation
b. Median
c. Range
d. Mode statement
Correct Option: c
64. What is the variable called that a researcher manipulates in an experiment?
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Extraneous variable
d. None of these
Correct Option: a
65. When large group of interconnected facts are considered together in a consistent manner, we get a/an
a. Scientific theory
b. Non scientific theory
c. Social theory
d. None of these
Correct Option: a
66. When we assign numbers to objects, events or mental phenomena we obtain
a. Test
b. Measure
c. Scale
d. Rule
Correct Option: c
67. Which is the method of psychology we cannot apply it on metally retarded of people
a. Statistical
b. External observation
c. Shortcomings
d. Naturalistic
Correct Option: c
68. Which method cannot apply on animals
a. Experimental method
b. Introspection
c. Case history method
d. Statistical method
Correct Option: b
69. Which method is known as “looking with-in & self observation method” :
a. Introspection
b. External observation
c. Naturalistic method
d. Statistical method
Correct Option: a
70. Which of the following is a research method that allows a researcher to get information about a large number of subject relatively inexpensive and easy
a. Experiment
b. Survey
c. Case study
d. Laboratory observation
Correct Option: b