Objective questions in psychology

Objective questions in psychology
Multiple Choice Quiz Questions Psychology
Psychology Multiple Choice Questions


1. The first pychology department was established at Calcutta University in the year
(a) 1910
(b) 1916
(c) 1909
(d) None of these

Ans: b

2. Psychology which deals with extrasensory perceptions, cases of rebirth, telepathy and allied problems is called
(a) Physiological psychology
(b) Para-psychology
(c) Geo-psychology
(d) General psychology

Ans: b

3. Match List-I with List-IT and select the correct answer by using the codes given below:
List-I List-II

A. Wilhelm Wundt establised 1. 1989
Psychological Laboratory
at Leipzing University

B. William James Published 2. 1916
‘Principles of Psychology

C. First psychological 3. 1879
department at Calcutta
University

D. National Academy of 4. 1890
Psychology (NAOP)
India was founded

Codes:
A B C D

(a) 2 3 1 4

(b) 1 2 3 4

(c) 3 4 2 1

(d)4 1 3 2

Ans: c


4. “Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and of their conditions. The phenomena are such things as we call feelings, desires, cognition,reasonings, decisions and the like”.
The above definition was given by

(a) John B. Watson
(b) William James
(c) Norman Munn
(d) James Angell

Ans: b




5. Which of the following terms describes hypothetical stages of cognition?
(a) Perception
(b) Problem solving
(c) Remembering
(d) All of the above

Ans: d

6. Greek philosophers defined psychology as
(a) Science of soul
(b) Science of mind
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above

Ans: c


7. Which of the following methods help you to understand fantasies, hopes, fears and anything that helps to understand a person’s mind and behaviour?
(a) Observation
(b) Case Study
(c) Survey
(d) None of the above

Ans: b

8. Which of the following is the procedure of sampling?
(a) Random
(c) Cluster
(b) Stratified random
(d) All of the above

Ans: d

9. Which of the following experiments are conducted in natural settings to study the real life problems?
(a) Quasi experiments
(b) Field experiments
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above

Ans: c


10. Which of the following techniques is used by the experimenter to achieve control over the relevant variables?
(a) Counter balancing
(b) Matching
(c) Constant
(d) All of the above

Ans: d


11. ...........are statistics for expressing the direction and degree of relationship between measures.
(a) Correlations
(b) Analysis of Variance
(c) Factor Analysis
(d) None of the above

Ans: a

12. If the correlation is +1.00 than all the points in the Scatter diagram fall on a
(a) Straight line
(b) Uniformly distributed
(c) Below line
(d) None of the above

Ans: a

13. The most widely used measure of central tendency is
(a) Median
(b) Mean
(c) Mode
(d) None of the above

Ans: b


14. Measurement of aptitude an other psychological characteristics are useful because
(a) It can provide proper guidance to people
(b) It can select suitable persons for training
(c) It helps achieving goals
(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans: d





15.Six months ago my brother administered a test on one of his students and found him a
genius. Yesterday he again administered the same test on the same student. His score still
rates him a genius. This means the test has
(a) Request reliability
(b) Equivalent reliability
(c) Split-half reliability
(d) Validity


Ans: a